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 »
meagan/CC by 2.0 In their fervor to avoid euthanasia at all costs, “no-kill” facilities sometimes enable animal hoarders and others who put animals in abusive situations. Last week, for example, more than 100 dogs and cats were rescued from a West Virginia animal hoarder. The animals were locked in cramped, rusty cages in an old … Read more »
In light of news that Amazon.com has stopped selling a manual for pedophiles after a massive public outcry, PETA fired off a letter asking the online bookseller to protect other vulnerable beings by refusing to sell products that promote cruelty to animals, such as books on dogfighting and cockfighting. Right now, anyone can visit Amazon.com … Read more »
This just in from an alert PETA member: Gerber is selling baby food made out of veal. For some reason, this struck us at the PETA Files as especially spit-up-inducing. Feeding babies to babies just seems sort of … I don’t know, cannibalistic? Want some puréed fava beans with that, Junior? Would you feed … Read more »
One surprising item in the news today (h/t Treehugger) is a story about activists with the Israeli group Animals Now. For the last few years, Animals Now has been campaigning against the use of cruel battery cages on egg factory farms. Now, the group has put a hidden webcam inside a battery cage on an … Read more »
And so, there I am, enjoying some vegan pancakes and perusing the morning paper, when all of a sudden I realize—that’s me on the front page! Of course, I’m fine. The blood and the bashed-in head at PETA’s recent demonstration weren’t real—but I truly wish that I could say the same for the suffering of … Read more »
This is Kristina. This is Kristina on Craigslist. Taking inspiration from Animal Friends Croatia, we’re “renting out” our vegan experts to help people make the easy and ever-so-scrumptious switch to cruelty-free cuisine. Kristina “I can veganize anything” Addington—an accomplished cook—will help the highest bidder in Louisville, Kentucky, shop for $100 dollars’ worth of groceries (on our … Read more »
clarkmoody/CC by 2.0 Here it is: PETA’s third annual list of top vegetarian-friendly NFL stadiums. Football and food fans will rush to try the tasty eats available at these concession stands. 1. Lincoln Financial Field (Philadelphia Eagles)Flying high at number one is the Eagles’ Lincoln Financial Field, where protein-packed mock-steak sandwiches, faux-chicken sandwiches, veggie dogs, … Read more »
First, Professional Laboratory Research Services shut its doors just days after PETA released the findings of our disturbing undercover investigation there. Now, Covance’s horrendous Vienna, Va., laboratory, which PETA investigated five years ago, is closing up shop. During PETA’s 11-month investigation at Covance, our investigator documented that workers struck, choked, and screamed obscenities at frightened and “uncooperative” … Read more »
