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Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

LeftyMom

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8. Then there's feeding them literal garbage.

Reply to undeterred (Original post)

Wed May 14, 2014, 11:21 PM

May 2014

I mean, shredded newspaper, wood shavings, the shit of other animals, all sorts of agricultural waste of dubious nutritional value. Stuff that makes the rendered slaughterhouse floor scrapings that make up cheap pet food sound like haute cuisine.

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And some of it is sugared foods like candy, probably too old to be sold to humans undeterred May 2014 #10

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