Back in January 2003, the American Veterinary Medical Law Association (AVMLA) reviewed Raw Meaty Bones: Promote Health.
Click to read the review.
It’s an excellent, fair and positive review that ends with the suggestion: ‘It forces us all to take a closer look at what we are feeding our pets, and to consider what really motivates commercial pet food manufacturers—their profits or the health of our animals.’
Please see below correspondence concerning Multi-Billion-Dollar Pet Food Fraud: Hiding in Plain Sight. Lacking elementary courtesy, the AVMLA fail to respond to several emails.
Veterinary medical law covers a wide array of legal practice areas including employment law, pharmacy law, corporate law, agriculture law, land use and zoning, licensure defense, malpractice defense, and tort law. AVMLA puts information at the fingertips of veterinarians, attorneys and other veterinary medical health care professionals about animal research, veterinary education, the performance of veterinary procedures, animal welfare, and animal shelters, hospital management, and ownership.
The American Veterinary Medical Law Association (AVMLA) is a national association of attorneys, veterinarians, and other individuals and organizations with an interest in veterinary medical law and how it pertains to the veterinary profession and allied fields. AVMLA was incorporated in 1994 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the following objectives:
- Provide information to members regarding pertinent issues in the field of veterinary medical law.
- Increase public awareness and understanding of the impact of the law on all aspects of veterinary medicine.
- Facilitate interactions among organizations, regulatory agencies and the courts for the benefit of society.
The AVMLA is made up of mostly American veterinarians and lawyers, with a number of members being dual-qualified as both veterinarians and lawyers.
Given that veterinarians should not knowingly be cruel to their patients or defraud their clients and given that lawyers have obligations to society where animal cruelty and consumer fraud are concerned then I wonder as to the potential jeopardy to AVMLA Members arising out of their ‘head in the sand’ attitude.
I wonder if the dual-qualified members potentially face double jeopardy. This would be especially the case if dual-qualified members promote and sell harmful junk in their veterinary clinics and then carry out extensive investigations and procedures never concerning themselves that the reason for the animal ill-health was the products they themselves sell.
It’s my hope that there are readers of this blog who will run test cases through the courts. Please get in touch so that we can share information.
From: Tom Lonsdale
Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 11:09 AM
To: ‘info@avmla.org’ <info@avmla.org>
Subject: Open Letter for Publication/Blog Post
Dear AVMLA,
Open Letter for Publication/Blog Post
It’s my hope that the correspondence below has been inadvertently mislaid and that a response will be forthcoming soon.
If so, please ignore the remainder of today’s message and I’ll await your response until Friday June 9, 2023.
Thereafter, and given the importance of the multi-billion-dollar pet food fraud as it may relate to the AVMLA and members who are either lawyers, veterinarians or both, I believe it to be in the public interest that this email chain should be available on the public record.
Thank you for your consideration.
Yours faithfully,
Tom Lonsdale
From: Tom Lonsdale
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2023 2:34 PM
To: info@avmla.org
Subject: RE: Multi-Billion-Dollar Pet Food Fraud: Hiding in Plain Sight
Dear AVMLA,
Please see emails below that appear to have been overlooked.
Please find attached a pdf of Multi-Billion-Dollar Pet Food Fraud that provides important information for all veterinarians and for lawyers working in the animal welfare and consumer fraud areas.
I shall be pleased to provide more information as you may require.
Please advise if the AVMLA will review the book.
With thanks.
Best wishes,
Tom Lonsdale
From: Tom Lonsdale
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2023 11:15 AM
To: info@avmla.org
Subject: Multi-Billion-Dollar Pet Food Fraud: Hiding in Plain Sight
Dear AVMLA,
Please see email below that you may have missed.
Multi-Billion-Dollar Pet Food Fraud: Hiding in Plain Sight has now been published. Please find below a synopsis of the book.
In keeping with the AVMLA review of Raw Meaty Bones published in January 2003 I believe it will be of benefit to lawyers and veterinarians if the current book is brought to their attention.
I shall be pleased to provide more information and answer questions as you may require.
Thank you for your consideration.
Best wishes,
Tom Lonsdale (veterinarian)
Synopsis 31 March 2023
Multi-Billion-Dollar
Pet Food Fraud:
Hiding in Plain Sight
At first glance the book raises questions, is designed to raise questions, however it also provides plenty of answers about the global pet-food fraud hiding in plain sight.
Part memoir of Dr Tom Lonsdale’s 30-year campaign to expose and overcome the junk pet-food/vet/fake animal welfare collaboration, part textbook for vets and pet owners, part a series of indictments and prosecuting briefs for those ready to take up the struggle. The book draws together much that hitherto was scattered in the historical record.
Twelve chapters in all, with seven appendices, the chapters each stand on their own and can be read independently of the rest of the book — a necessary function given the density of the information provided and that it upends conventional viewpoints. The junk pet food/vet/fake animal welfare fictions are repudiated and replaced with essential truths.
The early chapters provide the reader with a grounding in animal health and veterinary care—necessary for pet-owners needing to function as their own vet in the face of mass veterinary incompetence and corruption. Vets and allied professions will find vital new information that the veterinary establishment has effectively suppressed until now.
Chapters 6 through 10 reveal a veterinary profession lost without a moral compass gripped by a paralysis of its own making. Opportunists exploit the vacuum in veterinary integrity and leadership, all of which is aided and abetted by an indifferent media, politicians and regulators.
The chapters are sprinkled with vignettes, line drawings and photographs. There are two letters from Buckingham Palace. Taken together, the book is a series of parables within one larger parable about systems failures and human doublespeak. It’s an attempt to get the pets’ voice heard.
Despite sensational revelations of endemic cruelty and fraud the book avoids sensationalism. Chapter 12 contemplates some of the community-wide changes needed to spark the pet-feeding, pet-health revolution.
As both an educational resource and brief of evidence Multi-Billion-Dollar Pet Food Fraud: Hiding in Plain Sight will reward close study in conjunction with the author’s previous books Raw Meaty Bones: Promote Health and Work Wonders: Feed your dog raw meaty bones.
Postscript
See NSW Law Society Journal reviews: Raw Meaty Bones: Promote Health
Work Wonders: Feed Your Dog Raw Meaty Bones
For more information, please go to: www.ThePetFoodCon.com
From: Tom Lonsdale
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2023 2:22 AM
To: info@avmla.org
Subject: Book review request
Dear AVMLA,
Back in 2003, the AVMLA provided a review of Raw Meaty Bones: Promote Health: http://www.rawmeatybones.com/reviews/avmla.pdf
In 2005 I published Work Wonders: Feed Your Dog Raw Meaty Bones.
Now, 20 years later, I am about to publish the third book in the trilogy: Multi-Billion-Dollar Pet Food Fraud: Hiding in Plain Sight.
Prior to publication electronic copies are available. In May printed copies should become available.
I hope that you will be able to review the book either in electronic format or later in print.
Thank you for your consideration.
Best wishes,
Tom Lonsdale
