{"id":1372,"date":"2004-01-10T10:49:01","date_gmt":"2004-01-10T14:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/01\/10\/\/"},"modified":"2004-01-10T10:49:01","modified_gmt":"2004-01-10T14:49:01","slug":"1372","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/1372\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Okay, I knew that Dogs can go vegetarian, but cats going vegan? Unbelievable?<\/strong><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/vegan.jpg\" alt=\"vegan\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>Well Cait found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegancats.com\/\" rel=\"external\"><strong>VeganCats.com<\/strong><\/a>. 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegancats.com\/faq.html\" rel=\"external\">synthetic Taurine<\/a> anyway!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips for non-vegan cat food:<\/strong><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/vegan-cat.jpg\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapel-perilous.net\/caiterwauling\" rel=\"external\">Cait<\/a> knows a lot about cats. She feeds hers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iams.com\/splash\/iams_splash_page.jhtml\" rel=\"external\">Iams<\/a>, as that&#8217;s what her vet and the humane society recommended. The book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;tag=yummywakame-20&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0671554506\/qid=1118601348\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_csp_1?v=glance{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62}26s=books{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62}26n=507846\" rel=\"external\">All My Patients Are Under the Bed<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=yummywakame-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em> 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!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&rsquo;s really in most meat-based pet food: <\/strong><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/dog-eating.jpg\" alt=\"Bulldog Puppy Looking Up From His Bowl\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>&bull; Carcasses of euthanized cats &amp; dogs (some with flea collars and containing sodium pentobarbital used for euthasia).<br \/>&bull; Unwanted insecticides and pharmaceuticals from diseased livestock (complete with plastic ID tags).<br \/>&bull; Rotting supermarket rejects including plastic and styrofoam packaging.<br \/>&bull; Animal parts deemed &ldquo;unfit for human consumption&rdquo; (heads, legs, tongues, intestines, esophagi, beaks, feathers, bones, blood, lungs, ligaments, etc.)<br \/>&bull; Diseased and cancerous body parts from the 4 D&rsquo;s: dead, dying, diseased, &amp; disabled factory-farmed animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}