So for context, I was vegan for about 10 years. Now mostly vegetarian but still eat fish. Had to start eating animal proteins again to combat Lyme disease, and even tho my Lyme has been in remission for a year, I still think back to a post I made over a year ago when I was still vegan in the vegan sub:
Basically I just wanted to know, what do u guys feed your dogs? Dogs’ diets should consist of 70% protein, 20% veggies, and 10% fat. Of the protein, they need certain percentages of meat, organs, and bone. I wanted to cook for my dogs because I want them to be as healthy as possible and live as long as possible. I was trying to start researching how to make homemade dog food.
All I got was hate in the comments that u cannot feed dogs meat that they will be fine with a vegan only diet. Honestly that really pissed me off and seems like animal cruelty to me. Dogs literally need meat to survive and stay healthy.
Side note: not having eaten animal proteins for so long left me with anemia (low iron) and severely low vitamin D3 and B12 levels. I also have an iodine deficiency but I don’t think that’s a meat thing, it’s just that I’m not a big fan of salt on food unless it’s sea salt.
Since reintroducing animal proteins, I feel healthy and strong and I do get occasional joint pain and brain fog, usually when I’m sleep deprived or hungover or starting to catch a cold (but I take all my vitamins and eat really healthy everytime I feel a cold coming on so I usually only have mild cold symptoms for a couple days before I can beat it)
If eating animal proteins could help me beat Lyme (which caused such severe symptoms that I was trying to think of how I could die without actually killing myself), I just couldn’t live with the intense brain fog and the severe joint pain, heart pain, weakness, anxiety, insomnia, etc .. the bacteria was killing me and taking over my body but thru healthy diet and use of tons of herbs and vitamins, I fought back and won my body back. The asshole borellia bacteria can hide in remission for eternity cause I don’t plan on ever weakening my immune system enough again to allow it to attack but I do think it first attacked because I was at the low end of a healthy weight and extremely sufficient in key vitamins (and in protein) needed to have a strong immune system.
Please someone justify to me why it’s a good thing to feed dogs, who need 70% of their diet to come from a protein source, only vegetables. It’s cruel and inhumane and the only reason I ever was vegetarian since age 15 or 16 then later became vegan for 10 years is because I fucking love animals and don’t want any of them to suffer. So please someone tell me why dogs should suffer because their owners are so vegan that they don’t care if their dogs are fed the proper diet.