Robert C Hargreaves

"I'm from the government and I'm here to help"

"Yeah, right."

In my 31 years as a government veterinarian with the California Dept of Food and Agriculture I met my share of skeptics, but, believe it or not, my primary mission was to protect the public and livestock producers from animal diseases.

My interest in helping people led me to Vietnam in the mid-60s with International Voluntary Services to help the Vietnamese raise chickens. I have returned to Vietnam many times since, most recently in 2008. Before Vietnam I was a civil rights worker in Mississippi for a year. Along the way I taught school, was a social worker, pumped gas, picked fruit. I even boiled doll clothes for Mattel Toys.

Now writing about all this and looking for readers.