Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!think!nike!lll-crg!lll-lcc!pyramid!decwrl!magic!kolling From: kolling@magic.DEC.COM (Karen Kolling) Newsgroups: net.veg Subject: Re: vegetarian diets for pets Message-ID: <929@magic.DEC.COM> Date: Thu, 24-Jul-86 13:58:36 EDT Article-I.D.: magic.929 Posted: Thu Jul 24 13:58:36 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Jul-86 06:00:50 EDT Organization: DEC Systems Research Center, Palo Alto Lines: 7 > To toss out another nice controversial issue : how many > of you feed meat to your pets although you don't eat it yourself. Before anyone runs amok out there, let me point out that cats can't live on a vegetarian diet. Some essential nutrient (which I forget) is missing. I vaguely remember that such a deficiency leads first to blindness and then to death.