Jennifer Lopez is one American who gets no idol worship from anyone who cares about animals. The diva has once again shown that her beauty is only skin deep by posing in a coat made from the skins of arctic foxes in the September issue of Vanity Fair. When asked what he thought of J-Lo’s … Read more »
SD Dirk/cc by 2.0 San Francisco Giants outfielder Cody Ross just knocked one out of the ballpark. When the postseason hero learned that foie gras is made by shoving tubes down the throats of ducks and geese, often causing serious injuries, and force-feeding the birds until their livers become painfully engorged, Ross immediately decided to … Read more »
Top contender for Most Disturbing Food of the Month: foie gras doughnuts from Do or Dine restaurant in Brooklyn. That’s right—fried dough coupled with diseased, fatty duck liver. Want a stomach pump with that? To produce foie gras, workers ram metal pipes down the throats of ducks and geese and force-feed them until their livers … Read more »
Former bear wrestler and longtime PETA foe Sam Mazzola was found dead recently, handcuffed to a waterbed and bound with chains and padlocks. He apparently choked to death on a sex toy that was lodged in his throat and that obstructed his breathing. He was also wearing a leather mask with the eyes and mouth zipped shut … Read more »
Michael Lusk of the National Wildlife Refuge System isn’t exactly thinking outside the (ammo) box when it comes to managing populations of wild pigs. Lusk advocates shooting pigs, and some lawmakers agree with him. Pennsylvania and Tennessee are making it easier for hunters to shoot wild pigs, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed legislation allowing … Read more »
Customers were horrified when they discovered two songbirds stuck to a glue trap at a Walmart store in Indiana. One customer rushed the birds to a wildlife rehabilitator, while another contacted PETA. We alerted law enforcement and Walmart, and Walmart acknowledged that it has a policy against using glue traps for bird control but claimed … Read more »
PETA’s involvement in the Texas Wildlife Center—formerly known as Amarillo Wildlife Refuge (AWR)—goes back years and continues this week. A county resident has filed a 13-page petition against Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas asking the court to compel him to immediately revoke the Amarillo-based menagerie’s certificates to keep dangerous wild animals, including tigers and chimpanzees. … Read more »
So long, rat torture! After a year-long PETA campaign and complaints from students and our supporters, a neuroscience class at the University of Texas–Dallas dropped a deadly classroom experiment on rats from its curriculum. Previously, students in the class had to drill holes into rats’ skulls, cause brain damage with toxic chemicals, force the rats … Read more »
Every March, young women in Sweetwater, Texas, vie for the title of Miss Snake Charmer at the annual rattlesnake roundup.
Mike Tyson would have viewers of his new show, Taking On Tyson, believe that pigeon racers don’t think of the birds as “inventory.” But a long-time wildlife rehabilitator who has seen the victims firsthand begs to differ. In an e-mail to PETA, she told us about rehabilitating a thin and injured pigeon who, judging from his … Read more »
If you think cruel steel-jaw traps used to snare animals are a thing of the past, think again. Animal protection group Born Free USA just released the results of its undercover investigation of professional and recreational wildlife trapping in the U.S. The horrific video footage shows how animals trapped for their fur suffer, sometimes for … Read more »
An alert resident in Yorktown, Virginia, called PETA to tell us that a bird was caught in a glue trap set in the rafters of a Wal-Mart store. The trap was one of many that had been set by a bird-removal contractor to catch birds who wandered into the store. PETA staffers hurried to the … Read more »
Although consumers don’t necessarily see “Made in China” on honey labels, a new exposé published in the UK’s Globe and Mail tells of the almost spy-thriller-like process in which honey produced in China travels through southeast Asia and onto millions of tables—and into millions of stomachs—around the world. don hankins/cc by 2.0 In China, … Read more »
This week, the City Council in Arcadia, California, voted to suspend its cruel coyote trapping program. The victory for animals comes after supporters of humane coyote control, including San Gabriel Valley Friends of Wildlife, worked tirelessly for months e-mailing council members, packing City Council meetings, organizing an education session about living with coyotes, and collecting … Read more »
ViNull/CC by 2.0 One zoo employee has been killed and another maimed in incidents at two separate zoos on the same day. At Riverside Discovery Center in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, a chimpanzee bit a worker on the hand, severing two of her fingers and injuring a third. At the Knoxville Zoo in Tennessee, elephant handler Stephanie … Read more »
