Cats and Coupons

Several weeks ago I helped my Mom take her dogs to the nearby Petsmart because they offered shots for pets. When we got there we found a store employee helping manage the line, a woman assisting the vet, and the vet himself. After finishing we were talking with the woman that had assisted. We asked where the vet practiced, and she said he no longer had a practice and that he just traveled to different places for the shot clinics. That made me wonder if instead of being a DVM (doctor of veterinary medicine) if he might be a KVM (kinda veterinary man). Why would someone go to the trouble to get all of that education only to travel from store to store giving shots? Surely he isn’t making all that much, since the shots were pretty cheap. Anyone?

I read today on CNN about the largest ever beef recall in the United States. 143 million pounds of frozen beef have been ordered to be recalled by the US Department of Agriculture. The frozen beef all came from the Westland Hallmark Meat Company slaughterhouse in Southern California that mistreated the cattle. Video was taken undercover showing the abuse of downed (sick and crippled) cattle. By law, downed cattle are not to be allowed into the food supply because they have a higher risk of being contaminated by E. coli, salmonella and mad cow disease because they have weak immune systems and are unable to get out of their own waste. When cattle can no longer move around on their own the vet is supposed to be called to inspect them. As these cows were not properly inspected, they were declared not fit for human consumption. Fedeeral authorities have suspended operations at the slaughterhouse while the investigation goes on. The article includes some of the undercover video footage, which I watched part of and found so very disturbing and cruel that I had to stop it. This is the list of products in the recall of beef products from the Westland Hallmark Meat Company.