PETA urges the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate Theater of the Sea after a visitor reports that a dolphin is being kept in solitary confinement.
Perennial PETA target James “Mike” Casey’s attempt to unload three abused chimpanzees at a roadside zoo doesn’t exactly end the way that he planned it.
HBO and the American Humane Association (AHA) wanted to keep animal injuries and deaths quiet, but one former AHA staffer is blowing their cover.
Today, 11 bears are feeling grass beneath their paws, something that they had never experienced.
Mike Casey is having a tough time finding a place where he can continue to exploit chimpanzees. Last year, Clark County, Nevada, told him to hit the road after learning from local animal advocates and PETA that Casey was illegally holding chimpanzees and a capuchin monkey there when he wasn’t renting them out for use in TV, … Read more »
With cruelty as blatant as that displayed at Piccadilly Circus (also known as Garden Bros. Circus), it is no surprise that the circus is the subject of a whistleblower’s report that provides the basis for a PETA complaint to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The complaint details allegation of the circus’s habitual physical abuse of … Read more »
Screen legend Anjelica Huston knows what makes good TV and what doesn’t. And there’s no question which side of the line ads that use great apes fall on. She is urging Steak ‘n Shake to pull its current TV spot that includes a forced performance by a chimpanzee. Along with a copy of her video … Read more »
HBO canceled its troubled horse-racing series Luck amid PETA’s protests over horse deaths on the set, and the bad luck continues for the show’s creators. Now HBO and the show’s producer, Stewart Productions, have been hit with a lawsuit charging that they willfully allowed horses to be abused and attempted to cover it up. Paolo … Read more »
If director Peter Jackson were hoping people would forget about the controversy surrounding The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey at the film’s New York City premiere, he was in for a disappointment. Amidst the crowd that gathered to watch the cast and crew waltz into the Ziegfeld Theater were PETA members wearing horse masks and holding up … Read more »
Following PETA’s release last week of disturbing whistleblower reports of 27 animal deaths during the filming of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, we have asked authorities in New Zealand, where The Hobbit was filmed, to investigate and pursue appropriate criminal charges if warranted. The five whistleblowers, all wranglers who worked on the film set, allege … Read more »
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 »
On the heels of a Los Angeles Times report about whistleblowers’ allegations that oversight failures may have led to animal injuries and deaths during film and TV productions, PETA was joined by Hollywood animal advocates Bob Barker and Sam Simon for a news conference calling for immediate action to protect animals. Report: Horses Died on Hobbit … Read more »
“As a lifelong Democrat, I never thought I’d lead an effort to defend the symbol of the Republican Party,” writes Alec Baldwin in a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. Baldwin is sending Vilsack the video he hosted for PETA exposing Ringling Bros.’ abuse of animals and asking … Read more »
UPDATE: Horses and people who care about them can rest a little easier tonight. HBO has announced that it is canceling Luck and ceasing all production on the series! Even before filming on Luck started, PETA contacted David Milch, Michael Mann, and others associated with the production to suggest ways to protect horses, including the … Read more »
As the U.S. Congress considers the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act, which would permanently ban the use of chimpanzees in invasive experiments and retire all 600 federally owned chimpanzees to sanctuaries, Rampart star Woody Harrelson has written a letter to one of his California senators, Barbara Boxer, on behalf of PETA imploring her … Read more »
