Caring folks continue to plead for basic compassion at SeaWorld and call on officials to enforce anti-cruelty laws. But Tilikum, the orca who has killed three people, is still confined to a cramped, claustrophobic tank that’s barely bigger than the size of his body to prevent him from having any physical contact with the trainers—except when they … Read more »
Joanna Lumley, the Absolutely Fabulous former Bond girl and current star of the Broadway play La Bête is still as fabulous as ever. What’s her secret? Not being part of the “blood chain,” as the longtime vegetarian puts it. She recently took a break from treading the boards to chat with PETA V.P. Dan Mathews … Read more »
Pope Benedict’s recent comments regarding condom use have some folks and followers confused, but there can be no mistaking the very clear message in PETA’s new international campaign: Visitors to the Vatican yesterday were the first to receive our new “Pope Condom” campaign leaflets, which we’ll also soon be taking to cathedrals and churches across … Read more »
Why I don’t eat chicken—let me count the reasons: There’s cruelty and callousness, blood and pus, pain and suffering, and sickness and death, not to mention feces, vomit, parasites, pollution, plaque build-up, and other disturbing and disgusting things that I just can’t stomach. PETA has created a compelling 30-second clip called “Why I Don’t Eat … Read more »
For the uninitiated, Super Meat Boy is a video game in which an anthropomorphic meatball bounces around on a mission to save his girlfriend, Bandage Girl, from the evil Dr. Fetus. PETA’s new parody game, Super Tofu Boy, skewers Super Meat Boy for its limp pro-meat message. Super Tofu Boy begins when Bandage Girl dumps Meat Boy … Read more »
I’m such a map geek that I study the road atlas for fun. But I was equal parts intrigued and disturbed by the latest map that I laid eyes on: Food & Water Watch’s Factory Farm Map. This interactive online map shows which areas of the U.S. have the most animal factories, and it also … Read more »
Just when you thought experiments on animals couldn’t get any more cruel or absurd, the good folks at the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) managed to come up with an experiment on baby monkeys that’s so cruel and ridiculous it might even give Harry “Monster Mother” Harlow pause. ONPRC experimenter Kevin Grove is spending … Read more »
To be honest, I haven’t paid much attention to the NFL since Barry Sanders stunned the football world and retired, but even I know about Chad Ochocinco. Now, the Cincinnati Bengals’ mighty Number 85 has become the latest star to bare his impressive physique—and tats, of course—for PETA’s “Ink, Not Mink” campaign. How bare? Well, … Read more »
Forks Over Knives is not your typical flick about senseless killings and weapons of mass destruction—rather, it’s about how people are killing themselves by eating dead animals and heavily processed garbage food. Spoiler Alert: I don’t want to give away the ending—especially since I haven’t even seen it yet—but here’s a hint: It has something … Read more »
GollyGforce/CC by 2.0 It’s been more than 20 years since I read about the “downed cow” in a PETA newsletter and became a vegetarian on the spot. Now, out of Texas comes another veggie-maker of a story. A whistleblower at the JBS Swift slaughterhouse in Cactus, Texas, told PETA that he went to investigate after … Read more »
Tokio Hotel has no reservations about speaking out against animal abuse in circuses. Just check out PETA Germany’s edgy new “Stop Circus Cruelty” ad featuring Bill and Tom Kaulitz, the talented vegetarian twins behind this überpopular German rock band: Ah, what wunderbar boys! That’s German for “wonderful.” Now here’s the part where you can do something wunderbar … Read more »
Here’s another reason why we all need to be “watchdogs” for dogs and cats who are kept chained or caged in our neighbors’ backyards, allowed to roam, or otherwise neglected: embedded collars. When someone puts a collar on a young animal and doesn’t bother to loosen the collar as the animal grows—or when someone places … Read more »
petrusia1/CC by 2.0 UPDATE: As a result of PETA’s complaint to the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (DOA), the office of Susan West, director of the DOA’s Dog Law Enforcement Bureau, has advised Heavenly Angels and Dreamland Divas Director Grace James that the planned puppy giveaway is a violation of Pennsylvania law and has assured PETA that … Read more »
We all know that Thanksgiving is murder on turkeys, but it turns out it can be murder on turkey-eaters too.
Well, here it is—your very own backstage pass to the photo shoot for PETA’s yet-to-be-released “Tackle Cruelty, Bench Fur” ad, which features lovelies from the Lingerie Football League’s Chicago Bliss. Photo by Rick Welton Just when you thought that it couldn’t get any hotter, four of the posing players revealed that they’d rather go naked … Read more »
