Kim Basinger has offered her support for PETA’s campaign to dissuade the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) from issuing a permit to the Georgia Aquarium to export 18 beluga whales from Russia to the U.S. to breed them for exhibition. The Oscar winner and Georgia native has sent a letter to the chief of the … Read more »
PETA is always saying that we wish people would put themselves in the place of animals. But if they won’t, we’ll do it for them. The founder of PETA entities worldwide, Ingrid E. Newkirk, let herself be hitched with a bit in her mouth to a horse-drawn carriage in order to help PETA India show … Read more »
I’m sure you won’t be surprised to learn that PETA opposes hunting. After all, it’s a no-brainer: Chasing and shooting animals (with a gun or a bow and arrow) causes terror. Mates grieve, young animals can starve when their mothers are killed, and hunting leaves wounded but unrecovered animals to die slowly and wretchedly from … Read more »
While every Morrissey show is darkly entertaining, every Ringling show, with its behind-the-scenes elephant beatings, is just plain dark. So when Moz played Boston right as Ringling was rolling into town, he gave his bandmates PETA’s “Ringling Beats Animals” tees to wear and gave Ringling the big middle drumstick: © FilmMagic Morrissey knows that true … Read more »
Leona Lewis and James Cameron are the latest compassionate celebrities to embrace vegan eating. Not surprising on either count, since James, who won a PETA Proggy Award for the animal-friendly film Avatar, said he planned to grow crops on his 2,500-acre rural New Zealand property, and Leona, a Sexiest Vegetarian alum, won’t wear animal skins … Read more »
Want to eat like a rock star? Easy! As Chrissie Hynde shows, all you need is a little brass in pocket. While performing in Singapore, the singer hit the VeganBurg vegan fast-food joint. Chrissie said, “I’ve toured around the world with my band and always looking for the perfect burger. I finally found it at … Read more »
Did Anne Hathaway purposefully schedule her wedding just before World Farm Animals Day? It’s possible, since the committed animal advocate celebrated her nuptials with a vegan feast. To commemorate both World Farm Animals Day and Anne’s big day, PETA is sponsoring a steer named Peter, who resides at The Cow Sanctuary in New Jersey, in … Read more »
Chrissie Hynde showed one reason why she’s special, so special, at The Pretenders’ show in Singapore. Spotting a young woman in the audience wearing an “IPETA” shirt, Chrissie invited her on stage to give the band a little help with “Brass in Pocket.” Check out the cool video, and watch for Chrissie’s shout-out to PETA … Read more »
Although some aquariums are still willing to host raucous parties despite knowing that the pounding music is hell on marine mammals’ sensitive sonar systems, more progressive aquariums are refusing. Case in point: Rocker Tony Kanal teamed up with PETA to let the under-construction Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada in Toronto know that rock belongs in arenas, … Read more »
Sometimes 140 characters are all it takes. Here are the best celebrity tweets of the week that honored animals and persuaded people to be compassionate toward them. To get animal-friendly messages that can be retweeted sent directly to your Twitter feed, follow @PETA.
It’s been a few years since Casey Affleck graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but he popped up on campus in a new video, asking everyone to be kind to cows—by dumping dairy products. A PETA supporter wearing a cow costume showed students at Casey’s alma mater an undercover dairy farm … Read more »
Our fur protest at New York Fashion Week got legs when Kimora Lee Simmons stopped by. Russell Simmons’ Global Grind website tweeted a lovely picture of the demonstration with a shout-out to Kimora and PETA. The fashion designer last showed off her heavenly gams for us in an ad asking people to “be an angel for dogs.” … Read more »
Last year, Atlanta Pride’s raucous party at the Georgia Aquarium raised the ire of many members of the LGBT community. PETA Vice President Dan Mathews, who is gay, attended the party to ask the organizers to consider a different location in the future. When he published a piece in The Huffington Post describing what he observed and what aquarium employees told him about … Read more »
On the heels of a Los Angeles Times report about whistleblowers’ allegations that oversight failures may have led to animal injuries and deaths during film and TV productions, PETA was joined by Hollywood animal advocates Bob Barker and Sam Simon for a news conference calling for immediate action to protect animals. Report: Horses Died on Hobbit … Read more »
This time, the sad news comes from Japan: Pan-kun, a well-known chimpanzee from the Aso Cuddly Dominion Zoo who is forced to dress in costumes and perform for gawking audiences, erupted in frustration after a show and violently attacked a student trainee. Pan-kun remains at the zoo but has been “retired” from performing. The young … Read more »
