In a news item that dates back to late August but was just reported on in Sunday’s Boston Herald, a half dozen staff and students at Harvard Medical School became ill after they drank coffee from a vending machine that had been laced with sodium azide, a preservative that is commonly used in laboratories. The … Read more »
aishamusic / CC On-again, off-again fur flaunter Lindsay Lohan recently tweeted that her fur is faux: We loved the thought of Lindsay going from fur hag to faux fab, but it looks like the tweet from this twit might have just been a passing fancy. We called a rep from her much-ballyhooed … Read more »
Actually, to be precise, Jerry’s a steer. A PETA investigator found him hobbling around a field and scrounging for weeds at the appallingly filthy Pennsylvania dairy farm we told you about last month. This is how the investigator described the 5-month-old calf in her log: [I] found a steer at the entrance to the barn … Read more »
Yesterday, the U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority ruled against a PETA U.K. ad that the watch group feels the public is too dense to understand. The decision was sparked by a sole complainant who thought that people might be confused by this billboard: Personally, I think it’s pretty straightforward, but moving on: How about … Read more »
images.eonline / CC Paris has done it again. She’s gotten herself another animal. This time she’s purchased a pot-bellied pig who will surely be tossed aside faster than last year’s “it” bag when the skeevy socialite tires of her. Pot bellied pigs are inquisitive animals who require a lot of care and attention. Paris has … Read more »
Ever since The New York Times reminded Americans of the devastating effects of meatborne illnesses, the topic has been at the center of discussion around many a dinner table. It was also the hot topic on Monday night’s episode of Larry King Live, in which panelists debated: Should Americans be eating meat? The answer: No, … Read more »
Wherever Sarah Silverman goes, she seems to leave a stream of puzzled people in her wake. Are she and longtime beau, Jimmy Kimmel, on or off today? Is she really getting it on with Matt Damon? Is she Tom Selleck’s long-lost sister? But there is one thing that Sarah makes very clear: She doesn’t eat … Read more »
Yesterday was a momentous day for animals living on farms in Michigan, where Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed a bill into law that phases out veal crates, battery cages, and gestation crates on farms across the state! Michigan farmers have been given three years to phase out veal crates and 10 years to get rid of … Read more »
… and you can win it! Our favorite hockey player is at it again. This time, Georges Laraque of the Montréal Canadiens is joining the many other athletes who have stepped up to show how going vegan doesn’t just do a body good—it does a body great. Just in time for (Canadian) Thanksgiving, Georges is … Read more »
blogs.venturacountystar / CC Alcor Life Extension Foundation, which claims that dearly departed Aunt Suzie may be brought to life one day if she’s freeze-dried via cryonics, is under media fire, thanks to a former chief operating officer’s published tell-all. But it’s the account of Alcor’s horrific cryonics experiments sent to PETA by the author that … Read more »
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is a bacterium that infects pigs—usually on crowded, inhumane factory farms, where infectious diseases such as swine flu spread like wildfire. Erysipelas causes fever, chronic arthritis, heart inflammation, painful skin lesions, and often death. Up until a few weeks ago, most of us at PETA had never heard of erysipelas either. blogs.venturacountystar … Read more »
In case you forgot how smart, social, and absolutely adorable pigs are, meet Sherlock. Found wandering down a rural road in Suffolk, Virginia, this little guy was captured and taken to the local animal shelter: When he was found, Sherlock was still a baby, but he was already castrated and his tail had … Read more »
Here is a story that answers the question, “What’s wrong with supporting ‘free-range’ farms?” PETA caseworkers recently worked on a case in New Mexico involving a mother cow who suffered for days after she became stuck in the mud around a watering hole. The cow was part of a small cattle herd living on … Read more »
wqed / CC As horrible as the findings were, our undercover investigation at Aviagen has proven to be the gift that keeps on giving—giving out indictments to those we caught on video abusing animals, that is. Quick review: A PETA investigator went undercover on Aviagen’s turkey factory farms in West Virginia and gathered evidence that … Read more »
New clothes and a new crush may get many students excited about school, but the surest way to make someone dread biology class is to mention that cruel old standby, dissection. Since Steve-O knows that only a “jackass” would force a kid to cut up an animal and call it “science,” the Wildboyz star was … Read more »
