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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If it isn't a cat or a snake or a spider or some shit like that it isn't an obligate carnivore. Just keep asking them if they are a cat snake or spider and if not to shut the fuck up.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

FYI this conflict was precipitated by a discussion on the vegan comm about feeding cats a vegan diet

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Obligate carnivores are also called hypercarnivores, which are animals whose diet consists of at least 70 percent meat.

let's start another struggle session on whether or not it's ethical to selectively bread vegan cats into existance.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

vegan cat bread

:waow-based:

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Obligate carnivore is an ecological descriptor. It doesn't mean plants are poisonous, only that in the wild they seek their nutrients from meat and when not available they starve.

In the most extreme case you could startrek replicator some meat, and by logical extension there are steps before that are nutritionally complete and digestible while still being artificially constructed. E.g. by isolating or synthesising nutrients and pellitising it.

It is a fallacy to go from "snakes only eat mice in the wild" to "therefore humans must feed mice snakes" and anyone who doesn't see the extremely obvious flaw in that reasoning is outing themselves as a complete buffoon. Whether it is practicable does not make waving "obligate carnivores" any more respectable.