110livingston / CC Just a stone’s throw away from my favorite New York City restaurant is an Urban Outfitters store, whose aisles I’ve been known to peruse after a hearty meal of soul “chicken” and homemade “ice cream” (all vegan, of course!). Imagine my shock when, during a recent visit, I spotted fur in Urban … Read more »
wowowow / CC After 30 years, Legends!—the infamous Broadway-play-that-wasn’t—will finally be making its debut on the New York stage. While the original, ill-fated touring productions featured such starlets as Carol Channing, Joan Collins, Linda Evans, and Mary Martin as aging rivals parading around in furs, the PETA-friendly revival will feature Whoopi Goldberg and drag legends … Read more »
Colonel Sanders got a taste of his own medicine when PETA marked the Association of Kentucky Fried Chicken Franchisees Convention in Maryland last month by “slaughtering” the Colonel outside a nearby KFC restaurant. Luckily for the brave actor portraying Colonel Sanders, our slaughter methods are a bit more humane than those employed by KFC’s suppliers. … Read more »
farm2.static / CC After finding out that Renninger’s Farmers and Flea Market in Mount Dora, Florida, was offering rides on a female African elephant named Nosey, we immediately contacted the manager and alerted him to the dangers that elephant rides pose to both elephants and the public. After listening to our concerns and hearing from … Read more »
gothamist / CC This certainly gives new meaning to the term “cat fight.” Project Runway finalist Kenley Collins has reportedly used her cat as a weapon by throwing the animal at her sleeping fiancé’s head. Oh yeah, she also allegedly chucked a laptop and three apples and slammed a door on his head as he … Read more »
If you’ve been keeping up with your British celebrity chefs lately, you’ll know that Naked Chef star Jamie Oliver has been pushing pork products on the public (try saying that three times fast). He’s encouraging people to “save our bacon” by buying British pig meat instead of the cruel other kind. Wait. What? Now, we … Read more »
Yesterday, attorneys working on behalf of PETA and two plaintiffs won a lawsuit to stop the Georgia Department of Agriculture (GDA) from granting licenses to animal shelters that use cruel gas chambers to kill cats and dogs. Is that a victory cheer I hear? You might remember our post a couple of years ago about … Read more »
Back in October, we told you about the geniuses (sarcasm alert) in Clay County, Florida, who decided that the best way to figure out whether a dog had died from heatstroke when an animal control officer left her in a sweltering truck was to—wait for it—put another dog in the sweltering truck and see if … Read more »
Considering that Tiger Woods’ life is essentially a media circus, we hope that the superstar golfer can relate to the plight of his namesakes in the circus. That’s why we’ve written a letter to Tiger asking him to tee up for one of our ever-popular naked tiger demos. We’re hoping that Mr. Woods will show … Read more »
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the seal slaughter: Credit: Sea Shepherd Yeah. We thought that it was awful too. How can you help end this atrocity? Glad you asked. Click here. Written by Christine Doré
Our cup runneth over with the latest season of Dancing With the Stars. As if last season, which featured spunky octo-vegetarian Cloris Leachman, weren’t enough, this season we have two PETA supporters to root for. How can we be expected to choose between Steve-O—star of “Rather Go Naked” and “Ink, Not Mink” ads as well … Read more »
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof usually writes about Darfur and other far-off lands, but this week, he ventured into America’s heartland to talk about a plague that is afflicting a small town in Indiana that happens to be home to factory hog farms. The plague is MRSA—methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, aka “flesh-eating bacteria.” You can … Read more »
Most kids love animals, but not all kids are aware of the horrors that elephants and other animals in circuses face, so PETA and Ellie Elephant decided to tell local kids what goes on behind the big top. Ellie was a huge hit with children and parents, handing out activity books to show kids why … Read more »
babble / CC We just received possibly one of our oddest donation offers to date: George Clooney’s sweat, apparently soaked up by a towel taken from a Washington, D.C., gym. I’ll give you a moment to take that in. We must admit that George is a handsome man, so it was hard for me to … Read more »
thailand / CC No, you’re not experiencing déjà vu. This is the second blog in two days in which we’ve reported that primates have taken aim at humans—literally. In the latest instance, a monkey in Thailand—fed up with performing the thankless task of climbing coconut trees to retrieve fruit for his owner to sell—apparently launched … Read more »
