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Cats used to be carnivores back when taurine could only be found in meat, but humans invented synthetic taurine and cats aren't carnivores anymore
No no, they're still carnivores.
Nothing about their biology changed so that they're no longer classifiable as a carnivore.
Scientifically, they have all the traits of a carnivore, and a predator.
You can't redefine "cat" because we can use supplements to round out their dietary needs.
What you said is like, oh Dracula isn't a vampire anymore, because we found a way to give him an artificial blood substitute that completes his dietary needs....
.... He's still a vampire, he's just getting his fix from something other than a living person.
Carnivorism isn't a biological characteristic of cats. It's a biological characteristic of cat food. Cat food changed.
If cats are still carnivores, then so are pandas.
It's almost as if you don't understand any of the words you just wrote. Carnivorism is a descriptor used for animals, not their food. I don't say "hey is that cat food a carnivore" because I don't want to sound like an idiot. Cats bodies are evolved to digest meat and not plants. The fact that humans took all the components of meat and put it into a dry food doesn't change the evolutionary status of the cat.
So you think pandas are carnivores? If that's the case, then whether cats are carnivores is irrelevant to this whole discussion.