It’s officially award season, the time of year when our televisions are dominated by red carpets, elegant gowns, and hilarious Ricky Gervais zingers—and oh, yeah, awards are given out too. If animals had submitted the Golden Globes ballots, the roster of winners might have looked pretty similar to Sunday’s lineup: Friend of fowl Kate Winslet … Read more »
Chadica| cc by 2.0 There’s good news today in a case we told you about in May 2010: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has hit the Texas Biomedical Research Institute—formerly the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research—with a fine of more than $25,000 over serious violations of the Animal Welfare Act. The facility has repeatedly allowed … Read more »
PETA campaigners headed out for the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall on Monday toting a box of All Animals Are Equal magazines and signs featuring one of Dr. King’s most famous quotes, hoping to inspire people. As it turned out, we were the ones who were inspired. The PETA gals … Read more »
The picture has been circulating around the Internet for a while, but it’s still creating buzz because it shows something we rarely see.
PHOTOS OF THE DAY PETA “cops” were out in force at the Sundance Film Festival, making arrests for fashion felonies. Anyone wearing wool, leather, exotic skins, or fur saw the light. A flashing blue one, that is. The crime: Ripping off an animal The punishment: A public scolding The penance: Buying a coat that didn’t … Read more »
PHOTO OF THE DAY They might be 6 feet under, but they still won’t be caught under a pile of pelts. PETA’s “corpses” rose from the dead to haunt Orlando’s LaBelle Furs (an oxymoron if I ever heard one). Since the store is near a courthouse, lawyers and litigants came by all day—but no one … Read more »
Update: Thanks to an anonymous supporter, PETA is now offering $5,000 for information leading to the identification of the men responsible for this beating. The U.S. Army has now determined that the uniforms worn in the video belong to the U.S. Air Force, and the Air Force has launched its own investigation. The following was … Read more »
PHOTOS OF THE DAY PETA UK’s 2011 Sexiest Vegetarian woman, Sophie Barrett, got inked (temporarily) with a butcher’s diagram to show Londoners that all animals have the same parts. She asked Brits to follow in the footsteps of Sir Paul McCartney to mark World Week for the Abolition of Meat by abolishing all animals’ parts … Read more »
Fremlin | cc by 2.0 There’s no gray area when it comes to The Grey—this film has been rotten to wolves from the get-go. Reneging on Their Word Long before filming started, PETA met with a producer of The Grey and explained how animals used in movies often spend most of their time confined to … Read more »
For two horses on the new HBO series Luck—which is set in and around the horse-racing industry—it was only bad luck. While filming the show’s pilot, a horse suffered a severe fracture after falling during a race sequence and was euthanized. Another horse was killed while filming a later episode. Two horses died for a … Read more »
With our new campaign on Facebook’s “Causes” platform, we’re aiming to raise $15,000 in January to fund anti-fur protests, distribute literature, buy ad space, and erect billboards to send the message that fur looks best on its original owners. Despite the decreasing popularity of fur and the plethora of faux looks in stores this year, … Read more »
PETA has named CareerBuilder the 2012 “Ass-Backwards” Corporation of the Year. The job-search company earned this (dis)honor for proving that it’s obliviously behind the times, having decided to run yet another Super Bowl ad that features exploited infant chimpanzees—even though it knows how great apes suffer at the hands of the “entertainment” industry. Face: © … Read more »
PHOTO OF THE DAY The striking display of blood-soaked people lying “dead” on trays outside a pig slaughterhouse was enough to stop traffic—literally.
Jerry wasn’t the outgoing, center-of-attention type. Even as a young calf, he seemed to possess the peaceful, quiet air of a wise old man, content to spend warm afternoons gazing out across the landscape with his best friend by his side. Jerry enjoys a quiet afternoon with his friend Patrick. Courtesy of the Cow Sanctuary … Read more »
Less than two weeks after receiving appeals from PETA and PETA Germany, RWTH Aachen University, a top German college, has announced that it will no longer perform invasive and deadly training exercises on live pigs in its advanced surgical course, effective immediately! Truly ‘Advanced’ Training Earlier this month, PETA and PETA Germany sent university officials … Read more »
