The long and short of it is, One of the lemmy.world admins demoted a mod of the vegan community over a comment about how cat can be fed a 100% vegan diet with supplements and the cat will be fine.
What an asshole vegan. How stupid can you be to say you love animals and say something as dumb as this
I once gave a vegan friend of mine pause for thought when I pointed out that we probably shouldn't be keeping pets in the first place if those pets aren't in their natural habitat doing what their species evolved to do. They had cats.
Wtf is happening in the comments. Why are people getting so insane over this topic over and over again? If there's cat food out there that's nutritional complete, cats like it, and it happens to be plant based - so what? The only two reasons to object are if someone is 100% convinced such a product doesn't and cannot exist or if they're entirely ideological about it. And if we have to apply the naturalistic fallacy that only the natural way can be morally okay, why of all things argue about pet food? I really, really don't get it why people get so intensely emotional about it.
If there's cat food out there that's nutritional complete, cats like it, and it happens to be plant based - so what?
Because the vegan cat food that claims to be nutritionally complete isn't. Whenever these brands have their products studied they turn out to not be nutritionally complete. Feeding them to a cat is abuse.
So they should simply start producing one that is. Problem solved. No law of nature prevents us from supplementing the right amount of taurine and b12, so there is no reason to be irrational about it.
If only this was readily researchable....
But yeah, animal cruelty gets people het up. This is the internet, don't fuck with cats
okay, thanks. fairrr
Vegans do a better job of pissing everyone off about a pretty sensible topic than any community I’ve ever seen
their vitriol is...weird. if they just said "i prefer..." not many would be bothered.
"you're a murderer." does tend to ruffle feathers.
Forreal, longtime vegan here.... Vegans (online mostly) annoy me more than most people. I swear we aren't all jerks! I'm probably a major sell out, I don't even have a problem with hunters.
Honestly as a linux nerd sometimes I feel like us open source folks have a similar problem
You do a bunch of work and make sacrifices to accomplish living in a way you feel proud of! Wonderful! And then you turn around and antagonize people who don't invest all their time and energy in the issue that you personally really connect with...! Oh... Wonderful... 🙃
As someone who's been working tech for two decades, the more assbaggy the linux user the less they actually know.
Almost like ruffling feathers is the point when you truly believe most people are being murderers. You don't change society by being polite.
It's because they don't actually give a shit about animals, they just want to feel morally superior.
Same as anyone wanting to ban x, y, or z "for the children".
Same as people who want to stop using a perfectly good term because they think it might be offensive to such-and-such group, despite never actually consulting any members of such-and-such group.
This is an absurd take. Vegans have to sacrifice a lot. I absolutely love animals and it's insane to me that someone can't see the amount of torture and murder of animals there is out there.
I decided to cut out, as much as is reasonably possible, anything that was made by or is these animals. I don't do this because I want to feel superior, I do it for the animals. Most vegans don't do this for attention. Just because you see some vegans shouting online doesn't mean we're all like that.
Based on the post they were spreading misinformation and being really unsightly, calling not vegans things akin to slurs like "meaties" or some shit. I don't know the full story though.
Vegans have hilarious nicknames, they seem to spend quite a bit of time on it
okay, thanks
Vegan 2.0 was released recently and the attention it received led to a private equity buyout. Vegan® is now a trademark term and you need that ® or it's in violation. I hear they are about to release a line of fake-vegan® meat for people who want to look vegan but like the taste of cow.
Is eating lab grown meat vegan?
Not yet. Growing cells in a lab still requires fetal bovine serum which is obviously an animal product. There is work going into replacing it with a synthetic alternative but, to my knowledge, noone has been successful yet.
Thanks for the informed reply.
Depends who you ask:
some would say that it's vegan as long as no animal has suffered or been deprived for your meal, meaning that lab grown qualifies.
Others, such as the crazies in the vegan circle jerk community, believe that as long as it's ever been in the same zip code as a leather belt, it can never be vegan.
That last one is exaggerated, of course, but nowhere near as much as you'd hope..
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