recommend commercial pet food?
Typical veterinary colleges teach, onaverage, less than 8 hours education aboutnutrition. The colleges also use pet foodcompany experts to lecture the veterinarystudents on nutrition. The students arealso influenced in a variety of ways by thepet food companies because these companiessupport the schools financially, providescholarships and awards, provideposters with company logos, sponsoradditional education sessions, hold funevents like BBQs and parties, give freefood to the new veterinarians and evengive T-shirts away to persuade the youngvets with the companies profits as thebeneficiary. The concept is to keep thecompanys product name in the mind ofthe young students so they may promotethe product as appropriate food for yourpet from that point forward.Many individual and group attemptshave been made to change this practicewithin the veterinary community, butbecause the bond between the commericalpet food companies and the veterinaryindustry is so financially tightly knit, allattem
