Defenders Of Humans And The Natural World

"Dog food can have greater impact than human diets.
Premium pet feeds can have a carbon footprint in excess of food consumed by people, a study shows."
Publication date
07 Jan, 2026

vet.ed.ac.uk/global-agriculture-food-systems/news/…

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Kudos to Wolf Ruck for standing his ground and showing the city they have no evidence to back up their claims. Imagine how great it would be for wildlife if everyone quit mowing their lawns. We stopped mowing ours a long, long time ago. It's something everyone can do personally "in order to address the problem of biodiversity decline and global warming."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mississauga-superio…

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A 13-year-old boy in Nova Scotia was killed by three dogs while riding his bicycle.

The article calls this a “tragedy.” A tragedy suggests inevitability, like a storm or an earthquake. Dog attacks are avoidable and preventable and therefore not tragedies.

Children are dying because the system allows dangerous animals to exist in our communities.

This boy was doing something ordinary. The dogs were doing something entirely predictable. The failure happened long before the attack. The failure happened in the decisions that normalized keeping high-risk animals in public spaces. The failure happened when warnings were dismissed as overreactions.

My son is the same age. No parent should have to wonder whether letting their child ride a bike could end this way.

Calling this a tragedy softens the truth. This was a policy failure, a cultural failure, and an adult failure. Until we are willing to name that clearly, children will keep paying the price.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/rcmp-dog-attack…

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Merry Christmas everyone! Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season. Thanks so much for your support. ❤️🎉🎄🧑‍🎄

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I love this.

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Often, people say things like,
“How many animals have HUMANS driven to extinction?”
“HUMANS kill more people than dogs do!”

Invoking human-caused extinctions or injuries/fatalities as if they are a separate category from the harm caused by cats and dogs is a classic case of relative privation, which is the idea that “because humans cause greater damage, the harms caused through our domesticated animals don’t count.” But dogs and cats are not independent actors in human society or the ecological system. They are extensions of human agency.

Every humanitarian or ecological impact from cats and dogs exists because humans created, proliferated, protected, and subsidized these species far beyond anything a natural predator could sustain. Their attacks, predation pressure, population density, geographic spread, and survival rates are all artificial constructs of human domestication and human infrastructure.

So when cats and dogs attack humans or drive native birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians to collapse, the causal chain is still human. The animal is the mechanism; the human is the architect.

To frame it another way: if a human introduces an invasive species, the damage caused by that species is still attributed to human action. Domesticated predators are no different. Treating them as separate actors is simply a way of isolating the harm in order to excuse it.

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“No beneficial associations between living with a pet and mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in a large UK longitudinal sample”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212657…

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I would like to know what you all think of this. In my most recent video, I included a couple of short AI-generated clips. I also used AI to make the thumbnail. A viewer tells me it is hypocritical because my channel is about saving the environment, and using AI is bad for the environment: it consumes vast amounts of fresh water.

I am fine with ditching the AI-generated videos because I don’t think they look very good anyway. However, the images AI creates can be very engaging - very effective at communicating the video’s core idea. A good thumbnail is crucial because it acts as the "first handshake" for potential viewers, sparking curiosity and grabbing attention to increase click-through rates and viewership. A good thumbnail is vital for standing out in a crowded digital space. Without a compelling thumbnail, the content itself risks being overlooked by the algorithm and viewers alike.

I am conducting a cost-benefit analysis, and, given the fact that my videos are helping to save the environment, If a good thumbnail helps to attract viewers and makes more people click on my video, then maybe it’s worth it to use AI to generate one image per week (I am planning to upload new videos on a fairly regular basis, about one per week).

What are your thoughts?

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Even if it were possible (it isn't), sterilizing and vaccinating them all will not stop them from biting, mauling, and killing people. These people value dog life over human life. www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/india/india-stray-dogs-supr…

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@mattvl73 • 16 hours ago
the fact that dogs are not people is part of the allure. you can't legally keep another human on a leash and expect unconditional "love" from them. you can't confine a frantically barking human all day in a tiny room while you run "errands". in most cases, you cannot simply put food in a human's dish and expect "love", adoration, and obedience. if you could, be assured these folks would have human slaves on a leash and little food dishes with their name on it next to a heart. and when their little emotional crutches on a leash defecated on someone else's day, they would call it a "poot". if they bit or snapped at you, it would be because you scared them. usually human beings require you to earn or deserve love and respect. not so with dogs. thus the obsession. just a symptom of a societal disease.

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