Posted by From the always entertaining and sometimes aggravating whitewhine.com:
There are few things more likely to make me go apoplectic than people who don’t treat their pets like actual animals. As I’ve written in the past:
The intrinsic dignity of an animal, its ‘rights’ as it were, is to be afforded the opportunity to live as closely as possibly to its natural design.
This applies, not just to letting your dog run around and play, it also applies to food. Dogs aren’t true omnivores. Their ancestors, the wolf may, in the course of eating its prey, consume some vegetable matter that was residing within gut of the killed animal. Even less frequently, canines may consume some plants in order to settle the stomach. But there is no way that a dog would naturally choose a non-animal diet.
I have great respect for people who choose vegetarian or vegan diets, whether out of principle or physical necessity or both. But humans have the foresight and sentience (so-called) to make these types of decisions, to alter what they eat and make intelligent and principled decisions about their diet.
Forcing a dog to be a vegan makes a cause célèbre out of its existence. It imposes a human standard on a canine. And that’s bad stewardship.
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