PETA Files readers, it’s your call. Who’s the cruelest monster of them all? The contenders for May’s Vivisector of the Month are vying hard for the title, and animals are suffering for it. John VandeBerg is the director of the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, Texas—one of the last laboratories in the world that … Read more »
Get Your Fix, the brand-new initiative of the FiXiT Foundation—a nonprofit dedicated to finding innovative ways to end companion-animal overpopulation—is kind of like the charity version of Let’s Make a Deal. It’s a networking site that connects people who want to spay or neuter their animals, but are having financial hardship, with donors who want … Read more »
I’ve got some great news and some not-so-great news. The great news is that the Toronto Zoo has heeded the call of animal defenders, including Bob Barker, and decided to close its elephant display, joining more than a dozen other zoos that have done the same thing. What’s more, the Toronto Zoo has agreed that … Read more »
What do you get when you combine a generous donation to PETA, The Simpsons, NBA star Ron Artest, and NFL linebacker Aaron Curry? Thousands of free and low-cost spay-and-neuter surgeries! On Friday at PETA’s headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, Norfolk Mayor Paul Fraim, along with Anna Ware of the Holland M. Ware Foundation and The … Read more »
The European Union has done it again. First it banned the sale of products from slaughtered seals, and now the European Parliament is requiring that all clothing containing any fur or leather whatsoever be clearly marked with labels stating, “Non-textile parts of animal origin.” Member of the European Parliament Eva-Britt Svensson of Sweden said the … Read more »
That’s the first line of acclaimed movie critic Roger Ebert’s review of Forks Over Knives, a new documentary that examines the effect that animal-based, highly processed diets have on our health and shows how diseases can be controlled or reversed with healthy, plant-based foods. Among the experts in the film is Dr. Neal Barnard, the founder … Read more »
And here’s our favorite caption for this weeks’ “10% Wool” comic contest! We’re in the process of contacting the winner, so be sure to check your inbox! No one flies south for the winter anymore since global warming … silly geese. Don’t forget to check out past 10% Wool comic strips and get more information on … Read more »
TV legend Bob Barker is appealing to North Carolina’s Cumberland County Board of Commissioners to let Ben, a distressed bear held prisoner at a dismal roadside zoo, retire to a sanctuary. Cumberland County had an ordinance in place banning exotic animals, but rather than enforcing the ban, county commissioners amended their own law specifically so that … Read more »
Voters in Ecuador recently banned bullfighting in the country, ending 500 years of stabbing bulls to death for “entertainment.” While it is still legal for matadors to fight bulls (as long as the animal is not killed), a similar 2004 restriction in the city of Cuenca resulted in the virtual disappearance of bullfighting. Bulls are still being … Read more »
British beauty Tamara Ecclestone’s new ad for PETA U.K. is sure to get engines revving. “All dogs deserve to be loved”, says Ecclestone, who appears in the ad with her beloved mutt, Buster. “I encourage everyone to do what they can to help animals in need and to open their homes and their hearts to a … Read more »
Lights, camera, justice for animals! A controversial Florida bill that would have made filming and photographing factory farms without the owner’s permission illegal—and which PETA Vice President Dan Mathews personally visited Florida to speak out against—has died in the House. This is a huge victory for animals, since the bill would have essentially banned the undercover … Read more »
Milwaukee Eighth District Alderman Bob Donovan found out what can happen when you try to quash a PETA protest: It can backfire—big time. PETA had wanted to remind people of what goes on behind the closed doors of the Cargill Beef Solutions slaughterhouse in Milwaukee, but Donovan denied our permit, saying that his constituents shouldn’t … Read more »
Harry Morton, owner of popular Mexican eatery Pink Taco, had reason to be pink in the face following the public outrage generated over the restaurant’s decision to paint a donkey pink and tie her to the sign of his establishment at a busy shopping mall for hours in the blazing Los Angeles heat as part … Read more »
On the eve of the Kentucky Derby, Secretariat star James Cromwell has written to The Jockey Club urging it to adopt PETA’s proposed Thoroughbred 360 Lifecycle Retirement Fund. The plan would require owners and breeders to pay a $360 retirement fee for each new foal they register. The money generated from the fees would be put into a … Read more »
Beverly & Pack/cc by 2.0 Among the 80 Navy SEALs who raided Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad was a member of another species—a dog. The New York Times reports that a dog who was likely trained to detect explosives was strapped to a SEAL’s chest and lowered from a helicopter into the walled compound. Like … Read more »
