Challenges in Veterinary Medicine

Veterinary Medicine is a very wide career with tons of different activities on the work world, from teaching to animal production or even the conservation of wild species. In this point of view, the career could be of interest of many people and plus of many universities teach it (with seriously different difficulties between them) made the actual saturation of doctors in the work world, with many unemployed people and very low paid. This is think is the first big challenge of our disciple, because the teaching and the practice of veterinary medicine, I think, should be regulated and certificated and not to be see like the “little brother” of human medicine (of little don’t have nothing) There are many of faculties (most of them of private universities) imparting the career with a very poor curriculum and with no work future for their students. Maybe I could be a good idea to close a few of them and leave only the best ones and make a strong system of certification, also making more easy the changes with international students, foreign scholarships and access to magisters and PhDs .

Medicine is a science disciple so it’s very attached to technological advances and discovers, so I see that the technology challenge is the second of the list. Searching new medicines and new medical practices could improve, not only the impact to the patients, also the teaching and the future comprehension of old things. Unfortunately these advances are very slow and expensive, but the gains of them are crucial in the understanding and in the improvement of the career.

Anyway there is a lot of work to do for our career not only for us right now, but for the future generations that will study this discipline because we must conserve the privilege and the lucky of study the most beautiful (but difficult) career of all.

Education in Chile

The education in Chile I think that is THE biggest problem of the country because education is the main pillar of a good society, the only way to guarantee a future and a social advance is with this!

It’s ridiculous that the state spends 500.000 pesos in a prisoner and no more of 25.000 pesos in a scholar grant, come on!! It’s a little stupid!

The educational program is also a very very poor program! It must be remade watching to other good programs of other countries.

Also the Universities must be restarted, privileging of course the states one because the private ones can afford they own needs alone, but for both I think there must be a new system of selection and a “universal” base of knowledge (that state and private ones must have the same educational level)

In all of this the state role is fundamental because

they must ensure the future of the country, new laws and reforms for scholar and university education must be raised and also a promotion in t

he families, because is in there were the first steps of education of everyone starts.

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Cloned farming claims under investigation

Claims of a cloned farming in the UK are being investigated, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.

This starts because the Daily Mail reported that a calf of a cloned mother had been born in a unnamed farm in the Midland last December 2^nd . The problem is that de Defra, which gathers information about cloned embryos from breed societies, didn’t knew about this calf’s existence

A spokeswoman said: "Any cloned embryo that enters the country will be identified in the consignment's accompanying pedigree documentation. The documents will be checked and noted by the official veterinarian at the board of entry point and will subsequently be recorded with the relevant breed society."

Cloned farming methods can create cows with better milk production, with 70 liters of milk a day, 30% to 40% more that “normal bred” cows, but the methods prompted alarm at possible dangers of what some call “Frankenstein farming”

This because this could result in milk and meat of these animals being sold in a unregulated way to the consumers

Dundee Paradise, the new calf, was born after the British farm bought frozen embryos from a cow that had been cloned by the US biotech firm Cyagra Clone, created using cells from the ear of a champion Holstein dairy cow

In the US where around 150 cloned dairy cows and 200 clones pigs created, principally used for breeding bigger, more productive livestock and high cost embryos. But the problem is that cloned offspring tend to die young and the area needs more research. According to a Poll, around two-thirds of the US public had concerns about eating food for a cloned livestock

Also new calves from other embryos, carried with Dundee Paradise, were expected to be born in the next few weeks, it was reported.

Late last month, the FDA declared food from cloned livestock to be safe for human consumption, but said the government needed time to assess public opinion on whether to allow sales of such products without special labelling.

Dolly the sheep, the world's first mammal clone, was born on a British farm in 1997; she died young in 2003 from a lung disease.

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