canyon-country / CC PETA recently learned that two of the giraffes the late Michael Jackson used to house at Neverland Ranch have died while living under the apparently neglectful eye of Tom and Freddie Hancock—owners of Banjoko Wildlife Preserve, a pseudo-sanctuary in Page, Arizona—and that at least one of the giraffes may have died as … Read more »
Mali, an Asian elephant imprisoned at the Manila Zoo, was only 3 years old when she was torn away from her mother and shipped away to live in captivity. Share on Facebook | Viewing OptionsEmbed<embed src=”http://www.petatv.com/swf/video.swf?v=Mali_PSA_60_031609_high” _mce_src=”http://www.petatv.com/swf/video.swf?v=Mali_PSA_60_031609_high” quality=”high” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”335″ height=”255″ allowscriptaccess=”always”></embed> For more than 30 years, Mali has spent her days … Read more »
Just a few weeks ago, we celebrated the promised release of Robert—the tabby who was purchased by the University of Utah (the U) for $15 from the Davis County Animal Shelter and used in a cruel experiment in which his skull was cut open and electrodes were implanted in his brain. Robert has been adopted … Read more »
I ♥ Target. In addition to the mega-retailer carrying cruelty-free cosmetics and stylish, skin-free kicks, Target recently made the decision to save the lives of hundreds of frogs. When PETA found out that Target was selling a miniature aquarium called “Planet Frog”—a tiny, plastic prison that’s very similar to Brookstone’s “Frog-O-Sphere”—we reached out to the … Read more »
army-technology / CC For two years, we’ve been protesting the U.S. government’s declaration of war on animals. The military abuses thousands of healthy animals in trauma training exercises, even though superior non-animal methods are available. In these exercises, pigs are shot, stabbed, and burned; goats have their legs broken with bolt cutters and cut off … Read more »
imageenvision / CC Your best friend is hit by a car on a busy freeway, right in front of you. Would you risk your own life to pull him or her to safety? That’s exactly what one intrepid dog, did last year when he came to a friend’s rescue by risking his own life to … Read more »
zimbio / CC With Mason’s dashing arrival and our fave fauxvocative sister becoming Mrs. Lamar Odom, the Kardashian clan has been busy. But on last night’s episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Kim’s storyline went beyond her on-again sparks with Reggie Bush and made dog lovers everywhere give her “two paws up.” Kim … Read more »
Let me count the ways … in which PETA’s proposed chicken-feces sculpture of Colonel Sanders would be a perfect centerpiece for downtown Corbin, Kentucky, where Sanders set up mass-murder shop in the 50s. stevesayskanpai / CC The city of Corbin has plans to erect a bronze statue of Colonel Sanders, but before the … Read more »
Adult film star Sasha Grey knows that when animals are involved, you should always say “No” to sex. That’s why she’s baring it all in PETA’s newest ad, which the porn legend and star of Steven Soderbergh’s critically acclaimed The Girlfriend Experience unveiled after delivering the keynote speech today at the Adult Entertainment Expo in … Read more »
In his historic decision earlier this week, Arlington municipal judge Michael Smith noted that the evidence that our undercover investigator collected during months as an employee of the exotic animal warehouse U.S. Global Exotics (USGE)—including a picture of a hedgehog whose leg had been chewed off and video footage of dying snakes and a wallaby … Read more »
I think we can all agree that in this day and age, there’s no excuse for pore poor Photoshopping, but someone at Bloody Burberry seems to have missed that memo. hellomagazine / CC In what must have been a tragic Photoshop accident by the oh-so-tragic Burberry, actor Emma Watson seems to have lost … Read more »
i.telegraph.co.uk / CC In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the dolphins know to leave Earth before the planet is destroyed—and it looks like Douglas Adams was on to something. No, the planet isn’t in immediate peril (depending on your definition of “immediate”), but dolphins really are geniuses, second only to humans in … Read more »
Pop quiz: What are urticating hairs?(polls) If you answered A without checking out the Wiki page, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that you already read about the man in Leeds, England, who was cleaning his tarantula’s tank when he was shot in the face with urticating hairs early … Read more »
At 5′ 4″, I’m often the shortest person in a room, so I’ve frequently resorted to the maxim “good things come in small packages,” but I’ll admit it: Even I’m loving all 828 meters of the Burj Khalifa—which just opened in Dubai. The Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world and is breaking … Read more »