UKRMB No.4 NEWSLETTER March 2006

Newsletters have been thin on the ground in recent months! Two reasons mainly - we are just so busy with the campaign and most of the time all the information we can share is posted on the website. However, one or two items for reporting, so here goes!

We are delighted to announce that Dr Tom Lonsdale will be visiting the UK during the summer, as part of his European RMB U-turn Tour. As well as holding individual meetings with MPs, Tom will be giving a briefing to an invited audience of MPs at the House of Commons. He will also be meeting with Members of the European Parliament during his visit.

As part of the RMB U-turn Tour, Tom hopes to be talking and lecturing to pet owners about the natural way of feeding pets. Do you belong to a dog/cat/ferret organisation who may like to put a seminar on? If so, please get in touch with me (info@ukrmb.co.uk) and we can tell you what it involves, costs etc.
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Something from the British Veterinary Association’s web site struck us as ironic. Members of both the BVA and British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA), together with the RSPCA are lobbying strenuously in support of banning the docking of dogs’ tails and to stop this mutilation, by including such a ban in the Animal Welfare Bill, currently being debated. (Vets and RSPCA Call for Dogs’ Tail Docking Ban 9th January 2006 http://www.bva.co.uk/press/)

Whilst this is an important issue, how amazing is it, though, that the veterinary associations and the leading animal welfare organisation in the country have rushed to the fore to protest and support a complete ban on tail docking, but continue to ignore the daily poisoning of pet dogs and cats who eat a diet of processed junk food. Or isn’t that an animal welfare issue? Moreover, those organisations actively suppress or ridicule the masses of fully referenced facts to support a ban on the feeding of processed food, which effectively prevents the owners of those same dogs, cats and ferrets from becoming informed about the harm caused by feeding processed junk food to their pets.

Perhaps you’d like to write to the BVA & BSAVA and ask them WHY they continue to ignore the serious animal welfare issues connected with feeding pets junk food:

Dr Freda Scott-Park
President, British Veterinary Association
7 Mansfield Street
London W1G 9NQ

Dr Carmel Mooney
President of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association
Woodrow House
1 Telford Way
Waterwells Business Park
Quedgeley
Gloucester GL2 2AB

Lobbying your MP regarding the pet food industry/veterinary alliance is still a very effective way of bringing attention to the massive animal welfare issues that surround the feeding of processed pet food. The latest Early Day Motion, tabled on 11th November 2005, is still open. If your MP hasn’t signed it yet -you can check here -
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=29343&SESSION=875
please write to him/her and urge them to sign it and therefore show their support to this very important issue. All MPs can be written to at House of Commons, London, SW1A OAA

We’d love to see copies of any replies you receive.
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Best wishes
Jackie
info@ukrmb.co.uk

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