For the next five days, we are going to present you with fun stuff: environmentally friendly blog posts that we hope will leave compassion as your only dietary option. As you may have heard, raising animals for food is the number one cause of climate change and its frightening side effects. And that’s not just … Read more »
Forget paying to check your luggage or being charged for an in-flight drink; if you’re a passenger on United Airlines with a little extra “personal baggage,” the airline might charge you double. United says that overweight passengers must pay for two seats instead of one. That’s why PETA is asking to put up a billboard … Read more »
From Los Angeles, California, to Paducah, Kentucky and from Berlin, Germany, to Zagreb, Croatia—all around the world, caring people are taking to the streets to protest against the shameful Canadian seal slaughter. These caring activists are showing Canada that the world will not tolerate this bloody massacre. We’ve posted many entries on this blog with … Read more »
Some people just need to have things spelled out for them before they catch on. At this very moment, the seal slaughter is staining the ice floes of Canada blood red, despite all the not-so-subtle hints that we’ve been dropping to let Canada know that allowing a massacre to take place on its territory is … Read more »
Australian vocalist Missy Higgins is no newcomer to PETA. A few years back, she graciously appeared in one of our most adorable pro-vegetarian ads ever. Now she is lending her star power to an equally adorable new PETA anti-fur ad. Joining the ranks of Charlize Theron and Friday Night Lights actor Aimee Teegarden, the award-winning … Read more »
mediabistro / CC Magic 8-Ball says, “Outlook good.” According to a recent piece in the New York Post, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg paid a visit to Morton’s Steakhouse in downtown Brooklyn, “but refrained from eating any meat and was ‘strictly vegetarian.’” Think Bloomberg has been talking to our friend Chris P. Carrot? Chris … Read more »
stuffthathappens / CC Without spam e-mail, there could be no “Who got the funniest spam today?” (I won today with “You can look fancy even if you are a simple taxi driver.”) But is spam destroying the Earth? It turns out that spam has a heck of a carbon footprint. According to a recently … Read more »
moonbattery / CC To paraphrase Adam Ant, he don’t drink, don’t smoke, what does he do? He eats a vegetarian diet too! Of course, I’m talking about Newark, New Jersey’s teetotaling, carrot-crunching mayor, Cory Booker. So, if any mayor would be likely to take us up on our suggestion to ban fast-food restaurants, it would … Read more »
i.realone / CC A lot of cool stuff happened to me when I was in college, but, I have to admit, nothing was as cool as what’s happened to an animal rights group at Michigan State University. The MSU group is working hard to push for a permanent circus ban on their campus, and … Read more »
floridahumanist / CC Did you know that in addition to being the award-winning director of Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July, Oliver Stone is a decorated Army veteran? He’s earned a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. Stone’s interest in the military and his compassion for animals is what prompted him to … Read more »
If you haven’t given up wool yet, here are five reasons to make that commitment to animals now: Faith, Lily, Mae, Pete, and Lucy. These are some of the sheep whose suffering was documented by a group of concerned Australians who have been wrangling with do-nothing authorities to help a horribly neglected flock. This is … Read more »
smeis.files / CC The ritual of report card day has struck fear into the hearts of children for generations. As though bringing your grades home for mom and dad to sign weren’t enough to dread, Massachusetts students have yet another report to start worrying about. The state’s Public Health Council recently decided to institute … Read more »
John Salley is the first man to win four different NBA championships with three different teams, the man who helped lead the Bulls to their record 72-win season, the current host of the Best Damn Sports Show Period, an actor in one of my favorite movies of all time and … alright, I’m gushing. We’ll … Read more »
silverbearcafe / CC Digging through tax records, deciphering difficult directions, and struggling with simple math totally sucks. What doesn’t suck? The tax refund that results from this headache. Whether your tax refund is already in the bank or somewhere in the mail, here are some cool and cruelty-free things to do with that extra coin: … Read more »
Every year on tax day, I do two things: Drag out the process of filling in my 1040 by surfing the Internet looking for tax day deals. End up fuming because the only things anyone ever offers are cheap burgers and free tacos, and my 1040 still sits on my desk waiting to … Read more »
