alan vernon/cc by 2.0 Ranchers in South Dakota are asking state legislators to approve a bill that, if passed, would allow residents to chase down coyotes using snowmobiles. Coyotes are loyal, sensitive wild animals, and, to them, the noise of marauding snowmobiles is terrifying. They are then chased to the point of exhaustion and shot. … Read more »
For the latest on whether this company funds or conducts tests on animals, please check PETA’s “Eat Without Experiments” program. We are thrilled to announce that after more than 40,000 supporters of PETA entities around the world sent e-mails urging Unilever to stop testing tea on animals and after representatives from PETA and PETA entities … Read more »
After 18 months of protests, thousands of calls and e-mails, and appearances outside Brookstone stores by our giant “frog,” Brookstone has finally decided to pull a cruel product called the “Frog-O-Sphere” from its shelves! PETA started campaigning against the tiny plastic frog prisons after receiving complaints from Brookstone customers and after a whistleblower reported that frogs and snails … Read more »
In a case of literal overkill, Sweden is turning more than 6,700 hunters loose on just 20 wolves. In case you don’t have a calculator handy, that breaks down to about 335 armed-and-dangerous folks per animal—in a country with only about 200 wolves. And Sweden claims that this is being done to increase the country’s … Read more »
shannonyeh.photography/ CC by 2.0 China is saying “lights out” for all animal shows at its 300 state-owned zoos, telling zoos that they can either stop abusing animals in this way or be shut down. The circus act ban—which China’s Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development passed in September 2010, earning it PETA Asia’s Advancement in Animal … Read more »
robad0b/CC by 2.0 The Top Model shows are supposed to be about wannabe models crushing the competition, not animals. So why, then, would an ad for New Zealand’s Next Top Model include footage of a woman in red heels stomping on a bleating stuffed lamb? The commercial is creepily reminiscent of “crush videos”—sick fetish films … Read more »
comedy nose/CC by 2.0 In a landmark ruling, a Rancho Cucamonga, California, man was sentenced to seven years and eight months behind bars for mutilating and torturing several cats. Timothy Arie Kooyman, who was already serving five years in prison for torturing cats, had nearly three years added to his sentence after he was found … Read more »
ericlbc/CC by 2.0 Fireworks are being blamed for the recent deaths of 5,000 birds in Arkansas. The professional-grade explosives scared red-winged blackbirds and European starlings out of their nests and sent them into panicked flight. The night-blind birds crashed into houses, signs, and other obstacles, causing blunt-force trauma and death. As this case shows, fireworks … Read more »
What’s the latest must-have application for compassionate online activists? PETA’s Purple Ribbon, of course! With the click of a mouse, you can fight cruelty to animals by posting our Purple Ribbon to your Facebook wall and asking your friends to post it too. We’re fewer than 40,000 likes away from the 1 million mark, and … Read more »
A camel who was being used in a Christmas pageant at First Baptist Church in West Palm Beach, Florida, fell into the audience after stumbling when her handler attempted to force her to lie down. Thankfully, the camel, LulaBell, wasn’t hurt (nor were the stunned folks she fell on), but other animals used in … Read more »
The devil may wear a blue dress, but PETA India‘s new ad featuring three Miss Indias suggests that angels for animals wear red: Each of these lovelies weighed in on the importance of standing up for animals: Miss India World Manasvi Mamgai says, “Animals depend on all of us to be their angels. Even little … Read more »
vivatier/CC by 2.0 Who says bipartisanship is dead? Legislators on both sides of the aisle have at last found something they can agree on: So-called “crush videos” depicting the crushing, burning, drowning, or impaling of animals have no place in a civilized society. After the Supreme Court struck down a previous law banning such videos, … Read more »
Not only do PETA folk get to help animals (of course), and get e-mails with subject lines like “Has anyone seen our giant bunny costume?”—they also get to share in the involvement of the super-cool rock legends (from Macca to Grace Slick to Chrissie Hynde) who throw their considerable weight behind our efforts to help animals. … Read more »
Compassion is always in fashion, and you can show you’ve got a good heart—and look great at the same time—by wearing a Vaute Couture “Friends, Not Test Subjects” or “Friends, Not Fashion” racerback tank. They’re so cute that they were featured in Marie Claire, prompting tons of readers to think about cruelty-free cosmetics and animal-friendly … Read more »
Ralph and Jenny/CC by 2.0 If you think that animals who are used in movies are trained with a magic wand, consider the latest charges lodged against two British animal trainers who supplied a tawny owl named Cuddles for the production of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The RSPCA is taking the pair … Read more »
