However, pigs, cows, sheep and chickens are also domestic animals, but they are more useful than dogs and cats because they are used to produce food for a family and many people. However, Steiner states, “People…are practically entitled to treat it as a commodity of minuscule market value” (847). Steiner thinks that people raise, kill and eat animals because their lives have no moral meaning for meat eaters and humans are superior to them, but that is not the reason at all. People like to eat meat and there is nothing wrong with that. Although Steiner does not believe in keeping animals in cages, he himself has a pet cat. Alice Desaulniers is also surprised to hear that Steiner has a cat and writes to Steiner, “If… how do you justify keeping an animal in a situation that amounts to captivity” (852). Steiner explicitly says many times that humans think they are superior to animals, but if he thinks human and animal life should be equal, then why does he have a cat? Because he says that people think they are superior to animals, and the fact that he himself has a cat makes him very hypocritical. Another point to add is that people have to feed their pets somehow and most pet foods are made up of animal and animal remains. So unless Steiner only feeds catnip, it is possible that he is feeding it to his cat, which in turn would go against everything he has