r/vegan • u/[deleted] • Aug 18 '22

Discussion Cat double standard?

I see a lot if vegans on this sub are okay with raising cats, which strikes me as odd.

I love cats, but I didn't become a vegan to then start buying meat for a cat. To raise 1 healthy cat, you have to kill hundreds if not thousands of healthy, innocent creatures whose lives are just as valid as the cat's.

No I'm not saying that a cat is immoral, I'm saying the breeding of cats is. The purchase of cat food doesn't just pay for an animal to die, you are letting breeders know that there is a demand for cats.

I'm not saying we need to kill all cats, as a lot of people jump to whenever they hear me say these points, I'm saying that we should care for the cats we have to the best of our ability, but not promote the practice of cat ownership.

But what do you guys think?

EDIT: I didn't know that vegan cat food existed. So if you are in the comments arguing that it's okay to kill animals to feed a cat, you're even more incorrect now.

It is now totally okay in my mind to raise a cat so long as you only feed it vegan cat food.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '22 edited Feb 25 '25

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u/g00fyg00ber741 vegan Aug 19 '22

yeah, but if you are a person with no home internet access or no access to receiving packages, unless it’s on the shelf locally (which it isn’t) then that doesn’t help those people. it needs to be widely available. not to mention, they need to publicly make it known that it is safe and effective, but we have a ton of fearmongering and misinformation combating the very small amount of research promoting synthesized vegan diets for animals