Vegan Pet Food Market To Nearly Double In Value By 2034
Vegan Pet Food Market To Nearly Double In Value By 2034
The growing vegan “pet” food market could nearly double its value over the next decade to reach $19.7 billion by 2034
Poor quality source at best. They literally suggest that a plant based diet is acceptable for cats despite them being obligate carnivores.
Edit: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0284132
That’s Dr Knight’s study and all the positive results for plant diets fed to cats come from the self reports of the owners who made this choice already. That’s a strong selection bias and it’s not a great study.
Obligate carnivore means they require nutrients that on a natural diet, they can only get from meat. With processed foods, cats can survive on a plant-based diet, if the food has had the appropriate nutrition added (in a way that cats can absorb it)
Edit, it even says exactly that in the article:
While cats are obligate carnivores, complete foods like Unicorn Pate are fortified with all of the vitamins and minerals that cats need to thrive, including taurine