Trendsetting U.K.-based retailer Topshop teamed up with PETA U.K. to make over the window of its Oxford Street flagship store for the weekend and send a message to shoppers that exotic skins are not in. (Take that, Beyoncé.) In order to make handbags, shoes, and Super Bowl halftime outfits, snakes are commonly nailed to … Read more »
Update: PETA has filed a lawsuit against the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets under the state’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) seeking records relating to Adirondack Farms, LLC—the subject of last year’s undercover PETA investigation that revealed routine abuse and neglect of cows (see below for details). © Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Despite … Read more »
Happy New Year! Yes, already—at least in places where the Lunar New Year is observed, including China. To join our Chinese friends in celebrating the start of the Year of the Snake, we’re featuring one of PETA’s most memorable snake-themed ads, in which lovely actor, dancer, and producer Jenna Dewan-Tatum exposes the distinctly not-so-lovely side of … Read more »
Last week marked the end of legal public nudity in San Francisco—and you wouldn’t expect PETA to sit it out, would you? Several all-star volunteers gathered full-monty style at City Hall to protest the theft of animals’ skins by declaring that they are comfortable in their own skin. Unlike humans, who can (or at least used … Read more »
If holiday shoppers needed divine intervention to persuade them to keep animal skins off their lists, that’s exactly what they got. A saintly duo of PETA “angels” has been crisscrossing Canada in cherubic attire to help people in the frozen north be angelic to animals this winter by eschewing fur, leather, wool, down, and exotic skins. … Read more »
Here’s some welcome news: Despite the barrage of deceptive dairy industry propaganda, sales of cow’s milk—already in free fall—have plummeted in the U.S. It seems that more and more consumers are getting the message that dairy foods are as bad for our health as they are for the well-being of cows. To make sure the downward … Read more »
The day after Thanksgiving is Black Friday, when the holiday gift-shopping season really gets underway. But for animal rights advocates nationwide, it’s Fur-Free Friday, also an occasion to hit the stores—to urge consumers not to buy into the cruelty of the skins trade. Yes, “skins.” Even on Fur-Free Friday, it’s important to remember that fur isn’t the … Read more »
Ann Taylor and LOFT wearers, rejoice! The parent company of those iconic clothing and accessory brands, ANN INC., has banned the use of exotic-animal skins in its product lines after meeting with PETA and learning about the extreme animal suffering caused by the exotic-skins industry. The company’s newly revised animal welfare policy reads, “Our private label … Read more »
Wrongdoers, watch out—wearing animals’ skins and fur is a total (and literal) rip-off, but PETA, as always, is on the case! October has been declared Crime Prevention Month by the National Crime Prevention Council, and we’re glad to do our part here at The PETA Files—after all, it’s the least any animal advocate could do … Read more »
Update 2: Following a successful stint at the Kansas State Fair—during which people were able to watch video footage of factory farms—PETA has voluntarily dismissed its free-speech lawsuit against the fair. Many fairgoers were pleased to receive the free vegan and vegetarian recipes. Most tellingly, the majority of the farmers who watched PETA’s footage admitted … Read more »
Did Anne Hathaway purposefully schedule her wedding just before World Farm Animals Day? It’s possible, since the committed animal advocate celebrated her nuptials with a vegan feast. To commemorate both World Farm Animals Day and Anne’s big day, PETA is sponsoring a steer named Peter, who resides at The Cow Sanctuary in New Jersey, in … Read more »
What do you say to a naked, bloody lady in a shoebox? How about “Hi”? No, that’s not a joke. It’s what Midwesterners must have been asking themselves as they encountered PETA’s latest demonstration, in which two of the aforementioned “bloody,” naked (well, nearly) women lay inside a giant shoebox. Check out the scene in … Read more »
Chick-fil-A, the house of the homophobic waffle fries, wants homosexual people just to accept not having equal rights and chickens just to accept having their throats slashed and being scalded to death. But a flock of protesters crashed Chick-fil-A’s Appreciation Day to show that they don’t appreciate the fast-food chain’s efforts to keep people in … Read more »
We’ve all seen the awesome YouTube videos of cows who were being lovey-dovey with dogs, cats, and all sorts of other animals. So it’s not surprising that a cow joined her chicken buddy at the opening of a Chick-fil-A food truck to ask people to be chicken champions and not eat either of them: On … Read more »
On Dairy Day in Albany—when dairy industry representatives flood the New York capitol—State Sen. Tony Avella, a friend to animals and member of the Agriculture Committee, joined PETA in calling on Agri-Mark, Inc., maker of Cabot and McCadam cheeses, to end animal abuse on its suppliers’ farms. Cow Care Inaction Three months have passed since … Read more »
