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PETA Celebrates National Topless Day

Enjoy! Pamela Anderson is willing to bare her skin to save animals on fur farms. Lucy Clarkson, former Lara Croft model, protesting the Queen’s Guards’ caps for PETA U.K. PETA protesting Mars outside the M&Ms World store in Times Square PETA U.K.’s Running of the Nudes Check out the NSFW version of Keeley’s PETA ad. … Read more »

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EU’s Ban on Seal Fur Suspended!

  The European Union’s historic ban on the sale of seal products was set to take effect tomorrow. This ban was poised to end the sale of all fur torn from the bodies of seals who are killed during Canada’s commercial seal slaughter. But in the 11th hour the ban was suspended by the European … Read more »

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Fox Comes to the Aid of Minks

With Sweden poised to consider whether it should ban all fur factory farms (the country has already banned fox fur farms), the Stockholm-based Animal Rights Alliance has just released a new video showing the horrors that it found during its undercover investigation of 17 mink farms across the country. To help ensure that the footage … Read more »

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Hotties: ‘Hey, We’re Made of Meat!’

Officials in Montréal may have banned Pamela Anderson’s pro-veggie ad, but thongs—I mean, throngs—of folks in Victoria came out to greet these two bold PETA babes and hear their take on the subject:     Two things are certain: They’re hot, and they give meat the cold shoulder. The big question is, do you? Written … Read more »

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The Fighting Bull’s Last Stand

Forty spectators were hurt when a terrified, frantic, and injured bull leapt for his life from a Spanish bullfighting arena and ran through the stands trying to escape. We regret that there is no shame in Navarra: The bull was recaptured and killed.       Some media outlets have spun this story as if … Read more »

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A ‘Benefit’ Employees Can Do Without

I don’t think this quite qualifies as a work perk: Starting next year, obese government workers in South Carolina will be able to get stomach-shrinking surgery through the state’s health insurance plan. Lawmakers created the new “benefit” in order to combat the state’s growing obesity epidemic. While it’s great that the government wants to help … Read more »

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The Pony Express Rides Again!

TuesdayHorse / CC Philanthropist and activist Madeleine Pickens needs your help to save a whole bunch of wild horses who are now in peril. Our pal Madeleine’s “Pony Express Campaign” is working to stop Bureau of Land Management (BLM) round-ups in which wild horses and burros suffer great anguish when they are captured, housed in … Read more »

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Sunny-Side Up, Down, and Out

More than a quarter of a billion eggs—a quarter of a billion!—have reportedly been recalled because of an outbreak of salmonella that has sickened hundreds of people in at least three states. A nationwide recall of 13 brands sold by an Iowa egg factory farm has launched a multi-agency investigation that is only expected to … Read more »

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The Cat Says: What a Difference a Year Makes

Remember the sweet, starving, and nearly bald cat whose owner abandoned her on the street in front of PETA’s parking lot last year? Today, Nadia is thriving in an adoring, permanent home! With consistent feedings and regular flea prevention, all her hair has grown back and she has gained some much-needed weight (when PETA Foundation … Read more »

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‘Last Chance Highway’ Goes Faux

Is that a real fur vest being worn by dog rescuer Shelly Bookwalter on Last Chance Highway, Animal Planet’s great new show about a trucking company that transports homeless dogs in the South to new homes in the North?     Inquiring minds need to know, and the word we received from an Animal Planet … Read more »

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Speedo-Wearing Sheep Strikes

Australian opposition leader Tony Abbott holds a lot of sway when it comes to Australia’s sheep. The proof? He inspired PETA Australia’s Lucy the Sheep, who is following him all over the place these days, to wear a red Speedo similar to his (in)famous “budgie smuggler.” (Warning: The link is possibly NSFW.)     Maybe … Read more »

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‘True Blood’ Star Sinks Teeth Into Chimpanzee Fight

True Blood‘s Kristin Bauer and veteran actor Gene Hackman have joined PETA, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Animal Protection of New Mexico, and other animal rights groups in speaking out against the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) plan to transfer more than 200 “retired” chimpanzees from New Mexico to Texas—where they will likely be … Read more »

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Cosmetics Casualties

We’re carefully watching a bill that was recently introduced in Congress. The Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010 (SCA) aims to ensure the safety of all cosmetics ingredients. Sounds great, right? I know I don’t want to smear toxic chemicals on my face or swipe them across my lips. On the surface, the SCA looks wonderful: … Read more »

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Catholic Priest: Absolving Sins, Saying Mass–and Farming Foxes for Fur?

Sheep may safely graze, but foxes are out of luck at an abysmal fur farm in Joliet, Illinois, that’s run by, of all people, a Catholic priest. PETA recently filed a complaint with law-enforcement authorities regarding the fox fur farm, which is operated by the Rev. Richard Ross of St. Bernard Catholic Church in Joliet. … Read more »

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Update: Puppy Mutilator Sanctioned

Jeff Pearce / CC by 2.0 As a result of PETA’s letters, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology has issued retractions for two of the studies conducted by Gerardo L. Paez, the experimenter we told you about last week who cut out puppies’ eyes and then lied about the results. Even better, the … Read more »

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