Chrissie Hynde and PETA VP Dan Mathews Chrissie Hynde, who famously sang “My City Is Gone” in lament of the decay of her native Akron, OH, went home on Saturday to spearhead the revitalization of downtown by opening a trendy vegan eatery and bar called VegiTerranean. Reflecting Hynde’s commitment to animal advocacy and vegan living, … Read more »
Following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Bristol last week, PETA UK protesters took to the streets to remind shoppers that the solution to epidemics like foot and mouth, mad-cow disease, and bird flu is actually really, really simple. Go vegetarian. The pics are priceless.
I would comment on this, but I’m still pretty much speechless. It may be one of the greatest videos ever created. Check it out: There are some more pics and info here.
Before I go on—if you had a comment that was published but disappeared from the site recently, please be assured that it’s nothing personal. We had a small glitch in our blog software, which we’re sorting out today. And for the few people who submitted comments that never got published, sometimes our spam filter picks … Read more »
Hopefully everyone has checked out our new Animal Birth Control campaign by now, but if not, give it a peek. To promote it, we’re going to make some new stickers with the slogan “I love my [insert incredibly cute word to replace ‘mutt’ here].” We’ve all seen countless “I love my Golden Retriever” stickers, right? … Read more »
It’s Thursday, which means another slice of genius from the mind of Jeff Corriveau. For anyone not familiar with the campaign, this one is a reference to a little drug called Premarin, which, yes, is made with horse urine. And on that note, here’s this week’s Deflocked! Click for a larger version To check out … Read more »
OK, so not a bar exactly. Have you heard about the incredible shoplifting seagull from Aberdeen, Scotland? Apparently, the bird waits until the shopkeeper isn’t looking, then casually strolls into the store and grabs a bag of chips and takes off. Once outside, he rips the bag open and shares it with other birds. It’s … Read more »
Update: Following the success of Alicia’s PSA, Sky News put together a wonderful retrospective of PETA’s many naked ads and protests over the past year. You can check out the picture gallery here. The folks in Houston were severely deprived yesterday, when their cable provider decided at the last minute (literally) that it would pull … Read more »
Don’t worry if you don’t get that subject line. It’s just a shout out to my homegirl, Anuradha “Slim Shady” Sawhney, who does a hell of a job running PETA India. The point of this post is really to give props to the whole gang over at PETA India, who just released the incredibly … Read more »
Fall is here, and the sounds of songbirds chirping morning greetings can be heard outside your window, while the animal moms and dads of the world rustle through the freshly fallen leaves seeking out a hearty breakfast for their children. Meanwhile, back in the lab, Jeffrey Cynx is busy as a bee burning lesions into … Read more »
Kidport/Creative Commons Yup, that’s right. It’s finally Fish Amnesty Day again! Fish Amnesty Day was created by PETA 10 years ago as a much less violent alternative to National Hunting and Fishing Day, which (by an amazing coincidence) happens to be on the same date. For some reason, fish are often the last animal people … Read more »
PETA’s regulatory testing division recently fired off a letter to Samuel H. Wilson, acting director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), urging him to cancel planned experiments on mice involving artificial butter flavoring and its ingredients. Yes, I said artificial butter flavoring, the stuff in microwave popcorn. One ingredient in artificial butter … Read more »
Deloitte/Creative Commons In addition to the critically-acclaimed film Away From Her, Julie Christie has starred in such classics as Doctor Zhivago and Heaven Can Wait, as well as one of my favorite films of all time, the incredibly frightening psychological thriller Don’t Look Now (which, incidentally, also features Donald Sutherland and an evil, knife-wielding troll … Read more »
umusic/Creative Commons If you’ve been following Rob Zombie’s career, you’ll know that he’s been successful in a number of different arenas, from his groundbreaking work with White Zombie in the ’90s, when this blogger was a young alternative-music junkie (“More human than hu-man! More human than hu-man!”) to his successful solo career, and more recently … Read more »
After more than a year of discussions with PETA, CKE Restaurants (the parent company of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr.) has announced a new animal welfare program that will phase in cage-free eggs, and begin sourcing pork from suppliers that don’t use cruel gestation crates for pregnant pigs. The plan also gives consideration to poultry suppliers … Read more »
