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Cats doesn't need more beef kibbles than vegan kebbles! It's a common fallacy but cats do thrive with vegetables if selected and cooked right! Sure they're meat eater in the wild but if we accept modern (ultra processed) meat keebles as suitable for a cat, the vegan options definitely also check the healthy and nutricious points.

Now we can debate if it's "natural" but that would open the horizon to other aspects of cat's modern live.

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no, they can't. please stop spreading this misinformation.

What parts of my message you think is misinformation? Beside multiple anecdotal evidence, heres a paper on the subject:

> No differences in reported lifespan were detected between diet types. Fewer cats fed plant-based diets reported to have gastrointestinal and hepatic disorders. Cats fed plant-based diets were reported to have more ideal body condition scores than cats fed a meat-based diet.

> Cat owner perception of the health and wellness of cats does not appear to be adversely affected by being fed a plant-based diet. Contrary to expectations, owners perceived no body system or disorder to be at particular risk when feeding a plant-based diet to cats.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12917-021-02754-8

That's interesting but it's questionaire based so I would not trust it much. There are many levels of bias here.

That is not a study about cats. That was a study about cat owners.