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Most of y'all need to calm the fuck down.
Vegan cat food has been a thing for a minute
It would be much bigger news if vegans were killing their cats in mass in pursuit of a vegan diet. But it seems most of you are blinded by rage of otherizing people then wanting to have a discussion.
Now bring on the down votes because most of you ornery ones think just because it's sold on Amazon doesn't mean it healthy for cat or some shit idk. It looks like Benevo gets 200 orders a month those cats really sound like their starving.
Lemmy.world really is reddit huh?
Don't.... feed cats food they're not evolved to survive off of. It's not a hard concept.
Don’t… feed cats food they’re not evolved to survive off of.
So, just release live mice and insects into the house every couple of days?
Perfect enrichment
Cats find kibble naturally in their wild environment.
Did you know kibble is harder then the bones cats would generally eat from birds and other small prey?
You ever wonder why humans have to cook their meat?
We cook our food to kill bacteria.
Ever wondered why domesticated animals tend to become much older than wild animals?
Why? I mean I know, I just want to hear your explanation.
It breaks down the protein easier. Humans never developed a stomach like wolves or lions. Does that suffice for you?
Yup totally! Just seems like a stretch from "cooking food is just making protein easier to digest" to, "chemically synthesizing elements that generally exist in a abundant state in the normal food source of an animal from vegetable sources and fortifying a plant based alternative that only gives macro nutrients we currentlt understand to be necessary for life".
That being said, if any plant based hormones were cheaper than the meat based alternative (all meat based cat food is also fortified in this way), the industry would switch to plant based and not tell anyone.
I would be extremely cautious giving a cat any of these products. Dry food is already not great for cats; it tends to be very carb heavy, and cats need a very low carb, high protein diet. On top of that, cats are obligate carnivores, meaning their wild diet is almost entirely animal meat, aside from the contents of their prey's stomachs (they will occasionally eat or chew some plants or grasses, but that's usually for their digestive tract, not nutrition). I'm very skeptical that you can give a cat a healthy diet with these vegan kibbles, which all seem to be mostly grains.