Written by Michelle Kretzer
Fighting for truth, justice, and the cruelty-free way, PETA's caped crusaders descended on the Ottawa Comiccon to ask fans to be superheroes for animals by going vegan.
The meat and dairy industries are colder to animals than Mr. Freeze, but all people can fight for good every time they sit down to eat.
Ready to fly faster than a speeding bullet, be more powerful than a locomotive, and leap tall buildings in a single bound? Just get rid of the kryptonite, er, animal products.
Written by Jeff Mackey
PETA protesters wearing monkey masks and holding signs reading, "Deplane Monkeys," recently held demonstrations outside the Chicago headquarters of United Airlines and the U.S. headquarters of Air France in New York. PETA is urging the airlines to commit to a ban on shipping primates to laboratories, as almost every airline in the world already has, including Delta, American, US Air, and China Airlines.
PETA demonstrators also dropped a banner from a busy overpass next to United HQ, generating a lot of views and picture-taking:
United Airlines, which recently acquired Continental Airlines, is now the last U.S. air carrier without a policy prohibiting the transportation of primates to be abused and killed in crude, painful, and archaic experiments in laboratories.
The cruelty involved in laboratory experiments on primates and other animals should be self-evident: After hearing from PETA about the horrors that cats and dogs endure in labs, for instance, Nippon Cargo Airlines, which had been shipping dogs and cats from the United States to Japanese labs, implemented a worldwide policy against shipping any animals to labs.
When primates are shipped to laboratories, they're first separated from their families and locked inside dark, terrifying cargo holds for as long as 30 hours. Then they're delivered to facilities that will poison them, cut them up, and kill them. Many monkeys who are shipped to laboratories were first ripped from their homes in the wild.
Please join PETA in telling airlines that still transport monkeys to U.S. laboratories to adopt a policy against the transportation of nonhuman primates for use in experiments.
PETA's sporty officials are easy on the eyes but not on cruelty to animals. The refs convinced people to take a right turn at Albuquerque and dump meat and dairy products.
From the sidelines of a McCruelty restaurant, the gals called fouls on people caught being offensive to animals and gave them a vegetarian/vegan starter kit so that they could kick cruelty out of the game.
Chris P. Carrot got to reminisce about being a baby carrot when he visited with children at Memphis' Peabody Park yesterday.
The root enjoyed getting back to his roots and gave kids stickers and booklets encouraging them to eat their veggies, not their friends. A recent University of Minnesota study showed that when kids were shown pictures of vegetables, they ate more of them.
Helping kids eat healthy veggies in lieu of fatty meat? Piece of (carrot) cake.
Like Van Halen said, "Go ahead and jump."
After learning that Detroit was the second-saddest city in America, the leaping "Lettuce Ladies" made Detroiters hoppy by telling them about the cure for the blues: going vegan. Studies show that vegetarians have lower rates of depression and anxiety than meat-eaters do. The receptive residents grabbed up our "Think Before You Eat" leaflets like they were vinyl copies of 1984.
Ready to eat your way to happiness? "You say you don't know—you won't know … until you begin…"
Passersby outside a fur store in Toledo, Ohio, agreed that when the trap is on the other foot, fur looks really gruesome.
As our re-enactor did an excellent job of portraying an animal writhing in agony and trying to escape a lethal steel-jaw trap, the fur store owners stayed hidden inside their shop, without entertaining so much as a single patron.
Alright, fellas, take it from a woman. Yes, we love flowers and chocolates and teddy bears, but what we really love is you. So dump impotence-causing, life-shortening meat and be around to celebrate many more happy Valentine's Days with us.
Written by PETA
Imagine how it must feel to have to wear a heavy coat outside in August! PETA members in Lansing, Michigan, no longer have to wonder after sitting in cages on a hot sidewalk in order to illustrate the misery of animals on fur farms during hot weather, when they have no escape from the heat.
Summer brings extra hardships for animals who are already suffering physical and psychological distress from constant confinement in a small wire cage. And there is no peaceful end to their suffering. Animals killed for their fur endure some of the most gruesome deaths imaginable, including death by neck-breaking, bludgeoning, poisoning, anal and genital electrocution, and being skinned alive.
"We may be hot, but it's worth it to raise awareness about the suffering of minks, raccoons, and other animals and—their babies—when they are left in feces- and urine-covered cages in the searing heat."
There is never a good season to wear real fur. Send a message to the fur industry by adding your name to PETA's growing list of people who have pledged to be fur-free forever.
Written by Michelle Sherrow
Nearly nude professional model—and vegetarian—Megan Currie sudsed up in a tub in Edinburgh, Scotland, for World Water Week while policymakers met in Sweden to discuss global water issues. The bathing PETA UK beauty informed passersby that it takes the equivalent of 50 bathtubs filled with water to produce just one steak.
"Not only does the meat industry inflict cruelty, it also wastes huge amounts of water and damages the planet," says Megan. "You can't eat meat and be an environmentalist."
A recent U.N. report calls the livestock industry "a key player in increasing water use" and "probably the largest sectoral source of water pollution."
On top of that, billions of animals raised for food each year endure routine abuse on crowded, filthy factory farms, where they are subjected to painful mutilations, before being sent to slaughter, where many are butchered while still conscious.
You can help fight the worldwide water crisis and save up to 100 animals per year by going vegan today.
Via PETA.org.uk
When President Obama held an economic forum in Peosta, Iowa, on Tuesday, PETA supporters were there getting piggy with it.
A staffer was passing out leaflets at the forum when a group of enthusiastic young people ran up to her and offered to help with the demonstration. One donned the pig costume, and the others handed out leaflets explaining the benefits of a tax on meat.
Because meat is a leading cause of climate change and drives up health-care costs by contributing to cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, among other illnesses, it only makes sense that meat should be subject to a "sin" tax just like alcohol and tobacco.
Taxing meat would not only help balance the budget, it would also encourage people to cut the pork out of their diets, saving countless lives—both human and animal.
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