Organized Veterinary Medicine Representing the Interests of the Bovine Practitioners

Abstract

The previous speakers at this general session, "Consumer Concerns, Producer Demands, the Veterinarian's Responsibility", have provided you with a comprehensive overview of the generic subject of food safety from the view of drug use in bovines and as it applies to the bovine practitioner. It remains for me to provide you with an overview of organized veterinary medicine's role in providing for the interests of practitioners in this scenario.

For purposes of this discussion, organized veterinary medicine is defined to mean the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and all of the constituent and allied organizations which legislatively govern AVMA through actions of its House of Delegates (HoD). The American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) delegate to this body is Dr. Bob Keith; alternate delegate is Dr. Harold Amstutz.