Animal drug use considerations of the bovine practitioner

Abstract

The following paper is solely a personal opinion, not official policy of the A.A.B.P.

We need to educate the public and especially the press that we have the most wholesome and the least expensive food supply in the world. To be able to accomplish this, I call on the Pharmaceutical Industry, the Center for Veterinary Medicine, all facets of veterinary medicine and animal industries to work together to provide food animal practitioners with new and better products for treatment of their patients so we do not have to use “extra label” treatments. If we do not, we may go back to the time when treatment of choice was whiskey and tender, loving care, but we will not be able to use whiskey, because it will be off label. I hope I have enlightened you to the problems that face the dairy practitioner when it comes to proper drug usage. The “dollar and sense” to the dairy practitioner amounts to the fact that “extra label” is the rule, not the exception when using antibiotics, tranquilizers and anesthetics, because we do not have effective or approved drugs in these groups.