When I walked by my boss Ingrid’s office this morning and heard “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” blaring, I knew something fishy was going on . . . Well, toss your cowboy hat in the air, crank up “On The Road Again” and holler yee haw! Willie Nelson (Yes, THE Willie Nelson) and his … Read more »
If you get that subject line, then you’re old enough to remember Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. I’m not ashamed to admit it, I used to kick it to Good Vibrations back in the nine one. And like the rest of the civilized world, I’ve followed Mark Wahlberg’s career over the years. Basketball Diaries, … Read more »
For all the good he’s done for the environment—which, to be fair, is an awful lot—Al’s leaving out a huge piece of the puzzle by ignoring the fact that the devastation caused by the meat industry is among the worst environmental disasters ever to happen to the world. As we told him in our letter, … Read more »
If you’ve never been implicated in a preposterous conspiracy theory, I can highly recommend the experience. It’s a roller-coaster ride of emotions from shocked to flattered to downright amused. This is especially true when the person responsible for the conspiracy theory is a high-ranking government official, as we discovered last week when we were tipped … Read more »
Do you really need a letter from PETA and an official ban from your school administration to figure out what’s wrong with throwing live chickens onto a basketball court during a game? In the case of the moronic Kansas State fans who did exactly that during a game against rivals KU, the answer, of course, … Read more »
This is an old video we made a while back to talk about why PETA has occasionally resorted to some more colorful tactics like naked protests to get our point across. It must have been put together in the early days of Internet video, when people had the attention span to get all the way … Read more »
Her name is Casey Redd, and she just sent in the latest brilliant addition to our Burberry campaign materials. PETA’s Art Department does a fantastic job, but this may very well be my favorite anti-fur ad ever. Here’s 10-year-old Casey with the ad she made:
I’ve been at PETA long enough to know that there are a whole lot of different ways to make a naked ad, and I’m always impressed with the way our Art Department manages to capture the particular style of the celebrity who’s posing for the ad without losing sight of the message. Over the years, … Read more »
More than 31 major media outlets covered PETA Asia Pacific’s pro-vegetarianism photo shoot with Filipina supermodel Alicia Mayer yesterday, and looking at the stunning pictures, I can see why. In case you’re wondering, that’s PETA Asia Pacific’s very own Jason Baker on the right, with the water bottle. I actually haven’t spoken to Jason since … Read more »
Nobel Prizewinner J.M. Coetzee The internationally renowned Australian novelist and Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee gave a speech in Sydney last week, where he made a powerful case for animal rights—with a particular focus on the food industry, which, as he puts it, “dwarfs all others in the number of individual animal lives it affects.” Two … Read more »
Even if the cruelty of factory farming, the increased heart attack and cancer risk, and the environmental devastation caused by the meat industry don’t convince you to go vegetarian, I’m certain that the prospect of being the sexiest smelling person in your office will sway you. According to a recent study published by the NIH, … Read more »
The bird flu post the other day reminded me of a hilarious old picture from The Onion. Unfortunately, I just didn’t get around to writing about it in the blog at the time, but as I like to say about me marrying Natalie Portman and you going vegetarian … better late than never. With all … Read more »
Europe’s biggest turkey killer, Bernard Matthews, is back in the news. And oddly enough, this time it’s not because their workers were filmed kicking birds and using pipes as baseball bats to hit them, but because government veterinarians have confirmed bird flu at a poultry farm in the UK. So my friends Anita and Lucy … Read more »
After PETA UK released its brand-new “Feeding Kids Meat Is Child Abuse” billboard, a number of groups complained about the ad to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). Having a brief look through the list of complainants, it really seems like they all have something in common, but I just can’t quite put my finger on … Read more »
Today has been kind of massive as far as animals are concerned. In addition to winning the POM Campaign, we just got news that Smithfield Foods (the largest pork processor in the world) will begin phasing out the use of gestation crates in all of its farms. Gestation crates are among the most hideous torture … Read more »
