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by nugi 3004 days ago
Seriously too lazy to wikipedia 'cat' and depend on your biases?
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Again, maybe gather context before making accusations?

The assertion is that a cat which chooses vegetarian cat food is probably fine because it's getting the necessary nutrients from hunting while the caretaker isn't watching. Could you quote anything from the Wikipedia page which refutes this assertion?

Linked for your convenience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat#Nutrition

I'm guessing you don't actually intend to propose force-feeding meat to a cat that doesn't want it, but in context that's what you're arguing for.

Wikipedia says that cats have more difficulty digesting plant foods than meat. But that's still a pretty broad generalization and I'm not convinced that there's enough research to make a categorical claim like that, though I'm sure it's true of some plants (I also see some articles saying it's true for some meats.)