Friday August 21, 2009, 1:15 pm
YES IT DOES IT HELPS THEM IMMENSELY PLUS HELPS OUR PLANET - YOU ARE FAR HEALTHIER - LIVE LONGER - YOUR NOT JUST EATING AN ANIMAL YOUR EATING BLOOD THE ENTIRE LOT = HOW LICK SMACKING GOOD IS THAT!!!

Friday August 21, 2009, 6:10 pm
I wish you people would actually visit some working farms instead of only focusing on Factory Farms.

Urban Vegans.

Friday August 21, 2009, 6:21 pm
A cat is a carnivore, they are designed to eat meat. To alter that is no different hat if they decided your vegan diet was wrong and put you on a strict raw meat and blood diet.

That OK with Vegans who cry speciesm?

Friday August 21, 2009, 6:49 pm
It is called evolution and compassion. No matter where an animal is raised (and the vast majority ARE factory farmed) they all end up at some slaughter house.

Saturday August 22, 2009, 4:45 am
Some person at work told me that man is designed to eat meat. Okay, that is his reality!. Then do you think that a pig is designed to live on concrete, to lie between bars and hardly space to move or never to see the sun. Never to play in the mud with other pigs and never to rear its own piglets. Is a chicken designed to live in a small cage, not to spread its wings, never see sunlight, never roam the grounds and rear its own chicks, never to bath in the dust. This is only a small example. What about other farm animals. By the way, animals are better mothers that many humans. We should rather watch them being free and learn a lesson about humanity and dignity.

Saturday August 22, 2009, 8:01 am
Balance, balance, what God created an animal to eat let it be... agreed our feline friends need a high protein diet, whereas cattle should not be forced to eat proteins from other animals sources that is not on... Monkeys to believe or not will take a small animal as a protein source every now and again

Saturday August 22, 2009, 1:03 pm
Very well said Julie Van! Thank you for taking the time and energy.
Most Sincerely
Wendy

Saturday August 22, 2009, 1:53 pm
Lets all be a little real here. I love animals, have been on the war path for them on many occasions, ( I live in India, human life is cheap, you can imagine that of an animal's ) but, try to visualize a world where everyone was a veggie ! Quite frankly, my dears, there would be no place to move ! I hate Factory Farms and really do believe that animals should be allowed the sunshine and " animal happiness ". That is what we need to encourage, not pressing people to go veg. Ban all forms of penned animals to be used as food. I feel that would be a lot kinder to animals.

Saturday August 22, 2009, 3:01 pm
I think that if you truly love animals you do not need anyone forcing you to be a vegan as it will naturally happen. On the other hand, I think that starting out as a vegetarian as an important step that should be supported while making the transition to becoming a vegan. Meat is a commodity to many, and many are not willing to give it up!

Saturday August 22, 2009, 3:07 pm
I have been a veggie for nearly 40 years, starting as a young teenager (in the early 70s) at a time when veggies were considered, at the worst strange, and at the least, cranks. There were a few dried pulses and brown chunks (TVP) and whatever you did with them they looked and tasted like brown chunks. Occasionally, restaurants would offer omlettes and, about 10 years late, veggie lasagne. Cheese was a regular feature in my diet was were eggs, although now they can be free range. Cows can be well looked after and I can sometimes buy cheeses from market shops where there are free range cows.

Now there is a range to die for and a huge and interesting selection of ready meals and ready prepared beans to cook with as well as a greater range of grains. I use far fewer eggs and a lot less cheese yet have a greater selection of foods many of which imitate meat and my family often eat these in preference.

Being a veggie definitely produces a wider range in my diet and with less saturated fats and meat toxins in my diet, a lot healthier.

Sunday August 23, 2009, 9:21 am
Cats are true carnivores. If you intentionally feed cat vegetarian diet, it will look for meat somewhere else. Many cats will hunt and kill mice, rabbits and birds. Cats lack the physiology to properly digest vegetation. The cat’s digestive system cannot convert plant based nutrients in to the form that its body can utilize. That’s why cat are are called strict carnivores, as they need to take the nutrients from other animals, Here’s 7 most important nutrients that a can can't get from a vegeterian diet. Taurine, Arachidonic acid, Vitamin A, Vitamin B12, Niacin, Thiamin, Protein. Even though some of these exist or can be converted from vegetables, cats are not able to convert the vegetable form of essential vitamins to a form they can use.

Tuesday August 25, 2009, 12:09 pm
I was a little stunned by the question, Of course a vegetarian diet helps animals. Think about it: a vegetarian does not eat animals, therefore does not kill animals - that sounds pretty helpful to me.

Sunday August 30, 2009, 4:30 am
A dairy cow suffers for a much longer time than one that's butchered for meat. Do your research, please!

Veganism rocks.

Monday August 31, 2009, 4:19 am
I agree Jamie, a cat does need meat. There is one big difference. The cat does not hunt down 30 mice and keep it in a small cage or mount its head as a trophy. A lion make one fast kill and eat the buck. Hunters kill animals for the fun and the trophy. Humans let their meat suffer for a long time before it ends up on the plate.