this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
217 points (98.7% liked)

politics

24886 readers
2871 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Look into rabbit or kangaroo, depending on where you're located they could be reasonably priced vs beef. Pets with common protein allergies usually don't have reactions to those, or venison for that matter.

Source: one of our cats is allergic to basically all poultry, we switched to rabbit and salmon based foods

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Look into rabbit or kangaroo

Interesting how things that hop don't have the triggering protein. Now I wonder how frog and crickets would compare...

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Lmao. Seriously though it's exposure; beef, chicken and pork are the cheapest and most common animal proteins available to pet food manufacturers so they're in just about everything. If for some reason the animal has an immune response and those proteins are present at the time the immune system can decide that they're the cause and the animal then develops an allergy or sensitivity to them. With limited ingredient or single protein foods you're just dodging the proteins most pets are pre-exposed to.

One of our cats is so allergic to poultry (chicken, eggs, etc) that he'll scratch and chew himself bloody if he eats it consistently. We had to switch to rabbit and fish based foods or he was an unhappy creature.

That's really fascinating, TIL!

[–] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'd be shocked if you could get cheap roo. I'm Australian and roo costs more than beef here.

[–] CoolThingAboutMe@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I got a kilo of roo mince Monday for $13, beef mince was $20/kg

[–] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In the US or Australia? Curious because roo has always been pretty expensive here.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Ya gotta teach your kitties to chase down their own Roos. My kitties love to hunt mice, a Roo is just a big mouse.

Oh, right, I just remembered Sylvester getting his ass kicked by a Roo in the old Looney Tunes cartoons, maybe that isn't such a great idea.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Fair enough, roo protein cat food is about the same cost here as rabbit or venison but I'm assuming they're all a bit over priced