Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > > leaking pen wrote: >> Ohh, god, I had a friend who did that. I spent thirty minutes >> lambasting her for her total and complete hypocrisy. > > Huh? Hypocrisy in what? Buying vegan food for her cat? How does that > make her a hypocrite?
Let's put this on a firm footing. hypocrisy n 1: an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction [syn: lip service] 2: insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have One may be wrong about something, and do something which in the long run proves to have been a poor choice, but that does not make one a hypocrite. > > Commercial vegan cat foods, of which there are several, contain taurine > supplements. (Vegecat, Evolution, and Ami come to mind immediately, and > there are others.) > > In fact, commercial non-vegan cat foods also contain taurine > supplements; by the time the stuff's been processed and steamed, so much > of the natural taurine is destroyed that the manufacturers have no > choice but to add additional taurine. > > Non-vegan animal foods (dog and cat) have also been known to show up > with chopped up pet collars in them. It almost makes you wonder where > they get their meat from ... China, the source of a lot of pet food, is > not a very animal-friendly place. >
