Ever seen your cat spit out peas and carrots? You’re not alone. Here’s why vegetables have no place in cat food, and why pet food brands need to stop adding them!
Let’s Get One Thing Straight: Cats. Eat. Meat. And Only Meat.
Pet food manufacturers... we need to talk. Enough is enough. Stop putting peas and carrots in cat food. Cats are obligate carnivores, not tiny, whiskered vegans with an interest in balanced nutrition and the latest fad diets.
No wild cat has ever been spotted delicately arranging diced carrots or shelled peas next to its freshly caught mouse.
Yet here we are, in 2025, with supermarket shelves and pet shops lined with pouches promising “meaty goodness with a touch of garden vegetables.” A touch of what now?
And "avec des légumes pour votre chat" might look good on a sachet, but please! Get real!
The Daily Dinner Drama
Allow me to paint you a picture. Our large tuxedo Maine Coon cat swaggers in as he approaches his bowl with the enthusiasm of a lion approaching a gazelle. He eats the meaty bits with gusto… and then the show begins.
Out comes a perfectly spat-out pea. Peh. Another one. Peh. Then, with the precision of a Michelin-star chef, he pushes aside every cube of carrot. The result? A bowl of abandoned veg, like the sad leftovers from a school lunch.
It’s clear what’s going on here, he’s saying, “Nice try, human, but I know filler when I taste it.”
The Truth Behind the Veggie Madness
Let’s be honest. The peas and carrots aren’t there for the cats, they’re there for us. They make the food look more appealing on the packet. They bulk it out cheaply. They allow the marketing department to talk about “natural ingredients” and “a balanced diet.” Humans like lamb and peas, beef and carrots or chicken with wild rice so, we presume that our cats will like them too.
Meanwhile, thousands of cats across the UK are rejecting their greens one pea at a time, leaving owners with a polka-dotted kitchen floor and existential questions about pet nutrition.
Cats don’t care about bright colours or “five a day.” They care about protein, taurine, and meat. You know, the stuff that keeps them alive?
Imagine If It Were You
Picture this: you sit down to a roast dinner, ready for a juicy bit of lamb, or a bowl of apple pie and custard and you find someone’s mixed in a handful of raw broccoli “for texture.” You’d be outraged. So why are we inflicting the same indignity on our feline overlords?
Time to Get Real, Pet Food Makers
Pet food companies please, we beg of you. Stop with the vegetable nonsense. Give us cat food that’s meat, not mush. Cats don’t want peas. They don’t want diced carrots. They want something they can sink their little fangs into without having to perform a surgical extraction of unwanted greens.
Because until you do, my wife and I will be here, night after night, fishing out carrots like a disillusioned dinner lady and watching our cat spit out peas like he’s auditioning for Britain’s Got Talent.
Final cat food Thoughts
Cats aren’t fooled by clever marketing or “gourmet” labels. They just want meat. If you want to make cat owners happy, give us food our cats will actually eat, without leaving behind a vegetable graveyard.
Until then, We’ll keep on serving dinner with a sigh, a spoon, and a mop for all those airborne peas.
And we have a friendly visiting ginger Tom who eats our cats' leftover food in the back garden. And guess what? Ginge spits the peas and carrot chunks out too!