If you thought the Anti-vaxers episode ruffled some feathers, wait until you get a load of episode 8 entitled, PLANT POWERED PETS!

Cats and dogs may be identified as carnivores, but that hasn't hindered an explosion of pet owners from fanatically wanting to switch their fluffy friends to a plant-based diet. With the increasing prevalence of vegan lifestyles has led some people to consider feeding vegan diets to their pets as a cruelty-free option to normal meat-based kibble. Due to clever marketing, people believe that their dog or cat can thrive on a meatless diet.

Pet owners also appear comfortable forcing their ethical views about eating animal products or the agriculture industry onto their pet’s lifestyle as well. However, this situation in which human morality not only does not apply to animals but also ends up being dangerously inhumane when expected to be ethical.

It seems that canine and feline bodies were not built to subsist singularly on plant matter; both cats and dogs evolved to subsist on a meat-based diet - dogs as opportunistic omnivores and cats as obligate carnivores. So are these plant-based pet owners making the right educated choices in converting their pets to broccoli and carrots, or will there be unfavorable physiological consequences that will injure their beloved animals?

Join the mettlesome trio as they examine the current science surrounding plant-based pet food and vegan pets!

Join Dan, Brian, and Mike as they peek behind this curtain of secrecy and decode the dietary deceptions to arm listeners with more information to allow their pets to live a disease-free life.