Life as we know it is a multi-dimensional interactive whole with infinite permutations rolling through space and time. I asked Bing Artificial Intelligence about the conventional linear reductionist approach that underpins much of veterinary teaching and thought and was advised: It is a method of understanding complex systems by breaking them down into smaller parts […]
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Nothing occurs in isolation; everything occurs in context. James Lovelock provided the intellectual framework using his example of Daisyworld. Wikipedia tells us: Daisyworld, a computer simulation, is a hypothetical world orbiting a star whose radiant energy is slowly increasing or decreasing. It is meant to mimic important elements of the Earth-Sun system, and was introduced by James Lovelock and Andrew Watson in a paper
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There’s plenty of information at https://www.thepetfoodcon.com/cybernetic-hypothesis-of-periodontal-disease-in-mammalian-carnivores/ that visitors can read for themselves. However, I believe it may be helpful to provide a commentary that may illuminate what I believe to be a fruitful line of enquiry. The genesis of the Hypothesis started way back in time. As a starting point I’ll mention the wonderful chance
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Back in January 2003, the American Veterinary Medical Law Association (AVMLA) reviewed Raw Meaty Bones: Promote Health. 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
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Watch any pet food ad on the TV and it will be glamourising the ownership of pets, regardless of your ability to afford the purchase price and ongoing maintenance needs. It will communicate the idea that the packaged/canned products provide the most suitable, safe sustenance for every pet little and large. The vet profession riding
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Open any vet publication these days and you’re sure to find angst about the vet shortage crisis. https://cairntechnology.com/2023-vet-shortage-uk-why/ But never do you find any discussion of the junk pet food/vet bubble economy and that the problems are of the vet profession’s own making. In the 1860s Jack Spratt and Charles Cruft conspired to promote dog
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Why not vomit, puke, spew, BARF? I ask you. BARF, the name used by the purveyors of minced-up pap of meat, vegetables and bottled supplements started out life as an acronym for Born Again Raw Feeders. The self-deprecating contraction, BARF, means vomit, puke and spew in American slang. Vet Ian Billinghurst was the ‘brains’ behind
It’s not scientific to suggest that wolves roaming the Arctic or confined in a zoo need whole prey animals to remain healthy whilst wolf lookalikes—Siberian Huskies, Alaskan Malamutes and German Shepherds—should be fed industrial concoctions from the can and packet. Despite the contradictions that’s what vets, masquerading as scientists, tell us. In respect to keeping
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This 2018 article commissioned by Dr Richard Malik of Sydney University, explains how raw meaty bones function as both food and medicine for your pet carnivore. Raw meaty bones are easily the strongest, safest, most gentle, most effective medicine for all domestic carnivores. Raw meaty bones are the key that unlocks the carnivore code. Catching,
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After 50 years as a vet—graduated May 1972 from Royal Veterinary College, University of London—it’s time to hang up the stethoscope and return to the Raw Meaty Bones campaign full time (although with the occasional interlude of rest and recreation) Hopefully, as I gather my thoughts, I’ll share them with you here. However, first, I
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