Fried Chicken is Murder! (First post! Long)

[Gurndigarn]

Vegan animal food!? Why!?

Do they hate animals that much? Or do they lack a basic understanding of nature and biology?

The last, most of them. Too many people jump on a cause without looking at it in any detail.

[Bloodsoul]

To be quite honest, the whole "cat food/dog food" thing has always freaked me out a bit.. that stuff just doesn't look natural.

..but it's not like we haven't eaten anything unnatural, either.
*sets out dish of oatmeal for kitty*

[Kara]

Technically, she's wrong. Fried chicken is not murder. It was dead long before any frying commenced.

[The Gatekeeper]

Oh my dog, all those wheat stalks that gave their lives for that man's roll! And the yeast cells that were cooked alive in a hot oven!!
How can people be so cruel??

I like to call it wheat germacide.

[Buzzy]

Fried chicken is murder! I can't stop laughing about that!

Heck, if you REALLY want to go into it, vegetarianism is a form of murder too! Those poor veggies and fruits... they were just minding their own business when they were plucked from their branches and boiled alive! just kidding...

"She might be one of those idiots who feeds her cats a vegetarian diet. Which to me, is a far more abusive practice than eating a chicken."

I had no idea there was vegetarian food for animals... Cats and dogs are SUPPOSED to have at least some meat in their diets, after all, they are carnivores. You'd think an entire vegetarian diet for a carnivore would make them sick.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

"You'd think an entire vegetarian diet for a carnivore would make them sick."

And you'd be 100 percent correct, because it does. Cats go blind, become diabetic, organs fail, all sorts of lovely things.

What bodies need to stay healthy has no bearing on any political agenda. Humans, cats, dogs, anything. Things need what they need.

People who do this to their animals ought to be cited for abuse.

[Andara Bledin]

Dogs are omnivores and can eat vegetable matter. Cats, however, are strict carnivores and should have an all-meat diet with some bonemeal.

My mother and aunt do native American style craft work and some of what they work with is animal skins and furs. They sometimes get uppity people coming by to badmouth the furs. Every single one of them is wearing something made with leather. But the ones with canvas shoes don't realize that the glue that holds them together is a larger use of animal byproducts than the the leather other shoes use.

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[BookstoreEscapee]

You can feed a dog a vegetarian diet, but you have to plan it very carefully and they will probably need some supplements to make sure they get everything. Personally (and don't get me wrong - I love my pets), but I don't have that much time on my hands.

Cats are true carnivores. There is an amino acid called taurine that they can only get from meat. Without it they will die. So I'm wondering exactly what might be in a "vegan" cat food.
.....
So, to Google I went, and there is a site called vegancats.com. Apparently they use synthetic taurine. Of course, it's 3 bucks a can...

I don't understand why people want to feed a vegetarian diet to an animal that is not meant to eat a vegetarian diet. If they were wild they would eat meat. They're not bunnies who eat greens in their natural habitat. Ever see a lion at the salad bar?

-ams- whose girlcat's favorite treat is peas...

[rvdammit]

Ever see a lion at the salad bar?

Would it be scarfing down the distracted rabbits?

[wagegoth]

It's like the people who fill their hummingbird feeder with sugar substitute. The lovely, skinny, dead hummingbirds are so pretty on the ground. Maybe it's to give their vegan cats a shot at some protein.

[Talon]

I'm surprised this thread has gone on this long without someone making a joke about idiots blindly following "dogma" at the expense of reason...

*dodges expired petfood-missiles*

[Strikesfirmly]

I'm actually rather attached to my fur...*hides*

Offpaw, I think dogs deserve their own category of 'omnivore', as the current definition doesn't normally include furniture, rugs, and tires. Dogs are rather like sharks regarding 'omnivore' status. I'm sure there must be some kind of nutrients in household and automotive articles.

I consider dogs under-size hyenas, but not nearly as bright.

But seriously, I would so love to have the straight line about murdering chickens - so I could honestly reply "I'd be more than happy to help you liberate some chickens. *toothy grin*
How many thousands would you care to raise ethically in your ___ (insert into blank: apartment, condo, duplex, suburbia 1-story ranch)? hehe

And then laugh when they see just how nasty chickens (and turkeys, and geese, and ducks) can be to have about.


Awesome first post. Darnit

OT;
Isn't it in Notting Hill where Hugh Grant has the date with the "Yes, these carrots were murdered." girl?

[BookstoreEscapee]

It's like the people who fill their hummingbird feeder with sugar substitute. The lovely, skinny, dead hummingbirds are so pretty on the ground. Maybe it's to give their vegan cats a shot at some protein.

please tell me people don't really do this...

random trivia: hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards and upside down. They can also fly horizontally, do barrel rolls, and hover in mid-air.

(and if your cat is an outside cat, I guarantee you it's not a vegan, no matter what you're feeding it )

[Gurndigarn]

It's like the people who fill their hummingbird feeder with sugar substitute.

please tell me people don't really do this...

Yup, they do. Mostly because they don't know any better. And don't think about it, either.

[Andara Bledin]

I actually had a cat that liked shredded lettuce. We thought it was because most of what we had used to be on tacos, but when we shredded some fresh stuff, he ate that up, too.

Oh, and cow's milk is worse for cats than it is for people.

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