Topical reads that pet owners are more likely than other people to be vegans or vegetarians. But they can overcome their distaste for feeding their carnivorous cats and dogs meat because cell cultured meat is becoming more popular, according to The Economist newspaper. Guess where their cultured cat food is coming from? A cell-donor mouse – which must give the synthetic meat a mouse flavour. Which reminds Topical of the newspaper story last year about a vegan dog owner who only gave her dog vegan food – all vegies. “He loves it,” she said as she gave him some capsicum. Why wouldn’t he?

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