dougwoods/CC by 2.0 In honor of 10/10/10, here are 10 easy ways to get active for animals this weekend and beyond: Buy a house—a doghouse, that is. Every year, PETA builds and delivers hundreds of straw-filled doghouses for dogs who are chained outdoors in the cold, all winter long—dogs who might otherwise have only a … Read more »
When I was a kid, my parents would tuck me in at night, saying, “Don’t let the bedbugs bite.” But what had been a cute little saying has become a real nightmare for people facing a surge in bedbug populations. And like so many other problems, this one has a link to factory farming, as … Read more »
A slaughterhouse in Alabama owned by Pilgrim’s Pride, a company that supplies chickens to KFC, has been slapped with a $135,000 fine for 29 safety violations, including citations for unmarked containers of hazardous materials, exposed batteries that posed a danger of caustic burns and electrical shocks, and an unsecured 150-pound drum of chlorine. A complaint … Read more »
After more than a year of stonewalling, KFC’s hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, has finally gotten around to officially denying PETA’s request for a permit to display our giant crippled chicken statue at a city intersection. Over the past year, Louisville officials have devised various creative and ever-changing obstacles to PETA’s application, including an … Read more »
It’s so hot in the city, you’d think I’d be making another batch of lemonade—but I’ve got a hankering for some Internet Soup. It’s been a while since the last batch, so dig in! Scientists know that pigs prefer a life like Arnold Ziffel’s—full of Green Acres and some “luxuries” … … but this pug … Read more »
If you don’t want people to start chanting, “Fatty, fatty two-by-four, can’t fit through KFC’s door,” you might want to put down that drumstick and pick up some Gardein buffalo wings instead. A recent study of hundreds of thousands of Europeans revealed that the more meat people ate, the more weight they gained over time—and … Read more »
BrokenSphere / CC by 1.0 Here’s a toxic tidbit from the “Gross Meat Facts” files: Chickens who are raised for their flesh are routinely given feed laced with Roxarsone, an additive that contains—are you ready for this—arsenic. May we suggest a new slogan for the nugget bucket? “Potent poison in every piece!” The fact is, … Read more »
“The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club.” If, however, the fight club involves forcing mice to battle one another in a stupid and barbaric experiment, you know we’re going to talk about it. Recently, vivisectors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (sheep abuse ring a bell?) studied the effect … Read more »
If you participate in demonstrations, you might have experienced a bit of frustration at the occasional rude comments or less-than-perfect weather conditions. Next time that happens, spare a thought for Edward, a PETA Asia campaigner who was arrested as he got out of a cab dressed as a chicken for a Kentucky Fried Cruelty protest … Read more »
At PETA, we sometimes embrace things that others might call “bizarre,” like Andy Dick’s interview as Ronald McDonald with Jiminy Glick. So when people started ringing our phones wanting our reaction to the recent news that Mike Myers is “kind of obsessed” with painting KFC’s Colonel Sanders, we might have puzzled some callers who assumed … Read more »
Just about everyone is badmouthing KFC’s vile new Double Down sandwich. (Gee, wonder why?) Guess which celebrity just called it the “double bypass” and said, “I just don’t see a need for it, it’s like handing people a gun”? Andy Dick Rachael Ray Lil Wayne Queen Latifah Check out the CNN clip for the … Read more »
The work of British guerrilla artist Banksy can’t be ignored. Indeed, Time just selected him as one of the year’s most influential people. Now the painting provocateur has cheekily twitted one of PETA’s frequent targets: Colonel Sanders, the very face of Kentucky Fried Cruelty. Image from http://www.banksy.co.uk/. Sure, art is subjective, but in … Read more »
We can only hope so—and we mean that in the nicest possible way! When PETA learned that Springfield, Oregon, comedian Aaron Jamison, who has terminal cancer, is selling ad space on his urns to offset his bills, we were dying to help. Aaron must be a great guy because he took us up on our … Read more »
© Joshua Katcher Just so you know how low KFC will stoop to make a sale, the company has started selling its cancer-linked chicken in pink buckets to raise money for breast cancer research. This is almost beyond belief, considering that among the secret ingredients in KFC’s Kentucky Grilled Chicken are PhIP and other chemicals … Read more »
As if cutting off chickens’ beaks and scalding birds alive weren’t dirty enough, KFC has broken some pretty foul food-hygiene rules at one of its busiest branches in the U.K. In 2008, health inspectors found mice, flies, and cockroaches during an inspection of the carry-out restaurant. Originally denying this and other violations (including failure to … Read more »
