How do you propose vegetarians feed their pet ferrets without killing animals?
SkodaMart
SkodaMart
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Care to explain what argument you're trying to back up with that image, or are you just going to plonk it there with no context at all and expect us to get the point you're failing dramatically to make?
We share most of our DNA with primates, our closest relative in the Chimpanzee.
We have a similar digestive system, teeth, and dietary requirements.
See that chart above.
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People who actually care about animal welfare in the militant PETA sense wouldn't keep pets.
and yet primates eat meat, as well as fruit.
You know chimps hunt other monkeys for meat right?
SkodaMart
SkodaMart
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Feed them meat silly.
We have the choice, the ferret doesn't.
Vegetarian dogs aren't healthy either.
PETA don't even care about animal welfare. They're just plain nut jobs.
It actually IS hypocritical for a vegetarian to own a pet which required to be fed meat. Which was the original point whoever brought up ferret-owning-vegetarians was making.
Vegetarian humans are often not healthy either. But don't let that get in the way of your mindless ranting.
So, since you seem to be failing to grasp the original question.
Why does a vegetarian feel it is morally sound to keep a pet ferret, which requires the killing of animals to provide food?
SkodaMart
SkodaMart
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So do we. (meat not monkeys)
Eating meat allowed us as a species to survive when plant based foods were hard to find.
I have nothing against eating meat in a survival situation - i.e. if you happen to be a ferret or a dog or a cat etc.
I believe it's barbaric and shameful how we treat most of the animals we eat, particularly in the context of factory farming. Unfortunately, there are no viable alternatives at the moment, the food these thinking, feeling animals provide is needed for our survival and progress.
It will take at least a century before alternatives such as artificially grown meat or insects become widely available and cheap enough to replace our current supply of proteins. This goes only for advanced countries, the slaughter in the rest of the world will no doubt continue for a very long time.
It will take at least a century before alternatives such as artificially grown meat or insects become widely available and cheap enough to replace our current supply of proteins. This goes only for advanced countries, the slaughter in the rest of the world will no doubt continue for a very long time.
SkodaMart
SkodaMart
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I don't have a problem with keeping a dog, or cat or any other carnivorous pet.
They are carnivores we are not.
However by keeping one, you are causing the slaughter of animals for food, so there goes your moral argument...