Gender issue jeopardizes animal food supply
The gender issue (not enough boys in college) is now jeopardizing our animal food supply, says a story in USA Today.
Males by far go into large animal veterinary medicine (cows, pigs, etc.) But now the vast majority of vet med students are female, going into pet vet (dogs, cats). There's 500 rural counties with NO vet. There's one county with 25,000 cows and only one vet.
Hope! Some vet schools are starting to weigh GPA less, and test scores more (the answer) in admitting students to Vet Med School. This will allow more males to enter, and thus graduate. This is the answer to the boys issue. Nice job American Society of Veterinary Medicine in advocating this answer.
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