Study finds lower rates of overweight among vegan-fed cats
A large-scale survey has found cats fed vegan diets had lower rates of obesity and related health problems than those fed conventional meat-based diets.
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Your domesticated fat cat could probably use some exercise instead of a vegan diet.
I thought cat was obligate carnivore?
In nature, certain nutrients are only available to cats via eating other animals. However, we are capable of synthesizing all those nutrients in a way that they are able to absorb effectively at this point.
Nice! That makes lots of sense
Yep. You can get various supliments but im pretty sure they are not vegan either...
I wonder if it's the standard "if someone has to actually think about the diet, they tend to have a more balanced calorie consumption" thing, where any restrictive diet requires additinal thought. Or were the vegan fed cats being raised by vegan owners? Cause then it could just be that they care more about their pets health since animal wellbeing is part of veganism.
I have doubts that the meatlessness of the food is the major driving factor (statistically insignificant) weight difference