Through her work on The Biggest Loser, Jillian Michaels is accustomed to saving lives. But for one horse, her help arrived just hours before he would have been sent on a journey to become hamburger. From the Winner’s Circle to the Kill Pen During a PETA investigation of horse slaughter, in which horses are taken … Read more »
If you always have a sleepless night after watching a horror movie, you might want to think twice before sitting down to a meal of dead bodies. Here’s why meat is more dangerous than an ax-wielding maniac: There’s something deadly in the water. If you’re still eating fish despite the dangers of mercury, might I … Read more »
Actor Ali MacGraw’s latest love story isn’t being played out on the big screen but rather in the halls of Congress. The longtime PETA member is working to protect U.S. horses from being transported across the border only to be slaughtered for dog food or human consumption. Ali wrote to her friend Sen. Tom Udall … Read more »
When a surprised Suffolk, Virginia, resident spotted a piglet trotting down a rural road alone, he caught the tiny pig and took him to an animal shelter. The piglet, later named Sherlock, had been castrated, and his tail had been docked, which indicated that he most likely fell off a truck bound for a farm … Read more »
We know the beef industry isn’t averse to a little sleight of hand (pink slime, anyone?). So, you would think the cowpokes could take a good-natured April Fools’ Day prank. It All Started With a Joke … On April Fools’ Day 2010 (yes, two whole years ago), PETA published a blog post saying that we … Read more »
Last year, PETA helped successfully defeat a series of “ag gag” bills, which would have made it a crime to film cruelty to animals on factory farms, in Florida, Minnesota, and New York. Now, another round of these unconstitutional bills has begun—in Missouri, New York, and Utah—and it’s up to us to squelch these measures … Read more »
What a rooty-tooty bunch of hooey. IHOP is using the eco-friendly message of The Lorax to lure families in for Dr. Seuss–themed meals that are chock-full of factory-farmed meat, eggs, and dairy products. The restaurant couldn’t serve anything less environmentally friendly than if it put centuries-old Amazon trees on a plate. How IHOP Is Hurting … Read more »
Katherine Heigl loves Utah so much that she chose the state as the site of her 2007 wedding and later purchased a home there. But when Utah lawmakers proposed an “ag gag” bill that would make it a crime to shoot video on factory farms, Heigl wanted to let lawmakers know that kind citizens like … Read more »
Photo of the Day Fresh off a stint asking politicians to “cut the pork” out of the federal budget, PETA’s plucky “pig” asked attendees of Iowa’s Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival not to cut the pork off pigs’ bodies. When the “pig” implored, “I am not bacon,” the fans of fried fat stopped to listen and … Read more »
Remember those stomach-churning scenes from PETA’s undercover investigation at a horse slaughterhouse? Horses, discarded by the racing industry, were slaughtered and hacked into pieces. On the heels of that horrific case, we went to the one organization that deals with every thoroughbred breeder in this country—The Jockey Club, which handles all foal registrations—and asked why … Read more »
PHOTO OF THE DAY Mooove away from leather, baby. Cows don’t wear our babies, so why should we wear theirs?
ingo.ronner | cc by 2.0 Television news pieces airing today are advertised in such a way as to again misrepresent our stance on horse slaughter—just as some legislators also seem to have been misusing and misstating our position. Let’s set the record straight once more, shall we? Please cut and paste this to your computer … Read more »
When PETA went public with the findings of an undercover investigation at a pig-breeding farm that supplies Hormel in Iowa, we called on the company to ban gestation crates—pens so small that the pregnant sows who are confined to them can’t turn around or even lie down comfortably—and then introduced a shareholder resolution to that … Read more »
A disturbing new undercover investigation inside two pig farms in Goodwell, Oklahoma, one owned by Seaboard Foods, shows injured piglets with their legs duct-taped to their bodies as well as pigs suffering from abscesses, torn body parts, and bacterial infections without being given veterinary care. Workers are seen chopping off pigs’ tails and testicles with … Read more »
Courtesy of USDA Hey, Soul Sister! PETA has sent an urgent letter to the rock band Train urging the group to cancel their performance at KFC’s franchisee convention in San Antonio—or else face the music from PETA supporters—because of KFC’s refusal to stop its suppliers’ cruelty to chickens. Many of the top names in music … Read more »
