When animals’ body parts are used for mass production, to be turned into wool coats or leather boots, cruelty will always be part of the process.
A massive pillow fight took place in Trafalgar Square on International Pillow Fight Day, and PETA members were there to raise awareness of the cruelty involved in obtaining down.
To show you how Pillow Fight Day is done, here are two of PETA’s fowl friends getting in the spirit!
The North Face’s innovative new technology is making its customers—as well as geese—very happy.
After learning from PETA that down is often plucked from live birds, outdoor retailer The Coleman Company switches to selling only synthetic gear.
We want you to know why we are urging the company to stop selling down and also hope that you will encourage your employer to do what’s right.
A PETA member dressed as a giant 8-foot-tall half-plucked goose ruffled some feathers to expose the cruelty behind the down industry.
It’s a happy new year for ducks and geese after Great Britain’s House of Lords pulled foie gras from its restaurant menus. PETA U.K. had appealed to the lords, pointing out that it was entirely inappropriate to be serving a dish that is so cruel that it is illegal to produce in the U.K. Baroness … Read more »
If holiday shoppers needed divine intervention to persuade them to keep animal skins off their lists, that’s exactly what they got. A saintly duo of PETA “angels” has been crisscrossing Canada in cherubic attire to help people in the frozen north be angelic to animals this winter by eschewing fur, leather, wool, down, and exotic skins. … Read more »
A little-known restaurant in Hermosa Beach, California, must have thought it was being sly. The restaurant was selling a hamburger topped with foie gras when California’s ban on the sale of the cruelly produced, diseased duck liver went into effect on July 1. After the ban was in place, the restaurant continued to serve the foie … Read more »
We all know that dead bodies should be buried, not eaten. So PETA is making Thanksgiving tables a little more relevant this year. We’re offering teens these miniature tombstones to stick into the plucked turkey on the table: If adults think tombstones are too macabre a sight for Thanksgiving, kids can tell them that what’s … Read more »
Ducks and geese in North America are a bit safer, now that “celebrity” hunter Jeff Foiles has been banned from hunting for three years in Canada and two in the U.S. following convictions for cruelty to animals. Foiles, who sells videos of his hunts online, was reportedly seen in one of his taped hunts holding … Read more »
SD Dirk/cc by 2.0 San Francisco Giants outfielder Cody Ross just knocked one out of the ballpark. When the postseason hero learned that foie gras is made by shoving tubes down the throats of ducks and geese, often causing serious injuries, and force-feeding the birds until their livers become painfully engorged, Ross immediately decided to … Read more »
Top contender for Most Disturbing Food of the Month: foie gras doughnuts from Do or Dine restaurant in Brooklyn. That’s right—fried dough coupled with diseased, fatty duck liver. Want a stomach pump with that? To produce foie gras, workers ram metal pipes down the throats of ducks and geese and force-feed them until their livers … Read more »
Adult film star Raul Armenteros and another man have each been charged with 22 counts of cruelty to animals after police allegedly discovered a menagerie of animals—including roosters, guinea hens, pigeons, goats, and a duck—baking inside their locked van in the scorching Miami heat. Reportedly, the goats were all tied up inside plastic bags, and … Read more »
