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I just had a quick look over there, every post bar one in the last week is about vegan cat food.
They're not taking this well.
Before this the mods at c/vegan had iron fisted control over what ideas were acceptable in their echo bunker. They actively promoted pseudo-scientific propaganda that supported their self-assured ideological moral purity and banned anyone who question the misinformation or posted peer reviewed science that contradicted the misinformation. Their echo bunker has been blown open, their lies and ideological censorship are on full display, and like insects exposed when their rock is lifted they are scurrying around trying to find somewhere ideologically dark and safe to hide.
Isn't that kind of the point of having open communities, so that you can decide what does and doesn't belong in your community without some centralized censor coming in and deciding what is acceptable in your community unless it's illegal or actively harmful?
If you have definitive sources that vegan cat food with the appropriate taurine supplements aren't ok for normal healthy cats then you can make an argument that that's animal abuse, but otherwise you're just applying your own preconceptions to their community.
This is why the hammer got lowered on the community. It isn't up to anyone to prove that vegan cat food is acceptable. Provide peer reviewed scientific studies published in reputable journals to demonstrate that it is.
Why is the default that it isn't? I'm saying we shouldn't have an admin enforced default not force one or the other People give terrible advice regarding pet care, child rearing and everything else. Why is this any different? Should we ban all content with exotic pets like parrots or sugar gliders because they overwhelmingly do poorly in captivity?
Because that's how science works? Cats are obligate carnivores. They require a diet of meat. If you are insisting that a diet without meat can satisfy the needs of an obligate carnivores then it is up to you to prove that it is with a large, well designed study that is published, peer reviewed, and repeatable.
That is what the admin was saying. You can't use the claims in a book written by a vegan activist who was confirming his own bias at proof. That isn't proof. It isn't up to science to prove you wrong. Itis up to you to prove you right.