If you’re a little hungry after being up all night watching the news and chanting “USA! USA!” we’ve got the perfect snack for you: PETA’s “Bin Laden Bites” chocolates. When we sent these delicious dairy-free chocolates to troops in Afghanistan a couple of years ago, they were great for cravings and target practice. Now … Read more »
After surviving a tsunami, an earthquake, and the loss of her home and family, sweet Belle has a new worry: how to chew on all her new toys with 22 fewer teeth (not to mention whose lap to stretch out on!). The young dachshund mix had been turned over to an animal shelter in … Read more »
The Web giveth and giveth again. Here are our favorite recent online offerings that have given animals a reason to chortle or cheer: Are you a Mac or a PC veggie? Hint: If you’re young and hip, you’re probably both. In other Apple news, even the iPad would rather go naked than wear fur. … Read more »
For most of her life, Marsha Hargreaves recognized that there was something wrong with people’s view of animals as “things” to be used and abused. It saddened her, but she didn’t know what she could do about it. Then she attended her first demonstration, and now Marsha is an animal advocacy powerhouse. Writing letters, sending … Read more »
PETA is launching a new initiative calling for basic animal welfare standards for cows on dairy farms on the heels of disturbing new undercover footage of dairy factory farms. The video footage from Mercy for Animals shows baby calves as they are beaten with pickaxes and hammers and have their budding horns burned out of … Read more »
Like a warm-weather Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny delivers baskets full of treats to children every year. But photographers who use real rabbits as props in Easter photos shouldn’t expect anything in their baskets but plastic grass. Unlike real rabbits, this Easter bunny doesn’t mind being taken out of the wild for photo shoots. … Read more »
coxy/cc by2.0 Consumers duped into purchasing Ortho Home Defense MAX Kill & Contain Mouse Traps have reported finding mice writhing and squealing inside the traps. Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, the maker of the traps, falsely promised a speedy death and “no mess,” but the traps delivered anything but. Customers took to Scotts’ website and other consumer websites to … Read more »
Tonight, Los Angeles will see PETA friend Gulshan Grover on the big screen, opening the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles with I Am Kalam, in which he plays a prince who befriends a poor young boy and helps him get an education. Grover usually plays the villain onscreen, but off camera, he is a prince … Read more »
After the caretaker of the only animal shelter serving a large region in Bačka Topola, Serbia, died tragically when her house burned down, 500 dogs and puppies were left to fend for themselves for weeks. A compassionate teacher who had taken her students to the area realized that the dogs were in trouble and called PETA … Read more »
My dog Hannah’s “papers” would read like this: “Sire: Best Guess. Dame: Whosy Whatsit.” Yep, she’s a thoroughly modern mutt, and that’s just fine with me. Dogs of mixed parentage are just fine with lots of other people, too, it turns out. The first-ever National Mutt Census, which surveyed mutt guardians and analyzed the DNA … Read more »
So you weren’t invited to tea with Kate and Will? That’s OK. You can still have tea and coffee stateside, and getting it all over your lips is completely encouraged. We’re giving away a set of fun, natural, vegan Crazy Rumors lip balms in your choice of either “Perk” (coffee) or “Brew” (tea) flavors. To … Read more »
PETA staffer Misty Collins and her dog, Bindi, are competing in the Bissell MVP (Most Valuable Pet) photo contest, and if Bindi wins, Misty gets to donate $10,000 to the animal charity of her choice. She would like to see the prize go to PETA, and if you would too, all you have to do is … Read more »
In what was perhaps the PETA India demonstration that turned the most heads to date, a group of women in “cricket uniforms” gathered outside the stadium where the Cricket World Cup 2011 games are held in order to call on the International Cricket Council (ICC) to punt leather balls and replace them with synthetic ones. … Read more »
