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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neenny who wrote (93509)	1/13/2005 1:46:57 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Unfortunately, the choices in pet foods available to people who don't believe in eating meat are few and far between. There are some vegan pet foods on the market, but they are filled with soy, corn and wheat, ingredients that a lot of pets have allergies to. There are some new premium vegetarian dog foods, but woefully none for cats that I am aware of. I hope that as demand for these products grows, there will be. In the meantime, pets need to eat something (if you accept the concept that people are responsible for the well-being of their pets and must feed them somehow). The chicken used in the Trader Joe's cat kibble is certified to be free range and organic. I realize fully that this is not ideal, but I would rather feed my cats organic free range chicken than factory farmed chicken where the chickens live their entire lives in a space smaller than a piece of printer paper and never ever flap their wings. Imagine how you would feel if you spent your entire life never able to walk or stretch out your arms, in a cage where there was no sunlight. I am not familiar with how the Amish rear their children, so I can't really comment on that. The chickens they raise are certified by a reputable organic certification agency. Life is full of less than perfect choices. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to do as little damage, or cause as little hurt, as possible.