Memorandum submitted by Fiona MacMillan
(Vet 02)
I would be very grateful if you could please
tell me who will be chosen to give oral evidence in regard to
the RCVS Complaints Department because I am deeply concerned that
the RCVS never addresses my complaint and has sent me 50-60 acknowledgements
but never actually addresses my complaint that the veterinary
profession in being allowed to sell pet food is creating the illness
that keeps the Vets in business. I am backed by Vets in my concern
about this such as Vet, Richard Allport who like me is deeply
concerned that Vets are being allowed to sell pet food but despite
my giving the President of the RCVS a large amount of veterinary
research proof that pet food is causing serious and even fatal
illness in cats and dogs they totally refuse to give any comments
on it because they are incredibly allowing pet food companies
to teach nutrition to veterinary students at British veterinary
schools eg I have proof that Hills pet food are being allowed
by the RCVS to teach nutrition at London and Glasgow Vet Schools
and this produces Vets who do not even know that you must not
feed carbohydrate to a cat or dog because of the serious illness
this can cause such as diabetes and struvite crystals which can
kill the cat if it is not urgently catheterised.
I made a complaint to the RCVS that my own cat
is needlessly dead just as Dr Elizabeth Hodgkins who is a Vet
who only treats cats says he is needlessly dead because he was
fed the dry pet food my Vet in his ignorance about nutrition told
me to feed my cat when he should have known that feeding this
dry food could give my cat struvite crystals. My Vet made a lot
of money out of trying to save my cat eg operating on him and
catheterising him on numerous occasions but could not cure him
and the cat was euthanased because nothing the Vet did could my
cat to pass urine but Elizabeth Hodgkins who is a Vet who only
treats cats tells me and also say in her new book which Waterstones
will stock shortly called Your Cat that only cats fed dry
food ever get this illness. I have on a number of occasions taken
this up with the RCVS but they have never addressed my complaint
that my cat is dead because of my Vet's ignorance that dry food
is the cause of this illness. I have disclosure from the RCVS
which shows they are not independent but are on the side of the
Pet Food Manufacturers Association and because of this are allowing
Vets to sell the very pet food that is creating the illness that
keeps the Vets in business. I am appalled the RCVS refuse to even
give any comments on the veterinary research which shows the tremendous
illness pet food is causing and that the RCVS seems totally unaccountable.
However, Martyn Jones MP and Privy Council member of the RCVS
has looked at the research and in writing to me has said that
dry food is causing illness and has said that a warning should
got on dry pet food and that the pet food companies must be stopped
from making the claim that dry food contains adequate nutrition
which he says is misleading since it not contain anything like
the nutrition a cat or dog needs The pet food companies are being
allowed by the RCVS to fund the veterinary schools and because
of this the pet food companies have been able to "buy"
the silence of the majority of the veterinary profession about
the illness that feeding this food is giving cats and dogs.
I wonder if you would please consider whether
I might be allowed to give oral evidence. I understand that a
White Paper currently says that self-regulation should be removed
from the medical profession and I strongly believe that self-regulation
should be taken from Vets since the RCVS as Vet, Joe Inglis, says
in his book It shouldn't happen to a Vet is just an old
boy's network and he says that because of this he himself decided
not to report a negligent Vet to the RCVS because he knew it was
pointless since they take the side of Vets.
I look forward to hearing from you. I am appalled
at the huge number of acknowledgements I have from the RCVS and
that they have completely failed to address my legitimate complaint
and it is a complete betrayal by the RCVS that Dr Moore, the new
President refuses to give any comments on the veterinary research
but I know he refuses because he knows that if he gave comments
he would have to admit that it shows clearly that pet food is
creating the illness that Vets depend on to stay in business.
I am sending a copy of this email to the RCVS
to let them know that I have told you that I am appalled at the
number of acknowledgment letters I have from the RCVS in which
they totally fail to ever address my concerns about the illness
pet food is causing and have totally ignored the veterinary research
I gave them which proves my Vet was negligent to leave my cat
on dry food when he had struvite crystals and that because of
this negligence my cat suffered horrendously and ended up euthanased.
August 2007
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