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A First Amendment victory may expand veterinary tele-care and save millions of animals

By Nathan J. Winograd | December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 by Nathan J. Winograd

A Federal Appeals Court ruled this week that a Texas law prohibiting veterinarians from giving online advice without a physical examination of the animal may violate a veterinarian’s First Amendment rights. The ruling could potentially lead to a massive growth in veterinary telehealth appointments: Expanding access to care for animals across the country and globe; Expanding access to care for pets living with people of limited financial means by reducing costs for such care; Allowing…

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First Amendment Protects Animals from Abuse/Killing

By Nathan J. Winograd | January 24, 2020April 23, 2022 by Nathan J. Winograd

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. — First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. A Federal Court ruled this week that a Kansas law making it illegal to film animal abuse on factory farms violates the First…

Factory Farming Dogs

By Nathan J. Winograd | September 20, 2016September 20, 2016 by Nathan J. Winograd

A comparative look at shelter and puppy mill dogs.

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HSUS Celebrates the Killing of Animals

By Nathan J. Winograd | September 1, 2014September 10, 2014 by Nathan J. Winograd

And pays people to eat them.

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Colorado 2014

By Nathan J. Winograd | August 6, 2015August 24, 2015 by Nathan J. Winograd

Overall, 89% of dogs were saved, 82% of cats were saved, 86% of birds, 82% of rabbits and other small mammals, 87% of reptiles, 85% of farm animals, and 77% of “other” animals.

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PETA’s Mass Killing Continues in 2018

By Nathan J. Winograd | February 1, 2019February 7, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

Just Released Statistics Show That Once Again, Thousands of Dogs, Cats, and Farmed Animals Were Killed By or Because of PETA A photo of a dead puppy given to me in 2015 by a PETA employee on condition of anonymity. The employee stated that PETA kills healthy and adoptable animals. January 31 marked the last day “shelters” in Virginia could submit statistics for 2018 to the Virginia Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services. And…

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Colorado 2015

By Nathan J. Winograd | July 5, 2016July 14, 2016 by Nathan J. Winograd

86% of Colorado dogs were saved, 83% of cats were saved, 74% of birds, 87% of rabbits, 85% of “pocket pets” (other small mammals), 96% of reptiles, 83% of fish and “farmed” animals.

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A historic turning point

By Nathan J. Winograd | December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 by Nathan J. Winograd

This weekend marked a turning point toward ending the single greatest source of suffering on the planet. On December 19, four school kids walked into a restaurant in Singapore and for the first time in history, ordered lab-grown meat. It looked the same as chicken, tasted the same as chicken, and was molecularly identical to chicken, because it was chicken. But no chickens were killed. It was instead grown in a bioreactor from chicken stem…

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Costco: “we do not support the use of monkeys for harvesting:”

By Nathan J. Winograd | October 29, 2020October 29, 2020 by Nathan J. Winograd

Costco has announced that it will no longer sell coconut products from Thailand because it relies on primate labor. According to Costco, “We have made it clear to the supplier that we do not support the use of monkeys for harvesting:” The vast majority of coconuts sold across the world come from Southeast Asia, from countries like Thailand, where they are picked by abused primates. Agile and adept climbers, pig-tailed macaques are acquired as infants…

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A Dog’s-Eye View of the 2020 Election

By Nathan J. Winograd | October 2, 2020March 22, 2022 by Nathan J. Winograd

For those who have been with me on this decades-long journey of saving animals, you know I have worked with legislators from both political parties to pass animal protection laws at the local, state, and federal level. You also know that I have worked with Democrats and Republicans to create No Kill communities in both blue states and the reddest parts of the reddest states. And you know that I have not shied away from…