In the future, cultured meat will replace all animal-based flesh in any pet food and human food. Cultured mouse and chicken flesh, and an infinite assortment of other fish proteins, are set to appear on pet food shelves very soon.
Ethical feeding friction will become a thing of the past.
I meet a number of dogs usually when out walking and on the odd occasion that one of them (rightly) puts the 'intact' stumpy bastard in his place with a growl or bark - it's usually older girls - the owner will immediately jump to telling their dog off and apologising.
I'm no dog expert but I'm pretty certain that shouting at a dog for having the gall to vocally enforce it's boundaries results in dogs that bite first and grumble later.
Hatch normally isn't allowed on the furniture (because the kid needs a place that is safe from him) but it's cold so he comes and sits up in my recliner if I invite him (and sometimes when I don't). And then I'm trapped under 74 pounds of snoring dog and can do nothing but knit and read books, oh no. 😁
A high-five to everyone who chose to decline an invitation to an office party last Thursday and who opened up slack this morning to dozens of messages from sick people because it turned into a super spreader. Moxxi is proud of you.
A combination of aggressive pet food marketing and manipulative mythologies about "natural" canine behaviour has WRONGLY CONVINCED even the most dedicated vegans that it's unhealthy to take animal flesh out of pet food without a shred of evidence.
This isn't based on nutritional needs, it's rooted in cultural bias.
The assumption might be that dogs and cats need animal flesh. That's not true.
“It is a strange fact that the population of dogs and dog breeds that we enjoy today largely emerged as a hobby for bored aristocrats in a tiny sliver of English history—during a period in which classification, measurement, and standardization became a national obsession.”
If you are not vegan, we are not the same. Vegans see all animals as individuals with their own lives and interests to protect. Vegans reject the commodity status of nonhumans.
Vegan is always Halal 🌱
Vegan is always Ahimsa 🌱
Vegan is always Kosher 🌱
My husband is tired after a long night, but he came in to sit with us during the breakfast prep.
I told Summer that he needed to rest today.
I have to run some errands so she will be in charge, so it's her job to keep him out of trouble.
She says, "I got this." #DogsOfMastodon
Veterinarians who take an oath to promote animal health and welfare often omit cows, buffaloes pigs, goats, sheep, chickens, fish and other farmed animals from their vow. Many attack the movement against animal exploitation for milk, eggs and flesh and few are ethical vegans.
The evidence clearly shows that dogs and cats can thrive on a diet without feeding them other animals.
"out there in your yard
with your foolscap and your pencil with the
clicking extendable lead you said
I am a writer and laughed at your dog
as he wandered the yard
keeping an eye on you"