Non veterinary ultrasound illegal in USA

[unlacedgecko]

‘Pregnancy is not a disease’: Two men jailed without bail for contempt in repro ultrasounding of dairy cows

Pictured are (l-r) Ben Masemore, Ethan Wentworth and Rusty Herr at their NoBull Sires booth during the World Dairy Expo. Today, Masemore is fielding calls from dairy farmers across Pennsylvania and…

agmoos.com

Industry lobbying aiding consolidation of the sector.

 

[Farmer Fin]

‘Pregnancy is not a disease’: Two men jailed without bail for contempt in repro ultrasounding of dairy cows

Pictured are (l-r) Ben Masemore, Ethan Wentworth and Rusty Herr at their NoBull Sires booth during the World Dairy Expo. Today, Masemore is fielding calls from dairy farmers across Pennsylvania and…

agmoos.com

Industry lobbying aiding consolidation of the sector.

Surprising given how lax the veterinary laws are in the USA. I’m saying that not sure how many UK scanners are DEFRA approved.

 

[betweenthelines]

Doubt if they are talking about full vet qualification as we know it in the UK. More likely to be a "qualification" awarded after completion of a short course similar to what an AI tech does.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Doubt if they are talking about full vet qualification as we know it in the UK. More likely to be a "qualification" awarded after completion of a short course similar to what an AI tech does.

No it's a fully registered vet. Same with sheep ultrasound.

 

[Beef farmer]

‘Pregnancy is not a disease’: Two men jailed without bail for contempt in repro ultrasounding of dairy cows

Pictured are (l-r) Ben Masemore, Ethan Wentworth and Rusty Herr at their NoBull Sires booth during the World Dairy Expo. Today, Masemore is fielding calls from dairy farmers across Pennsylvania and…

agmoos.com

Industry lobbying aiding consolidation of the sector.

So they where doing something that in their country is illegal, have been warned that what they are doing is illegal, and now are shocked that they have been arrested?

 

[unlacedgecko]

So they where doing something that in their country is illegal, have been warned that what they are doing is illegal, and now are shocked that they have been arrested?

Did you read the article? There are several key points, but the main one is the classification of ultrasound scanning as "medicine".

 

[Beef farmer]

Did you read the article? There are several key points, but the main one is the classification of ultrasound scanning as "medicine".

Yes I did

 

[Dead Rabbits]

So they were doing something that in their country is illegal, have been warned that what they are doing is illegal, and now are shocked that they have been arrested?

It’s state by state but most states would have some sort of law making hoof trimming, AI and preg checking essentially veterinary procedures that are only to be performed as a service by a vet.

Often the laws were made before these practices were even a thing or large animal vets were plentiful. Someone clearly has a vendetta against these guys and has taken it way too far.

I do personally know someone who is diagnosing, treating, prescribing and even performing surgeries as a service, that is not a vet. Going after that kind of behavior I can understand. Not this

I’m a better hoof trimmer than any vet I’ve ever met and many are far more skilled trimmers, AI tecs and preg checkers than a trained vet. It’s just a matter of laws not being modified and agriculture being such a small population that nobody ever bothered to change them.

 

[TheRanger]

Surprising given how lax the veterinary laws are in the USA. I’m saying that not sure how many UK scanners are DEFRA approved.

They seem to be pretty stringent on certain things. Certainly from a milk hygiene point of view their rules around the design and cleanliness of the milk tank room are much stricter than here.

 

[Dead Rabbits]

Surprising given how lax the veterinary laws are in the USA. I’m saying that not sure how many UK scanners are DEFRA approved.

Lax compared to what?

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Lax compared to what?

Compared to the illusion that our mates in Europe have it far tougher than anywhere else in the world ? Let's not burst their bubble