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Is it Ethical for Veterinarians to Recommend Pet Foods?

This article discussed how most Veterinarian Clinic's across the country offer dog and cat food for sale. Some only offer prescription foods specifically for pets needing a diet to address a disease; however, many others offer for sale maintenance dog and cat foods to their clients.
Do veterinarians know enough about pet food to ethically recommend a particular brand of food to their clients?
Many pet owners seek pet food advice from veterinarians because after all they are the experts, or are they? I found this article similar to the argument weather doctors should "recommend" or "sell" vitamins that they believe would work to patients. i believe many doctors and veterinarians prey on there vulnerable patients who believe they are the expert.

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Parliament has been asked to change the Human Organ Transplant Act (Hota) which will punish organ trading syndicates and middlemen more severely. They will be fined up to $100,000 or jailed up to 10 years or both which is 10 times the current penalties.
In Singapore's first-ever organ trading conviction in September this year, Wang Chin Sing, 44, who was fingered as the middleman was jailed a year and two months.
He has appealed against his sentence and is currently out on a $60,000 bail.

The new penalties are among several changes to the law being put forward to make it possible for people who donate their kidneys to be compensated by the recipient or a voluntary organisation.

Two other changes include removing the age limit for cadaveric donation, now set at 60 years, and allowing paired donations.

I believe these changes are a good idea. If you are in need of an organ and wait on a waiting list for an appropriate time then you should be next in line; there should be no negotiation between middle men.

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_302153.html

Doctors discover organ donor is not brain dead

The Chennai Hospital in India, received a call from a private hospital in Namakkal stating that the family of a 59-year old accident victim was willing to donate his organs for transplant on Saturday. Arrangements were made in Chennai to do multiple organ harvesting. However , the second mandatory inspection found that the man was not brain dead, and his eyeballs were responding to light. The authorities, suddenly, went into caution mode. Later it was found out that when the patient arrived at the hospital no neurosurgeon had declared the patient brain dead. I found this article scary to think that my organs could be cut out of my body before i was even brain dead. It goes to show the lack of efficacy in the medical world.