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Dr Tom Lonsdale BVetMed MRCVS is a highly respected and accomplished veterinarian with more than 50 years of experience in the field. Over and above the standard vet's duty of care to protect the health and wellbeing of animals, he has become one of the world's leading natural feeding experts and the preeminent advocate for raw meaty bones. Dr Lonsdale was born in Britain and graduated from the Royal Veterinary College, University of London, in 1972, beginning his career in veterinary medicine as a volunteer in Nairobi, Kenya. He subsequently worked in farm animal, zoo animal, and small animal private practice in the UK before emigrating to Australia at the beginning of the 1980s, where he established a mixed animal veterinary clinic in Western Sydney. He first began to suspect that an industrial diet of highly processed commercial pet food could be causing a wide range of serious health issues for dogs and cats in the late 1980s. He discovered, to pet owners' delight, that numerous ailments, not least the visible dental and gum disease that seems endemic in the pet population, could be rectified by swapping 'junk pet food' for high-quality raw meaty bones. This marked the beginning of three decades of observation, research and campaigning to improve the health and wellbeing of pets through a diet of raw meaty bones. As well as helping pet owners and their pets through the advocation of raw meaty bones, he has given voice to the voiceless by consistently calling for global pet food manufactures and those veterinary schools and practices that he accuses of colluding with pet food manufacturers to be held accountable for their actions. Dr Lonsdale believes they are deceiving pet owners and harming pets by selectively ignoring scientific fact around the inadequacy of 'junk pet food' in the pursuit of profit maximisation. In 1991, he first brought his concerns about commercial pet food to the wider public's attention through a newsletter, 'Oral Disease in Cats and Dogs'. He has continued to write extensively on the subject since then, authoring three books (published through Rivetco), including Raw Meaty Bones: Promote Health and Work Wonders: Feed Your Dog Raw Meaty Bones. His latest book, Multi-Billion-Dollar Pet Food Fraud: Hiding In Plain Sight, explores the ways in which 'junk pet food' manufacturers are fuelling a global pet illness pandemic through the promotion of highly processed pet food. The book reveals the unscrupulous tactics pet food manufactures use to dominate the market in the name of profit and their efforts to 'control the science' through governmental lobbying and university partnerships, despite being abundantly aware of the harmful effects of their products
"""Tom Lonsdale blows the whistle upon the cosy relationships between the veterinary profession and commerce; the media and commerce; school authorities and commerce; and animal welfare charities and commerce. He explains clearly how money talks, how industry has everyone sewn up, and how your dogs and cats suffer."" Catherine O'Driscoll - Canine Health Concern ""The secrets to obtaining optimal, bounding health for your pet can be found in veterinarian Tom Lonsdale's book, Raw Meaty Bones."" Nexus Magazine ""Raw Meaty Bones is a book that all pet owners and veterinarians should read."" The Otago Daily Times ""Just a quarter of the way into Dr Tom Lonsdale's Raw Meaty Bones: Promote Health the thought crossed my mind that here was a Silent Spring for companion dogs and cats. By the time I was halfway through I was in no doubt. The Canine Journal ""The book is a scientific thriller, set out to encompass the evolution of Dr Lonsdale's theories on animal nutrition and also to describe the reaction of the general public and the Veterinary profession to his early writings."" Michele Cotton - Associate Director, Post Graduate Foundation in Veterinary Science Of the University of Sydney ""This book is an interesting read for veterinarians and non-veterinarians alike; it forces us all to take a closer look at what we are feeding our pets and to consider what really motivates pet food manufacturers-their profits or the health of our animals."" Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges ""I found this to be a thoroughly researched and most enlightening book. No matter what you choose to feed your dogs, the wealth of information on health and other matters makes it deserving to be on the ""must read"" list of all dedicated breeders."" VicDog (Journal of the Victorian Canine Association)"
