How far will a mother go to save her child? Straight into the heart of danger, such as in the case of a deer whose fawn had fallen in a crack in a rock wall. The mother deer kept returning throughout the night and morning. Then, while firefighters tried to rescue the fawn, the deer … Read more »
To everyone who has requested news of the poor dog we showed you in “A Helluva Night for Animals“—the dog who wandered into a firehouse early on Sunday morning after Hurricane Irene hit Norfolk—well, Mr. Jones is adapting nicely, thank you! Here he is on a cushy bed in PETA Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch’s office, … Read more »
PETA’s 2010 Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity Olivia Wilde and shelter dog advocate Emma Stone have another (synthetic) feather to put in their nonwool caps. The ladies each earned a PETA Kind Choices Award for promoting cruelty-free cosmetics from Revlon, one of the first cosmetics companies to ban all animal testing. Olivia and Emma are gorgeous living … Read more »
Imagine how it must feel to have to wear a heavy coat outside in August! PETA members in Lansing, Michigan, no longer have to wonder after sitting in cages on a hot sidewalk in order to illustrate the misery of animals on fur farms during hot weather, when they have no escape from the heat. … Read more »
Victory: As a result of PETA’s campaign, the Army announced that it is ending its cruel use of monkeys in chemical attack training exercises and will instead use advanced human simulators! Next week, the U.S. Army plans to start poisoning African vervet monkeys with massive chemical overdoses as part of a crude and cruel “show … Read more »
A driver in Alabama spotted Laura the chicken and scooped her up off the road on a route frequently used by trucks headed to the nearby slaughterhouse. Then, in an attempt to find her a home, she unwisely posted an ad for a free chicken on Craigslist. Laura could have ended up as chicken soup! … Read more »
And here’s our favorite caption for this weeks’ “10% Wool” comic contest! We’re in the process of contacting the winner, so be sure to check your inbox! “When you said your father was old fashioned you weren’t kidding” Don’t forget to check out past 10% Wool comic strips and get more information on the series … Read more »
Chimpanzees used in laboratory experiments have been a hot topic this summer, from the film Rise of the Planet of the Apes to the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine hearings on the use of chimpanzees for experimentation. Now, Unsaid, a new novel by Neil Abramson, movingly explores the ways in which animals—including a … Read more »
As the L.A. County Fair opens this Saturday, notorious elephant-abusing company Have Trunk Will Travel (HTWT) is scheduled to be there, selling rides on elephants. There is still time for people to e-mail L.A. County Fair organizers and ask that they send HTWT packing. If HTWT attends as scheduled, members of PETA and Animal … Read more »
Today, as Japanese fishers began stabbing dolphins with spears and cutting their throats with knives, PETA members, along with members of Earth Island Institute and Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project, marked “Dolphin Day” by gathering outside the Japanese Embassy in Washington, D.C., to protest the annual slaughter. Protesters screened graphic footage from the Oscar-winning documentary The … Read more »
Update: Yvonne has come out of the woods and “turned herself in”. She “apparently got tired of the loneliness” and hopped a fence to a farm where she grazed for awhile, and she is settling in at the Gut Aiderbichl animal sanctuary. Yvonne’s son, who had been thought dead, was located by the sanctuary, and … Read more »
© Michael Pettigrew | Dreamstime.com The White House is launching a new site where citizens can post petitions, and if a petition gets 5,000 signatures in 30 days, it will be reviewed by Administration officials and receive a response. This is a great opportunity to help animals, so PETA will be posting a petition asking … Read more »
Last Labor Day weekend, Buddy and Copper were among the dogs sitting in barren, filthy cages at animal testing hellhole Professional Laboratory and Research Services, Inc. (PLRS). But this Labor Day weekend, the two friends are rolling in the grass, playing with other dogs, and being loved and petted at Kindness Ranch. Courtesy Emile Hallez … Read more »
This may be what you’re used to thinking of as an anti-viv poster: But nowadays, you’re just as likely to see this as an anti-viv poster: That’s because PETA has a squadron of scientists who meet with government regulators, serve on expert working groups, put pressure on international corporations, publish in scientific journals, and … Read more »
Labor Day meant a long weekend for many nine-to-fivers, but some laborers can’t close up shop and forget about their jobs, even for a day. For animal shelter workers, the stream of battered and bruised animals in need of refuge never ends. Few people have a more emotionally challenging job than those who punch in … Read more »