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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.
Damn you've got some goofy opinions sometimes.
Nobody has made a case for why cats are carnivores and pandas aren't. It's just that pandas have been eating bamboo for a long time, and these people were all born before synthetic taurine became widespread. It's refusal to change, they think the world is and always will be the way it was when they were a kid. The world moved on without them and they haven't noticed yet.