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Hey thanks for reading the analysis!
I just have a couple points:
The specific study you are referencing in the first 3 quotes is this one. In this study, cats were fed a "human vegetarian" diet. It was not cat food supplemented with more protein, it was casserole mince. The issue isn't that taurine suppliments don't work, it's that those cats didn't ge any taurine. From the remaining studies in the analysis, cats did not have any issue with taurine on a diet of commercial vegan cat food.
For your last quote, the study they referenced is unfortunately behind a paywall. I do know it was a case study of only 2 cats, while there are other studies with a much larger sample size.
In the future, if you see the same citation used over and over in an article like this, is usually a good idea to go and read it. It will make your time understanding the rest of the article much easier.
I'm going to end with a quite from the publishers of this article that sums it up pretty well for me: