Nature is nature, whether it is a cat eating a bird or a lion eating a gazelle. I prefer not to eat animals or abuse them. Maybe you should try to be more respectful the next time you look at your diner plate and think of the suffering that the animal you are about to eat went through before it wound up on your plate. Oh I forgot, let’s bury that as most humans can’t face it. Also, maybe he should be more respectful of my differing views. Personally, I don’t give a crap of what you think of me as a VEGAN as I live my life the way I choose. Those here on FR practically demand that you think like them or you are a freak. So tell me, what is so free about FR.
All of my dogs are VEGAN and they love it. As an experiment, I placed a piece of meat in their bowl along side of a pile of sweet potatoes. Can you guess what they went for, if you choose the meat you are wrong.
Whenever I need a good laugh, I go to Free Republic and type VEGAN in the search engine.
Of course, you’re free to do as you wish.
But to pretend that your dogs are vegan, is animal abuse. I really don’t care what you choose to do to yourself. But to inflict that on an animal that trusts you to provide for them is unconscionable.
Psssstt....owning a dog is inhumane.
They, too, have feelings, with natural urges to roam free.
You should be ashamed of yourself!!
AND, rereading your post...you KILLED AN ANIMAL for an EXPERIMENT??
So humans are outside of nature?
Some animals have rudimentary, or can learn, language.
Some animals can make and use tools to modify their environment.
Some animals can solve complex, and a few even abstract, problems.
Some show behaviors that strongly suggst the operation of a conscience.
Some species develope complex family and supra-family social orders.
So what is it that puts humans outside of nature?
And what is it about the Vegan, who is wishing a person dead for hunting food, that makes him superior to the ordinary, lowly omnivorous human?
Maybe you should consider that thousands of creatures suffer and die for every cup of tea you drink, every carrot you eat, every stalk of broccoli and so on. Do you care? I doubt it. Do you even think about it? Not likely.
Great idea. Maybe you could read up on the number of animals that die in a typical field crop harvest for that side of rice. As opposed to one dying for the pork chop next to it. As often is in life, what appears to be the high ground on a casual, uneducated glance is nothing such.
No, your dogs are carnivores. Look at their teeth. Look at the placement of their eyes.
Consider that they do not possess characteristics that herbivores and omnivores do (amylase in their saliva to break down carbohydrates, for instance).
http://rawfed.com/myths/omnivores.html
Dogs will eat just about anything (if given the opportunity). However, that doesn’t mean that everything they swallow is best for them.
Treating carnivorous creatures as herbivores is not treating them according to nature. You are forcing them to eat a diet that is not their natural one.
You're the one who wants the animal to die of dementia and disease and coyotes eating the animal slowly while still conscious. Where do you get off complaining about "suffering animals?" You're the one advocating the increase of their suffering. You just want them to suffer away from your myopic sentimental eyesight.
Nature is nature? Man is as ‘natural’ and as valid a part of the eco system as any other animal, AND we happen to reside at the top of the food chain. Meat is ‘on the menu’ and belongs there.
Should you choose to abdicate YOUR position and reside with the other cud-chewers (AKA prey), you are free to do so.
You kept trumpeting “Vegan” as if you are morally superior to all others.
Perhaps your lack of manly pursuits is a subconscious threat to your manhood so you must attack those who you view as being heathen knuckledraggers to boost your self perceived image?
Or perhaps you are light in the loafers and upset that Barney Frank isn’t in your warea?
You're proud of this? Idiot. Dogs are carnivores. They need a complete diet. What you're doing is harmful to their health. It's one thing to live your own stupidity, another to force it on an animal who has no choice.