Is it normal that i am against people who make their cats vegan?

lol. I love how everyone is so excited about this topic.

I agree, cats shouldn't be made to go vegan. My cat does have a strange love for bread, though. If I don't watch him sometimes he'll steal my toast off my plate lol

Cats are obligate carnivores. Depriving them of meat could easily constitute animal abuse. Think of it as depriving a person with asthma their inhaler

I had dogs. And it ate what ever I ate. No special food for them. If I'm eating vegan my dog eat vegan. If I'm eating fish he ate fish. If I ate meat he ate meat. Me pizza, he pizza. Me burger, he burger.
I never force my pet to eat in a particular way. He just had to go with what I had.

My cat eats a meat based diet, nothing but the best for my baby! 🥰

cats literally need meat to live, they can't create their own taurine and need to get it from meat. all those bs "vegan" cat food brands claiming synthetic taurine is fine is also complete bs, cats can't process synthetic taurine and need actual, real taurine straight from the natural source. join any "vegan" cat facebook page and look at how many people are complaining about their cats going blind, kidney issues, crystals in their urine, etc. it's absolutely disgusting

I have no problems with people who decide to go vegan. I don't particularly like meat myself. I agree that there's a lot wrong - in animal-welfare and environmental-impact terms - with the meat industry. I'm also convinced that eating a lot of meat isn't particularly good for us.

However, just as I have problems with religious or political extremists who try to force others to conform with their narrow-minded personal beliefs, I really dislike militant vegans. I also detest holier-than-thou folks, and an awful lot of vegans are like that.

Cats are obligate carnivores. Not feeding an animal you're responsible for a diet that meets their nutritional needs is animal cruelty. As a matter of fact, that's specifically mentioned in the UK's Animal Welfare Act. So someone in Britain who doesn't allow their cat to eat meat could, in theory, be charged with animal cruelty.

Some of what vegans believe is nonsensical. For example, I'm a beekeeper, and having read what PETA and other such wingnuts claim about how honey is produced, it's very clear to me that they don't know much about the subject, and they see things in stark black and white terms when the reality is very different.

Anyway, animals aren't specifically raised to be turned into pet food; animal food is a by-product of the human food industry. The parts that end up in animal food are the cuts and scraps and mechanically recovered slurry that people don't want to eat. So it's not like a vegan refusing to buy a can of cat food is making any contribution at all towards the reduction of animals raised for food. If everyone in the world stopped buying meat-based processed animal food tomorrow, the only result would be even more abattoir waste going into landfill or incinerators. And, in a way, that's even more disrespectful to the animals that were raised to produce food for humans.