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Samuel P. Galphin, DVM, MS
Dr. Sam Galphin grew up in a rural community in South Carolina, cultivated by a farmer and mixed animal veterinarian father and nurtured by a loving schoolteacher mother. He developed deep fondness for agriculture, where less than one percent of the population is active in food production. He believes that agriculture is key to the sustainability of humanity.
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Serving the Creator, Not the Created
Introduction: To the traditional Navajo, the small ruminants, sheep and goats, were their most prized assets--- their bank accounts and their retirement funds. The outside world looks at the poverty in the Navajo Nation—the lack of jobs, the many people without...
God I Pray to Know
God, I pray your will to know. Oh, sovereign God bid me know. I pray for discernment, Holy One. Your will as it is to be done. Please, Lord, bid our efforts be one. Father, You of infinite love, Speak to me clearly from above. My finite mind it cannot grasp The will...
The Spirit Sent Me to Bolivia Part III
So many amazing things had already been experienced by me on my first shuttle mission to Bolivia and I am only on my 4th day! This morning I traveled to a local dairy in Santa Cruz area, a nice farm. Production here is 10-12 liters/cow vs. 3-4 lt. in Yappacani. ...
About the Book
How many veterinarians do you know who specialize in food supply veterinary medicine? And what does that even mean?
Helping to feed the world, one healthy cow at a time!
Meet Dr. Sam Galphin, a renowned specialist with a rare vocation. Dr. Galphin’s desire to “help feed the world” has taken him around the globe as an advocate and practitioner of herd welfare and safety. From milk production to meat consumption, the “Moo Vet” has seen it all!
Along the way, the good doctor has stumbled into groundbreaking and controversial adventures on farms and in dairies, told firsthand as only an expert vet and wordsmith can do. Dr. Galphin’s decades of anecdotes read like a “Sherlock Holmes” novel, with mysterious ailments and a trail of clues leading to daring diagnoses in the U.S. and abroad.
Read along as Dr. Galphin details his mission work and the many lives he’s touched in a career like no other. These beautiful and meaningful experiences usher veterinary students and the public into good old-fashioned laugh-out-loud moments AND the complexities of food supply veterinary medicine.
