Why does the FDA regulate pet medicine? I mean, even if you feel like pets are people too, and you’d like the FDA to tell you whether they think a drug is safe, why take the extra step of prohibiting drugs that the FDA hasn’t proclaimed yet?
For people, you could argue that the risk of illness or death due to drugs is severe enough that the FDA needs to protect us from making our own bad choices.
But these are just dogs. And they are going to be killed if they don’t get HW medicine. So why prohibit importing medicine? It makes no sense. Just have the FDA put a stamp on stuff they approve, and the pet owners can decide if they want to risk using an untested foreign drug or putting their dog to sleep.
Having written that, what choice is that? Just give them the untested medicine, and if it makes them sicker, you can still just put them to sleep.
The government is into every single aspect of our lives. We need to get government off our backs, out of our medicine cabinets, out of our wallets, and out of our decision-making process.
I agree with you. The alternative for these animals is usually death. Why not try?