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[–] Aphelion@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cats, even domesticated species, are still obligate carnivores, as in they will die of malnutrition eventually if they are put on a non-meat diet.

They 100% need to eat meat to survive. Vegan cat food will kill them slowly as they can't properly process the proteins in plants.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Outdated information. We recently invented synthetic taurine and solved that problem.

[–] Aphelion@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

OK, yes, you are correct and I had not looked at the comparison study. Very cool! Ty.