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.

    • Jim East@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      3 days ago

      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.