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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The following new undercover footage from a KFC supplier’s slaughterhouse will stun you. And that’s more than we can say for the chickens who are conscious when they face the killing blade, one by one… As you can see, KFC doesn’t give a cluck whether chickens are stunned (rendered unconscious) before they’re killed. Birds are … Read more »
PETA’s 30th anniversary celebration was everything that we had hoped for and so much more. Jampacked with celebrity supporters and caring people from all over, the party went into the wee hours as emcee Alec Baldwin dined on scrumptious vegan food and dished with honorees Anjelica Huston, Eva Mendes, Twilight‘s Kellan Lutz and Christian Serratos, … Read more »
Actor Jesse Eisenberg—who portrays Facebook CEO and rumored vegan, Mark Zuckerberg, in the soon-to-be-released film The Social Network—recently revealed that he himself is a vegetarian. He recalled a brawlccoli that he had with a fellow straphanger and vegetarian on an NYC subway: New to vegetarianism at the time, Jesse was hoping to get some tips. … Read more »
Earlier this year, we shared a selection of the bad behavior that seems to crop up frequently at McDonald’s restaurants, prompted by the story of a woman who went berserk at the drive-through window when she was denied McNuggets. But her nugget-driven nastiness was just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Consider the following incidents, … Read more »
Two decades of dumping wastewater from Hilmar Cheese Co. onto surrounding fields has polluted the groundwater in Hilmar, California, according to a report by consultants hired by the company. Eighteen wells in and around Hilmar are so contaminated with nitrates, arsenic, barium, and salts that the water is undrinkable, forcing some people to abandon their homes. … Read more »
Adult film star Joanna Angel has taken time out of producing, writing, acting, and directing to conduct a PETA interview about the injustice of forcing animals to do tricks in circuses. In the interview, Joanna points out that chained elephants, whipped tigers, and stressed-out horses don’t perform because they want to—they do it because they … Read more »
