[drilldrive]

>> After he had become a vegan... he considered his pet cockatiel. “I remember; he looked up wistfully. He said he got the bird, took it outside, let it loose and it flew up,” Herzog recalls. “He said: ‘I knew she wouldn’t survive, that she probably starved. I guess I was doing it more for myself than for her.’”

Feels like a sticking point, what should people do with their current pets? It is deeper than an individual choice to refuse taking ownership of a pet, since they are a societal domestic cluster, these animals have lost their inner personality and relegated that prowess to their owners.

[pmiller2]

I agree. It is absolutely 100% animal cruelty to release a domesticated animal that cannot survive on its own into the wild. I've seen multiple cases where people release pet rats, dogs, cats, even a rabbit once. Other than cats, those animals don't survive well in the wild. And, cats do it at the expense of whatever local bird population there is in the area.