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fauna I see about the place, with honey bees and native butterflies making a poor showing. Cabbage White butterflies are hunting in packs in our garden! We have to net against them, flea beetles, cabbage root fly, carrot fly, leek moth, onion fly, allium leaf miner etc. It was never this bad. Perhaps they like us because we use no chemicals and garden according to biodynamic and strict organic principles. We are serving up for them a veritable smörgåsbord of chemical-free biodynamic vegetables.
I must resist the temptation to go off at a Ronnie-Corbett- style tangent and should therefore revert to our field of veterinary practice. I hope you all have visited and signed up to our impressive ‘new’ website and subscribed to the on- line magazine. Please visit regularly as content changes and it is an important voice-piece for the organisation. The wonderful partnership of Malene and Phil has really done us proud. Malene as ever will be most appreciative of material for the website and for the on-line mag.
Your entire committee (and press-ganged ‘extras’) have been working tirelessly on the Association’s and Homeopathy’s part, as have many other BAHVS members. I take my hat off to all who have sacrificed so much time
We are sadly, during our careers, witnesses to one of the greatest tragedies ever to affect the veterinary world and animal welfare...
and energy in our cause. The career for which you have worked so hard is under threat and there must be no holding back in our efforts to maintain a united and powerful front to protect it for each and every member and to make a future for younger colleagues who might follow.
Our supporters have continued to be magnificent. Please encourage clients to be pro-active and keep up client awareness of our crowd-funding initiative and of our petition, which is still steadily growing. The public sympathy and public support are very material and crucial to our campaign.
‘Magnificent supporters’ at the April demo in London
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Petition still growing daily
We are sadly, during our careers, witnesses to one of the greatest tragedies ever to affect the veterinary world and animal welfare, in that the RCVS and many of our colleagues have chosen a divisive (and derisive) path instead of one of mutual respect and learning. I have written to request an appointment with the new President (RCVS) and received a prompt acknowledgement (23rd July) but nothing since. I assume that she has a hectic schedule as she gets her feet under the desk.
We are willing to share our clinical experiences with our colleagues and it is interesting that this week’s V’et Record (p188) carries a quote from William Hunting, founder (1888).
We shall endeavour always to keep abreast of scientific progress and report the observations and researches of experimentalists. We shall publish articles and essays on scientific matters we shall spare no effort in the attempt to extract from practitioners, clinical reports of all their most interesting and instructive cases.