SackeshiJun 1, 2025

The hypocrisy of meat eating pets or vegan dogs and cats

https://lemmy.world/post/30570251

The hypocrisy of meat eating pets or vegan dogs and cats - Lemmy.World

So according to the ethics of veganism it’s about valuing sentient life and animal consent. So I pose a few questions. 1. Is it justified to buy animal based dog and cat food? 2. Is it justifiable to force a dog or cat to be vegan? If 1 is justifiable then the claim that it’s unethical for humans to eat meat is untrue since feeding your pets meat requires more animals to be raised for slaughter. If 2 is true then it violates animal consent because there are zero dogs or cats that prefer vegan food to meat and infact are naturally omnivorous in the case of dogs or pure carnivores in the case of cats. So the logical conclusion would be owning meat eating pets in impossible while being vegan. Then it leads to the ethics of what happened to the breeds of cats and dogs no longer able to be pets.

Show threadatempuser23Jun 1, 2025

Owning pets is problematic all on it’s own in an ethical vegan framework. The industrial breeding of animals and the supporting industries are not compatible with many ethical thoughts on animal rights.

The problems you mentions follow from that.

Buying an animal inherently takes away it’s innate agency ans supports the animal breeding industry.

Feeding an animal vegan foods when it’s natural diet would be from hunting is a side effect of buying an animal that you would have little chance of attracting from the wild.

When a breed is no longer capable of being a pet, you stop breeding it in captivity, and take care of all the of the living animals and suck up the ethical quagmire that was completely manufactured.

Show threadJim East
Pretty much this. Don’t own other beings as property. Don’t instigate violence against peaceful beings. Do not attempt to restrict the freedom of other beings. It really is that simple.
Jun 1, 2025 at 1:14amWeb
Show threadatempuser23Jun 1, 2025
Other who live with animals in cohabitation,opposed to ownership, could be fine for their way of life.
Show threadJim EastJun 1, 2025
I agree. Peaceful cohabitation without domination can work quite well. I don’t even know how many animals share this house, but it’s probably hundreds at least. If they don’t bother me, I don’t bother them. It’s only when the cohabitation is involuntary/non-consensual or when someone tries to control others by force or coercion that it becomes a problem.