Vegan is the future... for dogs and cats too! 8shares Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Download the free Plant Based Treaty guide to plant-based dogs and cats Until recently, the common belief was that our animal companions needed meat to be healthy. Thankfully, now there’s an alternative! Dogs and cats can thrive on veterinarian-approved vegan diets.
They need an appropriate array of vitamins, nutrients, and calories to stay alive. The way they do this naturally is to eat meat, but it’s not the meat specifically that they need.
Vegan cat food isn’t natural. It’s not normal. Cats will always want to kill and eat other animals. And yet—our cats aren’t natural.
Dr. Jennifer Coates, says “While it may be possible for a veterinary nutritionist to design a “vegan” recipe for cats that wouldn’t lead to disease, it would have to contain large amounts of nutritional supplements, some of which would probably have animal origins, raising the question of whether that diet would truly be vegan. Even more importantly, the goal in feeding pets is not simply to avoid diet-related illness but to promote optimal health and wellbeing. I sincerely doubt this is possible with vegan cat food.”
FYI cats need to eat meat to stay alive.
Why?
Because @[email protected] heard the phrase “obligate carnivore” once and decided they didn’t need to learn anything else about pet care.
They need an appropriate array of vitamins, nutrients, and calories to stay alive. The way they do this naturally is to eat meat, but it’s not the meat specifically that they need.
you have to fortify the food but it’s doable in principal. I’m assuming people are working on it by now
I don’t know much about cats but this seems reasonable: https://cats.com/vegan-cat-food