That’s honestly an awful comparison. Wild predators don’t consume more than the environment can sustain, domestic cats represent either an artificial demand for farmed meat, which is bad for the environment, or they hunt themselves which is awful for the environment as well as they’re an invasive species everywhere and already the cause of dozens of extinctions.
Wild predators don’t consume more than the environment can sustain
Sometimes they do
Wild animals aren’t less taxing on the environment per se, they’re just differently taxing. Long living ecosystems are likely to be closer to balance. But never perfectly balanced.
Domestic cats are just cats same as the wild ones, but in different numbers and locations
For example, people like to talk about beavers as good for the environment. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren’t!
I get that there’s a difference with farmed meat and all, but you may as well argue natural wild predators are bad for the environment
That’s honestly an awful comparison. Wild predators don’t consume more than the environment can sustain, domestic cats represent either an artificial demand for farmed meat, which is bad for the environment, or they hunt themselves which is awful for the environment as well as they’re an invasive species everywhere and already the cause of dozens of extinctions.
Sometimes they do
Wild animals aren’t less taxing on the environment per se, they’re just differently taxing. Long living ecosystems are likely to be closer to balance. But never perfectly balanced.
Domestic cats are just cats same as the wild ones, but in different numbers and locations
For example, people like to talk about beavers as good for the environment. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren’t!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1wwtGgnzg4
The difference between farmed and wild meat is crucial so no I may not as well argue that.
Leaving cats to find their own game instead of feeding them farmed meat is significantly worse for the local population (of birds in particular)