At a press conference yesterday, Life as We Know It star and PETA T-shirt fan Katherine Heigl announced that she would be donating $1 million to fund low-cost and no-cost spay-and-neuter programs in Los Angeles and surrounding communities. The donation is part of the new “Compassion Revolution” campaign, which aims to combat companion-animal overpopulation by … Read more »
For the first time in more than 100 years, Chicago-area zoos are without elephants. Recognizing the elephant’s need for companionship, officials at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo have returned the facility’s only elephant, Joyce, who was on loan from Six Flags. b.jelonek/CC by 2.0 The “Windy (and freezing) City” is no place for elephants. PETA has urged … Read more »
Just a week after PETA’s undercover investigation of Professional Laboratory and Research Services, Inc. (PLRS) forced the laboratory to shut down, the 200-plus animals who were rescued from this hellhole are safe and are beginning to heal physically and emotionally. PETA’s friends at the Virginia Beach SPCA (VBSPCA) assisted with the rescue of the animals on … Read more »
Just in time for the season-two premiere of ABC’s Emmy award winning comedy Modern Family, rising star Sarah Hyland, who plays Haley Dunphy, sat down with peta2 to talk about the importance of buying cruelty-free products that haven’t been tested on animals, why the only good fur is faux fur, and other animal rights issues that … Read more »
Thailand’s first animal welfare legislation, which is currently pending review and approval by the Thai government’s Decree Office, is in trouble, and officials need a nudge to get it back on track. The bill makes it a crime for anyone to cause unnecessary suffering to an animal and includes welfare requirements that would help protect animals … Read more »
Rod Stewart’s wife, Penny Lancaster, is the latest celebrity to reveal that a fish-heavy diet caused her mercury levels to be “really high, off the scale.” In an interview with Hello magazine, Penny discusses her struggle to conceive another child—an effort that was hampered by fish! “My doctor said it was unhealthy to have … Read more »
Folks, this is HUGE: Last week, PETA filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as we released details of our lengthy undercover investigation of Professional Laboratory and Research Services, Inc. (PLRS). Today, we’re thrilled to report that the North Carolina facility is closing and surrendering its more than 200 dogs and cats. … Read more »
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is taking on McDonald’s in a new ad reminding people that eating at the fast-food chain can lead to devastating health problems. McDonalds is also responsible for the suffering of hundreds of millions of chickens who have their throats cut while they’re still conscious and sometimes are scalded to … Read more »
PETA has always been ahead of the curve in the online world. We launched PETATV.com three years before YouTube was created. And back in 2001 (the stone age of the Internet), PETA won a precedent-setting legal case to assert ownership over PETA.org—a case that’s still studied in Internet law. Over the years, as PETA continued … Read more »
Actor Michael Dorn, who played sexy Klingon Worf on Star Trek: The Next Generation, has lost more than 40 pounds since he went vegan a couple of years ago! In an interview, Michael said, “It’s easy to make the transition because I feel so much better.” You, too, can lose those bulky bits and feel … Read more »
Come on now, can you really help animals and support PETA’s lifesaving work with just a few minutes online? That’s a resounding “yes”—just ask some of our top members on Causes. Causes is the number-one tool on Facebook to help you speak up for the issues you care about. You can create a cause to … Read more »
I’m a day late in posting this, but the winning caption was written by Jessi. Thanks for everyone’s wonderful comments on this comic! Wow! And the humans complain about a little probing … Don’t forget to check out the archive of past 10% Wool comic strips here. Get more information on the series … Read more »
Canada has a lot to answer for. Twenty years of Celine Dion albums, for one thing. Howie Mandel. Poutine. OK, those things are just a matter of taste, but then there’s the annual seal slaughter. During the commercial slaughter—the largest massacre of marine mammals on Earth—tens of thousands of seals have their heads bashed in … Read more »
rightpundits / CC Thanks to PETA’s investigation and the great job done by Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, officials, Holly Crawford—the woman who disfigured several kittens in hopes of selling them as oddities on eBay—has been convicted of cruelty to animals and may face up to several years in jail! In December ’08, an eBay shopper tipped … Read more »
nps.gov / CC Take a sound bite out of this recently discovered linguistic marvel: The barking language of prairie dogs may just be the most complicated language of any animal. Con Slobodchikoff—a biology professor at Northern Arizona University—studied their sounds very closely and found that the animals have different “words” to describe each of their … Read more »
