I love dogs. I love my dog. She’s kin (we have no kids). With the exception of the discarded chicken wing she manages to snatch off the street before I can stop her, my dog does not eat animal products. From both an animal rights and environmentalist perspective - closely connected for me- I would find it unconscionable to feed my dog food made from industrially farmed animals - as I find it unethical to eat those products myself. My dog is a rescue. When all breeding of animals ends I’ll learn to live without a companion animal - or rather I’ll learn to form new relations with free animals, including humans. Until then I’ll do the best I can. Campaigning for an end to industrial animal agriculture is a good place to start 🐶
i think this sort of conversation is really important to have because i think there’s so much to consider that we just believe is normal. my partner and i LOOOOOOVE cats, but they’re a big issue in england RN but they eat so many birds and wild animals and there’s a simply too many of em. We are definitely too much in the mindset of WELL I WANT ONE so all these bad things don’t matter. Will i get a cat at some point? Probably. Will i reconsider how i feed it, where i let it go, how i let it interact with the world because of this info like this? yes!
I love dogs. I love my dog. She’s kin (we have no kids). With the exception of the discarded chicken wing she manages to snatch off the street before I can stop her, my dog does not eat animal products. From both an animal rights and environmentalist perspective - closely connected for me- I would find it unconscionable to feed my dog food made from industrially farmed animals - as I find it unethical to eat those products myself. My dog is a rescue. When all breeding of animals ends I’ll learn to live without a companion animal - or rather I’ll learn to form new relations with free animals, including humans. Until then I’ll do the best I can. Campaigning for an end to industrial animal agriculture is a good place to start 🐶
i think this sort of conversation is really important to have because i think there’s so much to consider that we just believe is normal. my partner and i LOOOOOOVE cats, but they’re a big issue in england RN but they eat so many birds and wild animals and there’s a simply too many of em. We are definitely too much in the mindset of WELL I WANT ONE so all these bad things don’t matter. Will i get a cat at some point? Probably. Will i reconsider how i feed it, where i let it go, how i let it interact with the world because of this info like this? yes!
Not at all! There are lots of problems with mainstream pet ownership, and important to acknowledge and avoid these.