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Originally Posted by kalina82  i really hate when people ASSUME this...
i've worked for many vets and NONE of them get kick backs for selling this food. Some sell it because its all they know. vet's do not get a lot of nutritional education while in school. They only info they get is from major corporation reps (hills, purina, eukanbua, etc). Just because this is where they get their information from does not mean they get any benefits from selling it. The hills food we sell in hospital is not marked up any more then stores mark up their food. vets do not get a huge benefit out of selling this food. Many vets do not sell hills at all because they know better. |
Hills provides a lot of nutritional seminars and conferences for veterinarians and scholarships and education for vet students, but they don't make any money from selling Hills products.
There is information right on their website about their involvement in educating vets and vet students.
http://www.hillspet.com/hillspet/our...=1197857761245
There really aren't that many companies that make prescription diets besides Hills and most really aren't any better. Purina, Waltham and Eukanuba are the only others, I believe. Fortunately, there are much better choices for nonprescription diets.