Sheriff Barrett "I'm a dog murdering piece of poop." Blue Mounds Wisconsin Ridglan Farms
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it: if we want police in the future to help us get animals out of labs, I don’t think this is the best messaging.
Yes, I have food stuck in my teeth. But this is important.
The Ridglan Beagle Rescue: The Concerning Outcome of the “Trust the Organizers” Mentality.
#animalrights #vetmed #onehealth #activism #vegan
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🚨 Submit your comments to the USDA by April 20th!
The government has an opportunity right now to choose courage over inertia. To choose the interests of animals over the convenience of institutions.
They do not need another study on how little we can give them.
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Beagle with tongue touching top of nose
Can you touch the top of your nose with your tongue?
What Animal Advocates Must Learn From Dolores Huerta Crystal Heath DVM Apr 04, 2026 Until a few years ago, I was naive to the quiet rule that governs almost every social justice movement: don’t talk about your negative firsthand experiences with movement leaders.
Every animal advocate must educate themselves about the dynamics within social justice movements that enable injustice within our organizations.
This is something I wish I had understood before getting involved.
Have you experienced these dynamics? 🧵
#animalrights #vegan
Advocacy is great but we need power, we need political power -- I am really impressed with publications like @sentientmedia.org which does evidence based journalism and the efforts of @crystalheathdvm.bsky.social for her work to understand and educate others.
Join me in financially supporting them
WSU says it canceled its equine surgery lab due to “threats.”
Threats and harassment undermine credible advocacy and shift attention away from evidence. They are coercive tools used by oppressors.
If you’ve seen threats, send screenshots to info@ourhonor.org
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“With a thousand lies and a good disguise” → Success built on deception and image management
“Hit ‘em right between the eyes” → Targeting people emotionally or psychologically to win
“Now dance, f*er, dance”** → Turning others into pawns; control and humiliation
In light of what we know about Cesar Chavez. This song reminds me of when I was in one such group.
Its about someone who gets ahead in life not through integrity or skill, but by lying, exploiting, and manipulating others.
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I thought that the media would listen to veterinarians.
That didn't work. We partnered with animal rights groups but
now the call to save animals used for WSU's 3rd year elective veterinary surgery lab is being framed as some kind of "animal rights" campaign.
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Colorado lawmakers considered prohibiting Ventilation Shutdown Plus (VSD+), a mass killing method used during disease outbreaks, by 2029.
A survey of 3,000+ veterinarians found only 1.1% support VSD as humane.
Unfortunately, the bill was postponed indefinitely.
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Former CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou is urging veterinary students at Washington State University to consider becoming conscientious objectors.
Eight healthy horses and about 60 goats are scheduled to be killed in a surgery lab.
#VetMed #VeterinaryStudents #WSU
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WATCH: Industry testimony defending VSD+ in Colorado.
Notice the strategy:
Crisis
“160 million laying hens nationwide”
Authority
“directed by USDA APHIS Veterinary Services”
Sympathy
“Depopulating is gut-wrenching to a farmer.”
Normalization
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WATCH: Colorado bill SB26-123, to prohibit VSD+ by 2029
“Prohibiting the use of the ventilation shutdown method removes a humane rapid option…” – Madeline Robertson of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union
#OneHealth #VetMed #h5n1 #animalwelfare
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🚨 Colorado VSD+ Hearing 🚨
" Colorado Farm Bureau opposes this bill as it would take away the most humane and practical method of depopulation currently available." - Brandon Melnikoff
Only 1.1% of more than 3,000 veterinarians surveyed believe VSD+ is an ethical and humane method of depopulation.
🚨BREAKING🚨
Colorado Senator Lisa Cutter delivers closing remarks after bill SB26-123, to prohibit VSD+ by 2029, was postponed indefinitely.
“It is really a sad and shocking realization that the welfare of these animals just doesn't seem to matter.”
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
WATCH: Senator Lisa Cutter announces that Colorado bill SB26-123, to prohibit VSD+ poultry extermination by 2029, has been postponed indefinitely.
This outcome shows just how difficult it is to protect farmed animals from the most cruel practices.
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We have only a few days left to convince the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine to allow Triple J Horse Haven in Apple Valley, CA, to rescue the horses rather than kill them in the 3rd-year surgery lab. Please help us spread the word!
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It seems many people think all beef calves stay with their mothers and graze on non-arable pastureland that can't be used to grow crops for humans. That is becoming increasingly not the case.
#onehealth #vetmed #foodsecurity
The U.S. has 30–80 million free-roaming cats.
About 15–40 million are breeding females.
That produces roughly 105–280 million kittens every year.
If all companion-animal veterinarians shared the work of sterilizing those kittens, each would need to perform about:
• 6–17 surgeries per day
Call 202-224-3121
Tell your representatives and senators:
Oppose the Farm Bill if the Save Our Bacon Act stays in.
Hidden on pages 744–746 of the Farm Bill is a provision called the “Save Our Bacon Act.”
It could override state laws that ban pork from pigs raised in gestation crates.
This isn’t just an animal confinement issue.
It’s also a public health issue.
#onehealth #FarmBill #prop12
A dairy producer describes their Day-1 calf protocol for newborn calves:
Vaccines + Excede (a long-acting 3rd-generation cephalosporin antibiotic) because our confinement increases the risk of infections.
Doing this with dogs & cats is considered poor antibiotic stewardship.
#onehealth
27% of medically important antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used in pig production—almost as much as human medicine.
• Pork causes 787k foodborne illnesses/year
• 60% of sows carry Salmonella
• 83% of Campylobacter on pork chops is resistant to antibiotics
AMR already causes ~700k deaths globally.
Are Zoos Really Saving Red Wolves From Extinction?
What can zoos be doing to better educate the public about the true causes of wolf species decline?
#RedWolves #wildlifeconservation #OneHealth
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Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine is actively causing moral injury in its students. The sad part is, none of the students know it yet, and neither did the soldiers in Vietnam.
#onehealth #vetmed #humaneeducation #veterinarian
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