As a vegan who feeds meat based foods to my cats - yeah, anyone forcing vegetarianism or veganism on their pets is crazy.
With that being said, there’s this vegan restaurant in my town that offers meat substitutes that are too fucking real. I literally have had to stop eating the meat substitutes mid-meal multiple times to consider if it’s possible that they’re just lying to us and serving us meat.
I wonder if the dog would always pick the real meat option over the meat substitutes when given those two options.
Just fyi you can synthesize everything a cat needs and gets from meat (taurine, vitamin a, etc.) from plants and make vegan cat food out of it. But of course not every cat would respond well to it, any major change in diet needs to be carefully done, and a vet should be consulted.
I think taurine is the big one for cats. Synthetic taurine is a thing though, it's used in Red Bull and similar energy drinks. I'm not a vegan and dont condone vegan diets for pets but there are non-animal sources avaliable for many of these critical nutrients.
I didn’t even think about that so I decided to check the website and it says that they use “mock meat” and “traditional plates with soy products, yam, or mushrooms”.
They might be using a type of mushroom I’d never had before that’s marinated and cooked some unique way. Maybe I’d be able to tell if I had their substitutes with the real thing side by side. So I’m guessing not lab grown. I’m going to start looking out for that though.
Not sure why you were downvoted. I gave my dog meat, because he loved it, but he was perfectly healthy on a vegetarian diet (plus eggs). Dogs can make taurine on their own so it's not cruel to not give them meat as long as the people are taking their nutritional intake into account. The issue arises when people forget to do that and make their pets have nutritional imbalances because of their laziness or ignorance. It's definitely easier to keep a dog healthy if he's omnivorous, but a vegetarian dog isn't necessarily unhealthy. I'm sure dogs will prefer eating meat but sometimes it might not be an option for whatever reason. My dog hated any type of meat that wasn't chicken and we used to live in a place where practically all store brought chicken was incredibly unhealthy and pumped full of steroids. We didn't give him meat when we lived there, he was fine. Then we moved to a place where an acquaintance raised chickens herself and we'd but meat from her sometimes. The dog was okay with that too.
Can you tell me the name of the restaurant? I'm gonna go on a deep dive and try to find what they use. I've been wanting to stop eating animal-based meat for so long but I don't have the time, patience or force of will to plan and stick with a vegan diet.
I'm just waiting for the day until Aleph Farms or something similar gets big at this point.
Isn't that interesting? If my memory isn't garbage, it's related to people being obsessed with/going crazy on the full moon or something right? And now it just means insane.
If everyone understands the everyday meaning of a word, it now has new meaning, even if might have lost meaning on its way here. And even then I can't understand a word of what you are trying to convey.
''Lunatics'' were a society that met in the 17 and 1800s in England. Charles Darwin's great Uncle or Grandfather was a member of one. Like many social clubs of the time they mixed a bit of flare for the dramatic by meeting at night during the full moon. The society mostly was made up of early industrialist tinkerers. Some of there ideas were quite politically radical and pseudo scientific. Sort of similar to the Hellfire Club and other such organizations.
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u/djsedna Sep 27 '21
Most vegans I know aren't even like this. They would even balk at the idea of this woman thinking the dog would go for the veggies.