PETA NEWS ON TUMBLR

Dancing goats, Alec Baldwin, and Etch-A-Sketch—you never know what delights you'll find on PETA's Tumblr page.

• You won't be down with down after you've seen this.
• This cat must have had 19 lives.
• You can sketch your perfect body—and get it!
• Watching the video of this dancing goat will make you feel like a kid again.
• Starbucks is giving vegetarian and vegan foods a starring role in its new startup.
• A woman was grossed out to find a chicken feather in her McNugget, but chicken flesh is just as unappetizing.
• We love him on 30 Rock, but Alec Baldwin's new project really rocks—he's taking on circuses' abuse of elephants in a video for PETA. 

NEW FEATURES

• Will it be chickens or condoms? Seals or a Ghostface killer? Who's your favorite PETA mascot?

NEW ACTION ALERTS

• A new bill in Ontario would strip the Ontario SPCA of its ability to remove animals from abusive situations and file charges against the abusers. Tell the members of Provincial Parliament to oppose this dangerous legislation.
• It's time to defeat another "ag gag" bill. Nebraska is now trying to shroud its factory farms in secrecy.
• A county in Maryland wants to use bowhunting, one of the cruelest forms of hunting, to "control" deer populations. Please share PETA's tips for humanely managing deer with the county's lawmakers.

This New Yorker usually steers clear of Midtown, thanks to the crowds, the horse-drawn carriages, and Macy's.

But I'm willing to ride the jam-packed Q to Times Square because I'm excited to see PETA's eye-popping McCruelty posters, which features an illustrated eye of a chicken who's been scalded to death and have been plastered all over Midtown. These posters are a follow-up to last week's Chi-town light show and are meant to pressure McDonald's to implement new slaughterhouse technology that would eliminate the worst abuses of chickens killed for McNuggets.

If you're like me, you're wondering where our eye-catching ad will show up next. Maybe on a huge banner draped over the St. Louis Arch? Share your suggestions in the comments section below.

Written by Karin Bennett

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Last month, our scalded "chickens" appeared at a Chicago-area McDonald's to draw attention to the many chickens who are boiled to death in scalding-hot water by McDonald's suppliers. Since the company still refuses to implement controlled-atmosphere killing to ease some of the suffering of millions of chickens killed every year to become McNuggets, we've enlisted the help of hilariousman Andy Dick to try scaring McDonald's execs straight.

Tomorrow, Andy will swap the scissors he wielded in a peta2 anti-dissection poster for a bloody knife and appear as a terrifying "Ronald McDonald" at our McCruelty demo at 600 N. Clark St. in Chicago.

In anticipation of his performance, Andy said that "if kids knew how chickens were mutilated for McNuggets, they'd burst into tears every time Ronald McDonald showed his face—and that may well happen when they see what this clown has to say about it."

I confess that I've always considered clowns to be scary—certainly McDonald's execs will agree after Andy Dick's performance at Thursday's demonstration.

Photos to come!

Written by Karin Bennett