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Originally Posted by Weatherlight  Guess I'll have the unpopular opinion here yet again. |
I don't think it's so much an opinion as it is a fact - animals need to be fed an appropriate diet.
Feeding an herbivore meat or a carnivore strictly vegetables, while perhaps not cruel, is at least irresponsible. Animals need a natural source of the vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients that are essential to them. A synthetic diet just doesn't provide that. If you have an animal that has health issues and needs a modified diet, then by all means, you should do whatever is necessary to find a diet that works for them and keeps them happy and healthy. Otherwise, in my opinion, it does absolutely border on cruel to feed an animal a diet that is not appropriate from an evolutionary standpoint.
The fact that you might be able to make it work, doesn't necessarily make it right.