I’m vegetarian, well I guess I can’t call myself vegan because there are few and far between occasions I have some dairy in my diet.

This cat came with meaty cat food… Biscuits, treats and wet cat food pouches.

So I started her on that… Then mixed in some vegan biscuits… She hated them…. But then I tried the other brand …. She loved them.

Now I feed her the vegan biscuits… And mix in a small amount of what’s left of her meaty cat food.

I love this cat dearly… She’s wonderful, and most of all she’s a conscious being like every other animal out there… So I don’t want to cause her any pain or suffering and I want her to have a happy and fulfilled life.

But really what is the impact of me feeding her meat based pet foods vs vagan cat food.?

Let’s have a look….

Veganpet™
Protein 31.2%
Fibre 3.0%
Fat 14.6%

Essential fatty acids
Arachidonic Acid 0.1%
Docohexaenoic Acid 0.1%

Taurine 0.1%
Magnesium 0.1%

Ingredients
Corn, soya, maize meal, rice, flax meal, yeast, brewers yeast, sunflower oil, canola oil, spirulina, kelp, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, yucca extract, omega 3, omega 6, linoleic acid, vitamin C, prebiotics, taurine, l-carnitine, amylase, essential fatty acids Aa, DHA, EPA.

All this meets the the nutritional requirements of a cat as per the Assosciation of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) cat food nutrient profiel for kitten and adult maintenance.

And unlike other cat foods… All this is made to human grade consumption standards, using organic ingredients where possible… I think I might try some… This is the first time I’ve ever tried cat food… But I just tried it and it tastes well I’m not a cat but it kinda tastes like a nice grainy rye bread toast… Not bad. Better save the rest for my cat.

Now I know this is hardly a cats natural diet in the wild…. But my house is not the wild. If the cat lives under my roof then this is what we are going to try. Of course if she refused to eat this (which she doesn’t she LoVes these bickies!) then I’m not going to harm the poor cat and starve her, I am prepared to feed her the meaty stuff if that is what it comes down to…. Now what’s in the standard “meaty” cat food?

Well it’s hard to the ingredients on the net… Here’s one:

Chef chicken & turkey casserole wet cat food:

Ingredients:
Meat by products from: chicken, beef, lamb, turkey, and mutton, gelling agents, cereal by products, fish by product, thickeners, emulsifiers, minerals, colouring, , vitamins, Taurine…..

Now they have to add the vitamins and taurine because in the processing of the meat by-products the taurine is destroyed and many vitamins are lacking.

Nutritional analysis:
Protein: 7% ( the reccomended amount by AAFCO is 30% - however this is a wet cat food so the 30% is based on dry matter which this analysis doesn’t state)
Fat: 3.5%
Fibre:1.0%
Sodium: 0.5%

Now the ingredients again sound hardly natural for a cat to eat… I assume this product meets the AAFCO standards but I can’t tell from the labeling.

Hills science diet indoor cat biscuits:

Ingredients:
Chicken By-Product Meal, Corn Gluten Meal, Brewers Rice, Whole Grain Corn, Animal Fat (preserved mixed tocopherols and citric acid), Powdered Cellulose, Chicken Liver Flavor, Lactic Acid, Soybean Oil, Soybean Mill Run, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Calcium Sulfate, Calcium Carbonate, Iodized Salt, Natural Flavor, DL-Methionine, Vitamin E Supplement, vitamins (L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin A Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, Vitamin D3 Supplement), Potassium Citrate, Taurine, Fish Oil, minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite), preserved with mixed Tocopherols and Citric Acid, L-Arginine, Phosphoric Acid, Beta-Carotene, Rosemary Extract.

Well alot of the non-meaty stuff is the same as my vegan cat food… Eg. Taurine, rice meal, and corn, vitamin c… Then there is the chicken meal…

Now what is this chicken meal, or other animal meals?

It’s basically the animals that are dying or died of and illness… Who knows what? ..These animals are then cut up and used as choice cuts of beef or lamb, or plump whole chicken, as the pet food labels claim. Being thrifty instututions slaughterhouses take all that is left over, including the head, legs, intestines, liver and lungs, (not to mention whatever it was the beast died of) and render it down in a big vat. The hair is skimmed from the top and whatever remains is dreid and powdered, leaving beef or chicken meal or meat and poultry by-products or digests.These productss are found in every dog and cat food available today. I think this is a questionable source of nourishment for our animals. On reading labels you will see feather meanl and blood meal. What is feather meal? It is ground up feathers very high in protein, but totally indigestible. The same goes for blood meal.

Well I think the healthiest food for this cat is the vegan pet food… She does do some of her own hunting.. I’ve seen her catch a fly, a moth, a spider… She really isn’t much of a hunter… So I don’t see her catching one of the many hundreds of rabbits that are running around out there..

So if it comes to the point that what I’m feeding her is causing harm and suffering then I will get her some meat… But most of the pet food out there… You can hardly call that meat anyway.

Anyway just wants to tell you my story… Very long!

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I am going to move on and speak from experience as a human (and not all people are the same either thank you), I actually went on a vegan diet for a few months. Well, what was the result? Oh, and pleeeeease don’t tell me ” you just didn’t do it right!” YES!! I DID!!! I did the research and had a balanced diet overall. However, I began to put on weight and my energy levels were awful. My skin became pale and malnourished looking, plus I craved carbs, yet would feel rspecially bloated, tired and sick after eating a meal with grains.

Fast forward…. Thank GOD I went to a homeopath and he examined me, took my blood and my lab results showed low thyroid, low iron, over abundance of estrogen ! The vegan diet had totally screwed up my body’s “Eco system.”. He told me….”You’re
killing yourself here!”. “Try eating only meat, eggs, Ezekiel bread and green veggies
for a few weeks and see how you feel.

I had a 100% recovery and felt like a million bucks! You couldn’t PAY me a billion dollars to destroy my health and vitality by going on a vegan diet ever again. It’s just NOT for everyone… I wish some of you extreme militant vegans could accept that people are different! Some people can go vegan others just CAN’T! I’m sorry!

……” AND ESPECIALLY CATS WHO ARE CARNIVORES BY NATURE “…. Period!

Wake up and smell the reality people! Good God!

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