The Moral Costs of Cats

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It's also important to note for this discussion that dogs and cats account for around a quarter of emissions from animal agriculture: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2017/08/02/whats-yo...

As obligate carnivores it is difficult to decrease the overall footprint of a cat. Pet ownership may be one of the biggest components to one's personal carbon footprint. I'm often dismayed by friends and colleagues my age who use environmental arguments for why they won't have children, yet own multiple animals.

Joe Rogan had a hilarious but accurate piece on cat owners who are vegan for moral reasons but feed their cats canned cat food. The very same vegans are in your face about "animal rights".

People take positions for a variety of emotional reasons - in-group, virtue signaling, etc - and then choose their rationalizations.

The data needs to be sampled in many different location types, the problems discussed can easily be framed as solutions in areas with a lot of animals labelled in the "vermin" category.

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