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Re:Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cats by xexers on Sunday August 27, 2017 @06:24PM (#15113145)
My Mom is a hardcore vegan. She inherited a cat that was unwanted. Mom was not about to feed that cat meat. Despite the comments here, there does exist vegan cat food and my mom fed that cat vegan cat food for the last 10 years of its life. The cat lived to be 19 years old.

TLDR; it's possible for a cat to survive on vegan cat food (even if its not recommended). I know from experience.

If I recall correctly, it was this food: https://www.amazon.com/Ami-Cat-16-5-lbs-7-5kg/dp/B018K4OG9I

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Re:Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cats by URSpider94 on Sunday August 27, 2017 @07:15PM (#15113337)
The important part is that cats need taurine, an amino acid that only comes in nature from animal protein (the taur- is from the latin word for bull). Cats can not synthesize taurine in their bodies -- if you do not include taurine in your cat's diet, IT WILL DIE.

This food explicitly includes synthetic taurine, which appears to be lab-synthesized so that it does not have to come from animal sources.

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Re:Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cats by syedkarim on Sunday August 27, 2017 @07:39PM (#15113445)
Our cats are pretty strict vegans; they've been eating this stuff for about 5 years: http://www.petfoodshop.com/ingredients/

Neither have had any health problems in that time. And their shit smells a lot better than when they would eat the meat-based kibble.

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Re:Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cats by raverbashing on Sunday August 27, 2017 @11:18PM (#15114215)
Yes, vegan cat food is fine

Doing it yourself will only kill the animal slowly

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