• x4740N@lemmy.world
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    Cats and dogs both eat meat

    Wild animals hunt and herbivores occasionally eat meat

    So no animals wouldn’t think this as they eat meat the same as us and wouldn’t care at all about eating meat

    So I don’t get what this is trying to say at all

    Edit: also forgot to add that some animals are cannibals for example chickens

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        I’d like to add that domesticated animals that are taboo to eat typically had a use beyond just eating them.

        Dogs guard your property, cats kill pests, horses do work and transportation. You’d only eat those if you were desperate.

        Chickens, pigs, and cows? Not so much. The only one of those I could think with an alternate use would be a truffle pig, which wouldn’t be eaten.

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          I don’t know that that’s true, there can be other cultural reasons.

          In Hindu-based cultures you wouldn’t eat cow, as in largely Muslim ones you wouldn’t eat pork.

          Eating horse is common in a lot of countries despite falling into your “useful enough not to kill” category. Sheep are useful for wool production but people still eat lamb.

          Rat is easy to domesticate and they are frankly useless at drawing a plough but eating them is still taboo in many places. A couple of billion people eat insects daily, but there are still many other countries where it is very rare to eat them at all despite the ease of farming.

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        I have a friend like this and he’s goddamn annoying about it.

        Yeah I understand what that would feel like after having encountered similar types on reddit and in this posts comment section

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      Cats and dogs have no metacognition. They can barely recognize themselves in the mirror. We do. We have the ability to think about our actions, assign them moral value and better ourselves. That ability is completely wasted if you hold yourself to the same standard as a dog or cat. Is it ok to sniff random people’s buttholes because dogs do it? To eat your own children because some wild animals do it?

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        Human beings evolved to eat plants and meat and no you can’t get everything from plants as some nutrients in plants are not digestible and don’t get absorbed compared to nutrients from meat

        Look if you want to be personally vеgаn indent mind and don’t have anything against you for it but when you or other vеgаns attack people who choose to not be vеgаn or have a vegetarian diet then that becomes a problem because you step into the territory of bullying and harassment of others