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Dogs can be vegan? Duh!!


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2022 Jun 11, 3:46pm   399 views  2 comments

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A new study has found that vegan diets are better for dogs than meat-based diets. At least, that’s what you’d think if you read just the headline of this Independent article.

However, if you read the body of the text you’ll find that’s the complete and total reverse of what the study actually finds.

The warning signs are all there in the opening paragraph, emphasis very-much added:

Nutritious vegan diets for dogs MAY BE linked to better health, and COULD BE less hazardous, than traditional meat-based diets, a new study SUGGESTS.

Not exactly hard data we’re dealing with here. It gets better…

Andrew Knight, of the University of Winchester, and colleagues found that while the animals on raw meat diets APPEARED to be healthier than those on vegan diets, several factors prevented them from concluding raw meat diets ARE healthier.

For those of you who need this translated from academia-speak:

The “study” (it’s really just a survey) anticipated the vegan diet would be healthier, which, given that dogs are basically carnivores, says much for the triumph of ideology over common sense. When, to their dismay, the raw meat diet actually proved the healthiest they then boldly weasel-worded their way around the inconvenient fact to fit their foregone (probably “incentivized”) conclusion.

Very poor science, but very typical ScienceTM. The authors will get plenty of funding I’m sure.

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/qld/2021/05/06/vegan-puppies-rspca/


(Puppies Ula and Roo were severely malnourished after being fed a diet of chickpeas and quinoa by a vegan Queensland couple. Photo: RSPCA)

A Far North Queensland couple who fed two puppies an almost exclusively vegan diet, leaving them severely malnourished and underweight, has been banned from owning pets for three years and fined nearly $9,000.

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1   mell   2022 Jun 11, 3:47pm  

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2   Ceffer   2022 Jun 11, 5:56pm  

My wife had a friend into all the fringe holistic stuff who we saw put her dog on some kind of Vegan shit. Dog was a very lively breed (Bichon) but looked chronically miserable, slowed down to a crawl, got all kind of infirmities at a young dog age. I think it counted as animal abuse.

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