Yesterday was a big day for the dairy industry. People across the nation were getting their first peek into what dairy farming actually looks like as media outlets covered PETA’s recent, revealing undercover investigation into the putrid living conditions and the abusive treatment of cows on one Land O’Lakes supplier’s factory farm. At the same … Read more »
Today, PETA unveiled footage from our five-month undercover investigation of a filthy factory dairy farm in Pennsylvania that supplies milk to St. Paul–based Land O’Lakes, the largest seller of branded butter in the U.S. Other Viewing Options Our investigator documented abuse and neglect of cows and calves at the facility, including that cows … Read more »
blogs.reuters / CC Just in time for Oktoberfest comes a cow-friendly alternative to traditional Bavarian lederhosen, those Pinocchio-style knickers that are traditionally made of leather.* PETA Germany recently presented inventor Peter Kolb with a progress award for his swimwear designs that easily double as animal-free alternatives to leather lederhosen: yodel lay hee hoo (-ray), indeed! … Read more »
The Internet was ablaze yesterday with “did he or didn’t he” talk about Wednesday’s episode of The Glenn Beck Program, in which Glenn Beck appeared to boil a frog alive on national television. Was the frog fake? Did Beck actually throw a real frog into a pot? Who would do something like that? Given that … Read more »
With Yom Kippur just around the corner, we’d like to urge all our Jewish readers to speak out against the killing of chickens for kapporos. Kapporos is a sacrificial ritual that takes place on the eve of Yom Kippur. This ritual is sometimes performed by swinging a live chicken around the head three times and … Read more »
Thanks for all of your wonderful comments on this Win It Wednesday. The winner of the guitar strap is Kristen. Congratulations! You’ve got the hair. You’ve got the eyeliner. You’ve got the guitar. But wait, what’s the one thing every real rock star needs? A cruelty-free guitar strap, of course. For this week’s “Win It” … Read more »
This weekend, an attempt by Ronald McDonald to con San Francisco youngsters into eating more greasy, artery-clogging burgers and McNuggets was interrupted by an anonymous “chicken,” who apparently was not going to take McDonald’s abuse of chickens lying down. Here comes the wind-up … Note the artful splatter of the vegan cream. Mr. Chicken makes … Read more »
aceshowbiz / CC This week, Kevin Skinner—an unemployed chicken catcher from Mayfield, Kentucky—sang and strummed his way to the top of America’s Got Talent and walked away with a cool million dollars. Congratulations, Kevin! Kevin’s been given a new start on life. Wouldn’t it endear him to millions of people if he were to extend … Read more »
McDonald’s billboards boast “Billions [of patties of slaughtered animal bits] Served.” But in a recent New York Times article, the restaurant chain tries to downplay the slaughter of millions of hoki, a breed of fish sea kitten, for its restaurants each year. Why is McCruelty so shy all of a sudden? jacksonlocal / CC … Read more »
Cruelty is sickening—in any language. Two PETA Europe members who recently fell victim to swine flu set out to show the people of Brussels that no one is immune to the diseases that are bred on factory farms—not even those who wouldn’t dream of eating animal flesh. These two lovely (and now recovered) ladies crammed … Read more »
In July, thousands of pigs lost their lives when a factory farm in Alberta, Canada, was ravaged by fire. Our friends at Canadians for the Ethical Treatment of Food Animals (CETFA) obtained photos of the aftermath, which show that before succumbing to smoke inhalation, the panicked pigs frantically trampled each another in a futile attempt … Read more »
nfb.org / CC A recent article in USA Today reveals why so many dairy-lovin’ adults spend too much time in the loo, cutting the cheese. According to the article, titled “Sixty Percent of Adults Can’t Digest Milk,” [P]eople who are lactose intolerant can’t digest the main sugar—lactose—found in milk. In normal humans, the enzyme that … Read more »
This new footage from an undercover investigation by Mercy for Animals shows workers at an Iowa hatchery killing 150,000 newborn male chicks every single day.
wonkroom.thinkprogress / CC Oops, they did it again. Tyson Fresh Meats, a subsidiary of Tyson Foods, has been fined $2 million for pumping untreated animal waste (to the tune of 5 million gallons a day) into the Missouri River. The reason for the fine is that they agreed in 2002 to knock it off and, … Read more »
KFC has just started test-marketing a new “sandwich” that is sure to have customers beating down its doors (sarcasm alert). I’m going to ignore for now that countless pigs, cows, and chickens will suffer for this sucker (and I’m betting that the “secret” in the sauce is crushed ducklings). Instead, I’m going to … Read more »
