After less than a month of PETA campaigning, the Bolivian minister of defense went on that country’s national television to announce an historic ban on all animal abuse in military training exercises, stating that the Bolivian government is issuing Resolution 217 to prohibit all acts of violence, exploitation, and mistreatment that provokes the death of … Read more »
squirrelunderpants / CC Our friends at PETA Europe are fed up with how “culling animals” is hailed as a solution to so-called population “crises.” The latest proposal comes from Scotland, where plans are in place to conduct a £1.3 million cull (read “mass slaughter”) of the gray squirrel population. To satisfy everyone’s needs—both the … Read more »
greglasley / CC While the Western cottonmouth usually preys on small warm-blooded animals, this spring, during mating season, these venomous snakes may be going after a different type of quarry: small-minded, cold-blooded Missouri duck hunters. Rumor has it that water blinds (duck hunters’ huts that are camouflaged to look like the water) in Oregon, Howell, … Read more »
gawker / CC Thanks for all of your wonderful comments on this Win It Wednesday. The winner of Gardening Mama for Nintendo DS is Pepsi One Is Fun. Congratulations! This week, we’re giving away a copy of Majesco’s Gardening Mama game for Nintendo DS to celebrate the game’s U.S. release. Remember a few months back … Read more »
therockhandle / CC The following is a guest post from peta2’s Ryan As those of you who have been keeping up with your NCAA “March Madness” brackets will know, this year’s college basketball championship series is down to the final four schools, all vying for the top spot. Unfortunately, they’re all losers. I say … Read more »
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof usually writes about Darfur and other far-off lands, but this week, he ventured into America’s heartland to talk about a plague that is afflicting a small town in Indiana that happens to be home to factory hog farms. The plague is MRSA—methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, aka “flesh-eating bacteria.” You can … Read more »
thailand / CC No, you’re not experiencing déjà vu. This is the second blog in two days in which we’ve reported that primates have taken aim at humans—literally. In the latest instance, a monkey in Thailand—fed up with performing the thankless task of climbing coconut trees to retrieve fruit for his owner to sell—apparently launched … Read more »
Back in December, we announced the winners of our annual “Proggy” awards, which recognize animal-friendly people, companies, and products. One of those companies is CeeTox, a Michigan firm that develops humane alternatives to cruel and archaic animal tests. Well, the good folks at the Kalamazoo Gazette just did a nice story about CeeTox and the … Read more »
Is your sweetie sweet on animals? Don’t say that we at the PETA Files never gave you anything. Check out these Cupid-approved, cruelty-free gifts from PETA’s catalog: Scrum-diddly-umptious Vegan ChocolatesEnsure that it will be a very happy Valentine’s Day with a big box full of edible aphrodisiacs. Shiny-Sparkly for Your Honey BunnyNothing says … Read more »
court-records / CC Our awesome friends over at PETA Europe have some exciting news! With their help and funding, new skin irritation tests that do not use animals have been successfully validated to replace the use of rabbits completely! This will save thousands of rabbits. This wonderful news means that animals will not be used … Read more »
When we first announced our plan to find the “Sexiest Vegetarian Soldier,” we meant to end up with just one winner. But how could we come up with just one winner when there are five branches of the military that are equally deserving—and equally sexy? That’s why we’ve selected one winner each from the Army, … Read more »
President-elect Barack Obama has promised Americans a “21st century government”—one that we at PETA feel needs to address animal welfare. The growing concern for how we as a nation treat our animals is evidenced by last month’s majority support for California’s Proposition 2, which will require animals on factory farms to be provided more space … Read more »
When we were first alerted to the atrocities that were being committed in the name of education at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine in St. Kitts, we sprung into immediate action through our action alert, on the streets, and in important meetings. The students there were being forced to mutilate and kill hundreds of … Read more »
It’s a good day for mice and rats in Taiwan! Thanks to a whistleblower, PETA’s Laboratory Investigations Department got a tip that led us into high-level talks with National Yang-Ming University’s president about her school’s cruel pharmacology experiments. And what do you know—the university has decided to end not one but two of these outdated … Read more »
Katherine Heigl wearing our “Have a PETA Day” T-shirt OK, if you’re like me, you cancel all your plans, shut off your cell phone, lock your door, and glue yourself to your couch every Thursday at 9 p.m. for none other than the greatest hour of television all week: Grey’s Anatomy. Well, last night was … Read more »
