"CVMA expects state board appointees to reflect a similar level of civility, respectability, and professionalism," the group said. The group added that its members hold themselves to a high standard and code of conduct, and they are also held to a high standard of professional conduct and integrity by the state board’s veterinary medicine rules and regulations. “While CVMA respects the effort made to appoint diverse points of view to the state board, CVMA is disappointed in the appointment of a person whose online presence and personal activist activities are not consistent with the professional conduct expected of veterinarians by the board,” the group said. Kessler will cause the state board to direct the veterinary profession in ways that are contrary to the needs of Colorado’s livestock industry.” In a post dated after Kessler’s appointment, the association said some of its members “have expressed concern that Ms. Kessler’s appointment also wasn’t favorably received by the Colorado Veterinary Medicine Association. According to Compassion in World Farming, “cows only produce milk after they have given birth, and dairy cows must give birth to one calf per year in order to continue producing milk.” In another Facebook post, Kessler accused dairy farmers of “sexually abusing” their cows, which is apparently a reference to artificial insemination, a standard practice in the industry. Prior to her appointment to the state vet board, which does not require state Senate confirmation, she criticized 4H, a youth development organization operating under the Colorado State University Extension Service, for not teaching kids to respect animals. It’s not Kessler’s first hostile comment about the agriculture community. While this type of language is now mainstream in the Democrat Party, I know that Coloradans deserve better." “Rural Coloradans have been under attack by the Democrats for years and it's unacceptable that degrading and false rhetoric about our farmers and ranchers from the Polis Administration should be ignored. "Today, I'm demanding that Governor Polis do the right thing and fire this extreme, unfit, and embarrassing appointee from the State Board of Veterinary Medicine,” Brown said in a news release. Polis replied that anyone with a complaint about the way an appointee is performing his or her duty should file a complaint to the Department of Regulatory Agencies, which has oversight over the state veterinary board.Ĭolorado Republican Party Chair Kristi Burton Brown seized on the controversy Monday to demand that Polis fire Kessler and that Polis be fired, too. The governor was also asked why whether someone palpably hostile to the industry should be serving in a gubernatorial appointment. On Friday morning, Polis, who participated in a virtual meeting with Voices of Rural Colorado, a coalition of rural Colorado organizations that includes Pro 15, Action 22 and Club 20, was asked by two members of the audience how he could keep Kessler on the state vet board after her most recent remarks, according to the Sterling Journal-Advocate. If the slaughterhouse doesn’t pay them for the carcass, they’ll blame the predators so the state will pay them for livestock lost from predators. “Would our lazy and nasty ranchers/cattlemen even raise a finger to make something like this work or is (sic) using a cow to bait the wolves their solution? A living cow doesn’t make money for them. “These techniques could easily translate into activism in Colorado for soon-to-be-introduced wolves and other predators already living among us,” Kessler wrote. Referring to recent attacks by wolves on cattle and dogs in northern Colorado, Kessler accused ranchers of using their cows to “bait” wolves in order to receive compensation for the loss of their animals. 19 post by First Gentleman Marlon Reis, Polis's husband that cited a story from the Missoulian on a new collaboration program with ranchers who deal with grizzly bears.
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