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It's not, I feel the same way, but it's hard to be intellectually honest. I will be a vegetarian soon I think, it's been getting harder and harder to manage the
by mark_edward 9y ago
It's not, I feel the same way, but it's hard to be intellectually honest. I will be a vegetarian soon I think, it's been getting harder and harder to manage the dissonance since I got a dog.
- ComputerGuru 9y agoIt’s funny; that’s never a problem with a cat since they’re natural hunters and carnivores.
- yorwba 9y agoDogs are natural hunters and carnivores, too. I don't see how they are different from cats.
- ComputerGuru 9y agoBecause household dogs don’t retain that behavior in the same way cats do.
- omegaham 9y agoYep. My dog will chase things, but he wouldn't know what to do with a prey animal if he caught one. He's good at attacking the food bowl, and that's about it.
- zaarn 9y agoThis kind of reminds me of my dog. He was quite happy with chasing birds whenever they landed in the garden. One day he caught one and killed it. Then he kinda ignored the corpse for about week because he didn't know what to do with it and then we removed it from the garden (since we found it by then) The bird was probably sick anyway since my dog is one of the worst hunting dogs I've seen. I'm pretty sure it's due to the domestic upbringing, if he had grown up on a farm and actually had to hunt small rodents then he'd probably know how to eat them.
- fbarred 9y agoMany dogs are natural hunters, but like bears, pigs, and humans, but unlike cats, dogs are omnivores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnivore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnivore.
- stevenwoo 9y agoBreeds that were selectively bred in areas without carb sources for humans cannot digest starch effectively - they still are in a way genetically closer to wolves which can only minimally digest starch. (Siberian Huskies/Alaskan Malemutes that we commonly associate with Northern native peoples like the Eskimo off the top of my head)
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- Danihan 9y agoIf it helps, becoming vegetarian simply helps contribute to more human over-population. Any efficiency gleaned in food production is simply eaten up with billions of new mouths to feed within decades. I'd prefer an "inefficiently" managed planet with 6B people, versus a "very efficiently" managed planet with 20B vegetarians.