A Twitch streamer and partner named Rebelnae is a veterinary student who recently spoke about some of her fellow students.
While doing some IRL streaming, the Twitch streamer claimed that a few of her colleagues were eating dog food instead of having regular food as a cheap substitute for protein.
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The Twitch streamer was doing some prep work in her kitchen and cutting up an onion when the topic of food naturally came up. She stated that she knew some people in her veterinary program that were eating cat food but then corrected it to dog food.
It can be incredibly expensive to be a student, especially in a health or veterinary program, and she didn’t shame them for it. Still, she matter-of-factly explained what the other students were doing without putting them on blast.
Rebelnae also talked about how they prepared the food.
She would also warn people against doing it themselves. She suggested that food made for cats and dogs may not be up to the same quality content that food for humans is supposed to be.
It was a moment that grossed out and upset many people on social media. Some on Reddit talked about experiences they have had with people who eat cat or dog food as a substitute for regular human food.
The notion of eating pet food left people on Reddit with mixed emotions. There were some that looked back on moments in their lives when they had to deal with this. One Redditor was told to keep an eye out for people who only buy pet food because they couldn’t afford real food and point them out to support systems.
One person suggested it was a mental illness problem instead of a money problem. Where that Redditor lived, they claimed dog food is about the same price as a can of soup or something of that
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