James Cromwell Leads Vigil for Jailed Foie Gras Whistleblower
James Cromwell Leads Vigil for Jailed Foie Gras Whistleblower

PETA, Syracuse Animal Rights Organization, and a giant “goose” show support for activist Amber Canavan.

Andy Murray and Kim Sears Receive Faux Gras Gift Hamper
Andy Murray and Kim Sears Receive Faux Gras Gift Hamper

Andy and Kim are animal lovers, so it’s fitting to give them a gift that’s both classy and cruelty-free.

Prince Charles Gets ‘Goosed’ at the White House
Prince Charles Gets ‘Goosed’ at the White House

Prince Charles gets honks from a grateful “goose” during his White House visit.

See the Photo That Was Censored From PETA’s Twitter Feed
See the Photo That Was Censored From PETA’s Twitter Feed

Posted just after the prohibition on the sale of foie gras in California was overturned, this picture was censored by Twitter.

5 Big Fat Lies About Fatty Liver (Foie Gras)
5 Big Fat Lies About Fatty Liver (Foie Gras)

Foie gras fanciers are adding insult to injury by trotting out a laundry list of misconceptions, inaccuracies, and outright lies about the foie gras industry.

PETA Fights Back With Protests Outside Restaurants Serving Foie Gras
PETA Fights Back With Protests Outside Restaurants Serving Foie Gras

PETA members protested today outside restaurants in Los Angeles and San Francisco that plan to serve foie gras after the reversal of California’s ban.

Have the French Had It With Foie Gras Cruelty, Too?
Have the French Had It With Foie Gras Cruelty, Too?

Even in the country that consumes the most foie gras in the world, people are having second thoughts about this “torture in a tin.”

Michelin-Starred Eatery Earns ‘D’ for Diseased Ducks
Michelin-Starred Eatery Earns ‘D’ for Diseased Ducks

After a swanky New York restaurant earns a shocking C grade from the health department, PETA issues an “inspection report” of our own.

PETA President Bound and Force-Fed During Protest
PETA President Bound and Force-Fed During Protest

PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk put her money where her mouth is—in a very literal sense—in an eye-catching protest outside British retailer Fortnum & Mason’s Piccadilly store this week.  The protest illustrated what geese endure while they are being raised for the foie gras sold in Fortnum & Mason stores. But in order to replicate … Read more »

Victory! House of Lords Rejects ‘Torture in a Tin’
Victory! House of Lords Rejects ‘Torture in a Tin’

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 »

PETA Files Suit Against Sneaky Foie Gras Sale
PETA Files Suit Against Sneaky Foie Gras Sale

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 »

James Cameron, Leona Lewis Go Vegan
James Cameron, Leona Lewis Go Vegan

Leona Lewis and James Cameron are the latest compassionate celebrities to embrace vegan eating. Not surprising on either count, since James, who won a PETA Proggy Award for the animal-friendly film Avatar, said he planned to grow crops on his 2,500-acre rural New Zealand property, and Leona, a Sexiest Vegetarian alum, won’t wear animal skins … Read more »

Top 5 Reasons to Ban Foie Gras Nationwide
Top 5 Reasons to Ban Foie Gras Nationwide

With California’s foie gras ban having taken effect July 1, it’s time for the rest of the country to do some soul-searching, starting with New York, the only state in the union with operating foie gras farms. Here are the top five reasons for the rest of the country to follow California’s lead in banning … Read more »

PETA Asia Takes China by Storm
PETA Asia Takes China by Storm

Although animal rights is still a fairly new concept in China and in much of Asia as a whole, there is no other country in which the movement is growing faster, and PETA Asia is at the forefront. Notorious Fur Trade Exposed PETA Asia has conducted groundbreaking undercover investigations of the fur trade in China—now … Read more »

Photo: Get a Feel for Foie Gras
Photo: Get a Feel for Foie Gras

Photo of the Day When successful gourmet food connoisseur and upscale hotel manager Eva-Miriam Gerstner talks turkey, Europeans listen. And when she talks goose, well, that makes for an in-your-face anti–foie gras ad that made several German luxury hotels and restaurants stop serving the cruelly produced dish “cold turkey” after PETA Germany sent them a … Read more »

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