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Your Donation to PETA Was Used to Kill Healthy Kittens

By Nathan J. Winograd | May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

Among the dead are the young and healthy kittens pictured above. Donations to PETA are being used to round-up healthy kittens to be killed. Norfolk, VA, taxpayers subsidize the effort, paying for the barbiturates used to poison them through a fatal overdose. According to records obtained under the Public Records Act, the vast majority of kittens rounded up by PETA employees in 2018 and delivered to the Norfolk, VA, pound — nearly seven out of…

Why “No Birth” Is Not a Substitute for “No Kill”

By Nathan J. Winograd | April 23, 2019April 23, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

PETA recently argued in Long Beach, as they have elsewhere, against shelter reform and the pursuit of a No Kill city. They claimed that the only goal worth pursuing is a “no birth” nation. Here’s why that argument is simply not true and what is behind the deceptive claim. Spay/neuter and limiting breeding are important for all kinds of reasons, which is why sterilization is a core program of the No Kill Equation model of…

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New Study: TNR Reduces Killing by Over 80%

By Nathan J. Winograd | March 22, 2019March 22, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

A new study looked at cat impound and killing rates in six city pounds before and after the implementation of a program to sterilize and release community cats. The cities involved were Albuquerque, Baltimore, Columbus (GA), Philadelphia, San Antonio, and Tucson. Once again, the study adds to a growing body of literature that Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) works. In all: A median decline of 83% in cat killing occurred at the six shelters compared to baseline. The…

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“Terrifying”

By Nathan J. Winograd | March 8, 2019March 8, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

I responded to a call from a concerned woman who’d found an abandoned days-old kitten under her porch. When I came to pick up the kitten, I had her sign a generic give-up form that spelled out that euthanasia was a possibility. But I was instructed to repeatedly convey that we would do our absolute best, and so that’s what I said, even as the woman described her careful search for an organization she…

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PETA is a “terrifying and desensitizing” “cult” — Another Former PETA Employee Speaks Out

By Nathan J. Winograd | February 27, 2019March 1, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

Ultimately, the culture was terrifying and desensitizing-Š—-Šand I gradually felt that my view of death, of taking animals’ lives, was being warped, my emotions being stripped away. Joining the ranks of former PETA fieldworker Heather Harper-Troje, another employee has come forward by name to tell about her experiences at PETA killing animals and the stifling, cult-like atmosphere that pervades the organization; a culture she described as “terrifying and desensitizing.” Laura Lee Cascada, a PETA employee,…

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PETA News Coverage: Whimsy Over Substance

By Nathan J. Winograd | February 25, 2019February 25, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

PETA has been trending in the news but not for the reasons they should. In a tweet, they criticized Google’s decision to honor Steve Irwin, the Australian conservationist, by doing a doodle of him. Stories taking them to task appeared in USA Today, BuzzFeed, NBC, Fox, and more. They have appeared in Australian newspapers, Indian newspapers, British papers, and newspapers elsewhere across the world. Meanwhile, not a line of print is dedicated to the real…

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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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Statement from the Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press

By Nathan J. Winograd | January 8, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

On Dec. 20, PETA filed a motion in California state court to require Nathan Winograd to reveal the identities of his confidential sources who worked at PETA and disclosed information about PETA’s practices. Last week, he filed an opposition invoking his rights under the California Constitution’s shield law & the #FirstAmendment reporter’s privilege, which apply to those engaged in acts of journalism — gathering information from confidential sources with the intent to publish it. Read…

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Snoping Snopes

By Nathan J. Winograd | November 23, 2018March 23, 2020 by Nathan J. Winograd

Shining a light on Snopes.com’s lack of objectivity and due diligence when it comes to PETA. Snopes.com claims as its mission truth-seeking, writing that it “lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis.” But when it comes to PETA, it has utterly failed in that regard. Recently, it claimed to do such “evidence-based and contextualized analysis” regarding the authenticity of a postcard Ingrid Newkirk, PETA’s founder and the architect of their mass killing and…

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Meritless PETA Lawsuit on Verge of Collapse

By Nathan J. Winograd | November 20, 2018December 3, 2018 by Nathan J. Winograd

One of the healthy puppies killed by PETA, after PETA staff promised they would find a home. For more than two decades, I have been working to expose the grisly truth about PETA: that far from being a voice for the rights of animals as is commonly believed, employees at PETA headquarters in Norfolk, VA commit daily violence against them, injecting thousands of healthy puppies, kittens, dogs, cats, rabbits, chickens, and other animals every year…