Actor and PETA pal Jenna Dewan-Tatum has added her name to those of the tens of thousands of compassionate people calling on Riverside County, California, District Attorney Paul Zellerbach to file felony cruelty charges against those responsible for the horrific neglect of animals at Global Captive Breeders, LLC (GCB). © StarMaxInc.com Following PETA’s undercover investigation of Lake … Read more »
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.” An intrepid group of animal advocates found a way to bring the slaughterhouse to the sidewalk.
Schools named after Albert Einstein clearly have high hopes for their students’ potential. So, for Einstein’s birthday on March 14, PETA is urging some of his namesake schools to serve only vegetarian food, funded by PETA, in the school’s cafeteria. Eating vegetarian is just as smart as devising the theory of relativity, which is probably why … Read more »
Today is a monumental day. Starting today, any cosmetics product or ingredient that is tested on animals anywhere in the world cannot be sold in the European Union. So every one of the 500 million EU consumers will be purchasing only cruelty-free cosmetics. The European Parliament had already banned cosmetics companies from tormenting animals in cruel … Read more »
StarCraft players gearing up for the launch of StarCraft II will be getting a new perspective on the game’s arthropodal extraterrestrials, the Zerg.
Today is a day for women to celebrate the many victories in our fight for equality and to honor all the gals who made it happen.
Some might consider Rachel Alexandra lucky. In 2009, she became the first filly in 85 years to win the Preakness Stakes. The next year, she was retired from the dangers of the track and training to live as a broodmare—a female horse used for breeding—on a farm in Kentucky. But motherhood isn’t coming easily to … Read more »
Since PETA began campaigning to expose companies that conduct agonizing and deadly tests on animals, consumers have firmly supported cruelty-free businesses like those on PETA’s list of companies that don’t test on animals. Realizing this, some unscrupulous companies are concealing the whole truth from consumers about their animal testing policies, but you shouldn’t buy their propaganda—or … Read more »
It could almost be a story out of The Onion, but it’s completely true. Shoemaker PMK designed a pair of sneakers for Beyoncé, called “King Beys,” made of calf hair and crocodile, anaconda, stingray, and ostrich skins. The company started marketing the shoes on its website, and, incredibly, told consumers that “[n]o animals were beaten, … Read more »
It’s fitting that a man who sold dogs to laboratories may end up behind bars himself. A federal court sentenced Floyd Martin to a year in prison after he and his wife, Susan, illegally purchased hundreds of dogs and sold them to laboratories. Susan Martin was convicted of conspiracy and received probation. The couple was … Read more »
Update: Prompted by PETA’s complaint about a child who was bitten by a dolphin at SeaWorld, the USDA conducted an investigation and cited the marine park for several violations of the Animal Welfare Act, including the use of expired surgical materials, some almost a decade old. “The use of expired medications and materials … is … Read more »
Pro athletes don’t do anything halfway. So studly New York Jets safety Bret Lockett wasn’t content simply to pose with a strategically placed faux-leather football for his PETA anti-fur campaign. Instead, he decided to play spread offense and turn his ad unveiling into a whole weekend. First, he helped PETA dedicate our Norfolk, Virginia, headquarters … Read more »
PETA’s Norfolk, Virginia, headquarters has a new moniker—the Sam Simon Center—in honor of entertainment giant Sam Simon, the multiple Emmy Award–winning co-creator of The Simpsons and the writing genius behind hit shows like Taxi, Barney Miller, Cheers, The Tracey Ullman Show, The Drew Carey Show, and Charlie Sheen’s new FX series, Anger Management. Accompanied by a Dixieland … Read more »
March 1 is National Pig Day, which has been set aside “to accord the pig its rightful, though generally unrecognized, place” as a smart and social animal.
Update: PETA has filed a lawsuit against the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets under the state’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) seeking records relating to Adirondack Farms, LLC—the subject of last year’s undercover PETA investigation that revealed routine abuse and neglect of cows (see below for details). © Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Despite … Read more »
