We at PETA have long loved Zappos.com for its amazing selection of leather-free shoes. In fact, we recently ranked Zappos.com the number one best vegan shoe retailer. So needless to say, when we found out that Zappos.com was selling lots of fur products, we were none too pleased. Back in August, we wrote to the … Read more »
Click the photo to view the slideshow at LAWeekly.comCredit: C.R. Stecyk III As promised, we have an update regarding the relocation of endangered desert tortoises, which army officials began airlifting earlier this year in preparation for the land expansion of Fort Irwin in California. To jog your memory a bit: The desert tortoises had been … Read more »
One month ago, we released shocking footage from an undercover investigation of a factory farm in Iowa that raises pigs who are destined for Hormel. The public was rightly outraged by the horrific findings of PETA’s investigators, who found that workers repeatedly hit pigs with metal gate rods and canes, a worker slammed the heads … Read more »
hollywoodgrind / CC We at PETA were all saddened to hear about the passing of fashion maven Mr. Blackwell. Before the Fug Girls took up their Fugging and before Joan Rivers attacked the red carpet, Mr. Blackwell was releasing his yearly “Ten Worst Dressed Women” list. There are a couple of reasons why Mr. Blackwell … Read more »
Nebraska has a unique new “safe haven” law. Most states have laws that allow panicked parents to leave their infants in safety—better to surrender a baby to a hospital or police station than to leave him or her in a dumpster (or worse)—but Nebraska’s law doesn’t place an age limit on surrendered children. Since this … Read more »
In honor of Halloween (and our peta2 zombie protesters), let me start this out by saying, “Braaaaaains!” Good—now that I’ve got that out of my system, we can talk about the 11 awesome professional athletes who have all agreed to donate their brains to science! That’s right, these athletes—including six retired NFL players, among others—will … Read more »
Four monkey-masked PETA members paid Yale a little visit yesterday in honor of National Primate Liberation Week. As motorists passed underneath the banner-wielding monkeys, they were reminded that “Yale Murders Monkeys.” Well, specifically, Yale imprisons monkeys in tiny cages, mutilates them, injects them with poison, forces drug addiction on them, and eventually kills … Read more »
jalopnik / CC TMZ hypothesized that the folks at Chrysler “must have purposely wanted” to annoy us when they released this memo, which says that “all employee’s [sic] shall not wear any shoe with open toe or open heal [sic], Canvas, Suede, Mesh, plastic, pleather or any shoe with a raised heal [sic] on it … Read more »
wikimedia / CC Whoops-a-daisy, AIG. Looks like the insurance giant has been making a couple of teensy-weensy billion-dollar mistakes lately! Let’s see. First, American International Group (AIG) received $85 billion from the Federal Reserve last month in order to stay afloat … and then they reportedly treated their top agents to a $440,000 week at … Read more »
According to Google Insights, searches for “human breast milk” skyrocketed in the last month. Searches for “breast milk recipes” have also more than doubled. (See the graphs below for more details.) Never to miss an opportunity—especially during these tough economic times—PETA has decided to create a human-breast-milk cookbook, with all profits going directly to PETA’s … Read more »
art / CC Question: Does Grammy-winning recording artist Phil Collins support the sale of foie gras? Answer: Heck no! The singer/songwriter began his career as a vocalist for the rock band Genesis and went on to receive international acclaim as a solo artist—selling more than 250 million records throughout his career. Now, he’s fired off … Read more »
As a clarion call to people of faith, a priest recently bestowed a blessing upon sheep who were bound for live export aboard a cargo ship in Fremantle, Western Australia. In a public display of solidarity, the priest blessed the sheep with holy water before they were loaded onto the cargo ship Mayora. … Read more »
Always a bit of a wild child, PETA Germany definitely has a flare for the exotic. Just take a look at these anti-zoo, anti-circus “Exotic Animals Belong in Liberty” ads. They featured a menagerie of MTV Germany and VIVA music channel hosts painted as exotic animals (my fave is the contemplative tiger). They were recently … Read more »
You might remember the wildly popular “Road to the Greenhouse” video from earlier this year. Well, it’s back and better than ever as Broccoli Obama and Dijon McCain battle it out with a surprise third-party candidate extraordinaire … [spoiler alert] … Chris P. Carrot! Now, Carrot ran for election back in 2004 but got a … Read more »
Having managed to survive the horrors of an estimated 25 to 40 years of captivity and exploitation as part of a daily amusement-park parade, Dorothy the chimpanzee died peacefully of old age at In Defense of Animals (IDA) Africa‘s Sanaga-Yong Center in Cameroon last month. Following the first armed confiscation of primates in Cameroon, Dorothy … Read more »
