Assuming these animals have requirements for vitamins, minerals, proteins etc. similar to people. How do they get by if these things aren’t present in their diet?
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>animals have requirements for vitamins, minerals, proteins etc. similar to people.
They don’t have the same requirements, they have their own requirements fulfilled by the diet they’re adjusted to.
For example cats don’t need vitamin C, they make their own, while humans need some from food or they get scurvy.
On the other side, couple of aminoacids cats need only come from animal proteins, so it’s impossible to make a vegan diet for them, but it is possible for humans, all the aminoacids we don’t synthesize are available in some plant or another.
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