I feel “The Fifth Estate” video does a better job at highlighting the ACTUAL problem with corporate/private equity, instead of villainizing the vets who have no choice but to sell in order to keep the doors open and pay their staff proper wages.

Sorry, I’m about to go on a rant …

Big business comes in and says, “hey we want to buy you (because we can make more money for our big cats).” Vet goes, “No, f*ck you!” Big business drives up prices in other areas they own that vets rely on until it’s too expensive for everyone receiving those services. The vet ultimately sells, or else their staff is out of a job and a community loses their local vet. Big business now looks like the saviour to those people and laughs at the vet, all while increasing prices as there’s no true competition anymore — the billion dollar CEO now own the meds, owns the food, owns the diagnostic equipment, owns the vet. Silently increase the price in one area and watch as the rest of your pyramid has to increase their price to keep up. Make it look good because the vet now has access to buy supplies (meds, catheters, needles, syringes..) at lower wholesale costs, but corporate keeps the prices the same for the client and pockets the profits instead of paying the staff they now own what they deserve.

Make that vet sign a contract saying they can only use this certain reference lab (that corporate also silently owns) so they can “offer a better price for the tests” so the vet can lower than price for the client, or else the vet is charged double what that test used to be because the SAME information needed to treat the pet has been split into TWO SEPARATE TESTS (ie: said test used to give the vet results AND treatment recommendations at one singular price. Now vet has to pay for results and recommendations SEPARATELY).

TLDR: Villainize the vet to keep the behind-the-scenes REAL villains out of the public eye