Puppy and kitty kisses to the city of Toronto for banning retail sales of dogs and cats, which will prevent breeding and give the awesome animals in shelters a greater chance at finding a home. Hisses to Eric Poeschla at the Mayo Clinic, whose creepy experiments with glow-in-the-dark kittens are so nauseating that they make us … Read more »
When vegan swimmer and PETA Foundation staffer Becky Fenson set her mind to tackling the exhilarating 10K international Little Red Lighthouse Swim on New York’s Hudson River, she wasn’t just doing it for herself, she was also raising awareness about animal rights and the benefits of a vegan diet. Determined to make a good showing for PETA, Becky was … Read more »
The people have spoken, and here’s the winning caption for last week’s 10% Wool comic contest! We’re in the process of contacting the winner, so be sure to check your in-box! Imagine Skip’s and Suzie’s surprise when they discovered they’d BOTH kissed the frog in hopes of finding their prince! And now we’re holding a … Read more »
It’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and in a recent interview with Access Hollywood, breast cancer survivor and Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge spoke out about the role of diet in preventing cancer. ”Our own western lifestyle is one of the reasons that half of us have cancer,” she said. “[T]he meats, the processed foods … and it’s … Read more »
Experts are calling on director Cameron Crowe to stop using primates as props in his films, like his upcoming We Bought a Zoo: World-renowned primatologist Dr. Shirley McGreal, chairperson of the International Primate Protection League, has written to Crowe asking him to leave primates out of the picture, saying, “Capuchin monkeys belong in the … Read more »
It’s here! “Hug a Vegetarian” Day has arrived, and it’s the perfect time to show some love to the people who are showing love to animals. The average vegetarian saves about 100 animals every year from cruelty and abuse on factory farms. That’s definitely worth a few X’s and O’s. PETA’s youth division, peta2, held … Read more »
In Wednesday’s New York Times dining section, someone thought it would be a riot to take the decapitated, amputated, defeathered corpse of a chicken and prop the body up in a sexually suggestive “come hither” pose. PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk was not amused. “When I saw it, I just couldn’t believe that an editor … Read more »
This whale of a tale is true: Dolphin activist Hayden Panettiere traveled to the White House to thank President Obama for asking Iceland to ban hunting whales and exporting their meat. Fellow ocean-animal advocates Richard Branson and basketball legend Yao Ming are calling for a ban on shark-fin soup in China, where 95 percent of … Read more »
The first African woman ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Professor Wangari Maathai, has passed away after losing her battle with cancer. Recognizing that social progress and environmental protection go hand in hand, she founded The Green Belt Movement in 1977, providing job opportunities to women in rural areas of Kenya who planted millions … Read more »
We’re holding a new 10% Wool comic “Trump the Artist” contest! Here’s how it works: People read Jeff’s comic below and tried to come up with a better caption than the artist himself. We’ve chosen three user-submitted captions that best complement the strip to go up against the artist’s caption, and now it’s your chance … Read more »
Update: While SeaWorld’s hearing is in recess, PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk is giving the park some great reasons to use the time to evaluate how to get out of the captive-animal business. Read what she has to say here. The following was posted September 24, 2011 SeaWorld’s appeal has been adjourned until November, but … Read more »
Every animal advocate has been faced with a challenging situation at some point, be it a question we aren’t quite sure how to answer or even a person who is downright rude. In her 30 years at PETA’s helm, President Ingrid E. Newkirk has faced them all, and she wanted to share her wisdom for … Read more »
It might be the genesis of a new era in animal rights: Wearing nothing but her long, flowing hair, Angela Simmons—devout Christian, founder of Pastry, and niece of longtime PETA supporter Russell Simmons—made the poignant revelation that eating meat is wholly unholy in a new ad for PETA. “I want to open people’s eyes up. … Read more »
Update: In just over 24 hours, the “Stop Animal Homelessness at Its Roots” petition surpassed 5,000 signatures and became one of the first petitions to reach the level necessary to be sent to the Obama administration! Please keep asking everyone you know to sign this important petition so that we can alert the White House … Read more »
On day four of SeaWorld’s appeal, Shana Groves, a SeaWorld senior trainer who was bitten on the thigh by an orca during a performance five years ago, testified that she had completed an incident report as required by the marine park and was surprised to learn that the attack was one of the many episodes left out … Read more »
