So, Megan Webb has been crowned the 2008 West Virginia Beef Queen by the West Virginia Cattlemen’s Association, and PETA has sent her a letter making it very clear that we’ve got “beef” with the Mistress of Meat. We have invited the Beef Queen (I just can’t get enough of that title!) to take a … Read more »
As though it were a gruesome scene in a horror movie, a Canadian Greyhound passenger found himself in the hands of a highly disturbed man this past weekend while en route from Edmonton to Winnipeg. Passengers riding the bus reported that Vince Weiguang Li jumped on top of 22-year-old Tim McLean and began stabbing him … Read more »
View behind-the-scenes footage of the photo shoot here. Amanda Beard, the incredibly gorgeous U.S. swimmer, has posed naked for a brand-new anti-fur ad, just as the Olympics are about to kick-off in Beijing.The Olympic gold medalist unveiled the stunning “Be Comfortable in Your Own Skin” ad just hours after Beijing officials stopped her from holding … Read more »
There’s a lot of buzz on the interwebs about Eva Mendes’ Calvin Klein ad that showed so much skin, it’s been banned from U.S. television.I just wanted to remind the world that before Eva revealed her smoldering body for CK (a designer who WON’T use fur, by the way), she bared it all for the … Read more »
An Excerpt From “Grooming Sounds Grand Until Bowser Gets Baked” (From KP’s Dog Blog) Little Miss came away from her grooming appointment with a broken tail. Many people saw the grooming exposé “Pet Grooming Dangers,” on the Today show on August 1, which was prompted by the grooming death of Sushi, the 2-year-old Labrador retriever … Read more »
Snake charmers, fairies, and leprechauns…if you thought all three only existed in the pages of fairytales, here’s a surprise. Snake charmers have been and still are entrancing villagers into believing the myth that the sounds from their instrument can hypnotize a snake, who will “dance”—for money, of course. Sound a little slippery? That’s because it … Read more »
Pamela Anderson, PETA’s honorary director, was in Canada, her home country, today. Where’d she have lunch? At a KFC with local animal rights advocates, just to sample the new faux-chicken Classic Vegetarian Sandwich! For the past five years, Ms. Anderson has been a big part of PETA’s international campaign against KFC, whose suppliers have been … Read more »
It looks like scientists do sometimes spend time on worthwhile projects and have now found that being caged, having your bone marrow sucked out, and being used for bioterrorism research is torture—no matter whom it’s being done to. A recent study showed that 95 percent of 119 chimpanzees who had been used for “research” exhibited … Read more »
Update 12/22/2008: Donna Karan has announced that her fall 2009 lines will be fur-free and that she has “no plans” to use fur in the future! Read more. Today, pajama-clad PETA members paid a visit to Donna Karan at her Intimates and Sleepwear Fashion Show in New York, wielding signs that read, “We’re Tired of … Read more »
An Alabaman evangelist named Anthony Hopkins was apparently arrested last week when his wife—who’d been missing for three years—was reportedly discovered in his freezer. (Now, why does that name sound so familiar…?) Local police reportedly found the body of what they believe to be Hopkins’ wife, a mother of eight, and reportedly arrested him on … Read more »
Everyone needs to pay attention because this is getting a lot less hype in the media than the original story did. There’s scientific evidence to prove what PETA has been saying all along: The recent salmonella outbreak wasn’t all about tomatoes or jalapeños but rather contaminated water. Why is the water contaminated, you ask? Long … Read more »
lockeyebc / CC Poor Leroy. He’s done nothing wrong, and he just wants to be loved. So what does his trainer do? Spray water in his face, squirt lemon in his face, and even put a vacuum nozzle up to him. And we all know that there is nothing a dog hates more than a … Read more »
Fried chicken, fried shrimp, fried fish, chicken-fried steak … seeing a pattern here? A recent study shows that good ol’ Southern-style, high-calorie, high-fat, meat-filled dishes are why the U.S.’ Southern states are the nation’s most obese. Lordy, y’all! Let’s have us some massive amounts of deep-fried animal flesh! Is your state one of the most … Read more »
Pam wearing a ‘Ban Horse Drawn Carriages’ button The big A is in the Big Apple this week, and she’s spreading a little love and gratitude for one man in particular: NYC Councilmember Tony Avella. Yes, the wonder woman of animal protection (aka Pam Anderson)—who is in town promoting her new E! television show Girl … Read more »
askmen / CC At our behest she has just sent a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for their irresponsible decision to issue a permit that will allow two tigers to be transferred to the Baghdad Zoo. That’s right, according to the permit, Riley and Hope will be sent off to live an … Read more »
