Hey thanks:)) and I totally agree! If I wasn't so aware of who she is/what era this photo must have been taken in, I could see myself assuming this was the original (and she had a bad sunburn😉). Really well done otherwise. Have a good night, friend!

It's like "Me and my friend having a picture with the most strict teacher of our school"

I grew up on the Midwest and loved it as a kid, didn’t realize it was a Canadian show.

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No, but it lives on in the hearts of Canadians

Is that show still on?

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I love your name :) I'm usually not a fan of colorized photos - they can be really tacky and weird looking - but I think this is a great one :)

Bettie Page is my absolute favorite, SUCH a beauty. I had "Bettie bangs" for about 5 years too long because of her lol

Did you see me say anything about the dog being fed a vegetarian diet? No. I was simply giving advice on how you might convince more people to adjust their eating habits in a better way with the added benefit of explaining why your current manner of arguing for it is flawed. That appeal to emotion argument works for some, but not a lot, of people. If that's somehow "evil" then feel free to ignore everything I've said.

As for 16 year olds visiting things like that, i honestly agree. That's around the age where you should be shown some uncomfortable stuff, and allow them to come to their own conclusions for these topics. It may work to help lower meat consumption, it may also do almost nothing at all. I've seen it myself, and while it's not, lets say ideal for the animal, it is efficient and for the amount we eat as a society, that efficiency is kind of required.

If we ate less, I'm not even arguing for none either necessarily, we could significantly lower the need for industrialized animal farming like that. It would have a ton of benefits.

Original photographer unknown, early to mid 1950s

Dried cat and dog food is sold on % protein.

Premium foods having higher protein levels

What is this protein?

it is a product called chicken flour.

Chicken flour is the end of meat processing. Anything left after mechanical recovery is dehydrated and then ground into a meal.

Vegan pet food replaces that protein with soya. Vegan pet food is fortified with taurine.

Whilst perfectly safe for dogs the jury is out on vegan cat food as a total replacement.

The antipathy towards vegetable based dog food is pathetic.

I have seen every commercially farmed animal slaughtered and processed. It should be mandatory for plus 16 year olds to visit a slaughterhouse and witness the realities of modern industrial meat processing.

So happy to see billions of animals killed but horrified that a dog is fed a perfectly safe vegetable based alternative

Ah so doubling down on the accusations. Nice. I wouldn't really call it a lack of empathy as much as simple human nature. Do you get heartbroken over someone dying whom you've never met and have no ties to? No? Then you have a lack of empathy by this logic. This is also why the appeal to emotion argument often holds no real weight in my experience.

I heard a commercial on the radio today about vegan cat and dog food. The woman said things like how your pet sometimes might feel guilty about killing. I could not believe what I heard, the site is even weirder, they want to make vegan pet food the norm... it's vegavriend.nl (vegafriend) if you don't believe this. I'll never serve my cats vegan food, except one has a food allergy and I haven't thought of it (I only have 2 brands atm) she might not get a reaction but I know her she doesn't go for anything other than meat. But other than that, their main food will always be meat.

you do what you want

I don't care

your lack of any empathy is your problem

LoL

People that feed their dogs this deserve to be eaten alive by their dogs when they fall down the stairs and can’t move

Notice how i made no comment at all about feeding an animal a vegan diet in my comment? Yeah there is a reason for that lol. I edited it a bit to make it more clear the specific thing i was targeting in my response though.

Dog is order Carnivora. Their digestive system differs from let's say a pig or a human. Dogs can survive without meat (unless cats, that's right) but they cannot strive without it.

Forcing an animal to be vegan is abuse not “emotional”

It says both vegan and vegetarian on the bag. Anything else?

Seriously all, the definition of the word Omnivore is an animal that can eat and survive off of plants and animal protein. I understand the concern, but I know many dogs who eat vegetable based diets and are completely fine, if not healthier than dogs who eat cheaply made animal products. They live longer and healthier. If you feed Cats diets of plants, yes it's animal abuse, because Cats are Carnivores. Dogs are Omnivores!

I find this argument extremely lacking in persuasive power to lead people to more vegetarian diets. It often comes across as aggressive and accusatory, something people tend to get defensive over and thus more "against" you as their interlocutor. It'd be much better instead to focus on the proven environmental and health benefits of eating much less, or even no, meat/animal products.

The emotional "it's animal abuse" argument is totally countered by one simple statement.

"I don't care"

And because it's an appeal to emotion it doesn't actually really matter if it seems inconsistent either with their response to "well would you eat your dog" for which is a common retort to that.

Edited for clarity on what my whole point here actually was.

They’re two different things. You’re posting to be provocative so you might as well get it right.