The Carrot Project

I have a cat. You can see him in the thumbnail above. His name is Beans. And, unsurprisingly, he eats cat food.

One ingredient in that cat food is fish meal, and that, according to NY Times Op-Ed contributor Paul Greenberg, is a worry.

A worry to the forage fish population and thus the ongoing productivity of the oceans and thus the world’s protein supply and thus nutrition, health, happiness, stability, etc.

It’s an unassuming little eight letter ingredient, but it’s something to which we ought to pay attention, and it’s another reason I, as a frustratingly not-knowledgeable-enough consumer, wish I had a fully functional, information-rich Carrot Project at my fingertips.

What companies make the brand name cat foods? Any of them doing anything noteworthy with regard to fish meal substitutes or marine food resource sustainability? How about non-main-stream brands? Any lesser known pet food producers hard at work proving revolutionary cat nutrition concepts? And canned and bagged food alternatives? Vegan cats?

It’s coming. Every moment like this makes me wish it we were moving faster. But it will get here.

And, when it does, and when everyone in this community dumps our respective knowledge and expertise into it, then maybe Beans and I will have the organized intellectual resources we need to start up the organic mouse and mole farm we’ve been talking about.