A seventh-grader organizes a protest outside a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Washington. A 15-year-old girl attempts to ban circus elephants in Denver. A rash of adolescent-driven, animal-rights-related vandalism hits California. A popular software company promotes a video game about "animal liberation"...
Nathan Winograd is a Stanford Law School graduate and a former criminal prosecutor. He has also
presided over America’s two most successful experiments in what’s become known as the “No-Kill” animal shelter movement. At SPCAs in San Francisco and Tompkins County, New York, Winograd showed that
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Despite the fact that almost all the research on in-school nutrition indicates that food bans are ineffective (and sometimes counterproductive), the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and food activists from groups like...
Let me get this straight. According to
The Washington Post, schools are now banning cupcakes?
That's right. What of it?
They're just cupcakes – little individual cakes wrapped in paper and coated with icing. What the heck could be wrong with a couple of lousy cupcakes?
Are you not...
In a speech in 2004,
Center for Science and the Public Interest (CSPI) director
Michael Jacobson claimed that restaurant companies do not need protection from lawsuit-happy trial lawyers looking to cash in on plus-sized clients. In response to
state and
federal...
A sixteenth-century Swiss chemist named
Paracelsus gave us the most basic rule of toxicology: "The dose makes the poison." Practically every substance on earth (including water and Vitamin C) can kill you if it's concentrated enough in your stomach or your bloodstream. It's such a simple idea....
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has been widely criticized for its campaign comparing Nazi Holocaust victims to farm animals, its blind insistence that Jesus was a vegetarian, and it callous attempts to cheapen the symbols and rituals of Roman Catholicism. But a new report from the...
