Submitted by 256 in AskRaddle

I do not have a clear idea about this, from superficial research it would seem that felines do not have opposable thumbs and cannot read(there is no definite evidence that they do not read) and their breeding is quite environmentally unsustainable, is this true? opinions? After so many years of "strict" veganism adding some portion of cats and similar in the alimentation can be considered equally ethical?

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Ant wrote

I eat cats for the B12 and the omega oils they have from eating fish.

When possible, I trap them myself. I eat outdoor cats only, they are invasive here and kill all the birds.

It seems true that they don't read. I incorporate that into my traps. They say, "Danger, Cat Trap, do not enter" in big lettering over them. Also the lock on their trap is openable if you have opposable thumbs. So it's plausible they don't read (or they don't care about their own lives), and in case any of them develop thumbs they could escape.

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Antarchtic wrote

I'm not so sure, but since plants are in constant unimaginable pain maybe we should stick to eating plants just so they don't have to suffer here in this world for very long.

But idk, just go with what feels natural. I know some people feel more at peace slitting a stray cat's throat for dinner, so it's probably fine to add a little to your diet if you're okay with it.

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Majrelende wrote (edited )

If we are able to let go of our speciesist tendencies, then we can come to the conclusion that cats do have their own forms of written communication. That is, marking one's territory. While the urethra rather than the hand is used to write, and the nose rather than the eyes to read, and, of course, their writing is nowhere near as complex in terms of expression of ideas as our own, we should not expect, as some do, that their conceptions of writing are directly comparable to our own, nor that conceptions of written language which differ from our own should not be given equal respect.

A hierarchical ranking of cats' territory-marking as inferior to human written language would be unwarranted, and false.

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256 OP wrote

Do cats piss poems?

Appreciate the contextualisation. Reflectively, a lot of texts seem indeed as territory-marking.

Piss off, they'll say and I'll remember reading territory.

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Antarchtic wrote

The act of pissing is the poetry, what remains afterwards is only the stale odor of the reader's own interpretation.

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Fool wrote

their breeding is quite environmentally unsustainable

Stop eating cats, and you wouldn't have unsustainable cat farms. (You may steal cat milk cheese on occasions to eat).

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moonlune wrote

depends, are they outdoor cats?

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AnarcheAmor wrote

Only if you eat them while living, eating dead meat only bolsters the slaughter industry and carnism culture so you have to eat them while there are still alive. Just drug them so they don't feel pain and everything's good.

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stagn wrote (edited )

Cats are certainly sentient and experience all possible suffering in being killed or kept in captivity, creating suffering to another living being is not ethical

No breeding cats is not sustainable and that is the nonsensical and pointeless thing you could have said, just think about the fact that they are carnivores with what follows of input of resources they require.
To get a kilogram of cat meat you would have to give it several dozen kg of meat and fish first which is far from ethical or sustainable

I think it is also unethical to "breed" it as a pet since in captivity it suffers anyway even if it has a hypocritical owner to feed it. Cats have been imported all over the world and the population has been artificially grown and causes enormous problems to the local faunas, while they suffer in turn since very few are free-living in the wild (stray cats are not feral cats) Obviously using them for feeding is madness since it does not solve the problem but rather causes further suffering.

I also believe that cat meat is unhealthy, but that is irrelevant in comparison to the suffering you would cause by eating them.

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stagn wrote

*stray cat are NOT feral cat
I misspelled

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