Ok, that's fine and all, but while vegan processed cat food may work similarly well to non vegan processed food, it is still significantly worse than a cats natural diet, which does include meat. It's unfortunately not possible for most people to allow their cats to hunt, or get food that would be equivalent to their natural diet, but to tell if the person making their cat vegan is doing so for the cats benefit, is to think of what they would do if their cat was able to procure their own, unprocessed, meat from the sources they would in the wild. There are a plethora of reasons that wild animals can't all be vegan, and that means that those animals have adapted to eat animals, and denying them so, if you have another choice is cruel. Note that I am saying this of processed food in general, not just of vegan food. I personally would never feed my cats a vegan diet, but that is because I live on a small farm, and this can feed them environmentally sustainable, cruelty free, naturally occurring proteins that they can digest fully. There are significant risks to many of the artificial proteins in processed cat food, and so I try to either avoid them, or supplement them with something natural wherever possible. I know this isn't a possibility for most however, and until it is, you and others are fully justified in using vegan foods, so long as they actually have all the nutrients necessary for cats to be healthy. Also, sorry for being so long winded, but I've lost cats because of lack of taurine and other proteins that only naturally occur in animal products(I am fully aware that the same supplements for taurine are used in vegan and meat based cat food, as it's cooked off during the processing of meat based cat food). Also sorry if that didn't make sense, it's very late right now, and I should be asleep.
This is amazing. I cannot tell if it's part of the circlejerk or not.
For what it's worth, my uncle has a dog farm and I feed my cats on 100% 15 day old puppy meat. I think I'm winning on the ethical front.