According to The Smoking Gun Lady Gaga’s caught in a new romance, and this one ain’t so bad. The website got its hands on Gaga’s latest concert rider, and the newest addition to it is a request for Yves vegan hot dogs. Maybe she’s trying to do right by Miss Piggy after wearing her boyfriend … Read more »
Last week, PETA’s Community Animal Project (CAP) received a call for help from an indigent man whom we had already provided with a doghouse and spay surgery for his own dog. The man had tried, without success, to nurse back to health two sickly dogs whom he had found by the side of the road … Read more »
Dogfighters are cowardly scum. Just ask the “Scumdogs of the Universe”—better known as thrash-metal band GWAR, whose lead shrieker Oderus Urungus unleashes his wrath on dogfighting in a new peta2 video. In the video, a chained GWAR “slave” is pitted against Guy Kozowyk of metal masters The Red Chord in a WWE-esque, no-holds-barred … Read more »
Mike Johnson – TheBusyBrain.com / CC by 2.0 Q: If “Happiness Is a Dead Animal,” then what does that make a malnourished, exhausted, or mistreated animal? A: A hot dog, according to the meat industry, which recently admitted that it uses dark, firm, and dry (DFD) meat—which “can be the result of prolonged stress in … Read more »
Pop quiz: What are urticating hairs?(polls) If you answered A without checking out the Wiki page, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that you already read about the man in Leeds, England, who was cleaning his tarantula’s tank when he was shot in the face with urticating hairs early … Read more »
Earlier this year, Travis, a 15-year-old “pet” chimpanzee, was stabbed repeatedly, pounded with a shovel, and finally shot to death after he attacked a Connecticut woman named Charla Nash. Yesterday, Ms. Nash, who has been in a hospital since the attack, appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and spoke for the first time about her … Read more »
mediabistro / CC Purrrrr. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to make disabling declawing cats illegal, and other California cities are set to vote on similar measures this week. Painful and traumatic, declawing is really 10 separate amputations in which the last joint of every single toe gets cut off along with the … Read more »
When I was in high school, I took a peanut butter sandwich with me for lunch every day. Every. Single. Day. For four long years. My mother probably thought I was being stubborn just to annoy her, but the truth is that even before I stopped eating animals, I couldn’t stomach the cafeteria’s nauseating (and … Read more »
compliance-helpline / CC At least one corporation that stood to profit from Michael Vick’s NFL reinstatement has decided to put morals before money. While the NFL rushed to reinstate Michael Vick the second his ankle bracelet hit the floor, sporting goods giant Dick’s has made it clear that it cares more about animals then it … Read more »
Last week, Elizabeth Carlisle appeared in court to face cruelty-to-animals charges for allegedly drowning two rabbits while she was working at a Petland store in Akron, Ohio. On the day of Carlisle’s arraignment, local PETA members and other outraged members of the community stood outside the courthouse calling on Akron’s chief city prosecutor, Douglas J. … Read more »
Thanks to Richard Cohen for his Washington Post piece in which he asks if some sports reporters have a special key on their typewriters for “He’s served his time.” Michael Vick has indeed served his time, and that entitles him to walk free in our society. And as he walks, he can remember how lucky … Read more »
To clarify PETA’s position on pit bulls: We’re for ’em. By “for ’em,” I mean that we are for pit bull protection, for their happiness, and for treating them like dogs instead of like cheap burglar alarms, punching bags, or gladiators in perverted death matches. Some pit bull fanciers out there seem to think that … Read more »
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s show time. We have a new video to add to our list of hard hitters—our “To Animals, It’s Not Entertainment” video, which takes you behind the razzle-dazzle of the entertainment industry to let you witness the routine abuses that animals suffer in circuses and on film sets—abuses such as frequent beatings … Read more »
alltalksports / CC Michael Vick was released from prison early this morning after less than two years behind bars and is headed back to Hampton, Virginia, where he’ll serve the final two months of his sentence under house arrest. In January, after a U.S. Department of Agriculture report on Vick’s dogfighting activities revealed that … Read more »
