247wallst / CC PETA is always determined and serious in our efforts to raise awareness about—and to stop—animal suffering. Sometimes, our methods are loud, boisterous, and even a little silly, but they are never naïve. That said, we admit that we’re floored by the discrepancy in media coverage surrounding two recent events. After President Obama … Read more »
animalvegetablemiracle / CC Late last year, some factory-farm employees got their pink slips from Aviagen Turkeys, Inc. in response to PETA’s undercover investigation, which documented that workers were breaking turkeys’ necks, stomping on their heads, and shoving feces and feed into turkeys’ mouths. Then, in February, a grand jury handed down 19 indictments, including 11 … Read more »
PETA’s bikinied beauties are on a mission to help residents of the fattest cities in America shed some weight. First stop: San Jose. What better way to encourage locals to adopt a vegetarian diet than to give them a sampling of delicious, nutritious vegetarian cuisine? Though our beauties may be decked out in nothing but … Read more »
This week, we approached the city of Ashland, Ohio, with a little business proposition after we learned of the city’s efforts to find a more cost-effective way to run its curbside recycling program. We sent the director of city services a letter offering to offset the program’s costs by paying to place our Lettuce Ladies’ … Read more »
This past weekend, the Southern California desert town of Indio was steamier than usual. PETA’s lettuce ladies made a special appearance at the three-day Coachella Music Festival—where our beloved Morrissey was performing—and wooed broiling-hot fans to the joy of soy by giving away free Tofutti Cuties. The ladies report that the icy-cold, nondairy treats were … Read more »
PETA’s Lettuce Ladies are on the road again! And this time they’re kicking America’s poor eating habits to the compost heap. The lettuce-clad ladies are hittin’ the streets to greet folks with delicious and free Tofurky sandwiches. Their goal: to get people to turn over a new leaf and go vegetarian for the new year. … Read more »
Those zany kids at PETA Asia-Pacific are never content to rest on their … um, laurels—and thank goodness for that! Not satisfied to raise awareness about animals in China, Australia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, and the Philippines (among other countries), they’re now moving into new territory: Mongolia. In a new pro-vegetarian ad proclaiming, “Turn Over … Read more »
Not to be outdone by PETA India, the folks over at PETA Asia-Pacific have certainly been busy lately—in the last week, they’ve had three tremendously successful demos! First up, we have three activists in Seoul, Korea, who lay outside a fur store in “bloody” fur coats, caught in a steel-jaw trap. Calling attention to the … Read more »
In 2007, PETA received a call from a whistleblower who tipped us off to a Cleveland lab, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF), that performed a fatal brain surgery on a dog for a useless medical-device sales demonstration. Fast forward to 2008. PETA has received yet another tip from a whistleblower because of yet another alleged … Read more »
Sad news—House Peters Jr., the man we all know and love as Mr. Clean, passed away yesterday at the respectable age of 92. I pretty much love the character of Mr. Clean. In a world of cleaning-product commercials featuring only women, Mr. Clean’s gender-stereotype–defying presence was always refreshing. (Plus, he had an earring, which is … Read more »
xinhuanet / CC Does anyone remember our sexy “Go Veg, Texas” campaign? Of course you do! Well, this time around, we’re traveling a bit south of the border and asking Mexico to do the same thing (minus the bikini). If you haven’t yet heard, Mexico has recently started the “Vamos por un millón de kilos” … Read more »
You know that we at PETA love to help out whenever we can, so when we heard about the extreme gas shortage plaguing the Southern states, we deployed our elite gasoline response team: the fabulous Lettuce Ladies. We’ve had these eye-catching demos before with great response (and even a hugely successful gas giveaway contest), but … Read more »
So, Megan Webb has been crowned the 2008 West Virginia Beef Queen by the West Virginia Cattlemen’s Association, and PETA has sent her a letter making it very clear that we’ve got “beef” with the Mistress of Meat. We have invited the Beef Queen (I just can’t get enough of that title!) to take a … Read more »
As though it were a gruesome scene in a horror movie, a Canadian Greyhound passenger found himself in the hands of a highly disturbed man this past weekend while en route from Edmonton to Winnipeg. Passengers riding the bus reported that Vince Weiguang Li jumped on top of 22-year-old Tim McLean and began stabbing him … Read more »
