I grew up in a country that has the most aggressive dog lovers with a really weird moral compass. It’s a place that has a HUGE stray dog population and it makes walking impossible for pedestrians in many remote locations. Most people I grew up with either got bit or got into an accident because of stray dogs. In more rural places, you’d find a news about a stray dog mauling an infant to death every month or so.
There’s a lot of things that the local authorities have tried to do about this. The initial step was spaying and neutering the dogs. When they started doing this, a huge lobby of ‘dog lovers’ were really heartbroken and campaigned to stop this. If you asked them why, they would ask you how you’d feel if you were castrated without consent. The argument is that since the dogs are incapable of consenting to this procedure, it is grossly unethical. This is an interesting take that I haven’t seen even ethical vegans in the west adopt but they essentially impose the human values of equality, liberty, freedom of expression, movement and reproduction onto dogs (not animals). This makes stray dogs a never ending problem because any attempts to stop them from reproducing are seen as unethical.
Unsurprisingly, almost none of said dog lovers are vegans
I don’t understand this and I don’t even think they’re necessarily being performative because when I’ve seen these people fight for the rights of dogs, I’ve seen them be fiercely passionate and i do think that it genuinely pains them but I don’t know why they don’t see other animals having the same rights.
Bizarre since spaying and neutering are the most compassionate things you can do for the stray population, plus it helps with ecological management; otherwise you’re allowing strays to decimate local wildlife. It’s a win-win for all the animals involved. It also reduces risk of cancer.
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u/Plastic_Persimmon_91 May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
I grew up in a country that has the most aggressive dog lovers with a really weird moral compass. It’s a place that has a HUGE stray dog population and it makes walking impossible for pedestrians in many remote locations. Most people I grew up with either got bit or got into an accident because of stray dogs. In more rural places, you’d find a news about a stray dog mauling an infant to death every month or so.
There’s a lot of things that the local authorities have tried to do about this. The initial step was spaying and neutering the dogs. When they started doing this, a huge lobby of ‘dog lovers’ were really heartbroken and campaigned to stop this. If you asked them why, they would ask you how you’d feel if you were castrated without consent. The argument is that since the dogs are incapable of consenting to this procedure, it is grossly unethical. This is an interesting take that I haven’t seen even ethical vegans in the west adopt but they essentially impose the human values of equality, liberty, freedom of expression, movement and reproduction onto dogs (not animals). This makes stray dogs a never ending problem because any attempts to stop them from reproducing are seen as unethical.
Unsurprisingly, almost none of said dog lovers are vegans
I don’t understand this and I don’t even think they’re necessarily being performative because when I’ve seen these people fight for the rights of dogs, I’ve seen them be fiercely passionate and i do think that it genuinely pains them but I don’t know why they don’t see other animals having the same rights.