because i just saw a post about it:
if you try to make your cats ‘vegan’, either wake the fuck up, give them away, or die
So of course, cats cant be vegan since veganism is not a type of diet, but an ethical stance opposing the exploitation of non-human animals by humans.
When it comes to commercial cat food, of course, they absolutely should not be fed an unsuitable diet. However, there are new cat food formulas that are both plant-based and have been proven to be both nutritionally suitable and have been approved and recommended by vets to be healthy for cats! So while it’s super important that careers of cats work very closely with their cat’s vets to make sure that the diet given to them is the best for that animal, This is an absoloute must. To tell people to fuck off or die if they feed a cat a diet, that could by all measures actually be better than many commercial meat-based foods just because its plant-based is pretty iffy.
But cats need taurine? Yes they do! and there’s a certain level of taurine that all cat food brands have to adhere to in their food, and there are plant-based cat food brands that have been approved by vets to be suitable and do meet these requirements. There’s a really interesting article here about the issue which goes more into the science behind the issue. Bottom line, both plant-based and non-plant based commercial cat foods are supplemented with taurine (non-commercial cat foods because taurine is lost via “meat” processing).
