It wasn’t your average Chicken Dance: A pink stretch Mini Cooper delivered a troupe of little people dressed as dancing chickens to a PETA protest outside a McDonald’s in New York’s Times Square yesterday afternoon. “I Am Not a Nugget!” declared each of the little “chickens” with signs and dance. The “chickens” paraded in front of the … Read more »
benimoto/CC by 2.0 Yes, we wish everyone would just go vegan and be done with it, but we ain’t there yet. It’s a process (and you know that it’s gathering steam if you heard Bill Clinton describing his own dietary decisions on CNN: “No chicken!”). So while we sling vegan starter kits at people as … Read more »
You know her as Tonya on NBC’s most talked about show Outsourced, and in real life, stunning Pippa Black is a true champion for animals. In her powerful new veggie testimonial for PETA Australia, Pippa wants everyone to see for themselves what happens to millions of pigs, cows, turkeys, chickens, fish, and other animals who … Read more »
Muhammad Mahdi Karim/CC by 3.0 It seems like only yesterday I was writing about the nationwide salmonella outbreak and massive egg recall. But now it’s time to move on to the latest food safety scare: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) just shut down a Tyson Foods meat-processing plant in Buffalo, N.Y., after food safety … Read more »
AZRainman/CC by 2.0 Today we’re joining thousands of bloggers from around the world who are participating in Blog Action Day, an annual event in which bloggers post about a common worthy cause—such as preserving water. So let’s dive right into the deep end by taking stock of how much water is wasted when animals are … Read more »
Mobsters eating meat? Fuhgeddabout it—real wise guys know that a vegetarian diet is the only way to go. Take it from former Sopranos star Michael Imperioli. When asked about his favorite hotspot in Detroit, where he’s now filming his hit ABC cop drama Detroit 1-8-7, Michael replied, “I’m a vegetarian, so Inn Season is like … Read more »
When I was a kid, my parents would tuck me in at night, saying, “Don’t let the bedbugs bite.” But what had been a cute little saying has become a real nightmare for people facing a surge in bedbug populations. And like so many other problems, this one has a link to factory farming, as … Read more »
elbragon/CC by 2.0 Being shipped over great distances to slaughter with no food or water is agonizing enough, but a reckless driver recently overturned a transport truck carrying 235 pigs, killing 74 of them outright and leaving seven others so severely mangled that police and workers killed them on-site to put them out of … Read more »
Looks like we have to forgive Emily Deschanel for missing PETA’s 30th anniversary bash—she and David Hornsby were having their own star-studded vegan celebration: a wedding! The two recently got married in style, complete with caramelized vegan s’mores from our friends at Madeleine Bistro. David Boreanaz even raved about the seitan on The Late Late … Read more »
If anyone still believes that “organic” eggs are a humane choice, please look at these gut-wrenching photos from the Organic Valley farm in Wisconsin: They show birds in stinking, stifling, windowless warehouses, crammed so tightly together that they’re barely able to move—much less spread their wings, scratch in the dirt, or interact normally in any … Read more »
Two decades of dumping wastewater from Hilmar Cheese Co. onto surrounding fields has polluted the groundwater in Hilmar, California, according to a report by consultants hired by the company. Eighteen wells in and around Hilmar are so contaminated with nitrates, arsenic, barium, and salts that the water is undrinkable, forcing some people to abandon their homes. … Read more »
Earlier this year, we shared a selection of the bad behavior that seems to crop up frequently at McDonald’s restaurants, prompted by the story of a woman who went berserk at the drive-through window when she was denied McNuggets. But her nugget-driven nastiness was just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Consider the following incidents, … Read more »
Actor Jesse Eisenberg—who portrays Facebook CEO and rumored vegan, Mark Zuckerberg, in the soon-to-be-released film The Social Network—recently revealed that he himself is a vegetarian. He recalled a brawlccoli that he had with a fellow straphanger and vegetarian on an NYC subway: New to vegetarianism at the time, Jesse was hoping to get some tips. … Read more »
According to The Mirror, Eminem refused to sit next to Lady Gaga at MTV’s Video Music Awards because her decomposing flesh dress stank. A source relates, “Marshall said he didn’t want to be sat next to a pile of raw meat all night. He said it smelled pretty bad.” Good call, Eminem. According to Dr. … Read more »
Unfortunately, sexual violence against farmed animals is not an unusual occurrence.
