Vet P.O.V. Thoughts on the HSVMA-HSUS-AVAR Alphabet Soup

Here’s a long post on the HSVMA (the new vet organization started by HSUS) written for last month’s Veterinary Practice News. It's a cautionary article for vets but it works for Dolittler readers, too:

If you graduated from vet school after 1981, you’ll have heard of the AVAR. The Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights is an organization of 3,000 vets dedicated to the protection of the...

March 7th, 2008 10 Comments

Vet Interviews On sow confinement and other swine welfare concerns: The pig vet has his say.…

Last month I wrote an article for the March issue of Veterinary Practice News on the HSUS and its resemblance to PeTA (reference my previous post). In it, I urged that vets who would look to the HSUS’s HSVMA as an alternative to the AVMA might do well to consider otherwise. In response, I received numerous emails offering their point of view on what the HSVMA represents.

Among these came one...

March 7th, 2008 33 Comments