Category: Parenting
What an Avocado-Loving Rat Taught Me About Humane Rodent Control
Meet Ratty, the avocado-loving rodent who nibbled his way into my life and taught me an important lesson about using humane traps.
Top U.S. Ad Agency Lends a Paw to Suffering Breeds
What wag-worthy news is PETA celebrating? A top U.S. ad agency made THIS compassionate decision in behalf of pugs, bulldogs, and other breathing-impaired breeds.
How to Answer if Someone Asks, ‘Why Do People Hate PETA?’
Hating on PETA won’t change the facts: Countless animals are suffering, and we have the power to help them.
Calling All Young People: peta2’s Brand-New Website Is the Best Place to Help Animals
Skincare routines, shopping guides, ways to help animals, the latest vegan trends—peta2’s new website is helping young people make a world of difference.
PETA Rescued 12-Week-Old Finnegan From Under a Mobile Home—Now He Awaits Adoption
Meet Finnegan, a 12-week-old, fiery-orange kitten rescued from under a mobile home by PETA fieldworkers. Now he’s awaiting adoption!
Froggipedia, a Virtual-Dissection App, Is Apple’s Top iPad App of 2018
Animal dissection is cruel, archaic, and pointless—and Froggipedia’s epic popularity is proof that more and more teachers, students, and parents know it.
Pamela Anderson Thanks the World Health Organization: ‘Breast Is Best’
The PETA ambassador is thanking the agency for its pro-breastfeeding resolution, which seeks to decrease the use of cruel cow’s milk formulas.
Celebrity Mom Jennifer Garner’s Baby Food Brand Is Basically Perfect
Celebrity mom Jennifer Garner wants your baby to eat organic, vegan yum yums.
PETA Seeks Warning Messages in Map Apps and Stores After Numerous Hot Car Deaths
Signs and alerts could help warn drivers that children and dogs left in hot vehicles can die of heatstroke within minutes.
PETA Pleads for Obese Kids in Puerto Rico
The Puerto Rico legislature is considering a bill that would fine parents for failing to reduce their obese children’s weight.
Dad Doesn’t Want THIS for Father’s Day
iStock.com/MaszaSThis month, in honor of Father’s Day, let’s all give the men in our lives an extra push.
Great Advice From Dr. Jenn Berman on Raising a Vegan Family
Whether counseling celebrities (including PETA pal Courtney Stodden) on VH1’s Couples Therapy, offering advice to callers on her SiriusXM radio show, penning bestselling books, or working with patients in her private practice, marriage, family, and child therapist Dr. Jenn Berman has helped bring many families closer together. Now, in an exclusive interview with PETA, Dr. Jenn… Read more »
Dress Made of Sushi? We Can Top That
London Fashion Week hasn’t even started yet, but already up-and-coming British designer George Nemsadze’s dress made of nori (the seaweed paper used in sushi) is getting media attention. Our thoughts? Love it! Then again, seaweed, schmeaweed—PETA’s been making clothes out of lettuce for years: As well as out of cucumber and kiwi: © Photo: Ricardo Sanit-Cyr,… Read more »
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cow
Maybe being able to see the Hollywood sign from my living room makes everything remind me of a bad horror movie, but seeing the headline “New Strain of ‘Mad Cow’ Disease” is enough to make anyone (especially meat-eaters) shriek like a celluloid scream queen. That’s right—bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has struck again! Mad cow disease… Read more »
PETA Supports Breastfeeding Moms
After Michigan mom Natalie Hegedus was verbally reprimanded by a judge for discreetly breastfeeding her child in the back of a courtroom, PETA jumped to the support of Hegedus and other moms by seeking to place our pro-breastfeeding billboard near the Paw Paw courtroom where the mammary melee occurred. Mary © Susan Saladino Breastfeeding is… Read more »
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— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind