Stupid ideas from stupid people! Sorry, I hate to sound so judgemental, but seriously? Killed all the cats? That makes me sick.....
Sent from my iPad that my most awesome kids surprised me with, Christmas 2010. On Oct 4, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Lee Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > Thursday, October 4, 2012 10:53 AM > I get the same response from hostile people. "Trees and vegetables are > living things so you can't eat that either." Well, I will never be seen > munching on a tree. I'm not a woodpecker but my idea is that I never eat > anything that had a face or could move on feet, claws, feelers, or any way > else. Most vegetables (except politicians) are meant to be eaten. So are > fruits. When I was growing vegetables, I would allow a certain number of > them to go to seed, to fulfill their need to propagate. The rest I would eat. > Humans have a choice. Carnivorous species such as cats, lions, birds of > prey don't have a choice so I wouldn't expect them to be made into > vegetarians. Unfortunately, here comes the problem. If we all stop eating > animals, then we won't kill cows, sheep, pigs and the cats won't have meat in > their cat food. But here's the solution. They rarely have much meat in the > cat food anyway. The first ingredient in most store products is corn meal. > I assume that we could produce a balanced cat food with enough Taurine and > other ingredients to satisfy physical needs of a carnivore like a cat if > everyone in the world became vegetarian. However, thinking that everyone > will some day become vegetarian is rather unrealistic, like those people who > think that if we spay and neuter outside cats, colony cats, etc. we will some > day not have any more cats and dogs on Earth. Actually, this happened in one > city. They picked up all the cats and killed them at the city animal pound. > Altogether, 2000 cats were destroyed. It was a small city. Everyone > rejoiced. The outside roaming cat population was gone! Several months > later, the outside roaming rat and mouse population increased to alarming > levels and the city had to import a few hundred cats from surrounding cities > to get things back under control. Stupid ideas abound. > > > Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty > neighbors too! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
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