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Vegans are worse people and more harmful than "carnists'
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024
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This is a reference to shit vegans say about obligate carnivores. Yes, there are a number of vegans that think no one should own cats, and there are equally a number of vegans that think that cats should be fed a vegan diet with essential amino acid supplements rather than letting an obligate carnivore eat meat. It is simply not healthy for cats, and you would be very hard pressed to find any veterinarian that would say that it is.>
It's certainly a sentiment among vegans that gets amplified in any space where they tend to congregate.
And there are WAY WAY WAY more vegans that work at animal shelters specifically trying to put animals in to homes.
The overwhelming majority of vegans do not do this. Like, I don't know how to convince you of this other than saying in that of being vegan for 8+ years, going to vegan specific fairs/conventions, reading vegan literature, particating in vegan discords and moderating a vegan community that I have never once interacted with a a person who actually did this.
IN THE VERY LINK YOU PROVIDE, vegans calling this behavior out and saying if they can't feed a cat meat, not to own one. This accusation simply isn't based in reality.
No. It's a vanishingly small minority that you are pretending is a monolith because it's an easy strawman. Honestly you sound like the deluded pro-life folk who protest outside planned parenthood because they read online that post-birth 3rd trimester abortions happen all the time. I can't stop you from believing in nonsense, but it frankly makes you sound ridiculous.
And yet, the ones that do tend to be very loud in online spaces.
Yes, vegans are calling it out in the link I gave. And there are also vegans in that thread--and in this one--insisting that it's perfectly fine.
Whether or not it's small, they're loud. The fact that we're even having this discussion is because mods in a vegan community had decided that it's fine to say that obligate carnivores could be vegan, and--if I have my timeline correct--deleted commends from an admin saying otherwise.