21/02/2024
My prior post was censored (likely by corporate entities).
Was as follows -
(Not Fun) Fact - did you know - veterinary medicine is being taken over by greedy corporate CEOs, who have their hands in EVERY service your pet needs? Pay attention: ( by the way, my intial post was censored/removed somehow)
Mars (yes the candy company) owns VCA, who owns Antech and Blue Pearl. Blue Pearl owns lots of ER practices.
In fact, in most larger cities, over HALF of all veterinary clinics are now corporately owned.
Corporates like VCA, NVA, Mission Vet, Heartland, and oodles of others have realized that YOU THE PET OWNER will sacrifice anything for your pet, and want to make $$ off you. This is no lie.
These companies (which we RELY ON) keep jacking up prices to the veterinarians, but hey guess what? The corporate ones get steep discounts. Huh? The independent, small clinic owner just gets the short end of the stick, when it comes to price gouging, poor customer service from vendors, and the list goes on. Honestly it sucks.
Idexx and Antech are the only big reference labs (2 competitors).
Antech bought Heska (main in-clinic lab competition for Idexx).
VMG (Veterinary Management Group) was bought by Covetrus, a corporate entity.
Let's not forget (going back) that Mars owns VCA which owns Antech which now owns Heska.
AAHA (the American Animal Hospital Association) partnered with PetByte software using member $$$ and then somehow CHEWY bought the company, which harvests YOUR data from vet clinics and uses it for the CEOs to get richer.
The small INDEPENDENT veterinary clinic will soon be a thing of the past. We need to quit being asleep at the wheel as a profession and pet owners and demand that something be done by the government to enforce anti-trust legislation.
Oh, wait....those (corporate/CEO) guys are all giving money to the politicians PACS to support their cause, so whatever, forget it. It doesn't matter. We're fu**ed.
