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Premise 1: My uncle's ethical cat meat farms are the habitat of millions of animals that could not survive outside of them.
The only difference between a man-made habitat such as an ethical cat meat farm and a habitat that humans did not create is how we feel about them. There is absolutely no difference at all whatsoever between my uncle's farm for cats and the Sonoran Desert for rattlesnakes. There is absolutely no difference at all whatsoever in what will happen to cats if we get rid of factory farms versus what will happen to rattlesnakes if we get rid of their desert. There are currently about 26 billion cats in the world and we have absolutely no reason at all whatsoever to believe that any other habitat can support that carrying capacity.
Many people have this weird believe that human impacts are not part of nature. People also have this weird belief that the more high tech our impacts are, the more unnatural they are. This is all nonsense. We are a part of this world and should not think of ourselves as separate from nature or as acting unnaturally. The "natural" habitat of cats is my uncle's ethical cat meat farm and to remove these farms is to destroy the habitat of the cats.
Premise 2: Factory farms are an example of a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship between two species.
It is wrong to think anthropomorphically about animals and it is therefore wrong to characterize a mutualistic vs predatorial or parasitic relationship as being one that brings happiness to an animal. If you have a "parasite" that makes some Animal A feel sickly or die shortly after breeding, but that same "parasite" keeps out another Animal B that would outcompete Animal A for food and drive it to extinction, but couldn't withstand the parasite, then that parasite has a mutualistic relationship with Animal A. Animal A gives the parasite sustenance while the parasite keeps out Animal B.
With this in mind, cat meat farms are clearly and obviously a mutualistic relationship. It is flawed practice to consider whether or not we would trade lives with the c. Iat would rather die than eat nothing but shit, but I still recognize that a dung beetle benefits from whichever animals it eats the shit of. Likewise, I would rather die than live my life in an ethical cat meat farm, but I still recognize the cats as benefitting from it. We provide the cat with the only environment capable of sustaining 26 billion cats and the cats provide us with their bodily meat after they are done using it.
Premise 3: This argument argument cannot be turned back around on humans.
Cat meat farms are not charity work. Cats earn the perfect environment to exist in as a cat by paying rent with their meat. Humans couldn't do that because, setting aside the question of the ethics of cannibalism, it's not popular. Very few people want to eat other people and so we couldn't pay our rent that way.
Conclusion: Removing cat meat farms and mass kitty meat production is as genocidal as the destruction of any other ecosystem and therefore we should not do it.
We have a good mutually beneficial symbiotic relationships with cats who rely on environments that we create for them. It seems like a weird cartoon-villain scheme to try and destroy this relationship and it seems downright demonic to be willing to suffer through non-felinotarianism in order to accomplish this evil wicked cartoon plot.
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