Just in time for the start of the cruel Maine Lobster Festival, PETA has revealed that it snuck a pro-lobster message into New England’s iconic baseball stadium. Visitors to Fenway Park—home of the Boston Red Sox—can find the phrase hidden in one of the commemorative bricks there by combining the first letters of the words … Read more »
I was in a sandwich shop getting lunch the other day when I noticed something wrong with the fish tank in the back. No bubbles! A powerful storm had downed trees four days earlier and knocked out power to 2 million people, but most businesses, including the sandwich shop, were open again. But the tank’s filter and … Read more »
It’s not a fish tale—PETA’s persuasive Freeda Fish paraded down a Pensacola pier asking hookers to quit the business. While the hooking they were doing might not have been illegal, it certainly wasn’t very nice to fish, so Freeda made sure that the fresh catch of this day was the insight that fish are friends, … Read more »
The Miami Marlins swing into the regular season in a new ballpark, opening tonight, featuring engraved pavement stones in the East Plaza, one of which reads: As you may have detected, the first letters of the words in this message spell out “FishingHurts.com,” a Web address that brings up a page on PETA’s website about … Read more »
Lasse Hallström’s Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, might not sound like a film that would be fishing for praise from PETA, but the filming of the drama went swimmingly, thanks to fake fish. [View: A Brief Fishstory This isn’t the first time that fake fish have made a splash … Read more »
When officials in a New Jersey city drained most of a park pond to dredge the sides, workers drained too much water, and numerous fish were stranded on the banks and suffocated. The fish who survived were huddled in shallow pools that were nearly frozen and were trying to stay alive in the frigid weather. … Read more »
Tuesday’s Dan Rather Reports will present exclusive and disturbing video footage of the barbaric and inhumane practice known as “shark-finning,” which is when fishers pull live sharks from the water, cut off their fins, and then dump them back into the water while still alive. PETA Interview With Dan Rather PETA’s Colleen O’Brien interviewed Rather … Read more »
It sounds like the plot of a Disney movie, but this video of a pig and dog who are best buds would warm even Walt’s cryogenically frozen heart. “Don’t mind me.” After committing the most adorable case of breaking and entering ever, a baby seal curled up on a New Zealand woman’s couch for a … Read more »
The new year is already looking a bit brighter for animals: A PETCO store in Dickson City, Pennsylvania, has announced that it will close permanently on January 1—which is great news for the hamsters, gerbils, mice, fish, and other small animals who suffer and die every day in PETCO’s stores and suppliers’ facilities. “Life” for … Read more »
Are crows into Grand Theft Auto? These brainy birds steal windshield wiper blades for reasons known only to themselves, although having fun with them might be the answer. Ravens seem more interested in studying sign language. Like primates and humans, the birds use gestures to communicate—in this case, pointing with their beaks. SteveD | cc … Read more »
It must’ve been a terribly hard decision—whether to use 2.3 billion yen ($29 million) from Japan’s tsunami reconstruction budget for, you know, tsunami reconstruction or to put it toward propping up the country’s barbaric and widely condemned whale slaughter …. Well played flayed, Japan.
River Beach | cc by 2.0 On the heels of the record $270,000 penalty paid by Feld Entertainment—the parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus—PETA is renewing our call for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to deny the company’s application to import eight tigers and a leopard in violation of … Read more »
Sure, scientists in Dallas may have come up with an invisibility cloak, but octopuses and squid beat them to the punch. Masters of disguise, among the tricks up their tentacle sleeves is this one: They manipulate sacs of black pigment on their skin to either shroud them in darkness to match the water or reveal … Read more »
Brrr! A cold spell has gripped us here in Los Angeles, with night temperatures dipping down into the 50s—much too cold for Angelenos … and for goldfish. When the guardians of one rescued goldfish, Sadie, turned on her tank’s water heater this week, she immediately swam over to bask in the warmth, just like a … Read more »
Do you know what you’re seeing when you look at seafood? It seems that most of us don’t. When Consumer Reports tested 190 different samples of fish from restaurants and stores, they found that more than 20 percent were being marketed as something other than what they actually were. A similar investigation by the Boston … Read more »
