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Hate Your Cats? Buy Raw Pet Food

It's no secret that cats have the same α2,3-linked (SAα2,3) sialic acid receptor as birds, which means their mortality from bird flu which acts via that receptor is 50%. Or that raw pet food, raw milk, and organic chickens that refuse medicine are key transmitters of the disease outside the wild.Why are you still buying that stuff? Why did you ever? 

The US Food and Drug Administration [has encouraged another recall of raw pet food](https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USFDA/bulletins/3d77677). This time it is products made by Savage Pet, a company in California (naturally) because a cat got bird flu after eating it and samples tested “non-negative” and then by the time government got around to testing it again it was negative, but then another cat got sick so the company was told to recall the products.

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If you think your cats are your kids, feed them things that won't kill them. Your cat is not a wild tiger just because artwork on a fancy package for wealthy package shows that. Don't feed them raw pet food.

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