Welcome to vegan nugget number ten. Loving our pets to death, part two. In part one we
looked at how we are breeding our pets to death. Today we're going to look at how we
are feeding our pets to death. 53% of adult dogs and 55% of adult cats are overweight
or obese. Believe it or not there are actually fat camps now for your overweight pets. And
pfizer developed a drug called slentrol to treat canine and feline obesity. More importantly
than how much we are feeding our pets, is what we are feeding our pets. The gulf between
what most of us believe we are feeding our meat eating cats and dogs and what we are
actually giving them, is enormous. About 50% of every food animal does not get used in
human food. Whatever remains of the carcass, the head, feet, bone, blood, the intestines,
and their contents, meaning poop, lungs, spleens, livers, ligaments, fat trimming, unborn babies,
and other parts as well as animal feed, fertilizer, industrial lubricants, soap, rubber, and other
products. Pet food also includes the so-called "4-d animals". The dead, dying, diseased,
and disabled. In the book "obligate carnivore" author jed gillen makes a compelling case
for a vegan diet for cats and dogs. If you think that a vegan diet is unnatural for your
cat or dog, jed asks us to look at how natural the ingredients are in meat-based pet foods.
The meat in our pet food is stuffed with for whatever reason cannot the sold as human food.
It's so bad that it cannot even be put into hot dogs. Wait a second, if the industry that
uses reject meat parts, actually rejects meat parts, you know that you're dealing with some
serious strange. "meat doesn't mean filet mignon. It doesn't mean that it has passed
any sort of inspection, or that it necessarily has any nutritional value whatsoever. It can
be blood, bone or brain tissue. It can be roadkill. It can even be cats and dogs." the
fda conducted a study in which they looked in pet food for pentobarbital, the most commonly
used euthanasia drug. The results? They found it. Forced cannibalism seems sadistic, but
in terms of what's really unnatural, it's not even close. Spoiled supermarket meats
find their way into cat and dog food. The kicker is that they are not required to take
them out of the styrofoam packages first. And with the cats and dogs that go into pet
food, flea collars are not routinely removed. So is this really part of the natural healthy
diet of our dogs and cats? "it's my pet’s natural instinct." there is a huge difference
between a lion or wolf killing and eating another animal, and a domestic cat or dog
eating an animal that was raised, tortured, slaughtered, rendered extruded, packaged,
purchased and served by humans. Which represents the greater crime against nature? Providing
cats and dogs with a vegan diet that is specially formulated to meet their nutritional needs,
or giving them a highly processed meat-based food consisting of feathers, tumors, nerve
tissue, cat and dog carcasses, ground-up plastic, and a poison specifically designed to kill
them? A cat or dog can live and be healthy without having animals killed for food. Therefore
if we give them meat, we are participating in taking animal life merely for the sake
of their appetite. "just because our cats and dogs don't understand and cannot be held
morally responsible for this, does not mean that no injustice has been committed." if
everybody stopped eating meat but continued to demand that meat be made available for
their pets food, the animal slaughter industry would continue to be profitable and animals
would continue to suffer needlessly. Jed gillen brings up a good point. He says "i always
wonder how some people can be so concerned about the supposed 'cruelty' of depriving
cats and dogs of meat, while at the same time finding it so easy to dismiss the extreme
suffering that is experienced by the animals that are made into that meat for cats and
dogs". The argument that it's not natural is a cop-out. What's natural has never been
the basis for what is moral. Coming from a purely moral standpoint, it wouldn't really
matter that vegetarian food be healthier than meat in order to conclude that it's the best
choice. It just so happens that a vegan diet has been shown to be healthier for cats and
dogs. The source of educational materials for the few nutritional courses that veterinarians
do take, are written by the meat pet food companies. They consist of the results from
studies that the companies themselves have conducted or paid to have done. Many people
who are vegan continue to feed their animals meat-based pet food. When the pet food industry
tells us that pelletized or canned slaughter house waste products, the bodies of dogs and
cats, moldy grains, flea collars, euthanasia solution, hormones, chemical preservatives,
pesticides, livestock antibiotics, and toxic levels of heavy metal like lead and mercury,
are not only adequate but actually necessary for proper nutrition, many of us accept this
claim at face value. For many vegans this is the last slaughterhouse industry lie to
which we are still susceptible. What about cats? Cats require taurine which many people
argue they can only get from meat sources. However as long ago as the 1920's, the old
method of isolating taurine was outdated, having been replaced with the more efficient
process of creating it synthetically. The greatest irony of the whole foolish taurine
issue, is the simple fact that most cats living today have been relying on synthetic taurine
all of their lives anyway. The high temperatures of a rendering plant cause whatever vitamins
and such that were present at the outset to denature. All modern meat-based pet foods
utilize the exact same synthetic taurine that the vegan cat food manufacturers do. So you've
told me about all of the horrible stuff in my pets food. What can i feed them? There
are a variety of vegan dog cat foods. So if you try one and your pets not satisfied, don't
give up. In "obligate carnivore" jed gillen talks specifically about how to make the switch.
Let's see how ooby likes her vegan food, v-dog. Be sure to check out the resources that i've
posted in the description, and go visit our brand-new website bitesizedvegan.com.