The number of rural food animal veterinarians has reached a “critically low point,” according to a new report from the Farm Journal Foundation, a nonprofit.
More than 500 U.S. counties face a shortage of food animal veterinarians, according to Clinton Neill, the report’s lead author and an assistant professor in veterinary economics for the Cornell Center for Veterinary Business and Entrepreneurship.
“The decline in food animal veterinarians in rural areas heightens concerns for a number of risks, including food safety threats, animal disease outbreaks, the potential passing of animal diseases to human populations and decreasing rural economic growth,” said Neill.
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