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Animals: Our Moral Schizophrenia
Necessity not for me but for my cat
I am vegan because I do not have the necessity to eat meat and having free-will I can choose not to do so. But my cat is a carnivore and so I must buy meat to feed my cat. I know this is a contradiction and I wish I had a choice, but my cat's diet has to be 50% meat, because cats are among the most carnivorous of all the carnivores. I suppose I could argue that pet ownership should not have existed in the first place,but we must take care of the animals we have domesticated. I do not breed my cat. So, what should vegans do if they own carnivorous pets ? I cannot accept the argument that it may have been less cruel overall to put my cat down, than to feed it a cat's lifetime of chickens and fish, even if that is a logical argument- since so many animals suffer to sustain my one cat.
- sor666
August 31, 2009 10:12AM
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