Category: Activism
Pretty in Paint: Models Heat Up Sidewalk
What do cows, snakes, and foxes all agree on? That they would prefer to keep their skin right where it is, thank you very much. All three species (represented by body-painted PETA members) joined forces in Knoxville, Tennessee, to ask people to wear their own skin, not animals’. After our gals were done turning Knoxville… Read more »
PETA Keeps Leather Store Closed
PETA’s macabre protest outside the Louisville, Kentucky, leather goods store Leatherheads on Tuesday morning was apparently really scary—so scary that employees refused to open the store until our corpses made ghosts of themselves. Instead of a dead animal skins, everyone who passed by Leatherheads during our protest left with pictures of the “deceased” and information… Read more »
‘Dogs’ and ‘Cats’ Fight for Lab Protection
The following was first published on Animal Writes: PETA UK’s Blog Looks pretty good, doesn’t it? Almost 100 PETA U.K. supporters took part in an eye-catching photo opportunity in London Saturday to demand that the government not adopt lower standards of protection for animals in laboratories when it incorporates the E.U.’s new directive regulating animal experiments later… Read more »
Drivers Get Rear-Ended by PETA
Sometimes, when you’re trying to show people the benefits of a vegan diet, you have to get a little cheeky. These PETA beauties’ bottoms came out on top when Charlotte, North Carolina, residents came out in throngs to take pictures of their thongs. Their supply of hundreds of vegetarian/vegan starter kits was gone before the… Read more »
Cows Invade Vegas
Even through-the-roof mercury levels couldn’t stop our mootivated herd of cows from descending on the Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas to demand their skins back. Folks attending the shoe convention inside became curious when they heard the musical stylings of lead bovine Meggan Anderson on the cowbell and came out to snap pictures of… Read more »
PETA Stops Traffic In LA
The world didn’t come to an end when road crews shut down 10 miles of one of Los Angeles’ busiest freeways this past weekend, but the absence of the usual bumper-to-bumper traffic on the 405 was certainly an other-worldly scene. Then there was a heavenly vision: PETA members reminding the hardy motorists who dared to… Read more »
Photo of the Week: Baring it All in the Big Easy
When our beauties in the buff graced Bourbon Street to show that baring skin is better than wearing skin, one passerby was so inspired that he shed his shirt and joined in. While it takes a lot to raise eyebrows in New Orleans, the ladies (and gent) managed to capture the attention of hundreds of… Read more »
Ruining the Running of the Bulls
More than 100 supporters of PETA U.K. and the Spanish group AnimaNaturalis lay naked and “bloodied” in Pamplona’s main square on Sunday to protest the cruel bull runs and subsequent bullfights, in which bulls are tortured and killed during the city’s annual festival of San Fermín. They aren’t the only ones exposing Spain’s… Read more »
10-Year-Old Takes McDonald’s Execs to Task
Most kids get butterflies in their stomachs when they have to read a book report aloud in class. This week, bright elementary student Rose McCoy spoke before hundreds of McDonald’s investors and executives at the company’s annual meeting. Armed with 20,000 of the nearly 125,000 signatures that PETA collected from young consumers, our superstar volunteer brilliantly… Read more »
Nurse, Heal Thyself
In honor of National Nurses Week, PETA wants to help the people who take care of others to take care of themselves. Every nurse who takes our Pledge to Be Vegan for 30 Days will receive a free vegetarian/vegan starter kit and be entered to win one of 10 copies of the book 21-Day Weight Loss… Read more »
Milwaukee Tries to Quash PETA Protest
Milwaukee Eighth District Alderman Bob Donovan found out what can happen when you try to quash a PETA protest: It can backfire—big time. PETA had wanted to remind people of what goes on behind the closed doors of the Cargill Beef Solutions slaughterhouse in Milwaukee, but Donovan denied our permit, saying that his constituents shouldn’t… Read more »
PETA Takes Drug Giant to Court
Merck’s murky behavior isn’t going to silence PETA. We’re suing the pharmaceutical giant after it refused to include our shareholder resolution in the proxy materials sent to its shareholders, in violation—we contend—of securities laws. Our resolution asks Merck to complete an annual report listing the number and species of animals used in its laboratories and for what… Read more »
Own Stock? Vote to Help Animals
Sometimes, in order to beat ‘em, you have to join ‘em. That’s what PETA does when we buy stock (or use stock donated to us by supporters) in companies that conduct experiments on animals so that we can submit shareholder resolutions against animal testing. This year, PETA has submitted resolutions to General Electric, Johnson & Johnson,… Read more »
Karina Smirnoff Takes It All Off—Again
Lovely Dancing With the Stars pro Karina Smirnoff graces the May cover of Playboy magazine. But before she was a Playboy bunny, Karina stood up for bunnies killed for their fur in a steamy ad for PETA. As Karina shows, the sexiest thing that you can wear is compassion. Be a honey for bunnies and sign… Read more »
PETA Steals the Show From Ringling
When Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus paraded its 3-ton elephants through the streets of Washington, D.C., the animals might have been surprised to be greeted by one of their own. Well, one of our own, to be exact—a giant inflatable elephant, who grabbed a lot of attention from would-be circus attendees. PETA members protest Ringling… Read more »
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— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind