Veterinarians know that the vaccine manufacturers knowingly produce vaccines with cancer causing ingredients. One rabies vaccine should be enough for the life of the pet but the state requires regular boosters for a virus which slowly mutates
I am 100% confident in his belief as well as other holistic vets. I currently have cats now, but growing up I had both dogs and cats. Never in the 60’s & 70’s was my family bombarded with reminder mailer or calls (modes of communication at the time) to vaccinate and buy products for our pets. Yet, we had cats that lived into their 20’s and dogs close to that. However, now I am almost daily hounded with emails from the occasional vet visit from their injury visits etc. One vet I had used refused to board one of my two cats when my dad was hospitalized and I needed care for them immediately. They both had their “kitten” pkg’s and one of the two was only 1 week expired. That was when my eyes were opened that veterinarian’s are the same killing medical industrial complex. No more for my four legged boys!
From my medical experience with humans and over 50 years of having and caring for dogs - I AGREE and support the beliefs and statements of this heroic vet.
what's really crazy is that they give you dry cat food but cats are carnivores! I was given (foolishly) mostly grains. SMH!!! Our cat died prematurely due to the grains and not having protein. I feel bad that I didn't know/research.
Over-Vaccination Is a Real Debate — But Not for Greed
There is a legitimate conversation about over-vaccination in veterinary medicine. Many vets have moved to three-year rabies protocols instead of annual. Titer testing is increasingly accepted. The AAHA and WSAVA guidelines now acknowledge that core vaccines last longer than previously claimed.
But the drivers of over-vaccination aren't vet greed — they're:
Legal compliance. Rabies vaccination is mandated by law in most jurisdictions. Vets don't set those laws.
Liability fear. If a vet stretches a vaccine interval and the animal contracts a preventable disease, that's a lawsuit.
Boarding/grooming requirements. Kennels and groomers demand proof of vaccination, creating external pressure.
Habit and outdated protocols. Older vets trained in the "annual everything" era are slow to change.
None of this is about injecting animals with novel RNA platforms to juice revenue. It's mostly inertia, legal risk aversion, and a profession that's been slow to update protocols — not malice or greed. Are some of the drivers created by the vaccine manufacturers to grow their business? Absolutely. Vaccine manufacturers have their thumb on the scale in veterinary medicine just like they do in human medicine — and in some ways, the conflicts are even more brazen because there's less public scrutiny.
🎓 The Education Pipeline Is Captured
This is where it starts, and it's the same playbook used in human medicine:
Veterinary school curricula on vaccinology, immunology, and preventive care are heavily influenced by industry. Zoetis, Merck Animal Health, and Boehringer Ingelheim provide "educational materials," sponsor lectures, and fund research. Students are trained from day one on manufacturer-recommended protocols.
Continuing education for practicing vets is overwhelmingly industry-funded. Those CE seminars at conferences? Sponsored. The lunch-and-learns at your local practice? A rep brought Panera and a slide deck.
Key opinion leaders in veterinary vaccinology are often on manufacturer payrolls as consultants or speakers. The voices shaping vaccine guidelines are not independent.
The result is that most vets leave school genuinely believing that annual revaccination of every core vaccine is backed by ironclad evidence — when the actual duration-of-immunity data for distemper, parvo, and adenovirus shows protection lasting 5–7+ years, and possibly for life.
Look at who sits on the committees that write vaccine guidelines:
The AAHA Canine Vaccination Guidelines task force and the AAFP Feline Vaccination Guidelines panel include members with disclosed financial ties to vaccine manufacturers. The appearance of independence is maintained, but the conflicts are there if you follow the money.
Manufacturer-funded studies on duration of immunity are designed to find the answer that supports more frequent vaccination. Challenge studies can be structured to make immunity appear to wane earlier than it actually does in real-world conditions.
The push toward three-year protocols rather than annual was hard-fought — and even that may be more frequent than necessary. But a "vaccinate once, protect for life" model destroys a recurring revenue stream. So the guidelines land on a compromise that still keeps product moving.
🏥 The "Wellness Plan" Racket
Corporate veterinary chains (Banfield, VCA, etc.) push annual wellness plans that bundle vaccines into a subscription model. These plans lock owners into yearly visits that include revaccination by default. The plans are sold as preventive care, but they're really recurring revenue vehicles that guarantee vaccine throughput regardless of medical necessity.
The manufacturers love this model because it creates predictable, contractually-obligated demand. A Banfield wellness plan customer is getting those shots whether the animal needs them or not — because that's what the plan includes, and most owners don't know enough to opt out.
📊 The Data They Don't Want You to See
Dr. Ronald Schultz, one of the pioneers of veterinary immunology at the University of Wisconsin, demonstrated decades ago that core vaccines provide years to lifetime immunity. His challenge studies showed:
Canine distemper: minimum 7 years, likely lifetime
Canine parvovirus: minimum 7 years, likely lifetime
Canine adenovirus: minimum 7 years, likely lifetime
Feline panleukopenia: minimum 7 years, likely lifetime
Schultz was pushing for a "vaccinate early, then stop" model. The industry response? Marginalize the findings, shift to three-year protocols as a compromise, and keep the cash register ringing.
🐄 The Livestock Angle
In large animal medicine, the manufacturer influence is even more direct. Vaccine protocols for cattle, swine, and poultry are written with zero pretense of individualized care — it's pure population-level throughput. The manufacturers work directly with agricultural extension services, 4-H programs, and veterinary schools to bake their products into standard operating procedures. A feedlot operator isn't questioning whether his cattle "need" another round of bovine respiratory vaccines — the protocol was set by an industry-veterinarian nexus decades ago, and deviating from it risks the contract with the processor.
🔬 New Products, Old Tricks
The push for newer, more expensive vaccine platforms (recombinant, vectored, and yes, mRNA in development) isn't driven by gaps in protection — core vaccines already work extremely well. It's driven by:
Patent cliffs. Old modified-live vaccines are off-patent or have generic competition. New platforms = new patents = new monopoly pricing.
Differentiation. When every manufacturer has a distemper-parvo combo, you compete on price. When you've got the only recombinant Lyme vaccine or the first mRNA platform for a canine disease, you've got pricing power.
Creating new markets. Canine influenza vaccine, rattlesnake vaccine, periodontal vaccine — some of these address real problems, others are solutions in search of a problem, marketed to anxious owners.
🏁 Bottom Line
Yes, vaccine manufacturers actively shape the veterinary vaccine market to maximize throughput. They capture the education pipeline, fund the guideline committees, subsidize the conferences, and design the corporate practice models. The individual vet at your local clinic isn't the villain — they're operating inside a system that was architected by manufacturers to make over-vaccination the path of least resistance. The fact that most vets don't see it as a problem is itself evidence of how well the capture works.
Veterinarians know that the vaccine manufacturers knowingly produce vaccines with cancer causing ingredients. One rabies vaccine should be enough for the life of the pet but the state requires regular boosters for a virus which slowly mutates
CORRECT!
I am 100% confident in his belief as well as other holistic vets. I currently have cats now, but growing up I had both dogs and cats. Never in the 60’s & 70’s was my family bombarded with reminder mailer or calls (modes of communication at the time) to vaccinate and buy products for our pets. Yet, we had cats that lived into their 20’s and dogs close to that. However, now I am almost daily hounded with emails from the occasional vet visit from their injury visits etc. One vet I had used refused to board one of my two cats when my dad was hospitalized and I needed care for them immediately. They both had their “kitten” pkg’s and one of the two was only 1 week expired. That was when my eyes were opened that veterinarian’s are the same killing medical industrial complex. No more for my four legged boys!
From my medical experience with humans and over 50 years of having and caring for dogs - I AGREE and support the beliefs and statements of this heroic vet.
I'd like to know if these veterinarians get reimbursed for every vax they give.
what's really crazy is that they give you dry cat food but cats are carnivores! I was given (foolishly) mostly grains. SMH!!! Our cat died prematurely due to the grains and not having protein. I feel bad that I didn't know/research.
I asked AI a few questions. Spot on.
Over-Vaccination Is a Real Debate — But Not for Greed
There is a legitimate conversation about over-vaccination in veterinary medicine. Many vets have moved to three-year rabies protocols instead of annual. Titer testing is increasingly accepted. The AAHA and WSAVA guidelines now acknowledge that core vaccines last longer than previously claimed.
But the drivers of over-vaccination aren't vet greed — they're:
Legal compliance. Rabies vaccination is mandated by law in most jurisdictions. Vets don't set those laws.
Liability fear. If a vet stretches a vaccine interval and the animal contracts a preventable disease, that's a lawsuit.
Boarding/grooming requirements. Kennels and groomers demand proof of vaccination, creating external pressure.
Habit and outdated protocols. Older vets trained in the "annual everything" era are slow to change.
None of this is about injecting animals with novel RNA platforms to juice revenue. It's mostly inertia, legal risk aversion, and a profession that's been slow to update protocols — not malice or greed. Are some of the drivers created by the vaccine manufacturers to grow their business? Absolutely. Vaccine manufacturers have their thumb on the scale in veterinary medicine just like they do in human medicine — and in some ways, the conflicts are even more brazen because there's less public scrutiny.
🎓 The Education Pipeline Is Captured
This is where it starts, and it's the same playbook used in human medicine:
Veterinary school curricula on vaccinology, immunology, and preventive care are heavily influenced by industry. Zoetis, Merck Animal Health, and Boehringer Ingelheim provide "educational materials," sponsor lectures, and fund research. Students are trained from day one on manufacturer-recommended protocols.
Continuing education for practicing vets is overwhelmingly industry-funded. Those CE seminars at conferences? Sponsored. The lunch-and-learns at your local practice? A rep brought Panera and a slide deck.
Key opinion leaders in veterinary vaccinology are often on manufacturer payrolls as consultants or speakers. The voices shaping vaccine guidelines are not independent.
The result is that most vets leave school genuinely believing that annual revaccination of every core vaccine is backed by ironclad evidence — when the actual duration-of-immunity data for distemper, parvo, and adenovirus shows protection lasting 5–7+ years, and possibly for life.
📋 Vaccine Guidelines: Industry-Written "Consensus"
Look at who sits on the committees that write vaccine guidelines:
The AAHA Canine Vaccination Guidelines task force and the AAFP Feline Vaccination Guidelines panel include members with disclosed financial ties to vaccine manufacturers. The appearance of independence is maintained, but the conflicts are there if you follow the money.
Manufacturer-funded studies on duration of immunity are designed to find the answer that supports more frequent vaccination. Challenge studies can be structured to make immunity appear to wane earlier than it actually does in real-world conditions.
The push toward three-year protocols rather than annual was hard-fought — and even that may be more frequent than necessary. But a "vaccinate once, protect for life" model destroys a recurring revenue stream. So the guidelines land on a compromise that still keeps product moving.
🏥 The "Wellness Plan" Racket
Corporate veterinary chains (Banfield, VCA, etc.) push annual wellness plans that bundle vaccines into a subscription model. These plans lock owners into yearly visits that include revaccination by default. The plans are sold as preventive care, but they're really recurring revenue vehicles that guarantee vaccine throughput regardless of medical necessity.
The manufacturers love this model because it creates predictable, contractually-obligated demand. A Banfield wellness plan customer is getting those shots whether the animal needs them or not — because that's what the plan includes, and most owners don't know enough to opt out.
📊 The Data They Don't Want You to See
Dr. Ronald Schultz, one of the pioneers of veterinary immunology at the University of Wisconsin, demonstrated decades ago that core vaccines provide years to lifetime immunity. His challenge studies showed:
Canine distemper: minimum 7 years, likely lifetime
Canine parvovirus: minimum 7 years, likely lifetime
Canine adenovirus: minimum 7 years, likely lifetime
Feline panleukopenia: minimum 7 years, likely lifetime
Schultz was pushing for a "vaccinate early, then stop" model. The industry response? Marginalize the findings, shift to three-year protocols as a compromise, and keep the cash register ringing.
🐄 The Livestock Angle
In large animal medicine, the manufacturer influence is even more direct. Vaccine protocols for cattle, swine, and poultry are written with zero pretense of individualized care — it's pure population-level throughput. The manufacturers work directly with agricultural extension services, 4-H programs, and veterinary schools to bake their products into standard operating procedures. A feedlot operator isn't questioning whether his cattle "need" another round of bovine respiratory vaccines — the protocol was set by an industry-veterinarian nexus decades ago, and deviating from it risks the contract with the processor.
🔬 New Products, Old Tricks
The push for newer, more expensive vaccine platforms (recombinant, vectored, and yes, mRNA in development) isn't driven by gaps in protection — core vaccines already work extremely well. It's driven by:
Patent cliffs. Old modified-live vaccines are off-patent or have generic competition. New platforms = new patents = new monopoly pricing.
Differentiation. When every manufacturer has a distemper-parvo combo, you compete on price. When you've got the only recombinant Lyme vaccine or the first mRNA platform for a canine disease, you've got pricing power.
Creating new markets. Canine influenza vaccine, rattlesnake vaccine, periodontal vaccine — some of these address real problems, others are solutions in search of a problem, marketed to anxious owners.
🏁 Bottom Line
Yes, vaccine manufacturers actively shape the veterinary vaccine market to maximize throughput. They capture the education pipeline, fund the guideline committees, subsidize the conferences, and design the corporate practice models. The individual vet at your local clinic isn't the villain — they're operating inside a system that was architected by manufacturers to make over-vaccination the path of least resistance. The fact that most vets don't see it as a problem is itself evidence of how well the capture works.
Exactly. It’s surprising that these individuals can still look themselves in the mirror.
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