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"Membership" in anything should never be criminalized—that's freedom of association. Animal abuse should be criminalized.
Tell that to the members of organisations deemed to be terrorists
Like the "ANTIFA"?
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#82WOW this is amazing! There are many of these ‘smart kitty houses’ in my Shanghai neighbourhood!
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#83This seems like a great program! Small anectode; My wife runs a cafe in Ankara, Turkey. A week after opening a random cat walked in and claimed one of the chairs. We started feeding him. Then another walked in... We left a large automated feeder outside and started spaying / neutering, vaccinating, deworming them. I think we neutered close to 20-30 cats. A couple needed medical intervention (broken limbs, infections…
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Brand new account only to start off like this. Sigh.
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#84Well I certainly got sucked in by some cats staring at the camera with an empty bowl, got me buying them kibble.
It feels like such a natural next step
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#85I'm not vegan, but I'm always really surprised by the difference in how we see cats and pigs. See e.g. https://theintercept.com/2020/05/29/pigs-factory-farms-venti... https://www.ted.com/talks/lewis_bollard_how_to_end_factory_f... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_molting The US also has basically no animal welfare laws for the vast majority of its animals
Future generations are gonna look back at us for our treatment of animals, especially farmed animals, much the way we look back at our slave owning ancestors. And just like we wonder how so many otherwise morally upstanding people participated in such an obviously abhorrent system as human slavery, they will think the same about people in our generation. Unfortunately, it turns out that social norms are extremely pow…
The pendulum could swing the other way and instead animal rights activists could be looked upon with complete disdain. Just like human rights, progress is never guaranteed.
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#86There's some good explanation of what this is all about here: https://streetcat.wiki/ Specially, details of the actual feeders: https://streetcat.wiki/index.php/Stray_Cat_Feeders
> Stupid Idiot is a now adopted cat, named after the markings on his face I'm glad for Mr. Stupid Idiot :D
Apparently he's named idiot because his moustache markings resemble the chinese character for "idiot", and stupid because he once flooded his feeder with the water bottle, somehow.
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So to throw me to prison, all one needs to do is break in, and let my cat loose. Also, abandonment is just a minuscule part of human animal abuse.
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You have no idea how much F*s a cat gives.
You don't even have to feed my cat for it to like you. Any human attention at all and the engine runs.
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Don’t worry, if cats tasted good they would be receiving the same treatment! The amount of cruel farming practices, chemicals, unsustainable methods etc that the US uses while being forbidden in the rest of the world is inexcusable.
> Don’t worry, if cats tasted good they would be receiving the same treatment! I don't think that's true: dog meat isn't widely eaten, but enough countries do eat it to suggest it's palatable.
I used to work in the pet industry and an oft cited statistic was that 1,000,000 cats and dogs are euthanized every year in the US. It would never happen for cultural reasons but, it seems like China could be a booming market for selling these animals as meat instead of letting it all go to waste.
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#89There's some good explanation of what this is all about here: https://streetcat.wiki/ Specially, details of the actual feeders: https://streetcat.wiki/index.php/Stray_Cat_Feeders
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