[Animals] The veterinarians of "contradictory" and lacking in scientific rigor the new animal law

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The president of the Veterinary Collegiate Organization (OCV), Luis Alberto Calvo, has described as "contradictory" and lacking in scientific rigor the draft of the preliminary draft Law of Protection and Rights of animals recently presented by the General Directorate of Animal Welfare of the Ministry of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda.

The representative of the veterinary sector has told Europa Press that the text of the initiative is "surprising" and a "contradiction" that is made "superficially" and by people "who do not know." "I understand that there is good will but little success, because the consequences have not been analyzed," he laments.

"We veterinarians do not like it," said Calvo, who sees with perplexity that a law that seeks animal welfare takes away from animals their right to reproduction to guarantee the perpetuity of the species, by forcing their sterilization while For example, it is forbidden to "dock a dog's tail to avoid a problem with his spine."

 

"The law is not designed", criticism of the president of the Veterinary Collegiate Organization, which represents the whole of the sector and which, according to assures, have not been prepared to develop this regulatory project.

“We have had meetings for other things but not for this. It is a different procedure, I do not know if strange, "complains Calvo, who considers" the less risky "that the opinion of the veterinary professional association has not been taken into account on this matter. "Maybe they have contacted a veterinary association, but not with the one that represents the group as a whole," he says.

Thus, it has announced that when the time comes for the text to be approved as a preliminary draft or bill, the CPO will present arguments to the text.

In any case, he affirms that veterinarians are "one hundred percent" in favor of identifying animals, guaranteeing their traceability, their well-being and stopping abuse, but he insists that mandatory sterilization goes against the animal's own welfare, since that their development is prevented with a practice that can have consequences on the health of the animals, both in their growth and in their behavior, by diverting their hormonal development and, for example, female dogs are deprived of their developed maternal instinct.

For Calvo, the consequences of the sterilization operation must be explained. "It cannot be sterilized by law, it is a contradiction to the animal's own welfare," he insists.

 

"Another different thing is the regulation of the conditions to have an animal or to be a breeder, for which the first thing is to be trained and guarantee adequate conditions for the type of animal that it is," he adds.

Finally, it claims the right to animal health without a VAT of 21 percent, especially when it is adding to the owners the obligation to make periodic visits to the veterinarian that warns that many people will not be able to pay. "The right to health is for the animals and the owners, to guarantee adequate assistance", reiterates Calvo, who justifies why the Government has made "decisions without counting on the sector."

 

Link: https://www.elindependiente.com/futuro/animales/2021/10/14/los-veterinarios-califican-de-contradictoria-y-carente-de-rigor-cientifico-la-nueva-ley-de-animales/