Should animals be vegetarians and vegans too?

Question

Like cats eat mice, and other meat dinners, Dogs eat meat too. Lions eat meat. I was wonder since some believe humans should stop eating meat ,should animals stop eating meat?

Answer 1

,Actually there was a lion named Frazier who lived at the London Zoo who would not eat meat. I and several friends have raised cats -- my Persian male Ali Katir was the All American Blue Tabby Persian in 1974 and he was vegetarian. In fact , he loved corn bread, oatmeal and cottage cheese, nutritional yeast and garlic, he also liked treats of dried pineapple, tomato skins and melon. When we were living in a house that was in the process of being completed, he would catch the field mice and take them outside without hurting them. No, I did not train him to do that at all. He simply had an aversion to eating or hurting them. He lived to a healthy age of 17 years.
There are commercial vegetarian foods available for both cats and dogs on the market and it is easier now to provide a healthy diet for your pets than it was then. As I see it if you are vegetarian and are feeding flesh foods to your pets then you are simply not living up to your own principles.

Answer 2

No.
What do you mean, too?
Cats & Dogs are carnivores.
Humans are herbivores.

You do not understand the definition of the word "vegetarian". A vegetarian is a herbivore living in a society where the majority consume meat, but has actually learnt that meat is not what herbivores should be eating thus decides to stop eating meat; becoming a vegetarian is an educational inevitability. If you are smart enough to be able to distinguish fact from fiction and are interested in learning about things, eventually you will come across the fact that what you are putting in your mouth shouldn't be going there.

Animals are, for the most part, eating what they are supposed to be eating. A better example would be a bear that was raised to eat at the garbage dump one day discovers that there is actually a forest over the other side of the mountain and finds that the bears there do not eat what he was brought up to believe was actually food for bears, but they ate berries, leaves, grubs, and so forth. It was a life altering experience and he decided to be a "herbitarian" too! All his friends and family thought he was nuts and that he'd die eating such flavourless, raw, strange, things and never be able to gain enough weight for the winter. His buddy told him that he once at a whole bunch of berries and leaves and threw it all up, so obviously berries are not for bears. He realized that his buddy was completely ignorant.

Answer 3

Animals are designed by nature to be either carnivores, herbivores or omnivores and should eat the diet nature designed them for. A lion (or any other cat) would die in the wild without meat. (Dogs can do quite well on a vegan diet, but cats require supplementation because they'll go blind without taurine. There are commercial vegetarian and vegan foods available for pets.)

I believe humans should not eat meat. We may be capable of it, but we're also capable of thriving on a plant-based diet and of weighing the ethical and moral implications of our choices.

Answer 4

I am not imposing a vegetarian diet on my Florida turtles. After all, they never ate any sallad leaves I gave them, they just love meat. I can't impose anything on them, as I don't want to let them starve. They also eat cheese and bread, but most often they crave meat and won't eat anything else.
If I imposed a diet unhealthy for them, would this mean I love them? It would be a contradiction: I don't eat meat because I love animals, but I'd kill my own pets. No way.

Answer 5

To be or not to be veg?????

I believe that the answer is related to karmic law and reincarnation or reaching enlightenment. I do not believe that a human being can reach enlightenment when they have a graveyard in their stomachs full of Gods creatures.

I believe that the Christian comandment 'Thou shalt not Kill' means exactly that. It includes killing other animals and by feeding on flesh you break this tenant.

I believe that the Hindu ideal of Ahimsa (to do no harm) includes not killing other animals for their flesh.

I believe that by contributing to the suffering of another animal you move further away from enlightenment - this includes eating flesh, wearing or purchasing leather/fur, and supporting other companies/retailers/charities etc that are associated with any of these activities.

For other animals, since they are at a different level with regards to karmic law, being veg is not so important to their goals of reaching God.

Answer 6

no because animals dont have choice of food to pick like we do.. its not like a lion is gonna be like o i dont want meat today, i wanna nice salad! Lions need meet to survive, some animals are herbiovores,ominivores,carnivores

Answer 7

When you try to convince tigers and sharks to eat tofu rather than meat, I'd like to watch.

I hope you are just joking, because if you are serious, you seriously need the attention of a mental health professional.

Doc

Answer 8

Forcing our ideals on nature is an exercise in futility, and forcing a pet to eat anything other than what it's body is intended to eat is foolish. It's no better to expect a dog to be a vegan than to expect a cow to eat pork. it's just stupid.

Answer 9

Instinct tells animals what to eat, not human perseptions of right and wrong. An animal will eat exactly what it's body NEEDS to survive and thrive.

Answer 10

I tend to let viscious carnivores like lions and sharks make their own decisions about what they want to eat.

But then again, I'm an omnivore.