When we first announced our plan to find the “Sexiest Vegetarian Soldier,” we meant to end up with just one winner. But how could we come up with just one winner when there are five branches of the military that are equally deserving—and equally sexy? That’s why we’ve selected one winner each from the Army, … Read more »
wired / CC President-elect Barack Obama has promised Americans a “21st century government”—one that we at PETA feel needs to address animal welfare. The growing concern for how we as a nation treat our animals is evidenced by last month’s majority support for California’s Proposition 2, which will require animals on factory farms to be … Read more »
When we were first alerted to the atrocities that were being committed in the name of education at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine in St. Kitts, we sprung into immediate action through our action alert, on the streets, and in important meetings. The students there were being forced to mutilate and kill hundreds of … Read more »
abc / CC It’s a good day for mice and rats in Taiwan! Thanks to a whistleblower, PETA’s Laboratory Investigations Department got a tip that led us into high-level talks with National Yang-Ming University’s president about her school’s cruel pharmacology experiments. And what do you know—the university has decided to end not one but two … Read more »
Katherine Heigl wearing our “Have a PETA Day” T-shirt OK, if you’re like me, you cancel all your plans, shut off your cell phone, lock your door, and glue yourself to your couch every Thursday at 9 p.m. for none other than the greatest hour of television all week: Grey’s Anatomy. Well, last night was … Read more »
Happy Halloween, animal lovers! I hope you all took our costume advice this year. I’m planning to see tons of Trollsens and Colonels wandering the streets tonight in search of fab vegan candy. Before your teeth begin to ache from too much sugar and your costume gets retired for another year, check out the best … Read more »
Click the photo to view the slideshow at LAWeekly.comCredit: C.R. Stecyk III As promised, we have an update regarding the relocation of endangered desert tortoises, which army officials began airlifting earlier this year in preparation for the land expansion of Fort Irwin in California. To jog your memory a bit: The desert tortoises had been … Read more »
In honor of Halloween (and our peta2 zombie protesters), let me start this out by saying, “Braaaaaains!” Good—now that I’ve got that out of my system, we can talk about the 11 awesome professional athletes who have all agreed to donate their brains to science! That’s right, these athletes—including six retired NFL players, among others—will … Read more »
Four monkey-masked PETA members paid Yale a little visit yesterday in honor of National Primate Liberation Week. As motorists passed underneath the banner-wielding monkeys, they were reminded that “Yale Murders Monkeys.” Well, specifically, Yale imprisons monkeys in tiny cages, mutilates them, injects them with poison, forces drug addiction on them, and eventually kills … Read more »
She may have a funny name, but she’s no classroom cut-up. Just in time for Cut Out Dissection Month (October), PETA intern Jennifer Thornburg has officially changed her name to CutOut Dissection.com. Latin for “compassionate frog lover” (I might have made that up), CutOut Dissection.com is on a mission to cut dissection out of school … Read more »
Michael B. Hennessycarleton / CC With Halloween this month and scary B movies certain to flood theatres (and the U.S. Postal Service via Netflix), we’re going to honor October’s worst vivisector with a special honor: the Frankenscience Award. We’ll serve up two “scientists” with horrendous records of drugging, isolating, and otherwise torturing animals and allow … Read more »
The war in Iraq may be thousands of miles away and across one good-sized ocean, but there’s another scuffle going on over desert lands that are closer to home. U.S. soldiers are in a territory dispute with one of the Mohave’s oldest inhabitants: California Tortoises. LA Weekly reports that after years of coexisting with these … Read more »
In 2007, PETA received a call from a whistleblower who tipped us off to a Cleveland lab, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF), that performed a fatal brain surgery on a dog for a useless medical-device sales demonstration. Fast forward to 2008. PETA has received yet another tip from a whistleblower because of yet another alleged … Read more »
Sad news—House Peters Jr., the man we all know and love as Mr. Clean, passed away yesterday at the respectable age of 92. I pretty much love the character of Mr. Clean. In a world of cleaning-product commercials featuring only women, Mr. Clean’s gender-stereotype–defying presence was always refreshing. (Plus, he had an earring, which is … Read more »
David Gozal louisville / CC It’s time once again for my favorite PETA Files feature: our Vivisector of the Month contest. Each and every month, I read up on two of our nation’s most vile vivisectors and let you, our dear readers, decide who is the worst by voting. Let me begin by recognizing Marina … Read more »
