Placeholder. A cat food brand is selling a fully vegan formula and claiming it's nutritionally complete — a genuinely bold claim given cats are obligate carnivores with a hard biological requirement for taurine that most plants simply don't contain, making this one of the most scientifically contentious product claims found across this entire research project.
What we've found so far: Wild Earth's Unicorn Pate (launched August 2024) is made from lentils, peas, sweet potatoes, and marine microalgae, with taurine included via synthetic (non-animal) sourcing rather than derived from animal tissue.
Open research: Interview a feline veterinary nutritionist on whether synthetic taurine sourcing can genuinely replicate bioavailability from animal-tissue taurine long-term; look for any independent (non-brand-funded) feeding trial data on cats maintained on this diet.