1. The Impact of Brexit on the veterinary profession
VPHA 2018
The Impact of Brexit on the veterinary profession

2. Health and Harmony. The future for food farming and the environment in a Green Brexit.
‘Leaving the EU provides a once in a generation opportunity to reform agriculture’,

3. Cont’d
‘For more than forty years, the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Has decided how we farm our land, the food we grow and rear and the state of the natural environment.
Over that period, the environment has deteriorated, productivity has been held back and public health has been compromised. Now we are leaving the EU we can design a more rational, and sensitive agriculture policy which promotes environmental enhancement, supports profitable food production and contributes to a Healthier society.’

4. Cont’d
‘And at the same time a system of subsidy skewed towards those with the biggest landholdings has kept land prices and rents high, prevented new talent coming into farming and held back innovation.’

5. Change Numbers Structure Market Production systems Disease
The consumer

6. Vet numbers
Now

7. Change Numbers Structure Market Production systems Disease
The consumer

8. Change Numbers Structure Market Production systems Disease
The consumer

9. Food Scares/Disease and the Public eye.
BSE
FMD
Salmonella
Listeria
E coli 157
Superbugs, disease resistance, antibiotic resistance
Loss of confidence in science
What next……..

11. Change Numbers Structure Market Production systems Disease
The consumer

12. We know our rights!

15. Animal Health and Welfare Strategy
Working in Partnership
Prevention is better than cure
Understanding and acceptance of roles and responsibilities
Ensuring a clearer understanding of the costs and benefits of animal health and welfare practices
Delivering and enforcing animal health and welfare standards

16. Challenges now for farming
Labour
Profitability
Disease control
Public acceptability
Natural Capital
Efficiency of production
Soil to Sewage

17. Farming More training More education
Recognition of farming as a STEM subject
Adoption of new technologies
Retirement plan

18. Certification Third country. Everything is an export or an import!
The veterinary team
Para-professionals, recognition

19. Welfare

20. Sentience
Article 13 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
‘…..pay full regard to the welfare demands of animals , while respecting the legislative provisions and customs of the Member States relating in particular to religious rites, cultural traditions and regional heritage’

21. The Five Freedoms Freedom from pain, injury and disease
Freedom from hunger, thirst and malnutrition
Freedom from discomfort
Freedom to express normal behaviour
Freedom from fear

22. The four principles Good feeding Good housing Good health
Appropriate behaviour
Absence of prolonged hunger
Absence of prolonged thirst
Comfort around resting
Thermal comfort
Ease of movement
Absence of injuries
Absence of disease
Absence of pain induced by management procedures
Expression of social behaviours
Expression of other behaviours
Good human - animal relationship
Absence of general fear

23. Mutilations
Public acceptability

24. Medicines
Availability
Cost
Usage restrictions

25. Linking human health and welfare

26. The care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility .
Wendell Berry