What a privilege to speak to vet students at Nottingham vet School this week and teach them all about a topic that they knew nothing about – kind, sustainable plant-based pet food.
I do confess to being very anxious about this talk. The other talks that I have given have been to a very receptive audience, and when the students began entering the large lecture room in groups and sat at the back and opened up their laptops; I had my suspicions that they may just log into the latest series of Love Island instead of listening to what I had to say!!
As always, I gave it everything and told them as many relatable stories as I could. When I mentioned cases and the remarkable changes that I have seen, that is when I noticed they really sat up and listened so a huge thank you for sharing in your success stories with me so that I had so much to tell them!
I could tell that so many of them were sadly already influenced by the large corporate companies who has their sponsorship everywhere at the university on large screens in between the latest pop video!! This really worried me that they could be influenced even before they had stepped into a working environment to immediately choose what will make the most money for a practice, and not necessarily be the healthiest for pets.
The questions they asked at the end were my reward! They had absorbed what I had said and they wanted to know more and that gave me the most hope – especially those who stayed to ask even more as I packed my bags to leave – those were the ones I knew were converted and I left with a smile:)
See parts of what I covered below in the talk and just so lovely to receive this feedback from the organiser:
Good Afternoon Arielle,
Just wanted to thank you again for delivering such an interesting talk yesterday. We have had such good feedback, and everyone found it very enjoyable. Looking forward to learning more about sustainable pet food in the future and best of luck with all you are doing.
“As a vet, I believe in a kinder, healthier way to feed our pets that does no damage to our environment, harms no animals and uses fresh, healthy plant-based ingredients for a balanced and delicious diet”
Arielle Vegan Vet
“If nobody changes then nothing changes but if somebody changes then everything changes!”
Arielle Vegan Vet
Wonderful David Attenborough
When our future seems so precarious, we finally have hope for our fragile natural world with the very wise and passionate words of Sir David Attenborough
*The Top 10 Zoonoses In Your Home*
There are cases of dry food or treats (especially the raw hide treats and chews) causing transmission of diseases to people
Fireworks tips for our plant-based dogs
None of us want our dogs to be stressed – there is nothing worse than seeing them anxious and unhappy
Evidence Based Medicine
The meat-based fed control group showed 11 deficiencies while the long-term vegan fed category presented only two deficiencies
Race Against Time
As a vet and a mother and a dog lover, I am passionate about feeding dogs a plant-based diet to support our future
Confessions of a vegan vet
David Attenborough makes a stark warning on extinction and I felt it would be too upsetting to watch!
How life has changed for vets since the pandemic
Here is a day in my life to share what it is like to be a vet coping with the changes of how the pandemic has shaped a new way of being a small animal vet
Our Gamechangers Connection
We are so proud to say that our little unit that we hire to hold all the wonderful VEGDOG food and supplement that we import, is owned by none other than the wonderful and very dignified Gary Wilks
What about homecooking for my giant dog?
We have a simple solution when home-cooking for giant breed dogs
Help my dog has itchy ears!
Itchy, painful ears can affect your dog’s quality of life quite significantly
Dogs CAN digest starches
Calculations have revealed that dogs can digest about 99 % of plant-based starch if provided to them in a suitable form
We just need to stop eating animals
As a small business, we will do all we can to continue to promote the nourishment of our pets with wholesome, clean and nutritious plant-based foods that hold no dangers of causing a second pandemic.
