Less than a week after the story broke that Christina Ricci’s biggest fansite had taken down all its Christina paraphernalia and replaced it with anti-fur messages following her appearance on PETA’s Worst Dressed List, Ms. Ricci has vowed to give up fur for good. In an e-mail to PETA VP Dan Mathews this week, she … Read more »
In case you haven’t seen it yet, here’s PETA’s new Christmas e-card. I wrote the lyrics (with a little help from my friend Noah) and recorded the song on my computer at home, and Shawn from our Web department did an amazing job animating it. Enjoy! P.S. We’re not really mad at Santa. P.P.S. … Read more »
PETA has never been one to let clothes get in the way of a good protest, and this Holiday season is no exception. In Philadelphia this Wednesday, a few lovely PETA ladies let the folks over at Burberry know that they’d rather go naked than wear fur. For anyone who is particularly literal-minded, I should … Read more »
The AP reported last week that Macy’s has pulled two styles of Sean John hoodies following an investigation by the Humane Society which revealed that they contained fur from raccoon dogs, despite the fact that they were being advertised as faux fur. A spokesman for the store talked about its “long-standing policy against the selling … Read more »
Diddy flaunting his dead animal coat When Diddy promised to remove the raccoon dog fur coats which were mislabeled as “faux” from his store and stop production of the cruel garments, some people began to think that the rapper might actually care about something other than bling. Now it appears that they might have … Read more »
A coworker sent me the photos below today. I lost the e-mail that included info about what the hell was going on—but I’m pretty sure it involved saving animals’ lives with help, of course, from our busty friends down at the precinct. The Fashion Police precinct that is! So here’s the deal. Even if I … Read more »
I don’t know why people keep sending me pictures of scantily clad girls, but as long as they do I’ll keep posting them. Here’s what rock star activist Ashley Fruno has to say about her demo yesterday: “It was REALLY cold (only 32 degrees, but snowing really hard), we cut the demo off after an … Read more »
I’m not quite prepared to kiss and make up with Madonna after December’s chinchilla coat debacle, but it does seem like she’s beginning to make some efforts to quench her bloodlust a little bit—starting with a commitment to stop shooting at birds. Under the compassionate influence of her good friend Stella McCartney, Madonna has evidently … Read more »
There are a few good ways to get people thinking about the fur issue. You can wear a T-shirt with an anti-fur slogan, hand out leaflets and information outside fur stores, and bring up the topic in casual conversation. Or, if you’re the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in Paris, you can just wrap a big ol’ … Read more »
My New Year’s resolution this year is to finally cancel the membership to my gym, which I enrolled in around this time last year in a fit of optimism and utter lunacy. The people at my gym are notoriously cunning, and last time I went there to try and end things, I walked out with … Read more »
Getty Images A few days ago, Eva Longoria (of Desperate Housewives fame) was heckled in London—where she was launching the Harrods’ Winter Sale—for her nasty habit of draping herself in dead animals. For people who do care about animals, Eva’s track-record has been pretty abysmal. In an interview last year, she told Oprah that she … Read more »
KFC employees who are used to seeing PETA’s crippled chicken hobbling across the street or watching Colonel Sanders burned in effigy in front of their restaurants are in for a pleasant surprise: The KFC Campaign is finally going naked, with our brand-new “Naked Truth” demonstrations. The bad news for the company is, unfortunately, that the … Read more »
Today is my birthday, which—for those of you not familiar with birthday rules—means I can do anything I want. And what I want to do today is post this video that my friend Joel and I made a while ago for a song I wrote, which happens to be about birthdays. What does this have … Read more »
Victory! Raley’s has discontinued the sale of live lobsters. Update: After Thousands of Complaints From Customers, Raley’s Has Agreed to Discontinue the Sale of Live Lobsters in Its Stores! Earlier this week, a customer of Raley’s—which is a popular grocery chain in Nevada, New Mexico, and California—sent PETA disturbing pictures of live lobsters kept in … Read more »
These pictures kind of tell their own story, which, as I interpret it, is that a lot of MPs are pretty hacked off with the MoD for being so bleeding stroppy about the Queen’s Guards’ kit, innit? Or, translated into American, dozens of British politicians gathered outside parliament yesterday to call on the Ministry of … Read more »