Isn't it a great idea to train all carnivore creatures to eat vegan foods & be friend with innocent animals ?

Question

This way we might be closer to peace on Earth !
What do you think ?

Answer 1

If you just feed a cat vegetables, it will die. You can't "train" it out of that, you will need to give it animal-based food supplements (taruine, fatty acids, vitamin A).

The other downside is that if you tell an animal-lover what you are doing, they might take a swing at you. This rather defeats the "peace on earth" plan.

Answer 2

No.

A carnivorous animal has a digestive system that is meant to process meat. You can "train" them all you want to eat vegan foods but what you are really doing would constitute a slow murder of the animal itself. Furthermore, no mammalian creature is meant to be vegan (breast milk, you need that).

Your thought on world peace also seems odd. I do not see how getting lions and tigers not to eat meat would bring us (humans) closer to world peace.

Your term of "innocent" animals, also intrigues me. You mean to say then that carnivorous animals, which are born that way, have some sort of sinful nature that they can do nothing about. Wild pigs, while herbivores, will attack humans, as will elk and moose. Rhinos, hippos, elephants, and others have been known to do the same thing. Likewise dogs (carnivorous animals) will guide the blind under special training. Dolphins, who would probably not benefit from the continued survival of an individual, have saved people from drowning.

I have only rarely come across healthy vegan people, and we have omnivorous digestive tracts, we are still meant to eat meat, albeit less so that a wolf.

Lastly, world peace will come through a greater understanding and compassion of all creatures, not by people trying to inflict what they think of as 'right' upon another being. We have been trying that for centuries and look at where we are.

Answer 3

I'm afraid this idea isn't as good as it sounds.

First, it's not possible to train all carnivores to eat Vegan foods.

Second, even it were, this would be a cruel thing to do to carnivores, whose mouths are not made for constant grazing, and whose nutritional requirements include meat.

Third, even if carnivores could switch to a Vegan diet without suffering any ill effects, the ecological impact of such a switch would be disasterous, since predators are needed to keep their prey from over-populating--which would ultimately cause universal famine.

Mother Nature has her own agenda; she doesn't care about our utopian ideals. This is a fact that we must live with and come to respect.

Answer 4

Several problems: Carnivores have certain stomach chemicals and juices that are good to digest meat, but are no good for cellulose (which is one of the major items in vegan food). And cows have to have FOUR stomach areas to digest grass. Not all animals have that, infact hardly any.

Ditto their teeth: the incisors are wonderful for tearing meat into chunks and molars that masticate the meat, but incisors do not grab leaves and chew them up well for eating and swallowing. Imagine a snake eating wheat? not possible since his jaw is for grabbing and swallowing a mouse or a cricket.

It is not a matter of training, I am afraid. Some changes could be made, like making my cat like bread chunks, but on the whole, and untenable idea. SORRY!

Answer 5

uh, no...you'll mess up the food chain. Everyone will be eating plants, there will be over population, all the food sources will go away, then we'll have to turn back to carnivore to survive(or cannibal in the ned days), then we would all dies out and the earth would be destroyed.

The system, as is, works just fine. Don't try and change it, no one here on this planet is smart enough to do so.

Answer 6

What a moronic idea. It might actually be bad because you're totally messing with what the animal's used to digesting. You can't get world peace with THAT. The day that there is world peace is the day when mankind is extinct. There's too many humans. If you want to fight nature, then let's quit having kids for a while...

Answer 7

Every time humans interfere with nature, the results are disastrous. We have no business telling predators what to eat, and we'll wind up with an infestation of the animals the predators usually eat. You should take an ecology class, and grow out of this infantile phase.

Answer 8

I only eat guilty animals. I am friends with the rest.

Vegetarian and human societies have not avoided aggression or violence. The two have no relationships.

I eat animals but I have never killed another person. Except perhaps as a child, I have never struck anyone. My eating of meet has little to do with this. There is no correlation.

Answer 9

I think you're onto something.

ps Am I the only person who understands sarcasm?