Fighting for truth, justice, and the cruelty-free way, PETA’s caped crusaders descended on the Ottawa Comiccon to ask fans to be superheroes for animals by going vegan. The meat and dairy industries are colder to animals than Mr. Freeze, but all people can fight for good every time they sit down to eat. Ready to … Read more »
PETA is seeking current or former Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents who are also vegan or vegetarian to volunteer as models for our new “Look Bomb in Your Underwear: Go Vegetarian!” poster, which will be released nationally. The models will be photographed in sexy skivvies while posing in front of an airport body scanner. As … Read more »
Why must every American president shoot the obligatory “and here I am chowing down on a burger” photograph? Best bet? To please the meat lobby and because of the old-fashioned idea of what “being American” is all about: no falafel; it’s red meat and guns for me. Mr. Obama is no exception, often deliberately choosing … Read more »
With the discovery of mad cow disease in a cow from a California dairy farm and in potentially more cows as the U.S. Department of Agriculture searches for her former herdmates, PETA presents the top 10 reasons why cows are so darn mad: How Many Kids and Counting?Unless you’re Michelle Duggar, you probably have no … Read more »
Who runs the world? Vegan girls! They certainly run the 11-day Marathon des Sables across the Sahara Desert. Forty-two-year-old vegan Briton Fiona Oakes ran 151 miles—more than a marathon every 24 hours—in the world’s toughest foot race. Official U.S. Navy Imagery | cc by 2.0 Oakes joins an elite club of vegan and vegetarian athletes, … Read more »
It shouldn’t happen to intelligent, sensitive cows, but it does: With holes cut into their sides, they are used as sideshow-like attractions to lure children and prospective students to university events and fundraisers. Distraught attendees at some of these recent events sent PETA these disturbing photographs: The cows are part of common experiments that involve … Read more »
As a result of the latest case of mad cow disease on a dairy farm, PETA is placing a billboard near the Hanford, California, testing facility that found the disease. The billboard is a parody of the ludicrous “real milk comes from cows” ads that the California Milk Processor Board pushes. No one who eats … Read more »
For the first few years of her life, Pippy the Vietnamese potbellied pig was as happy as … well, a pig in mud. She had a home with an older couple and the run of a large yard and was well cared for. But as her guardians’ health began to decline, so did their care … Read more »
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 »
PETA U.K.’s dead-serious anti-obesity billboard is stirring up some weighty controversy: PETA U.K. erected the billboard near a new mortuary in Gloucester built especially to accommodate obese corpses. Oddly, the U.K.’s National Obesity Forum labeled the ad as “irresponsible,” although the group didn’t say what exactly it objected to. We’re not sure why an obesity-awareness … 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 »
The Lorax is what? The Lorax is whose? The Lorax is property of late Dr. Seuss! Yes, he is the Lorax who speaks for the trees, Which factory farms will chop down as they please. Now someone has taken the Lorax away From the doctor’s dear widow, or so people say. OK, it’s a statue—though … Read more »