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 »
After PETA’s “Scummiest CEO of the Year” winner, Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons, bragged about shooting an African elephant and displaying a photograph of himself as he grinned over the body (which was straight out of old African bwana movies), things really started to go south for him. Domain name rival NameCheap offered disgusted Go Daddy customers … Read more »
Patrons of a California pet-store chain were appalled when they saw black-tipped reef sharks displayed in small tanks. As is the case with most captive sharks, these animals were swimming into the tanks’ glass walls, resulting in chronic injuries. After PETA was alerted to the sharks’ plight last summer, we convinced the chain to … Read more »
PETA recently uncovered that an elephant traveling with the Ringling Bros. circus, 42-year-old Karen, has tested positive for tuberculosis and was banned from the state of Tennessee earlier this year. A study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has documented the “high prevalence” of tuberculosis among captive elephants, a serious disease … Read more »
Prior to last month, when it announced (after a vigorous PETA campaign) that it would no longer experiment on animals from shelters, the University of Utah (the U) regularly conducted cruel and deadly experiments on lost, stray, and abandoned cats and dogs. One of these unfortunate souls was a dog named Sunny, whom employees at … Read more »
Authorities recently raided Dutch animal dealer and breeding mill Reintjes—a supplier of U.S. Global Exotics (USGE)—and found animals crammed in cages in a dark warehouse with no working fan to combat stale air and the stench of urine and feces. Many animals had no access to food or water, and many were starving. Authorities seized … Read more »
Both Kesha and Iggy Pop love a good beat—but not in Canada, where baby seals are beaten, shot, and sometimes skinned alive for their fur.
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 »
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 »
Lovely Dancing With the Stars pro Karina Smirnoff graces the May cover of Playboy magazine. But before she was a Playboy bunny, Karina stood up for bunnies killed for their fur in a steamy ad for PETA. As Karina shows, the sexiest thing that you can wear is compassion. Be a honey for bunnies and sign … Read more »
Yes, you read that right. The upcoming movie Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the eagerly anticipated sequel to Planet of the Apes, has done the original one better. Unlike Planet of the Apes, no great apes were used in the production of the sequel—it relies entirely on computer-generated imagery (CGI). As seen in … Read more »
Girls in the U.S. are now entering puberty as young as 7 years old. Half of African-American girls and 15 percent of Caucasian girls develop sexually by age 8. That means that young girls’ bodies are maturing before a lot of them have even mastered riding a bicycle. Doctors and parents have good reason to … Read more »
Scream 4 had audiences gasping and jumping in their seats this weekend. But if the audience had seen PETA’s “scream” movie, they would really be terrified. Our undercover video of rabbits as they are killed for their fur shows the animals as they scream while their skin is peeled off their bodies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k87wTVwGz0g Scream 4 … Read more »
People frequently ask PETA what they can do to help stop the abuse of animals used in experiments. Here are five steps you can take.
With all the recent buzz about taking toys out of unhealthy kid’s meals, PETA has come up with a way for kids to still have some fun at McDonald’s expense. The new “Where’s Evil Ronald?” video game challenges people to find the creepy clown played by Andy Dick in a crowd. The rounds get harder as the … Read more »
