Category: Activism
Things You Might Have Missed (9-22-12)
PETA News on Tumblr Don’t miss a thing. Follow PETA on Tumblr. First there was Wilbur, then Babe, and now another hero pig is capturing hearts. Watch as an intrepid pig saves a baby goat from drowning. What’s 4 inches wide and pollutes more than an 18-wheeler traveling nearly 150 miles? When a fire killed… Read more »
‘Animal Practice’ Cruelty Is Crystal Clear
PETA was joined by primate experts Dr. Mel Richardson and Kari Bagnall for a demonstration outside NBC’s North Hollywood offices in protest of the network’s cruelty in using wild-animal “actors” in its new, and thoroughly panned, show Animal Practice. When Funny Business Isn’t Funny Featured as a central character in the show is a capuchin… Read more »
PETA Premieres Casey Affleck Film
It’s been a few years since Casey Affleck graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but he popped up on campus in a new video, asking everyone to be kind to cows—by dumping dairy products. A PETA supporter wearing a cow costume showed students at Casey’s alma mater an undercover dairy farm… Read more »
UW Experimenters Made to Face the Music
Students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW) likely had no idea that as they made their way to class, they were passing by a laboratory in which cats, exactly like the ones many of the students would return home to, were being tormented and killed in gruesome experiments. But PETA set out to show the students… Read more »
Things You Might Have Missed (9-15-12)
PETA News on Tumblr Don’t miss a thing. Follow PETA on Tumblr. You’ll never guess what one little thing shortens a woman’s life span as much as if she had smoked 25,000 cigarettes. You know about the zombie apocalypse: people attempting to eat each other. But did you know that people eating animals is also… Read more »
‘Mr. T’ Crashes PETA Protest
The Baltimore Comic-Con got a comedic confluence of heroism when a Mr. T look-alike jumped in with PETA’s superheroes to fight for truth, justice, and the vegan way. The gals were busy posing for pictures with delighted comic book fans and flying through a stash of vegetarian/vegan starter kits as fast as their caped arms… Read more »
Things You Might Have Missed (9-8-12)
PETA News on Tumblr Don’t miss a thing. Follow PETA on Tumblr. The end of summer means that pools close for people but open for dogs! Across the country, dogs are closing out the season with a splash. Randall, famous for his video of the “crazy” honey badger, is back and taking on something truly… Read more »
Experimenters Starve Monkeys, Learn Nothing
For more than two decades, experimenters at the National Institute on Aging (NIA, part of the National Institutes of Health) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) starved caged monkeys—depriving them of a whopping 30 percent of needed calories—to see if this would increase their longevity. Now, the vivisectors at NIA have announced that the extreme,… Read more »
St. Louis Vegans and PETA Unite for Cats
PETA has teamed up with St. Louis Vegans to put extra pressure on St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) as part of PETA’s campaign to stop live cats from being tormented in painful and archaic medical training conducted cooperatively by the institutions. A Real Horror Show As the hospital and university… Read more »
Thinking Inside the Box About Leather
What do you say to a naked, bloody lady in a shoebox? How about “Hi”? No, that’s not a joke. It’s what Midwesterners must have been asking themselves as they encountered PETA’s latest demonstration, in which two of the aforementioned “bloody,” naked (well, nearly) women lay inside a giant shoebox. Check out the scene in… Read more »
Things You Might Have Missed (8-4-12)
PETA News on Tumblr Don’t miss a thing: Follow PETA on Tumblr. Don’t call the female dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, “fashion-obsessed.” They just prefer to bond with gals who dress like they do. Dolphins who choose to wear sponges on their noses to root in the sand for fish generally hang out with other… Read more »
Chickens Aren’t Gay at Chick-fil-A
Chick-fil-A, the house of the homophobic waffle fries, wants homosexual people just to accept not having equal rights and chickens just to accept having their throats slashed and being scalded to death. But a flock of protesters crashed Chick-fil-A’s Appreciation Day to show that they don’t appreciate the fast-food chain’s efforts to keep people in… Read more »
Spam Turns 75, Still Gross
When pig abuser Hormel’s notorious nonfood Spam turned 75, the company decided to celebrate its saturated fat, cholesterol, and pig abuse in a tin with a party. Never ones to let an opportunity to share animals’ side of things pass us by, PETA sent brave “piggies” into Hormel territory. As people lured by free food… Read more »
Things You Might Have Missed (7-28-12)
PETA News on Tumblr Don’t miss a thing: Follow PETA on Tumblr. Here’s one of the most fun things that you’ll see all weekend: Morrissey’s version of a cat in the hat. The abuse that snake charmers inflict on snakes to make them “dance” is anything but charming, so PETA India offered a simple solution:… Read more »
Mayte Garcia Gets That ‘Caged Animal’ Feeling
“I just think about these animals that are there for months …. And the way they kill them—it’s just not needed, it’s not a necessity,” said actor Mayte Garcia, speaking out against fur farms on the set of the new ad she shot for PETA. “Doing this shoot and getting into the cage and putting… Read more »
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— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind