wikimusicguide / CC “I just found out that I was voted ‘PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian!‘ How cool is that?!! Thank you so much for voting!! That was totally unexpected!! I was jumping up and down when I heard the news! I even Googled it to make sure I wasn’t being punk’d! Ha ha!!” —Kellie Pickler, MySpace.com … Read more »
Here’s a lovely follow-up to a story we mentioned earlier this year: The Cle Elum Seven are now honorary citizens of Cle Elum, Washington. The Cle Elum Seven are chimpanzees who were living out life in a laboratory, until we helped them gain their freedom and they were given a home at the Chimpanzee Sanctuary … Read more »
zimbio / CC “Fur is no longer being viewed as a way to floss and show off your status or bank account—it is now a billboard of cruelty on people’s back.”—Russell Simmons, globalGrind.com He’s the founder of Phat Farm, so if anyone knows style, it’s got to be Russell Simmons. In his recent globalGrind blog … Read more »
Last month, the Newmarket Council in Ontario voted to deny a permit to the Shrine Circus for performances that were scheduled to take place at Ray Twinney Recreation Complex on June 17 and 18 because of safety and other concerns. Unfortunately, the circus promoter decided to challenge the council’s vote. But all is not lost. … Read more »
Our friends over at globalGrind have given Tila Tequila a place to speak her mind, and the Queen of MySpace has some harsh words for animal abusers. kineda / CC Titling her post “Killing Animals is F**ING Wrong … It’s That Simple,” she’s giving raccoons, bunnies, foxes, and all animals killed for fur … Read more »
Yesterday, we broke the news that France’s first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, had written to PETA Senior Vice President Dan Mathews to assure him that although she wore fur back in her modeling days, she now refuses to wear even the smallest bits of fur. thecaucus.blogs.nytimes / CC Now, America’s first lady, the fabulously … Read more »
Did you hear that? It was the collective sigh of relief from raccoons, foxes, and minks—as well as human fur foes everywhere. It turns out that France’s first lady and international style icon Carla Bruni-Sarkozy refuses to wear fur. marieclaire / CC PETA Vice President Dan Mathews contacted Bruni-Sarkozy after seeing photos that … Read more »
dailyblabber.ivillage / CC Listen up, ladies! You know how there’s a never-ending list of female celebs willing to take it off to save animals, but sometimes men seem to be in short supply? Well, we’re proposing that one more gentleman be added to the ranks of guys like Steve-O and David Cross, who have participated … Read more »
While I’m told there was thunder booming throughout London early yesterday morning, the real storming was taking place around St. Paul’s cathedral, where 100 PETA Europe demonstrators sprawled across the steps wearing nothing but blood-red paint and bear masks. The naked demonstrators were there to protest the continued use of real bearskin for … Read more »
Desert temperatures rose even higher as PETA’s hot “cops” patrolled the Las Vegas strip, where they educated tourists about how animals suffer when they are killed and skinned to become boots, belts, and bags. Honeymooners, bachelor partygoers, and even some casino employees lined up to talk to and pose for photos with our “fashion police,” … Read more »
sacbee / CC Catch this small sampling of the terrific responses we’re getting to PETA’s Canadian maple syrup boycott: Joan Cushman wrote, “Canadians need to start a revolution in their own country to help the seal pups, and so when I hear it from the Canadian maple syrup makers that they are telling the government … Read more »
frontiersoups / CC Plainly put: Money talks, and governments are slow to change the status quo unless they are compelled by an overwhelming response from outside forces. Canada produces 85 percent of the world’s maple syrup, and the maple leaf is known throughout the world to represent Canada. And, unlike seal skins, which have been … Read more »
pelotes.jea / CC With the weather warming up, a lot of fur-wearers will be retiring their pelts to closets and vaults until autumn. But that doesn’t mean that “fur season” is over. Consider this—right now, the following is happening around the world: Baby seals are being shot and beaten on the ice floes off … Read more »
Olympic official Carol Gross really wants our Vancouver Olympics 2010 T-shirts off CafePress.com. As in, she literally wants them and all merchandise bearing PETA’s anti-fur parody of the Olympic logo removed from the CafePress Web site. Gross e-mailed CafePress asking that it “take necessary steps to prevent Sellers to advertise [sic] Olympic merchandise via … Read more »
When it comes to what we drizzle on our pancakes, grits, and oatmeal, we’ve all got our preferences. If, like me, you prefer pure maple syrup over Aunt Jemima or Log Cabin (corn) syrup, taking a minute to see where your favorite restaurants’ syrup comes from—and encouraging them not to buy the stuff imported from … Read more »
