Comments on: Vegan Cat Food: The Cold Hard Truth

By: kurt mausert

kurt mausert — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:27:52 +0000

I disagree with the assertion that cats cannot get a sufficient amount of taurine and arginine from a plant based food. I have been feeding my cat Ami Vegan cat food for nearly 2 years. She is healthy and happy. Ami contains both those amino acids.

It is true that cats are natural meat eaters. It is also true that humans are not the natural caretakers of cats. It is not my job to kill other animals to feed a cat. Cats who live in a feral state do not live anywhere near as long as cats who live with humans. My cat doesn’t get to eat meat, but she sleeps on soft cushions and is more than 10 years old. In the wild, she would have been eating meat for her whole life which probably would have ended many years ago. Vegan at 10 beats meat eater dead at 3. And her health is fine. The comparison this author gives of a human eating only iceberg letter and taking vitamins is not accurate. My cat proves it everyday.

By: Lesley Hatfield

Lesley Hatfield — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 05:31:34 +0000

I came across this post while looking for supplements to make my own vegan cat food. Now i’m torn again about switching their diet. I’ve read so many posts of facebook about happy healthy vegan cats and Peta say it’s fine. Then i come across this – which has a way of removing some of the guilt i have feeding them meat but is that the easy way out, like letting God carry your burden – not that i’m religious but hopeful you’ll get my gist. Lesley

By: Naomi Pommerel

Naomi Pommerel — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 05:45:25 +0000

Love it. Hands down one of the best things I’ve read on this issue. The solution is simple if you cannot be anything but vegan and want your entire household to be vegan, you don’t have a cat! Have a Guinea pig or a rabbit, something that is by nature vegan. Everyone will be happier all round, including the cats. Cats are the best little meat eating hunters we know, you can’t change that and its unethical to try.

By: Jonah

Jonah — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:52:15 +0000

I’m fairly surprised by this argument. Most “ethical” vegetarians and vegans don’t avoid purchasing meat because it’s “icky,” they do it because they want to avoid directly supporting the killing of animals – to reduce the demand for killing animals, basically. If you just don’t like eating meat personally, isn’t it more a matter of taste of than of ethics?

I’m curious if this author actually considers how many animals it takes to feed a single cat. I love cats, but for myself, I cannot justify keeping a cat, because I’d need to pay for many more animals to die in order to support it.

That said, I hold out hope for the future. It is true that cats are all but obligate carnivores. I am highly skeptical of the few vegetarian, let alone vegan, cat food products out there. However, the technology does currently exist to produce a nutritionally balanced vegetarian 9r vegan cat food – it is simply that the demand is not there. Further, the potential of lab-grown meat, which many would consider acceptable, will grow greatly in the future.

By: Alecs

Alecs — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 17:37:12 +0000

Thank you for posting this article about cats being obligate carnivores. As a 20 year vegan, I have always realized the cats I rescue cannot also be vegan. I wish that my vegan acquaintances were not forcing veganism on their cats.