Category: Circuses
Exciting Legislation in California
As you probably know, our country is in the midst of an extreme companion animal overpopulation crisis, and unfortunately, California (where some estimate that nearly a half million dogs and cats are euthanized for lack of good homes annually) is no exception. Fortunately, a life-saving piece of legislation that would address this crisis—Assembly Bill 1634—has… Read more »
Cavepeople in Montreal
Well, through no particular design, the last couple of posts have been a little heavy—a lion mauling and a dead, angry chicken—so I figured we were long overdue for a bit of light relief here, which arrived in my inbox this morning in the form of a few beautiful photos of an anti-fur demonstration organized… Read more »
Video of Lion Attacking Trainer
What an awful story all around. This shocking video shows a lion in a circus somewhere attacking and mauling a trainer. The lion wound up being shot and killed, and the trainer is totally messed up as well. I’m afraid it’s just another sad example of why wild animals don’t belong behind bars . .… Read more »
Brief Message From a Chicken
A little while back, I wrote about the worldwide competition that the Young Guns ad agency held for people in the advertising industry to make a new PETA PSA. The official winner of that contest was “Your Parents Do It: Don’t Block It Out”, a brilliant idea put together by the BBDO Agency in Montréal.… Read more »
Burberry Protest in Moscow
Man, PETA Europe gets around. It seems like every day I’m seeing clips of their demonstrations in some far away land. Check out this coverage of a Burberry protest they held yesterday in Moscow. Admittedly, the article would be much more entertaining and informative if I could read Russian, but I still love it because… Read more »
Ewe’ve Been Conned
Update: Amusing as it is, it looks like this story may not have been entirely factual. Makes me feel a bit sheepish. Thanks to Amy and Canaduck for pointing that out! Apparently, thousands of rich Japanese women were conned into buying lambs as pets, believing them to be super valuable miniature poodles. No, I’m not… Read more »
Sony’s Goat-Slaughter Debacle
It’s time for one of those “OMFGWTF?” moments—this one brought to you exclusively by the fine folks over at Sony. Apparently, as part of a promotion for a new game (which I’m not even going to mention here because I have absolutely no desire to help them promote it), they threw a party which featured… Read more »
Best Picture Ever
Two Australian Lettuce Ladies made the BBC’s “Day in Pictures” today, which means that a massive number of people are going to come across this photo and, unless they are completely blind, immediately go vegetarian. Stunning.
Fur Is a Drag!
I just got back from the “Doo Dah parade” in Norfolk, where local businesses and charities march up and down the street in the silliest outfits they can think of for the benefit of an adoring public. And nothing looks quite so foolish as a fur coat—which is where we come in. I’m not entirely… Read more »
Don’t Say “I Told You So”
We actually didn’t say “I told you so” in this instance, just: “We are sorry to hear about your injury. We tried to help you and the donkeys. Please tell us that you understand now.” I thought that was pretty nice of us, under the circumstances. Here’s the back story: Whiteford Agricultural Schools’ superintendent Craig… Read more »
South Carolina Circus Just Up and Leaves
With hundreds of people standing in line waiting for tickets last week, the Lewis and Clark Old-fashioned Circus just folded up its tents and slinked off into the night. (OK, whatever—it was daytime, and circuses probably can’t slink exactly, but I need a bit of creative license here.) The reason for all the drama was… Read more »
Protest Turns Into a Circus
Here’s a great story about a group of kids in Longmont, CO, protesting the circus there. The kicker: The circus boss got arrested for making lewd comments to the female protesters. Sounds like a classy guy . . . The protesters kept their composure and gave a great interview to the paper, including this solid… Read more »
David Letterman on Circuses
allstarz.hollywood.com/Creative Commons Just a quick little tidbit for you, because this was just too good to leave unremarked: Did anyone catch David Letterman’s comments about Ringling coming to Madison Square Garden on his show last night? “Ringling Brothers circus is coming back to Madison Square Garden. How about that? What they do, they bring the… Read more »
Joss Stone’s New PETA Ad
Listening to British R&B songstress Joss Stone hum a tune is pretty much all it would take for me to fall in love, but Joss clearly wanted to make sure she had all her bases covered by a) being really frickin pretty, b) going out of her way to help animals, and c) being (as… Read more »
Amazing News to Start the Weekend
This is actually really incredible, and it’s been a long time coming. A couple of months ago, I wrote about a lab Iams was using to test its food that was under investigation by the USDA. Well, I just found out that the lab just agreed to a $33,000 civil penalty after federal investigators alleged… Read more »
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— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind