YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: Feds Spend $230,769 to Increase Diversity of Veterinarians.

A grant was awarded earlier this year to Tuskegee University in Alabama, which will host workshops and seminars entitled, “So You Want to Be A Vet,” to try to recruit minorities into veterinary programs.

“The need to feed the ever increasing human population, forecast to reach over 9 billion worldwide by 2050 is clear, resulting in an increasing need to fill the shortage of scientists and professionals trained in food and agricultural sciences, including food animal veterinary medicine,” according to the grant for the project. “As concerted efforts are made to fill this void, it is imperative that underrepresented minorities be included as part of the solution.”

The stated goal of the project is to “increase the number of underrepresented minorities entering veterinary school with an emphasis in food animals.”

I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess this seminar won’t produce much of anything except a nice travel junket.