If you’re a little hungry after being up all night watching the news and chanting “USA! USA!” we’ve got the perfect snack for you: PETA’s “Bin Laden Bites” chocolates. When we sent these delicious dairy-free chocolates to troops in Afghanistan a couple of years ago, they were great for cravings and target practice. Now … Read more »
Like a warm-weather Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny delivers baskets full of treats to children every year. But photographers who use real rabbits as props in Easter photos shouldn’t expect anything in their baskets but plastic grass. Unlike real rabbits, this Easter bunny doesn’t mind being taken out of the wild for photo shoots. … Read more »
coxy/cc by2.0 Consumers duped into purchasing Ortho Home Defense MAX Kill & Contain Mouse Traps have reported finding mice writhing and squealing inside the traps. Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, the maker of the traps, falsely promised a speedy death and “no mess,” but the traps delivered anything but. Customers took to Scotts’ website and other consumer websites to … Read more »
My dog Hannah’s “papers” would read like this: “Sire: Best Guess. Dame: Whosy Whatsit.” Yep, she’s a thoroughly modern mutt, and that’s just fine with me. Dogs of mixed parentage are just fine with lots of other people, too, it turns out. The first-ever National Mutt Census, which surveyed mutt guardians and analyzed the DNA … Read more »
So you weren’t invited to tea with Kate and Will? That’s OK. You can still have tea and coffee stateside, and getting it all over your lips is completely encouraged. We’re giving away a set of fun, natural, vegan Crazy Rumors lip balms in your choice of either “Perk” (coffee) or “Brew” (tea) flavors. To … Read more »
In what was perhaps the PETA India demonstration that turned the most heads to date, a group of women in “cricket uniforms” gathered outside the stadium where the Cricket World Cup 2011 games are held in order to call on the International Cricket Council (ICC) to punt leather balls and replace them with synthetic ones. … Read more »
pmarkham/cc by 2.0 When PETA heard that the Committee on Bible Translation had revised the New International Version (NIV) of the Christian Bible to use gender-inclusive language, such as replacing “men” with “people,” we thought, wouldn’t it be great if the new NIV showed consideration for female (and male) animals too? So we wrote to the … Read more »
Most birds love a sweet little tune. But they aren’t so fond of disco music blaring right next to their cages all night. At the Costa Adeje Gran Hotel in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, a group of small caged birds is being used as a decorative prop in the foyer. Every evening, the foyer turns into … Read more »
hudsonthego/cc by 2.0 R.C. Bigelow is the latest tea company to agree to be a teatotaler, signing PETA’s Statement of Assurance that it doesn’t conduct or fund any animal testing of its teas. Bigelow is one of the leading tea manufacturers in the U.S., producing America’s number one specialty flavor, “Constant Comment.” The constant comment … Read more »
A lobster in the U.K. didn’t get the death penalty, but he did get 30 years to life. A 3-foot-long lobster was caught by an angler fishing for sole off the British coast in West Sussex. The lobster is believed to be around 50 years old and is one is of the biggest and oldest … Read more »
PETA Asia staffer Ashley Fruno—who has been in Japan working with Isabella Gallaon-Aoki from the local group Animal Friends Niigata since last Saturday—has witnessed tremendous devastation and heartbreak since arriving in the region. But she has also seen people courageously putting their own lives at risk in order to safeguard their animal companions, and aid … Read more »
The first member of an international animal rights group to reach the disaster area, PETA Asia-Pacific senior campaigner Ashley Fruno has been in Japan with Isabella Gallaon-Aoki of Animal Friends Niigata since taking the first flight to Tokyo after the airport opened on Saturday night. There are few signs of life in the hardest-hit areas, … Read more »
This blog is a cross-post from PETA Asia-Pacific’s blog, The Hot & Sour Scoop. One of the first members of an international animal rights group to reach the disaster area, PETA Asia-Pacific senior campaigner Ashley Fruno has been in Japan with Isabella Gallaon-Aoki of Animal Friends Niigata since taking the first flight to Tokyo after the … Read more »
