Ni carne ni pescado | ¿Puede tu gato ser vegano? 🍖😾🐟

Since you all get on my nerves about feeding pets and I like to keep going, Today we're going to talk about veganism for cats. Hi, I'm Carlos, a clinical veterinarian at Small Animals. Welcome to the Happy Pets and Families Channel. Lately, and it happens more and more often, I've found that the precepts we apply to people are also being extended to animals. And many times you come to the consultation and tell me that you're feeding your cats a vegan diet or even ask me if you can do it. Possibly if you're doing it, you're doing it with all your good will for your cat. But is it right? You may have an ethical basis for wanting to protect animals in the environment and not want to harm them to feed yourself, but you can change an animal's metabolism simply because the cat may need to eat meat. And that's what I'm going to explain to you in a little while. Right now, vegan or vegetarian, what's the difference? You can get into the mood with this, but like with a microphone. Microphone. Being vegan or vegetarian is a very important thing and this is included in the exam. Kids, if you're here, you probably already know it consists of eating foods that are mainly plant based or that don't come from the death of an animal. Most vegetarians can perfectly eat milk or eggs. There are some who can't, especially if they come from some type of organic production in which the animal hasn't been subjected to suffering. Being vegan only means eating products that come from plants. Any product that is obtained from the exploitation of an animal is subjecting that animal to, well, a type of slavery for humans exploiting a living being to feed yourself. Vegetarians can eat eggs and milk at any given time, and vegans can't eat milk, eggs or anything that comes from animals, nothing at all. And they don't wear leather, wool or honey. Right, and that's it for today's video. I'm going to have to make the videos. Okay, well, I'll give you the microphone. Okay, we're getting carried away. Let the YouTuber do the talking. He's the one who really knows. Is it right for a cat to be vegan? The answer lies in the physiology of a cat, which is basically how it digests food and what it needs to be able to carry out its metabolism. Have you ever wondered why some animals can only eat grass and others can't? Why a horse, which is not a ruminant like a cow, for example, can feed itself without eating anything? Of animal origin. And yet a lion has to hunt prey instead of eating bushes in the savannah, which would be much more comfortable for it. A horse can digest grass because its intestine is specially adapted to ferment it and produce nutrients that are good for it. Cats would be in the second group of animals, the group of carnivorous animals, because their digestive system is adapted to eating food with, without having to ferment it, such as meat, and that from the digestion of this, nutrients that are good for cats are produced. In other words, a cat cannot be vegan. Yes, in principle a cat cannot be vegan, but let me finish and now I will explain why. Cats in the wild eat meat, and from it they obtain all the nutrients they need to be able to live, for their metabolism to develop normally and their vital functions. For example, these are amino acids such as tryptophan or taurine, high doses of vitamin a or vitamin D3, which they cannot synthesize, unlike us, who synthesize vitamin D when we are in the sun. But cats do not do that and need this vitamin that comes from animal sources. Yes, but there are some vegan gurus who admit that any living being, a cat, for example, or a lion, can also be just vegan. Well, they may admit this from an ethical point of view, but I'm sure they haven't asked the cat. Let's see what the cat prefers. You put a lettuce leaf or a steak next to the cat. Let's see which one the cat goes for first. And I assure you it won't even touch the lettuce. This is because they are probably applying it from a purely human perspective and do not understand that animals need a series of nutrients based on what they are accustomed to through evolution. Cats need, for example, taurine, because otherwise they will develop a very serious pathology in their heart. Or, for example, they need high doses of vitamin A because otherwise they will have vision problems. And they only get this from eating animals. Yes, but if you feed them only as nature would, then we are touching on the controversial issue of the barf diet that you were originally against. I mean, it's not clear to me. Carlos, come on. This has nothing to do with the barf diet. Cut it out. Cut it out. It has nothing to do with the barf diet. Why? Because the foods that can be marketed, which are prepared for animals, in this case for cats, already have all those nutrients and come from animals and already have those amino acids that you buy the little packet of feed that is already prepared. Right. We come Back to the same thing. What I'm telling you is not only that you have to feed your cat what its metabolism is prepared to receive. In this case, for example, meat. Either way, if you want to turn it over and over on the grill, well, hey, your cat is very happy. Really good feed, too. So, as I'm telling you, in the end, it's a health issue. It's a problem that you can cause the cat by forcing it to eat things that it's not prepared to digest. It's not something that it can choose to do or not do based on ethical considerations that you have and that it clearly doesn't have. And, and that's precisely the way I approached the issue. Hmm. What else was I going to say? In addition, you can start giving your cat vegetarian or vegan food and see that at first nothing happens. It will be able to eat it and the cat. Well, obviously, rather than stop eating and go hungry, will eat whatever. But the problem with these types of diseases is that they end up occurring over time. For example, heart problems end up being seen when the animal is quite old. And then when we ask the owner if the animal has had enough intake, in this case of taurine, most of the time we find that it has not. That is why there are many cat foods that even come supplemented with taurine. There are others that do not even need it because the meat intake is quite high. In other words, you are telling me that in the end all this is a question of human selfishness towards the cat. When we filter what an animal needs through the filter of human vision and ethics, we are usually wrong simply because they only do what their instincts tell them to do. If the cat could hunt in your house, it would hunt and eat whatever it was hunting. Obviously, if you feed it, it can live perfectly well with mice that it wouldn't eat in principle, but if it had the opportunity, it would do so too. So let's ask a silly question. Do you think that most vegan owners, or those who feed their cats a vegan diet in this case do so out of ignorance, or do they do so knowingly and despite that, their ethics come first from your experience, right? They may not be aware of the health implications because after all, by being vegan you are assuming a lifestyle in which you do not want to harm animals. So there would be no room for you to say, well, the cat is going to be vegan no matter what it costs. That wouldn't make much sense. It is usually done out of ignorance and because they want to apply Our ethical precepts to animals. As I always tell you in the videos, if you don't want to criticize me in the comments, I'm not here to explain what you should or shouldn't do. I'm simply here to offer you my knowledge based on my training and clinical experience, so that you can apply it in cases where you're a little confused about the care you should give your pet. Now you have to differentiate between when someone gives their opinion on something and when it's science. And that doesn't allow for opinions for all the reasons I'm telling you. The issue of veganism in cats is not my personal opinion, it's science. Because cats need nutrients that only meat can provide. Well, only meat, or if it's provided synthetically, vets don't inspire much confidence. I'm sorry, what a shame. But I'm sure that if your brother in law told you that you'd believe him wholeheartedly. Yes, because your aunt or brother in law comes to you and says no, give him these pills and you'll see how well he does. And in the end, he ends up giving the cat the pills instead of asking the vet. In the end, everyone knows about veterinary medicine except vets. What a coincidence. Five years of my life for nothing. Well, since you've watched the entire video and made YouTube statistics go up a little, you can forget everything I've told you if you want. Because before you start beating me up in the comments, it's true, I have to admit, there are vegan diets for cats. The thing is that these vegan diets for cats are supplemented with the nutrients that cats need to avoid getting sick. For example, as I've been telling you throughout the video, taurine or vitamin A. But this is very different from making your own vegan diet at home. You can't add taurine or vitamin D3. They do it in a laboratory and introduce it directly into the formula of the food. In other words, your cat can be vegan as long as you buy it a vegan diet, which is usually a dry food, right? You can give him a tomato, a pepper and have a salad. Well, look, before you make him a salad, you have to remember several things about the principles of plant based feeding for animals. For example, onion and garlic are toxic to cats, especially dogs, and in large quantities. In other words, before making your cat a salad, think very carefully. In addition to all that, what I'm telling you is that commercial diets artificially supplement the series of nutrients that the animal needs to avoid Getting sick. That's why you won't be able to give your cat everything it needs with broccoli cooked at home. And the food that cats are given, which is good, which I think is ultimately does come from animals. Because these supplements do come from animals, right? Well, not all of them have to. There are some that can be manufactured synthetically, but of course you'd have to ask the manufacturer about that. So I want to make it very clear so that you don't give me serum later. You can give your cat a vegan diet, but as long as it comes from a commercial diet that is supplemented with the nutrients your cat needs to live well. In conclusion, what I always tell you is that when you do something for your animals, you have to put your interests first. You don't have to put their interests before your own. You can't make a choice about something as important as the animal's diet by simply passing it through your own filter and applying your ethical principles, at least not in a natural way. And without supplements, your cat can't be vegan. I'm very pro organic. I eat a lot of vegetables and almost nothing from animals. That's crazy. Oh, I'm not homophobic because I have a gay friend, but. Oh, well, yes, that too, right. I am very pro vegan and I'm very much in favor of reducing the consumption of animals in people's diets. But nevertheless, I cannot recommend that you do that with animals, especially those that could be harmful and could go against their proper development, such as a cat or a pig. And I'm already rambling on as if it were a person. No meat or fish, only eggs. Only eggs.

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