When Food Network chef Giada De Laurentiis asked her viewers what they’d like her to cook, they overwhelmingly requested more vegetarian meals. In fact, De Laurentiis predicts vegetarian meals will be the hot trend in 2012, and in preparation, she’s been testing a variety of mouthwatering vegetarian concoctions. She says in a Food Network video … Read more »
Most fashion trends don’t last beyond a season, but here’s one ancient trend that’s still en vogue: shunning leather for Yom Kippur. Of course, on the Jewish Day of Atonement, it would be tough to expiate while wrapped in the skin of an animal who had his or her throat cut and was possibly skinned … Read more »
PETA’s band of bovines had Georgia on their minds when dairy farmers and suppliers brought their propaganda-filled displays to the International Dairy Show in Atlanta. Our “cows” told passersby what the dairy farmers wouldn’t—that cows are continually impregnated in order to force them to keep producing milk and that their babies are taken from them … Read more »
It has been a week of milestones at PETA. Sunday we told you about the 30th anniversary of the Silver Spring monkeys case, PETA’s first investigation, which thrust animal rights into mainstream consciousness. Today, PETA’s first cookbook, The Compassionate Cook: Or, “Please Don’t Eat the Animals!” is being re-released to celebrate its 18th anniversary. Authored … Read more »
Get ready to practice your high-fives and Bronx cheers—here’s our quasi-monthly round-up of animal friends and foes: Kisses to California for making the water safer for sharks. The state banned the sale, trade, or possession of shark fins, which are cut off live sharks who are then thrown back into the water to sink to … Read more »
Originally posted by Forbes.com Michael Tobias (MT) What is the most pressing problem that animal rights groups like PETA face today? Ingrid Newkirk: (IN) That’s a bit like asking which shoes pinch the most. It’s got to be what people eat, simply because, while not everyone wears fur or experiments on animals, everyone eats. That … Read more »
It was a proud night for vegans last night, as season two of The Great Food Truck Race got rolling, featuring the PETA-award-winning Seabirds vegan food truck. As they travel the country, contestants buy local ingredients at each town they stop in and compete to prepare the best dishes. If there’s one thing that the … Read more »
Update: The CW affiliate in Columbus, Ohio, WWHO-TV, has agreed to air PETA’s “Turkey Terrorism” TV spot twice a day from August 15 through 19 during Divorce Court and Judge Karen, two shows whose audience consists largely of stay-at-home parents who are often in charge of grocery shopping. It took months—and people in at least … Read more »
“America’s diner” just got a little bit finer. Denny’s is now buying nearly all of its turkeys from a slaughterhouse that uses controlled atmosphere killing (CAK), the least cruel poultry slaughter method available. bll123123/cc by 2.0 Denny’s positive step for animals came after PETA discussed with the chain how birds killed using CAK are put … Read more »
Two recent studies prove what most of us vegetarians already knew: vegetarian diets are cheaper and more nutritious than meat-based ones. Two Oklahoma State University professors studying costs and benefits of vegetarian diets found that vegetarian foods cost less to both produce and consume than animal products. For example, the researchers determined that obtaining a … Read more »
Steve-O flips pizza with Nanci Alexander at her restaurant, Sublime, in south Florida. In honor of Culinarians Day, we’ve whipped up a list of some of our favorite vegan celebrity chefs, chefs who cook for celebrities, and cruelty-free restaurants where you might just catch celebrities chowing down. Tasty! Check it out: Tal Ronnen: A graduate … Read more »
Melissa d’Arabian makes a lot of budget-conscious families happy with her Food Network show Ten Dollar Dinners. She’s saving a lot of animals, too, by showcasing tasty meatless creations that would make even the most hardened carnivore’s mouth water. And d’Arabian is quick to point out that almost all her recipes can easily be made vegetarian … Read more »
All photos © Starmax Inc. Ellen DeGeneres, Gordon Ramsay, and Entourage star Adrian Grenier are among the many stars who have recently done something noteworthy for animals: Guess who was named MVP of the MLB All-Star Game? Yep, that would be vegetarian royalty Prince Fielder. Just when you thought you couldn’t love PETA’s 2009 Woman of the … Read more »
It was unseasonably hot on Capitol Hill when PETA’s Lettuce Ladies arrived for the annual Congressional Veggie Dog Giveaway. The leafy lovelies were greeted by a long line of people anxiously awaiting their arrival, ready for food and photo ops. Can you imagine your representative in one of these? Joining the Lettuce Ladies … Read more »
A Formula 1 race became “Formula Wow” when PETA’s smokin’ hot pit crew showed racing enthusiasts in Montréal, Québec, that nothing makes a body’s engine stall like animal products. The enthusiastic crowd outside the race fueled up on vegan barbecue Tofurky sausages and took home “Think Before You Eat” leaflets. When they read about how consumption of … Read more »
