Because Pets – A Magazine Dedicated to Animal Health | Because Animals

Should Cats and Dogs Eat Cows and Chickens?

In the wild, would a dog really hunt a cow? And would a cat actually prey on a chicken? Not likely, yet most of us never question why our pets’ foo...

Because Animals’ Cultured Meat Pet Food: Healthier and Safer for Your Pet

Because Animals’ cultured meat pet food will be safer for pets as it will be free from common contaminants such as pathogenic bacteria and viruses....

Let Your Cat Eat Mice! Our Cultured Mouse Cat Treat

Many of you have checked in to ask when our first cultured meat pet food product, a cultured mouse cat treat, will be ready, and we are happy to re...

Happy Earth Day! The COVID-19 Edition

On this Earth Day, in the midst of a pandemic that originated at a live animal market, we are thinking about the animals born and bred under horrif...

Farmed vs. Cultured Meat: The Shocking Environmental Costs

We won’t mince words: Animal agriculture is bad for the planet. It’s the leading cause of climate change, habitat destruction and the exploitation ...

Why we are continuing to work hard during the COVID-19 pandemic

We value animal health. That's why during the COVID-19 crisis we will continue to ship our immunity-boosting probiotics and our vitamin-loaded cook...

Help For Itching, Scratching and Allergies in Dogs and Cats

We receive a lot of messages asking if our Superfood & Probiotic Supplement (one for dogs and one for cats) will help with pet allergies. Often...

FAQ: The Beneficial Probiotic in our Superfood & Probiotic Supplements For Dogs and Cats

We get a lot of questions about the probiotic in our Superfood & Probiotic Supplements so we thought we’d take a few minutes to answer the most...

Eight Questions for Ellie Laks, founder of The Gentle Barn (and our hero!)

Just over 20 years ago, Ellie Laks founded The Gentle Barn as a refuge and sanctuary for animals who have been rescued from lives of torment, suffe...

This February We're Helping Rescued Farmed Animals

This February Because Animals is donating $1 from each sale to support The Gentle Barn. The Gentle Barn is a sanctuary for animals who have been re...

Why Cultured Meat is More Important Than Ever Going into 2020

24 million hectares have burned in Australia. An estimated one billion animals are dead. Fire seasons will become more frequent and more intense as...

Why Because Animals' loves cultured foods, and, specifically cultured meat

We love cultured food such as probiotics, nutritional yeast and, most significantly, cultured meat, the latter of which will help put a stop to the...