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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by over_clox to c/asklemmy
 

Looking past the recent vegan drama, have you ever wondered why your pet might not like particular foods? Have you ever actually tasted the food yourself?

I have, and some taste more like a chemistry lab than actual nutrition.

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[–] nottelling 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i've always assumed that whatever meat didnt pass qc for human canned tuna would just become cat food.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've always assumed most of the “food” we get from the big liquid dumpster we call sea wouldn't be sellable (to humans or other animals) if anything remotely resembling quality control applied to it... if anything, I'd assume the least worst bits go to the cats, since they're much pickier eaters than us, and have less tolerance for toxins...

[–] nottelling 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

lol what a weird take. all the problems of overconsumption and ecosystem collapse aside, theres not much inherently worse about seafood than landfood.

cats arent more picky than us. they gladly eat all kinds of trash and raw dead meat. they're picky about what we feed them. The respective tolerance for "toxins" between us and cats is, again, relative to the environment we put them in and the specific set of toxins.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Cats are obligate carnivores with an excellent sense of smell, evolved to eat freshly hunted meat and little else, who'll have to be very hungry before they eat anything remotely past due date.

We're omnivores who'll eat pretty much anything including stuff that'd kill most other animals that'd try to eat it (seriously, look up the long lists of “normal” foods you can't feed your pets because they'd kill them); we call deadly toxins that plants have evolved over hundreds of millions of years to be as inedible as possible “spices” and “drugs”, and consume them for fun. We'll let perfectly good food rot and ferment for months before we eat it because it somehow makes it better for our tastes.

No, we're most definitely not the picky eaters here, not even when compared to dogs, much less when compared to cats.

As for the ocean, everything in it comes with concentrations of mercury and other heavy elements and industrial waste that are harmful even to us, extremely high percentages of microplastics, and a vast variety of parasites that require anything we get from the ocean to be flash frozen before it can be considered safe to eat (if we ignore the heavy metals and plastics and other shit).

Plus, of course, every bit of crap ever produced on the planet ends up there... if homeopathy was real ocean water would be a fucking universal panacea, the amount of shit it's got dissolved in it.