{"id":754270,"date":"2018-08-18T09:09:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T13:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=754270"},"modified":"2018-08-18T09:43:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T13:43:53","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-before-putting-your-pet-on-a-vegan-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=754270","title":{"rendered":"What you need to know before putting your &#8216;pet&#8217; on a vegan diet"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Ultimately, healthy eating requires effort and attention to detail to make sure your animal is getting the proper nutrients and isn't developing dietary issues.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MARTHA SORREN:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;In recent years, there&#8217;s been an uptick in interest around putting dogs and cats on a vegetarian or vegan diet. But not everyone is in agreement about whether vegan diets are acceptable for cats and dogs, especially since both species have very specific nutritional needs&#8230; PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch told INSIDER in a statement: &#8220;A nutritionally balanced vegan diet can offer dogs and cats health benefits, such as healthier skin and coats, cleaner teeth, better digestion, easier weight management, and better protection against diseases.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>There have also been studies that show the benefits of veganism for pets. A 2014 Austrian study of 174 dog owners reported that 38 owners said their pets had healthier and shinier coats after eating vegan food. A blood test of 20 dogs found that their vitals were all normal even on a vegan diet&#8230; Both species need supplements to maintain a vegan diet. Notably, dogs need taurine and L-carnitine and cats need vitamin A, taurine, and arachidonic acid, according to PETA&#8230; Ultimately, healthy eating requires effort and attention to detail to make sure your animal is getting the proper nutrients and isn&#8217;t developing dietary issues&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/can-your-pet-be-vegan-2018-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qlUtKpAMIxo?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARTHA SORREN: &#8216;In recent years, there&#8217;s been an uptick in interest around putting dogs and cats on a vegetarian or vegan diet. But not everyone is in agreement about whether vegan diets are acceptable for cats and dogs, especially since both species have very specific nutritional needs&#8230; PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch told INSIDER [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,24,25],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-754270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-science","category-welfare","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754278,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754270\/revisions\/754278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}