Lemmy world vegan community - hostile takeover (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by ButtBidet@hexbear.net to c/vegan@hexbear.net

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26218550

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A carnist lemmy world instance admin has stepped in and meatsplained to the mods while restoring comments that violated the community's rules. They deleted comments that they did not agree with, citing 'misinformation', and threatened to demod the mods if those comments were removed again. The comments were deleted and the admin was banned from the community as per violating the rules of the community, that was until they unbanned themselves (admin abuse) and unmodded two of the moderators because of "promoting harmfull actions against pets".

As far as it stands, if the lemmy world community wasn't already not a safe vegan place for you (it really wasn't) it most certainly isn't now as carnists (lemmy world instance admin) currently mod it.

I suggest any vegan who wants a safe and welcoming space to come and interact with vegantheoryclub.org. Sorry for any inconvienance that this may have caused. I am deeply upset at the admins actions today and don't condone them whatsoever.

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[-] neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 2 months ago

Here's the thread (archive link) that the admin intervened in:

@naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com, cats CAN NOT survive for long with a vegan diet. Its dangerous for them. Cats are carnivores.

Please refrain from removing warnings about such dangerous facts. Everyone who killed their cats by doing so, have a nice rest of your life knowing you killed your loved pet.

p.s. yes i am a cat owner.

Edit: to the rest of the mods: Dont promote harmfull things for pets. @naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com and @Eevoltic are demoted.

If anyone else thinks pets should be vegan i have no problem banning them for being a troll and promoting killing pets.

Just that you heard it from me too: YES cats can survive vegan diet for few months but prolonged exposure and it gets harmful for the pet and even death.

This is why I banned them and would do it again if I could. They're actively spreading misinformation and being incredibly aggressive about this for some reason.

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

NGL, I don't know anything about the cat issue, cuz I haven't looked into it. Ya I'm not a cat owner. ~~Vegan cats are OK?~~ Please forgive my ignorance.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

At this point, I just assume carnists are wrong every time they say anything about veganism.

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

fidel-salute So true

[-] neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 2 months ago

From my understanding all the meat derived nutrients that cats need can be (and for some of them are usually) synthesized in a lab. Nobody in that thread was advocating for feeding cats a diet of rice and carrots, but were stating that actual formulated vegan cat food is healthy so long as it has got all the nutrients that cats need.

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

Sorry. I've just heard the carnist answer enough times and I haven't bothered to actually Google it. Any page that isn't Quora or Reddit states that, yes, cats can be vegan.

[-] RION@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

Honest question: are cats really not obligate carnivores?

[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 months ago

They are, but that's a term about ecology. In a natural environment they must derive their nutrients from meat because they are unable to get them from plants.

That's because they lack the ability to grind plants/process large amounts of fibre, absorb nutrients gradually etc. If you try to keep a cat alive on whole lentils or something they will get sick and die, however if you feed a cat pelletised mixtures of nutrients refind from plants they will be fine (as long as you include taurine).

Many commercial cat foods already use plant derived nutrients and synthetic taurine.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 months ago

Yea ... I didn't know what the original incident was ... but seeing this is saddening. AFAIU, it's just taurine that cats need, a pretty simple molecule that would be easily synthesised. And of course cat food is heavily processed already.

[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 months ago

Well you need to remove the excess fibre, reduce carb content relative to proteins and fat, balance aminos etc. It's not trivial, but quite tractable.

[-] RION@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Huh, I'd never really thought about what it is in meat that cats actually need/what they might not tolerate in plants.

I'm admittedly skeptical on people doing this unless they're really committed to doing it properly, though. Reading about it online it seems like there's a fair few things besides taurine you have to ensure the cat is getting. That's compounded with the issue that pet food isn't monitored and regulated as well as human food, so it's harder to be sure your pet food is actually what it says it is. This can be ameliorated somewhat by going for established brands which have the necessary supply chain scrutiny/manufacturing tolerances/regulatory oversight to actually back up their claims, but it seems like vegan cat food is often a more boutique or small scale operation.

Anyway I don't even have a cat so I'm not an authority. Just hyperfixated on this for like 15 mins

[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

I mean pet food in general is absolute completely fucked. Like the standard kibble is awful, it contains random excess from animal ag (including, amusingly, a lot of plant matter), garbage from the grinding process including plastic, ash etc. It's bad stuff.

So the usual care and precautions apply, plus obviously it's early days and so you should be getting regular health checks. Of course you should be doing that anyway. Something that frustrates me a little in all this is that people act like everyone buying the random kibble and free feeding a cat is being responsible, but if that kibble was a different kibble it's suddenly abuse. That's basically just privileging that status quo, and nutritional inadequacies in "pet" diets are astonishingly common.

Anyway food allergies etc are a thing, so even if you were killing to feed a cat you should make any dietary changes carefully and slowly.

[-] RION@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Something that frustrates me a little in all this is that people act like everyone buying the random kibble and free feeding a cat is being responsible, but if that kibble was a different kibble it's suddenly abuse.

I understand, and yet... don't think giving cats conventional kibble is inherently "responsible" (outside of feeding your cat in general being a bare minimum threshold of responsibility) but going for an unconventional diet regime probably opens you up to more risks in addition to the ones inherently to pet food like you mentioned.

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

So apparently it's a misleading way of approaching the question. You can successfully do a vegan diet with your cat if you provide them with the correct food. As @BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net stated, carninst answers are not worth listening to.

[-] Procapra@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Learn something new everyday.

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Huh. TIL

[-] RION@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

I appreciate the article you linked although there are some holes in the study, like self reporting, outdoor cats outdoor-cat that might be eating meat unobserved, etc.

would be cool to see a more in-depth study with more controls!

[-] Monstera@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 months ago

.world trully is the worst out of reddit distilled

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Do not, my friends, become addicted to .world. it will take hold of you, and you will regret its absence!

(Make an account on literally any other comm. You'll end up doing it anyway because a sum bullshit later. Why wait?)

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago

Gonna laugh so hard if this is the straw that gets rooki removed.

https://lemmy.world/post/18829828

Although more expecting them to do something terrible over the critique of their mbfc bot and get removed for that

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