Objective-Passion-90 t1_j5lqw07 wrote on January 23, 2023 at 10:14 PM

Reply to comment by Freebite in For people that force their dogs to be vegan. 🤦🏻‍♂️ by Hung_Hefty_Parsnip

Dried cat and dog food is sold on % protein.

Premium foods having higher protein levels

What is this protein?

it is a product called chicken flour.

Chicken flour is the end of meat processing. Anything left after mechanical recovery is dehydrated and then ground into a meal.

Vegan pet food replaces that protein with soya. Vegan pet food is fortified with taurine.

Whilst perfectly safe for dogs the jury is out on vegan cat food as a total replacement.

The antipathy towards vegetable based dog food is pathetic.

I have seen every commercially farmed animal slaughtered and processed. It should be mandatory for plus 16 year olds to visit a slaughterhouse and witness the realities of modern industrial meat processing.

So happy to see billions of animals killed but horrified that a dog is fed a perfectly safe vegetable based alternative

Freebite t1_j5ltmhj wrote on January 23, 2023 at 10:32 PM

Did you see me say anything about the dog being fed a vegetarian diet? No. I was simply giving advice on how you might convince more people to adjust their eating habits in a better way with the added benefit of explaining why your current manner of arguing for it is flawed. That appeal to emotion argument works for some, but not a lot, of people. If that's somehow "evil" then feel free to ignore everything I've said.

As for 16 year olds visiting things like that, i honestly agree. That's around the age where you should be shown some uncomfortable stuff, and allow them to come to their own conclusions for these topics. It may work to help lower meat consumption, it may also do almost nothing at all. I've seen it myself, and while it's not, lets say ideal for the animal, it is efficient and for the amount we eat as a society, that efficiency is kind of required.

If we ate less, I'm not even arguing for none either necessarily, we could significantly lower the need for industrialized animal farming like that. It would have a ton of benefits.