[NewsW/Views] Big Pharma Just Bought Your Dog & Might Put You in Jail

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BIG PHARMA JUST BOUGHT YOUR DOG AND MIGHT PUT YOU IN JAIL?

PART 1 of 2

 

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Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD, ND and

Elissa Meininger

October 13, 2005

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" Higher profits mean healthier patients " National Commission on

Veterinary Economic Issues 2005

 

" People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment

and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the

public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. " -- Adam Smith 1776

 

Big Pharma and its modern medicine allies are not content to simply

promote products and services to humans that manage to kill 784,000

of us each year, in the US alone. They now have bought their way in

to the American Veterinarian Medical Association for the purpose of

controlling what kinds of products and services we provide to our

animals.

 

In 1997, amid great fanfare, the American Veterinary Medical

Association (AVMA) announced that several transnational

pharmaceutical companies, along with a major animal food company had

formed a " strategic partnership " for the purpose of improving the

financial fortunes of the veterinary industry as a whole. This new

partnership is not just the same old corporate sponsorship at trade

shows and sporting competitions for advertising purposes, this is a

serious donation of $1 million or more a year plus assignment of

personnel to the newly-formed National Commission on Veterinary

Economic Issues (NCVEI) to assist in strategic planning to renovate

the veterinary business as a whole. NCVEI proudly lists its founding

sponsors as Bayer, Hill's Pet Nutrition, Merial (a joint venture of

Aventis & Merck), Novartis, Pfizer, and VPI Pet Insurance. Other

regular sponsors include Fort Dodge, CareCredit, and Western

Veterinary Conference. A minor coincidence in this new " strategic

partnership " is that the head of AVMA, who cut the deal, now is an

employee of one of the founding sponsors.

 

So, what do these " strategic partners " want to do? First off,

according to the 30-year-old international corporate watchdog group,

ETC Group, the fastest growing sector of animal pharmaceuticals is

the " companion animals " group. According to them, most of the leading

animal veterinary companies are subsidiaries of pharmaceutical or

pesticide firms. The desire of these companies is to move even more

deeply into the companion animal market because any drug which has

already been approved for human use by the FDA, only needs cosmetic

changes (i.e. new name, new color coating on the pill or a minor

tweak to the formula), and voila, you have a new 20-year patent lease

on life for that drug without going through the hassle of research

and development, much less the expense of hundreds of millions of

dollars in typical costs for creating a new drug.

 

Thanks to this new desire for Big Pharma to serve you, you will be

glad to know that your dog now has the opportunity to be diagnosed

with " separation anxiety " so he or she can obtain a prescription to a

cross-over drug first developed as a human antidepressant for

obsessive-compulsive behavior and now called `ClomiCalm " . According

to PetEducation.com, and the manufacturer, Novartis, even if you opt

to use ClomiCalm, you still must consult your vet or an animal

behaviorist to utilize behavior modification to resolve

the " separation anxiety " issue. In other words, the drug doesn't

actually cure the problem. Furthermore, you are advised to contact

your vet if your dog experiences sedation, dry mouth, increased heart

rate, weakness, pale gums, or collapses while taking the drug.

Emergency phone numbers to Animal Poison Hotlines are provided on the

PetEducation.com website.

 

According to Novartis Animal Health, there are about seven million

dogs in the US who suffer from " canine separation anxiety " .

 

Another crossover drug manufactured by Pfizer to treat symptoms of

Parkinson's disease in humans has now been re-named and is promoted

for dogs that suffer from a new disease called " cognitive dysfunction

syndrome " and other geriatric behavior problems. Another Big Pharma

dogdrug now in the pipeline includes a magic potion to treat " thunder

phobia " .

 

Big Pharma's first contribution to this new vet industry " strategic

partnership " was to invest in several market surveys, one

called, " The Brakke Study " and another called, " The Current and

Future Market for Veterinarians and Veterinary Medical Services in

the United States " . These studies were completed in 1998 and 1999,

respectively. What they found:

 

1. Vets don't make enough money

2. Large numbers of women in the profession don't make as much money

as their male counterparts

3. There is a demand for more vet services in nontraditional and

nonprivate practice areas

4. Delivery of services are fragmented and inefficient

5. Vets don't know how to run a profitable business

6. THERE ARE TOO MANY VETS SO THEY HAVE TO COOK UP NEW SERVICES TO

DRIVE UP THEIR INCOMES.

With all this Big Pharma ammunition, the entire North American vet

industry leadership jumped on board to form the National Commission

on Veterinary Economic Issues. One look at NCVEI's website revels

exactly how Big Pharma has begun to reach out to control what you can

do with your Fifi, Fido, and Flicka (horses are companion animals,

too).

 

The structure of NCVEI has all the de rigueur " working groups " to

pump up the industry including a sponsoring council made up of 15

drug industry representatives who, no doubt, are well-trained in

strategic planning as strategic planning is a high art for Big

Pharma.

 

We can assume that part of Big Pharma's interest in taking over

control of the veterinary industry was prompted in order to curtail a

growing interest on the part of some vets use of natural therapies

and products for animals in order to meet the needs of their

customers. Under the auspices of the Task Force on Alternative and

Complementary Therapies established by the American Veterinary

Medical Association, from 1998 to 2001, a national survey was

conducted to determine how to define natural healing arts and to

provide official guidelines as they related to veterinary medical

practice. Current vet practices are basically the same modern medical

products and services that MDs use in treating humans.

 

Interestingly, the results of this study include a most sophisticated

understanding of the great philosophical divide between modern

medicine and natural world of healing.

 

" These guidelines define CAVM [complementary and alternative

veterinary medicine] as a heterogeneous group of hygienic,

diagnostic, and therapeutic philosophies and practices whose

theoretical bases and techniques diverge from modern scientific

veterinary medicine. Some of these differ in preferring naturally

occurring hygienic and therapeutic methods to synthetic drug

treatment and surgery; some have roots in ancient or modern

philosophical or religious systems; some are based on notions of

anatomy, physiology, pathology, and pharmacology that are not

consistent with current knowledge; some are based on principles that

relate to an order of existence beyond the visible, observable

universe; and some are based on beliefs that contradict established

scientific principles and have little or no scientific evidence of

effectiveness and safety. " (Adapted from: Medicine, alternative. In:

Stedman's medical dictionary. 27th ed. Baltimore " Lippincott Williams

& Wilkins, 2000;1077.)

Concurrent with the Task Force guidelines project was the development

of a model law that is now being used by vet licensing boards in all

50 states to pass brutal anti-customer DVM monopoly laws that has

only one goal in mind, to protect and increase the incomes of

veterinarians and their Sugar Daddy, Big Pharma.

 

One of the results of the veterinary practice surveys is to justify

ways that vets could run more traffic through their clinics so that

they can collect more fees for more services. In an array of vet

industry magazines and various other means, DVMs are being told that

if they hire a lot of secondary support staff such as " vet techs " ,

they will be in a position to promote lab tests, preventative

evaluations and the like.

 

Vets are also being told to be more aggressive in recommending more

services and specifically capitalize on the emotional relationship

the owner has for his or her pet in order to exploit it for financial

gain. Yup. You read that right. Like we found with the Katrina

hurricane disaster, some people have such a close attachment to pets,

they won't desert them even at risk to their own lives. So, vets are

being encouraged to use this special bond as a tool to increase

services the owner may not want or really can't afford. In fact,

according to a March 2005 article in Veterinary Economics, vet

schools are now starting to train future vets in how to use this

human-animal bond as they develop their own practices that are now

considered " family practices " not just animal practices.

 

This notion to gather all services under one roof under the control

of veterinarians, is a basic monopoly move which the chiropractic

profession was quick to spot thanks to their own monopoly fights with

the American Medical Association that spanned nearly a century.

Knowing that chiropractic was of benefit to animals as well as

humans, the leadership of the American Chiropractic Association (ACA)

contacted the American Veterinary Medical Association in 1999 to

establish a dialogue. This effort was referred to the Task Force on

Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The result of this effort was

as follows:

 

" The Task Force met to consider what the ACA had offered, and

submitted its report to the AVMA House of Delegates. The AVMA then

adopted a policy that reiterated its position that only veterinarians

can perform procedures on non-human animals-unless these are

performed after a direct referral from, and conducted under the

direct supervision of, a DVM. This decision applies to all CAM

[Complementary And Alternative] procedures, not just chiropractic. "

To make sure you understand the implications of this policy, which is

being promoted in passage of new laws across the US, is that DVMs,

who have no knowledge, understanding, or training in any natural

healing art, have the right to tell YOU, the animal owner, what you

can and cannot do to help your animal.

 

PLEASE LET US REPEAT, the goal here is to CONTROL YOU and what YOU

can do for YOUR animal. It is not about the health and safety of the

animal. Since natural healing arts are extremely safe and the

practice of DVMs, as a modern medical healing art, has the potential

of being extremely risky and life threatening, vets have never

publicly argued safety as their justification for passage of DVM

monopoly laws. They can't.

 

 

 

The chiropractors, a very-well seasoned group who successfully beat

off total destruction as a profession by the AMA, saw the handwriting

on the wall and quickly cranked up their own system of credentialing

chiros in the fine art of animal chiropractic. This means there is a

fight going on in every legislature in the US over who is going to be

allowed to do chiropractic work on your pet.

 

 

 

Other practices, not normally considered natural healing arts in the

same breath like homeopathy, massage therapy, herbalism and dietary

supplementation, are also now in a duel to the death. Horse dentists,

whose profession dates back to 1207 AD, 600 years before the first

veterinary school, are now getting cease and desist orders in states

where they find themselves suddenly outlawed. Horse dentists

historically can spend up to 50 hours in training to learn the fine

art of " floating " (a.k.a. filing) horse teeth, while vet schools,

those who actually have some sort of training on this sort of thing,

average less than three hours. Similarly, farriery also known as

horse shoeing, another ancient art, which is learned often by well-

established journeyman programs, is now in danger of becoming

extinct. After all, the purpose of putting a shoe on a horse has to

do with establishing proper posture and movement so the structure of

the horse is well supported. In the crazy world of DVM monopoly,

farriers are now apparently practicing equine podiatry without a

license.

 

 

 

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Join us at the National Conference for Health Freedom Advocates and

World Health Freedom Assembly

October 28-30, 2005

Minneapolis, Minnesota

www.nationalhealthfreedom.org

 

 

 

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For state action go to www.nationalhealthfreedom.org.

 

 

 

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Dr. Carolyn Dean is a medical doctor, naturopathic doctor, herbalist,

acupuncturist, nutritionist, as well as a powerful health activist

fighting for health freedom as president of Friends of Freedom

International. Dr. Dean is the author of over a dozen health books,

the latest of which is " Death By Modern Medicine " .

 

Elissa Meininger, is Vice President of Friends of Freedom

International and co-founder of the Health Freedom Action Network, a

grassroots citizens' political action group. She is also a health

freedom political analyst and can be heard on the natural health

radio show SuperHealth, broadcast weekly on station WKY (SuperTalk AM

930) in Oklahoma City.

 

Website: www.deathbymodernmedicine.com

Website: www.carolyndean.com

 

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