Is cat food addictive？

The word “entice” and the word “agent” have caused many people to misunderstand it in a biased way, and it sounds like a bad thing. If the product had been called “Flavouring”, I’m sure it would have created a different impression in people’s minds.

Of course, it does serve the purpose of “inducing” animals to eat, but the act itself is called “inducing” because we see animals from a human point of view, just as we see children from an adult’s point of view. You want your child to eat more and grow, but he just doesn’t like white rice, then you add something he likes to eat, such as meat or sugar, and he loves it, and dries up the white rice together. If you add a little salt, a little soy sauce, a little chicken essence, a little onion, ginger, garlic, etc., the taste will be delicious. From your own point of view you may decide that this is quite normal, you look at our dishes from the animal’s point of view is added to these things, we are also induced to eat the dish, but do you think this is a problem.

All puffed food basically have to add this “flavouring”, if not, it is the same as you put a “light and tasteless” food in front of the pet, it does not like to eat it do you let it starve. (The reason for the inverted commas around “bland and tasteless” is that I want to emphasise that this is from the pet’s point of view, so people who study pet food flavouring recipes are studying their pets’ dietary preferences).

At this point, I’m sure someone will want to ask me if the original cat ate raw rat meat with no seasoning, and he loved it too. That’s a good question. The point is that you can’t go and catch a mouse for him every day. Some people may ask me, “If I don’t give him mouse meat, can I use chicken, duck, fish, beef, etc. instead? Yes, of course, but there are two problems, 1, the cat’s special needs taurine content in these meats is small, feeding these meats alone is not possible, the mouse is more taurine content inside, in addition, the mouse it eats is the whole, the mouse body all kinds of nutrients are eaten by it, and different parts of the animal body nutrient content is not the same, you feed beef you buy the whole cow all parts to feed it, and pets need The pet needs a balanced and comprehensive nutrition, pet food will have the need to exist, so why pet food must be “full price”, referring to the nutritional comprehensiveness; 2, consumer spending, eating meat every day you can afford? This is the most realistic one