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[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you consider all animals as having a right to life you then wouldn’t consider their bodies as resources after they were murdered but instead as victims.

This is a nonsensical statement that contradicts itself. If all animals have a right to life, then you wouldn't see any issue with a lion murdering a gazelle and then feasting on the victim's body. Alternatively, if you condemn carnivorous animals as murderers, you don't consider carnivores to have a right to life.

Even if we consider this only applies to humans -- what about our pets? Cats are obligate carnivores. How can we feed our pet cats without being complicit in murder and feeding our cats the bodies?

[–] WldFyre@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lions have to eat meat to survive, humans don't. Humans are also moral agents, animals are not.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] WldFyre@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

What part of my comment made you think I was arguing for that?

[–] mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I’m pretty sure there are vegan pet foods with similar nutritional profiles