What happened in the vegan community?

I hadn’t heard about any of this until seeing that ToS post.

  • TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    There’s no reason why supplementation shouldn’t be possible. After all we’re already doing that

    Zooming in on this statement right here, we’re already doing that, and it doesn’t work.

    Obviously we can test for it (since so many people in this comment claimed that vegan brands were tested and found to be insufficient), so nothing stops us from putting taurine into the cat food to the point where it reaches the required amounts

    Except for the parts where it doesn’t work

    It’s that simple

    It really really isn’t.

    If you need to stay offended than for all means keep going.

    I’m not offended by anything, I think the whole discussion is comically stupid. The research done into the subject is lacking, because it’s a bad idea and everyone involved knows that. I guess there are worse things for an internet forum to be arguing about.

    Just know that you behave just like the vegans you’re so annoyed about, and it’s showing.

    I feed my cats the food they need to survive, fortunately.

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      4 months ago

      we’re already doing that, and it doesn’t work.

      We absolutely do, taurine is in basically every commercially available cat food out there. Chances are you are already feeding your cat synthetic taurine.

      I feed my cats the food they need to survive, fortunately.

      So do I, I’m just really annoyed at the intellectually dishonesty at play here. The position you’re arguing in favor of is almost impossible to verify. Can you prove that is is impossible to create a nutritionally complete vegan cat food? No, obviously you can’t. Even if every single brand currently available would be proven to be insufficient (which I seriously doubt) it’d still be a wild claim that it couldn’t be done. Does that stop you from harshly judging everyone with a different opinion? For some reason, no.

      Feel free to correct me if you do have a reliable source that explains why it’s impossible to supplement vegan cat food while being perfectly fine for conventional ones.