There are eight companies in cahoots with AVMA to fund it.
It started about 1996 after the publication of facts showing that Americans spend more money on alternatve health than on vets. So it was decided to so a 2 million or billion dollar study (I forget which and do not have the downloads any more) done by Hills Science Diet and Bayer, with the agreement by AVMA that vets (who are coerced to join AVMA) would carry their Hills/Bayer products in return for them doing a study on how to shut down the competition from alternative health.
The conclusion of the study was that thtey needed to change the state laws about veterinary medicine to make it look to legislators that the changes were safety related, but in practice to rewrite the laws and lobby them into action, to exclude any possibility of alternative health folks staying in business.
To this end they came up with a "Model VeterinaryMedicine Practice Act". At this point eight companies became involved, (food and drug companies, again with AVMA agreement to carry ONLY those 8 companies' drugs and foods at vet clinics) in order to cover all the lobbying needed to change laws in fifty separate states.
THe laws have been duly changed into draconian messups. For example they added terms like that an animal has to be seen in a surgery equipped "properly" (defined as with xray equipment, surgery equipment, a proper pharmacy etc etc) .......
Just read the crazy new laws yourself if you want to see.
This way, they decided they can either accuse vets of practicing outside the area of their vet training (hence they just sued a California vet and won becasue he was telling his client how to use homeopahty on her cat) and if someone has no license then they sue you for practicing medicine wihtout a license.
No you are totally wrong - homeopathy is highly desired, and the drug companies and vets are running scared as their inome already HALVED in 1996 and they are (were) under threat of goingout of business and not having money for yachts, fancy homes etc.
Just yesterday a cat owner wrote to me to say she had spent $2200 on "diagnosis". This icluded eplortory surgery on a very ill cat. All they needed was a $100 of blood tests. But the latest approach is to do every teat they can dupe the client into paying for.
The case I am in court for involves no money asked or received by me, (unless you believe the lies the AAG invented) but the first of two vets had already charged over 8 thousand dollars with a wrong diagnosis - followed by a correct diagnosis by a 2nd vet for? more dollars....soon after which the cat died.
I had offered homeopathy help but it was declined. Now I am being called a charlatan, taking advantage of people with a very sick cat and overcarging them and using my computer as a medical device to put the people of WA state at risk by sending an email to CA duplicating my website information on the website in India - except the judge judged that it was in WA, (so that they could say I was practicing medicine in WA) and called it an "undisputed fact". They also called it an "undisputed fact" that I charged several hundred dollars for a remedy (none was offered nor sent - hundreds??? for one remedy??? confusing it with allopathy?).
The point is they had a long list (126 pages) of "undiputed findings of fact" not one of which was true and not one of which had evidence to support it (just the oposite) - every one of them disputed vehemently with good solid evidence that it was untrue. (Dunno why I even mailed any answers, they were ignored.
A real kangaroo court.)
All to stop my "potential" for competing for dollars vets are supposed to have.
But it is NOT that homeopathy has failed - it is that it has been shown to be too good - and to be competition for DOLLARS. Vets and drug companies especially make their bread and butter from vaccines. Homeopaths are quick to undo that trend. That's trillions of dollars at stake per year...... SCARY if your trillions are threatened?
I was supposedly found guilty of making money by treating a cat and sending a very expensive remedy.
Nothing could be further from the truth but the point is they will stomp out homeopaths no matter what the truth is. The pack of lies is all they could invent, I had been super careful not to stick a toe over the stupid line. It does NOT matter - they WILL stop all homeopaths - they do not care how. Truth has no place in it.
Nobody is turned off homeopathy - except 8 companies and AVMA - who dislike the competition

Namaste,
Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."