The European Union has done it again. First it banned the sale of products from slaughtered seals, and now the European Parliament is requiring that all clothing containing any fur or leather whatsoever be clearly marked with labels stating, “Non-textile parts of animal origin.” Member of the European Parliament Eva-Britt Svensson of Sweden said the … Read more »
An elementary school in Denver, Colorado, is giving its students food for thought. To promote healthy eating habits among its students, SOAR has become Colorado’s first vegetarian school and earned itself a Compassionate School Award from PETA, for saving the lives of countless animals. “There is tons of research about plant-based foods preventing disease,” said SOAR’s … Read more »
Tragedy Seal, the socially conscious friend of Socially Awkward Penguin, has really gotten people’s creative juices flowing. PETA supporters have been flocking … err … swimming(?) to our website to submit their own inspired Tragedy Seal slogans protesting Canada’s annual slaughter, during which thousands of baby seals are bludgeoned or shot. You can see the … Read more »
What do you get when you combine a generous donation to PETA, The Simpsons, NBA star Ron Artest, and NFL linebacker Aaron Curry? Thousands of free and low-cost spay-and-neuter surgeries! On Friday at PETA’s headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, Norfolk Mayor Paul Fraim, along with Anna Ware of the Holland M. Ware Foundation and The … Read more »
If your local government officials were inspired by National Dog Bite Prevention Week to pass an ordinance that would help prevent dog bites, would you support it? As it turns out, they can do just that by banning chaining. Dogs have a strong fight-or-flight response, and chaining takes away the less dangerous option. In addition to … Read more »
Things got steamy when Nikita star Maggie Q appeared on Conan last week. The famous redhead showed the famous red-hot ads that longtime vegetarian Maggie Q shot for PETA Asia-Pacific promoting a healthy, animal-friendly diet. Maggie’s lettuce bikini and chili-pepper romp had Conan and his audience aflutter, and she sweetly said, “For the animals, anything.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vBpG2I26SA … Read more »
I’ve got some great news and some not-so-great news. The great news is that the Toronto Zoo has heeded the call of animal defenders, including Bob Barker, and decided to close its elephant display, joining more than a dozen other zoos that have done the same thing. What’s more, the Toronto Zoo has agreed that … Read more »
Authorities at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport arrested a man headed to Dubai who had “a virtual zoo” of baby exotic animals stuffed in cages and canisters inside his suitcases. Anti-trafficking officers had been tracking the smuggler since he purchased two leopards, two panthers, an Asiatic black bear, and two macaque monkeys, and they believe that … Read more »
“So a policeman and a chicken walk into a bar …” In our favorite photo this month, taken during a protest outside a KFC in Montrose, Colorado, a police officer confers with a chicken about … what? Maybe the proper spelling of “potato”? Share your thoughts about what these two could be discussing below. Written by … Read more »
Dolphin dialects, animal-friendly apps, and beaver relievers. Your Tuesday helping of Internet Soup is more fun than a jungle full of free-roaming monkeys: A neat invention could enable us to understand “dolphinese.” As for what they’ll say first, the smart money is on “Someone please get me Ric O’Barry on the phone.” Why did the … Read more »
Get Your Fix, the brand-new initiative of the FiXiT Foundation—a nonprofit dedicated to finding innovative ways to end companion-animal overpopulation—is kind of like the charity version of Let’s Make a Deal. It’s a networking site that connects people who want to spay or neuter their animals, but are having financial hardship, with donors who want … Read more »
PETA Files readers, it’s your call. Who’s the cruelest monster of them all? The contenders for May’s Vivisector of the Month are vying hard for the title, and animals are suffering for it. John VandeBerg is the director of the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, Texas—one of the last laboratories in the world that … Read more »
boulter/cc by 2.0 These minor league teams are major players for animals with all the vegetarian deliciousness they’re offering up: 1. Fort Myers Miracle’s Hammond Stadium Is it any wonder that the Fort Myers Miracle takes the vegan cake? Just look at the list of cruelty-free foods the stadium offers: vegan chili cheese dogs, … Read more »
Take me out to the ballgame! Take me out to the crowd! Buy me faux-chicken and corn on the cob, nondairy smoothies, and veggie kabobs… The great American pastime has gotten even greater, as loads of vegetarian and vegan foods have been added to menus at ballparks across the country. Here is this year’s list … Read more »
We at PETA have always known that fur is worn by beautiful animals and ugly people, and it looks like Seoul, South Korea, agrees. Fur-monger Fendi got into a hairy situation when it wanted to send a forest’s worth of animals down the runway at Seoul’s exclusive new Floating Island culture center. After animal advocates lodged … Read more »