What does PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk think about Michael Vick’s return to the NFL? We’ll let her tell you: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Written by Shawna Flavell
Recently, members of PETA Asia-Pacific and Animosa stripped down to their daisies and took to their coffins outside the Giorgio Armani store in Taipei. In 2007, Armani vowed to stop using fur, but several months later, his collection was full of rabbit fur. PETA Asia-Pacific wanted to remind the designer that the pelts, … Read more »
dailymail.co / CC As the high cost of health care was debated this week in the nation that was once the most powerful on Earth and is now just the fattest, two announcements were made. Time showed a slab of meat on its cover and declared, “The real cost of cheap food” (meat, in particular) … Read more »
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 »
The folks at PETA Asia-Pacific are pros at cranking up the heat to deliver sizzling-hot demonstrations and ads. So I can guarantee that this sneak peak of the upcoming “All Animals Have the Same Parts” ad, which features Filipina model, singer, and vegan Geneva Cruz, is sure to have you turning your thermostat down a … Read more »
Tourists are flocking to Kiryat Yam, Israel, in hopes of spotting a mermaid who has reportedly been seen frolicking during sunset swims, and the Town Council is offering a $1 million reward for anyone who can provide a photograph that proves Ariel’s kin are kicking back on local beaches. If it’s a photo of a … Read more »
parentdish / CC Most of us are feeling the strain of the recession, but schools seem to be among the hardest hit. Teachers are left struggling to put together lesson plans and scrape up materials on a tight budget. Enter TeachKind, a humane-education resource for teachers, administrators, and librarians who want to help students become … Read more »
If you visited PETA’s Web site during the month of November, you probably saw turkey slaughter footage. And no, I don’t mean Sarah Palin’s infamous turkey pardon fail. But have you ever seen slaughter footage from Turkey? Turns out animals are killed as cruelly there as anywhere else. This video was taken in … Read more »
flickr / CC Long before I kicked animal flesh out of my diet, I celebrated my birthdays by eating lobster. As in, let me celebrate my birth by paying a cook to throw a fully conscious, feeling being into a pot of boiling water to scald to death for my dinner. Ugh. No wonder my … Read more »
The Pretenders’ world tour landed in Salt Lake City on Sunday—and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Chrissie Hynde was happy to use the occasion to launch her PETA campaign urging McDonald’s to require its suppliers to upgrade to less cruel slaughter methods. In addition to using her stage as a platform to advocate a … Read more »
livesets.nu / CC I got my first vegan pancake recipe from Moby when his berry flapjacks were featured way back when in Seventeen magazine. He could have stopped there, but it seems like Moby keeps coming up with ways to win my animal-loving heart. In a recent blog entry, Moby goes the extra mile for … Read more »
While some PETA India members in Calcutta faced cop trouble at a demonstration outside the Calcutta Zoo earlier this week, others hit the streets in Delhi to help residents brush up on their ABCs: animal birth control. Professor Pup calls class to order. Delhi, Bangalore, and other parts of the country are facing … Read more »
Kids love animals—so if anyone told them the truth about what goes on behind the scenes, they would have to be dragged kicking and screaming to circuses like Ringling Bros. Over at PETAKids.com, we recently asked kids what they thought about circuses, and the results were too cute not to share! “I feel … Read more »
Our favorite naked vegan has written a new book, The Kind Diet, which comes out in October. The book is all about living a vegan lifestyle, and Alicia had some great things to say to Health about the benefits of eating cruelty-free: daemonstv / CC “You can hear your needs and desires more … Read more »
