SOURCE: PET CONNECTION

Conflicts of interest in veterinary medicine
By Christie Keith

March 23, 2008

In our syndicated feature, I wrote that the most striking feature of the recent Western Veterinary Conference, held in Las Vegas, was the focus on improving quality of life for pets. But that wasn’t quite accurate.

The most striking feature was the wall-to-wall corporate sponsorship of everything from the lanyards holding our name tags to the shuttle buses that took us to and from our hotels. That’s not unusual, of course. Sponsorship is the name of the game at every convention I’ve ever attended.

But sitting at a series of seminars about veterinary health and nutrition, led by researchers and veterinarians working for big drug and pet food companies, and sponsored by those companies, too, gave me CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE ARTICLE-

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