Poor quality source at best. They literally suggest that a plant based diet is acceptable for cats despite them being obligate carnivores.
Edit: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0284132
That’s Dr Knight’s study and all the positive results for plant diets fed to cats come from the self reports of the owners who made this choice already. That’s a strong selection bias and it’s not a great study.
Obligate carnivore means they require nutrients that on a natural diet, they can only get from meat. With processed foods, cats can survive on a plant-based diet, if the food has had the appropriate nutrition added (in a way that cats can absorb it)
Edit, it even says exactly that in the article:
While cats are obligate carnivores, complete foods like Unicorn Pate are fortified with all of the vitamins and minerals that cats need to thrive, including taurine
Soo… I haven’t seen any cat food owner offer anything but kibble and “wet food”. These are insanely processed and not natural at all. I have yet to see a cat hunt down a cow.
Also this selfishness you speak of is kinda paradoxical because its from a desire to protect animals thats not only the one closest to you. You know, from being slaughtered to serve you to feed your cat?
Unless you’re against kibble too can you clarify your position a bit?
I do not eat meat.
I do feed meat to my cat.
What do you think of people feeding their pets kibble/dry food? Most people (>75%) with dogs and cats feed most (or all) of their food as dry kibble. Is that morally wrong?
If yes, please share more about that.
If no, is it only “processed food” if it’s made with non-meat protein with added nutrients rather than animal-based sludge with added nutrients? I’m struggling to understand this perspective.
