Colorado candidate says his positions have evolved. Voters might be skeptical.

By: Quentin Young

Outlets: Colorado Newsline

Published: August 13, 2026

Words: 1,145

Last Updated: 5 days, 9 hours ago

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In 2021, when he was a law student at Yale, Colorado state Rep. Manny Rutinel told an animal welfare panel at the school, “The factory farming of animals is one of the largest sources of suffering on the planet.”

That statement is indisputably true. Cattle, chickens, pigs and other livestock are sentient beings that feel pain and can suffer. Widespread factory farming practices — in which animals are confined in small spaces, experience from …

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