The best show in Vegas last week wasn’t in a casino—it was on the sidewalk on Las Vegas Boulevard. Luck was a lady leopard (and a cow and a snake) when PETA’s “showgirls” stripped down on The Strip to reveal their animalistic bodypaint. Crowds flocked to the ladies like they were the hottest blackjack table, … Read more »
Reese Witherspoon left many people shell-shocked when she was spotted carrying a reptile handbag. The Legally Blonde star’s python-skin purse has been legally banned from being sold in California since 1970. PETA immediately rushed Reese the video exposé that her Walk the Line co-star Joaquin Phoenix narrated, showing how reptiles used for clothing and accessories … Read more »
Toronto Fashion Week is all about the clothes, but one star was there in the flesh—hers. With her naked body painted to resemble a lizard’s skin, Laura Vandervoort, of Smallville and V fame, stars in a new ad for PETA (shot by photographer Nick Saglimbeni) that she unveiled at Toronto Fashion Week while asking her … Read more »
While fashion designer Victoria Beckham, aka “Posh Spice,” has vowed that none of her collections will ever include a stitch of fur, for which we thank and praise her, she has been silent on the subject of whether or not her new handbag collection will contain the skins of crocodiles, snakes, and other reptiles killed … Read more »
What do cows, snakes, and foxes all agree on? That they would prefer to keep their skin right where it is, thank you very much. All three species (represented by body-painted PETA members) joined forces in Knoxville, Tennessee, to ask people to wear their own skin, not animals’. After our gals were done turning Knoxville … Read more »
In the wake of news reports that Arizona Cardinals defensive lineman Darnell Dockett recently acquired a “pet” alligator, whom he named Nino, PETA sent the defensive back a letter giving him a heads up that owning an alligator is unlawful in Arizona without a special permit and is heavily regulated in Florida (where Dockett acquired Nino). We’ve … Read more »
According to a statement on its website, athletic behemoth Adidas has sworn off the skins of exotic animals—including crocodiles, snakes, sharks, and fish—joining compassionate companies such as Nike and Cole Haan, H&M, Overstock.com, and Victoria’s Secret that rock the mock croc. Adidas also refuses to use fur or wool from sheep who were mulesed in any … Read more »
If you were the governor of a state struggling in the economic downturn and you had $100,000 to spend, what would you do with it? Restore programs cut from schools? Aid homeless shelters? Or promote alligator-skin golf shoes? Florida’s budget currently includes about $100,000 a year to market alligator skin, but Gov. Rick Scott wants … Read more »
We recently shared the good news that no reptiles were harmed in the making of the new movie Rango, starring reptile friend Johnny Depp, but Paramount Pictures, the distributer of the movie, has partnered with PetSmart in a terribly irresponsible promotion of impulse buying, offering a $10 discount on any reptile to customers with Rango … Read more »
If you’re going to abuse animals, you might want to wear some protective clothing: chilewilllyy/cc by 2.0 A fed-up rooster who was forced to fight one cockfight too many picks on somebody who is not his own size. A marlin uses his spiked snout to show an angler how it feels to get jabbed in … Read more »
furryscaly/CC by 2.0 You’d think that after a Connecticut woman’s face was ripped off by her friend’s “pet” chimpanzee—or after a toddler was strangled to death by her family’s python and a 9-year-old girl was mauled to death by her stepfather’s pet tiger—that lawmakers would step in and put an end to the carnage. Well, … Read more »
I’ve got vegan pumpkin pie on the brain, but over at London’s Daily Mirror newspaper, humble pie is on the menu today. The newspaper has issued an apology and a retraction over a story that it made up last month alleging that PETA was planning to pour animal blood on Victoria Beckham (aka Posh Spice) … Read more »
PETA’s newest sexy mascot, a “cow,” teamed up with our lovely “leopard” and “tiger” to spread the news to Toronto Fashion Week attendees that animal prints are in style but leather, suede, and other animal skins are always vile. Our brazen beauties were joined by students, one of whom brought her dad—and the caring crew … Read more »
Last week, Swiss TV network Schweizer Fernsehen (SF) aired a report (in German) showing the results of an investigation that exposed the cruelty of the exotic-skins export trade in Indonesia. Viewers learned that lizards are transported to slaughter by being tied up and stuffed inside plastic bags (where they may remain for days), that … Read more »
