How to feed your dog vegan
Do you guys have good resources on how to feed your dog vegan?
There are a lot of pages online that simply say "consult an advisor" who will calculate what your dog needs. I'm not bad in maths, I could calculate it myself if I'd knew what the dog needs. I can look into commercial dog food ingrediants but there are declarations like "minerals" without any further specificiations. Moreover, I eat a huge variety in differrent vegetables and food in general, yet my dog shall always eat the same according to vegan complete feed. Moreover, I can not properly judge whether a feed is good because the information is missing.
Where does the nutritionist get his information from? There must be someone who has studied the needs of a dog based on size and breed and created a formula such that you can calculate the servings.
I've looked into books on amazon and the comments are horrible. There's nothing on libgen and google scholar doesn't yield appropriate results.
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Please update to a scientific position rather than assuming
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9860667/ The Impact of Vegan Diets on Indicators of Health in Dogs and Cats: A Systematic Review (2023)
"However, there is little evidence of adverse effects arising in dogs and cats on vegan diets. In addition, some of the evidence on adverse health impacts is contradicted in other studies. Additionally, there is some evidence of benefits, particularly arising from guardians’ perceptions of the diets. Given the lack of large population-based studies, a cautious approach is recommended. If guardians wish to implement a vegan diet, it is recommended that commercial foods are used."
I'm pretty sure that the entire scientific community would agree that dogs can't consent to a vegan diet. We don't force humans without consent, why would you force a dog to do that?
Dogs can't consent to nonvegan kibble, leashes, living in houses, and countless other things
That's correct, but dogs don't naturally eat a "vegan" diet, and there is evidence all over the place as to whether or not that's good or safe for them. I would tend to be ok with housing a dog, but not with what is essentially still an experimental diet.
So far the evidence is that as long as it's nutritionally complete, it's safe. See the review I linked above
I've seen reviews all saying things every which way. Please don't take it personally when no one trusts your pet review.
Please update to a scientific position rather than assuming
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9860667/ The Impact of Vegan Diets on Indicators of Health in Dogs and Cats: A Systematic Review (2023)
"However, there is little evidence of adverse effects arising in dogs and cats on vegan diets. In addition, some of the evidence on adverse health impacts is contradicted in other studies. Additionally, there is some evidence of benefits, particularly arising from guardians’ perceptions of the diets. Given the lack of large population-based studies, a cautious approach is recommended. If guardians wish to implement a vegan diet, it is recommended that commercial foods are used."
Enjoy being a science denier
Please update to a scientific position rather than assuming
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9860667/ The Impact of Vegan Diets on Indicators of Health in Dogs and Cats: A Systematic Review (2023)
"However, there is little evidence of adverse effects arising in dogs and cats on vegan diets. In addition, some of the evidence on adverse health impacts is contradicted in other studies. Additionally, there is some evidence of benefits, particularly arising from guardians’ perceptions of the diets. Given the lack of large population-based studies, a cautious approach is recommended. If guardians wish to implement a vegan diet, it is recommended that commercial foods are used."
Please update to a scientific position rather than assuming
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9860667/ The Impact of Vegan Diets on Indicators of Health in Dogs and Cats: A Systematic Review (2023)
"However, there is little evidence of adverse effects arising in dogs and cats on vegan diets. In addition, some of the evidence on adverse health impacts is contradicted in other studies. Additionally, there is some evidence of benefits, particularly arising from guardians’ perceptions of the diets. Given the lack of large population-based studies, a cautious approach is recommended. If guardians wish to implement a vegan diet, it is recommended that commercial foods are used."
Damn this post got chewed up hard despite being on a vegan community
For me personally I wouldn't try to keep a dog and especially a cat on a vegan diet until there's more robust evidence to say that it would be safe to do so.
Thanks for your input. There's enough evidence for the akc https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/nutrition/dogs-can-adapt-to-a-vegan-diet/
Which means there's also enough evidence for me. Peta may be biased but if you believe their work is good, you may also quote them https://www.peta.org/living/animal-companions/vegetarian-cats-dogs/
Like with a human vegan diet, if you do it wrong, it's bad. But if you feed yourself or your dog wrongly with meat it's also bad.
The problem with scientific papers is that I could provide you one, or even more but I am not (yet) in the psoition to judge which paper is reliable. There are too many parties involed and it depends upon the financee of the paper. Therefore I provided the link to akc which depends on scientific and general believes. They have no direct incentive in one or the other stance. One of their goals is to take care of dogs. If it was questionable, they should reflect it in their stance. They do not reflect it, hence there is not enough evidence against it, as long as you take proper care of the dog.
One paper supporting a vegan diet
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265662
But:
That's why I'd take the position of being cautious and waiting for better quality studies.
There really needs to be more studies done and then a meta study to really nail this down. Or at least some high quality well reviewed studies.
That's alright. Right now, I'm curious enough about the nutritional needs of the dog and how a vegan diet for dogs work
vegan dog food exists, don't listen to the carnists here. the technology is evolving and people are in denial
Thanks!
At first I thought people were downvoting because I mentioned libgen but then the first comments appeared and I quickly understood that there's a lack of information. I didn't know that it was that bad prior to this thread.
Please update to a scientific position rather than assuming
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9860667/ The Impact of Vegan Diets on Indicators of Health in Dogs and Cats: A Systematic Review (2023)
"However, there is little evidence of adverse effects arising in dogs and cats on vegan diets. In addition, some of the evidence on adverse health impacts is contradicted in other studies. Additionally, there is some evidence of benefits, particularly arising from guardians’ perceptions of the diets. Given the lack of large population-based studies, a cautious approach is recommended. If guardians wish to implement a vegan diet, it is recommended that commercial foods are used."
Thanks! I'll read this with though.
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Dogs are literally omnivorous lol
your second link lmao: "Dr. Cailin Heinze, a board-certified veterinary nutritionist, and professor at Tufts University’s Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine writes: “Most dogs can do quite well on a carefully designed vegan diet that meets all of their nutritional needs.”"
keep in mind that a well formulated, "carefully designed" vegan kibble is just as "bad" as non-vegan kibble, so unless you're against all kibble, nutritionally complete vegan kibble is fine. Animal abuse is needlessly killing and hurting animals, not finding ways to avoid it
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9860667/ The Impact of Vegan Diets on Indicators of Health in Dogs and Cats: A Systematic Review (2023)
"However, there is little evidence of adverse effects arising in dogs and cats on vegan diets. In addition, some of the evidence on adverse health impacts is contradicted in other studies. Additionally, there is some evidence of benefits, particularly arising from guardians’ perceptions of the diets. Given the lack of large population-based studies, a cautious approach is recommended. If guardians wish to implement a vegan diet, it is recommended that commercial foods are used."
Surprising misinformation here. What happened?
Dogs and cats can be healthy vegans. But you do need to plan their nutrition if you cook yourself
Not sure we should lock posts. Dude had a legitimate question.
Unless we just add this info to the sidebar?
Thanks
I'm not 100% certain, but I think if you contact a food company they should be able to provide that info?
https://petfoodshop.com/collections/for-dogs/products/gourmet-fondue-dog-kibble?variant=44655458124060 evolution dog food for example has the guaranteed analyses, ingredients, and food amounts based on dog size on the label in one of the pictures
As far as sources on the ideal amounts of different minerals to cross reference with the guaranteed analyses, I'm not sure, sorry I couldn't be more help
Thank you! No worries, everything helps :) My knowledge has impact on many dogs each year, I won't quickly jump to conclusions.
Looks like lemmy isn't ready for this yet. I'm looking on reddit for better information on this. Good luck guys!
https://www.reddit.com/r/veganpets/ and especially this is gold https://www.reddit.com/r/veganpets/wiki/faq/ and https://balance.it/
Sorry your post got shit on so hard, it's a shame people just jump to conclusions based on general ideas rather than recognizing we have the technology to pretty easily feed even obligate carnivores a vegan diet they thrive on
Thank you for your kind words!
Thank you very much for jumping in. I just tried to ignore everything. Your actions make me happy to be on lemmy.
I wasn't here to discuss if it is possible or not, but how. And noone provided a reasonable response which would've lead to a real discussion. If someone wants to discuss it with somebody, they can gladly take it to the akc https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/nutrition/dogs-can-adapt-to-a-vegan-diet/
I'll move to that sublemmy, thank you, again!