Mike Adams
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| Getting back to pets and veterinarians, by the way, I happen to believe that most people would get far better nutritional advice by visiting veterinarians, rather than old-school doctors. Unfortunately, veterinarians cannot give medical advice to humans. But if they could, their advice would be far more useful and effective at preventing and even reversing chronic disease than the advice given out by most physicians.
And the reason, once again, is that veterinarians have to understand the true causes of disease and the relationships between nutrition and health. |
| The fact is that veterinarians know far more about nutrition than most doctorsi That's because pets generally don't have health insurance, and it's much cheaper to prevent disease in your pet through good nutrition than it is to treat it with drugs and surgery down the road.
So veterinarians both understand good nutrition and preach it to their customers. veterinarians also understand the direct correlation between the foods a pet eats and the chronic diseases they will exhibit. |
Ann N. Martin
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 There are no laws determining how veterinarians or shelters must dispose of pets. It is up to the owner, veterinarian, or shelter. For large animals, such as cattle, horses, and pigs, there is the "Dead Animal Disposal Act," which states they must be disposed of within twenty-four to forty-eight hours, depending on the state, and either be buried, cremated, or sent to rendering. But no similar disposal act exists for companion animals. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 He said many had consulted veterinarians and conducted tests and that sterility affected both males and females. Some noted that the problem went away when they switched corn varieties. Not all were using Garst, but all were GM with similar genetic backgrounds (maturity, height, etc.).
Three farmers reported similar issues with cows. In September 2005, Rosman fed some of the 2000 corn to three cows, just after they gave birth. He said they should have started menstruation after three months and been bred. Eight months later, however, they had not started cycling and were sold. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 People who work with animals for a living (including veterinarians and pet shop employees) were also prominently at risk for monkey pox infection.
Deliberate contamination with anthrax may have endangered letter sorters and carriers in the early years of this century, but anthrax has always been an occupational illness. Previously known by the name wool-sorters' disease, anthrax was an endemic hazard of the textile industry for many years, until successful prevention and decontamination procedures were adopred early in the twentieth century. |
Bill Sardi
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 Actually, marine veterinarians indicate sharks do get cancer. Adding more cartilage to the human body doesn't block cancer. The body produces its own cartilage from vitamin C and amino acids. But desperate cancer patients were misled for a time. The use of shark cartilage has waned in recent times.
Rife therapy
Developed by Dr. Royal Rife in the 1930s, this therapy utilizes a sound and light frequency generator to kill cancer cells. Still widely promoted in underground cancer
A story
Raul was a young, newly married man, who developed testicular cancer. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Glucosamine and Chondroitin for Arthritis
I'VE ALWAYS BEEN impressed by how far ahead of the curve veterinarians are. You go to your vet and you don't hear a whole bunch of political drug-company propaganda about the "unproven" effect of supplements. They just tell you what works. If a dog has a skin rash, for example, and the vet gives it a vitamin supplement and soon the skin rash is gone, the vet will recommend the supplement. Done deal.
Glucosamine Chondroitin Sulfate
Vets worry less about whether there are seventy-five randomized, controlled, double-blind studies on skin rashes. |
Mike Adams
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| So veterinarians both understand good nutrition and preach it to their customers. veterinarians also understand the direct correlation between the foods a pet eats and the chronic diseases they will exhibit. For example, vets know very well that if you feed your dog leftovers of human food, you will probably end up giving your dog chronic diseases that would typically include obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
Pet food offers better nutrition than popular human foods
Now there is an interesting indication. If leftover human food will kill your dog, what's it doing to you and your family? |
Ann N. Martin
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| Some veterinarians, including Lynn Nelson in Santa Monica, California, stated that about 50 percent of pet owners want their pets cremated. For the owners who do not want cremation, a company picks up the dead pets once a week from the vet clinic and delivers them to a rendering plant.
The shelters I corresponded with had a little different perspective. Most were aware that the company they contracted with trucked the animals to rendering plants. Few vet clinics or shelters have their own cremation facility. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| More plastic is added to the pits with the inclusion of cattle ID tags, plastic insecticide patches and the [body bags] containing [deceased] pets from veterinarians ...
The dead animals (the 'raw') are accompanied by a whole menu of unwanted ingredients. [Pesticides, insecticides, hormones, steroids, euthanasia drugs, and a host of other toxic compounds] enter the rendering process via poisoned livestock, and fish oil laced with bootleg DDT and other organophosphates that have accumulated in the bodies of West Coast mackerel and tuna ... |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: I find, too, that for some reason, veterinarians are far more open to nutrition than human doctors. It seems like the pharmaceutical industry is really trying to take over veterinary medicine to put pets on the same drugs, and have even pet health insurance so they can pass costs around. Perhaps a nutritional approach will win out in the end. Which way do you think it is going?
Dr. Liers: Certainly, in our world some companies are making better animal foods, Natura Pet Products, for example. I do not know if you are familiar with them. They make the Innova EVO that has no grains in it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The way pets are being treated today by many mainstream veterinarians amounts to nothing less than the chemical abuse of dogs and cats by an industry that has, sadly, exchanged ethics for profits and no longer sees its primary mission as helping improve the quality of life of our animal friends. Personally, I'm outraged by the practice of drugging dogs, cats and other animals with synthetic chemicals to treat degenerative health conditions, and I think those who promote or follow such practices are engaged in extremely unethical, cruel behaviors that should be criminalized. |
| The holistic veterinarians understand nutrition, herbs, homeopathy and other natural modalities. They prescribe solutions and treat animals in ways that are outlawed in human medicine (because they actually work). If you care at all about the health of your pets, I strongly urge you to seek out and work with a holistic pet care practitioner who avoids prescribing pharmaceuticals. |
| So today, the majority of veterinarians in the United States now practice chemical-based medicine on pets. At the first sign of any health symptom, they slap the animal with a prescription for expensive, patented pharmaceuticals. Arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and even depression are now being treated with dangerous prescription medications. Earlier this year, the FDA gave approval for Prozac, a powerful mind-altering drug, to be prescribed to dogs, and many of the most common drugs for people are now routinely used in pets (including chemotherapy drugs for cancer treatment). |
| Knowing that massive profits could be generated through the bodies of pets, drug companies have spent two decades pursuing an aggressive campaign of rewriting vet school curricula, influencing veterinarians and brainwashing pet owners into thinking their dogs, cats and horses need drugs in order to be healthy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: veterinarians know far more about nutrition than most doctors. Pets generally don't have health insurance, and it's much cheaper to prevent disease in your pet through good nutrition than it is to treat it with drugs and surgery down the road. veterinarians both understand good nutrition and preach it to their customers. veterinarians also understand the direct correlation between the foods a pet eats and the chronic diseases they will exhibit. |
Mike Adams
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| Unfortunately, veterinarians cannot give medical advice to humans. But if they could, their advice would be far more useful and effective at preventing and even reversing chronic disease than the advice given out by most physicians.
And the reason, once again, is that veterinarians have to understand the true causes of disease and the relationships between nutrition and health. They have to attempt to educate pet owners about how to keep their pets healthy. And the number one way to do that is to give their pets outstanding nutrition so that they don't experience disease in the first place. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 This is a rather disconcerting experience, but many herbal veterinarians feel that small doses of a tincture, which contains alcohol, actually are the most effective and easily used form of herbs for felines.
Adding herbal medicine to a treatment protocol for a horse usually is quite easy. Horses are herbivores, so their digestive tract is made to digest the cellulose and fiber present in plant material.
HERBAL USE GUIDELINES
The Veterinary Botanical Medicine Association has these useful comments to share.
1. Herbs can be used in cooking for your pets or as medications.
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Ann N. Martin
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| This disbelief has resulted in years of questioning government organizations, pet food manufacturers, Tenderers, animal-welfare organizations, and veterinarians.
The pet food industry claims to care about the health and welfare of our pets by providing complete and balanced diets. It is apparent from the ingredients used in these foods that they are nutritionally devoid of healthy and wholesome ingredients. In my opinion, the vitamin and mineral supplements, which are added to make up for what is lacking in the foods, are also inferior. |
| Marino reported the abuse to the Association of veterinarians for Animal Rights (AVAR). Paula Kislak, DVM, with AVAR, reviewed the medical reports and the progress of the specific research animals and additional research on the subject.
Dr. Kislak concluded: "Illegal cannulization is an unnecessary invasion surgical procedure that may even compromise the study's results due to potential chronic low-grade leakage, infection, irritation, and possible need for antibiotics, all of which alter intestinal microflora."15 Dr. |
| Only three veterinarians were aware that the animal carcasses could be going to rendering plants. The rest all assumed that the dead pets were cremated.
When I asked Alan Schulman, DVM, who works at a veterinary hospital in Los Angeles, about the disposal of euthanized pets, he stated, "In our hospital, the options for owners are to take the remains of their pet for burial at the LA. pet cemetery, or we utilize CalPet Crematory for individual cremations of pets with return of the ashes in an urn to the pet owners. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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| After a preliminary review of adaptogenic use among veterinarians, the authors have found that the leading two adaptogens used for animals are ashwagandha and eleuthero. More research in this area is needed. There also are many other useful herbs for animals that are not considered adaptogens, including boswellia, echinacea, and garlic.
Many of the same adaptogens that are given to people can be given to animals. |
| CLINICAL USE OF ADAPTOGENS IN EQUINE VETERINARY PRACTICE
A selection of case histories from botanical veterinarians and animal herbalists treating horses are discussed in this section.
From Stacey Small's Case Files—Repressed Immune System
Stacey Small is a graduate of David Winston's Center of Herbal Studies two-year herbal training program. She is the founder of Equilite, Inc., a manufacturer of herbal products for horses, and copublisher of Holistic Horse magazine.
Small relates a case in which she was called by a frustrated trainer to discuss a thoroughbred filly that he had. |
Ann N. Martin
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| In order to find out if this was a drug of choice for euthanasia of large animals, I contacted four veterinarians who oversee departments of agriculture. I asked them if they euthanize large animals with sodium pentobarbital, and if so, are the animals processed for human or animal food?
Wayne E. Cunningham, DVM, SM, a Colorado State Veterinarian, replied, "Any animal euthanized with pentobarbital is not allowed into human or the pet food chain."17 Leroy Coffman, the state veterinarian for Florida was in agreement with Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: We see the Westernization of pet care, in terms of prescribing more drugs to pets and pharmaceutical companies more aggressively marketing to veterinarians.
Newman: Pets are on Prozac, Mike.
Mike: That is unbelievable. I was talking to a neighbor who has a beautiful dog that is unfortunately dying from multiple myeloma. I asked her about the history of her dog, and she named off four or five drugs this dog has been on for years. The toxic load of these drugs has to be huge. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Health practitioners in Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Ireland report a similar increase in female thyroid disorders. Most veterinarians in small animal practice are seeing thyroid problems in cats and dogs increase up to 40%. Cats tend to be hyperthyroid, while dogs tend to be hypothyroid.
What has happened? Are healthcare practitioners becoming more aware of the many facets of thyroid dysfunction presentations? Has something happened in the environment that is responsible for the apparent great increase in clinical and subclinical thyroid dysfunction? |
Mike Adams
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| Veterinarians also understand the direct correlation between the foods a pet eats and the chronic diseases they will exhibit. For example, vets know very well that if you feed your dog leftovers of human food, you will probably end up giving your dog chronic diseases that would typically include obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
Pet food offers better nutrition than popular human foods
Now there is an interesting indication. If leftover human food will kill your dog, what's it doing to you and your family? |
| And the reason, once again, is that veterinarians have to understand the true causes of disease and the relationships between nutrition and health. They have to attempt to educate pet owners about how to keep their pets healthy. And the number one way to do that is to give their pets outstanding nutrition so that they don't experience disease in the first place.
Nutrition and farm animals
Moving on from household pets and dogs, let's look at some other mammals where the relationship between nutrition and health is rather apparent. I'm talking about farm animals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Pets generally don't have health insurance, and it's much cheaper to prevent disease in your pet through good nutrition than it is to treat it with drugs and surgery down the road. veterinarians both understand good nutrition and preach it to their customers. veterinarians also understand the direct correlation between the foods a pet eats and the chronic diseases they will exhibit. For example, vets know very well that if you feed your dog leftovers of human food, you will probably end up giving your dog chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes and heart disease. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 Most veterinarians will tell you not to give your dog chocolate as the theobromine in the cocoa beans can kill dogs, and most of us will take more care and pay more attention to feeding our dogs and cats and servicing our motor vehicles than we do to the irreplaceable body that we are born with. You can buy a new car any time you can afford it, but there is no one in the world who can buy a new body (even if Extreme Makeover wants you to think you can). |
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