Okay, I knew that Dogs can go vegetarian, but cats going vegan? Unbelievable?
Well Cait found VeganCats.com. I thought cats need a dietary source of Taurine which can only be found in meat. Well I was wrong. Although Taurine naturally occurs only in animal tissue, synthetic Taurine has been produced on a large scale since about 1930. In fact, many meat-based pet foods utilize synthetic Taurine anyway!

Tips for non-vegan cat food:
Cait knows a lot about cats. She feeds hers Iams, as that’s what her vet and the humane society recommended. The book All My Patients Are Under the Bed suggested feeding elderly cats baby food meat, because it has no additives. Cait fed one of her cats a mix of baby food and some dry food and she lived to be 20!

What’s really in most meat-based pet food:
• Carcasses of euthanized cats & dogs (some with flea collars and containing sodium pentobarbital used for euthasia).
• Unwanted insecticides and pharmaceuticals from diseased livestock (complete with plastic ID tags).
• Rotting supermarket rejects including plastic and styrofoam packaging.
• Animal parts deemed “unfit for human consumption” (heads, legs, tongues, intestines, esophagi, beaks, feathers, bones, blood, lungs, ligaments, etc.)
• Diseased and cancerous body parts from the 4 D’s: dead, dying, diseased, & disabled factory-farmed animals.