https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/10/3/541 I feel that the last thing the world needs is an attempt to divert highly-processed maize products ("corn gluten meal is nearly 100% digested") to feed cats :-(
Half the problem, of course, is that, as with soya-fed pigs, animals that for millennia have been fed on the byproducts of human consumption (fish-heads and the dubious offerings of the 'cats'-meat man' -- and, at least in the case of farm cats, being expected to hunt for themselves) are now having food produced especially for them, and marketed at their (squeamish) owners.
Cat foods based on black soldier fly seem to have a lot going for them. Not least because cats chase and eat insects naturally. My rats used to catch and eat moths when they got the chance, which surprised me greatly as rats are not thought of as predators! I imagine desert cats may eat beetles? I believe foxes will, when they can't get dustbins and takeaways...
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I feel that the last thing the world needs is an attempt to divert highly-processed maize products ("corn gluten meal is nearly 100% digested") to feed cats :-(
Half the problem, of course, is that, as with soya-fed pigs, animals that for millennia have been fed on the byproducts of human consumption (fish-heads and the dubious offerings of the 'cats'-meat man' -- and, at least in the case of farm cats, being expected to hunt for themselves) are now having food produced especially for them, and marketed at their (squeamish) owners.
My rats used to catch and eat moths when they got the chance, which surprised me greatly as rats are not thought of as predators! I imagine desert cats may eat beetles? I believe foxes will, when they can't get dustbins and takeaways...