Having friends in high places has always been an advantage that Feld Entertainment, owner of Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey Circus, has enjoyed. Take Lisa Wallenda Picard, Ringling’s former director of public relations, who has held numerous high-ranking positions with federal agencies and recently took a vice president job with the National Turkey Federation. She’s [...]

When little Pokey’s family moved away, they simply left the malnourished, close-to-death puppy in the yard like an old sofa—except that sofas don’t get scared, go hungry or thirsty, or suffer and die when you turn your back on them, never to return. Although Pokey was about 7 months old, she was as small as [...]

It was just another evening in Hollywood—the sun was sinking in a gold-and-orange blaze, throngs of tourists were posing for photos on the Walk of Fame, and some of my PETA colleagues and I gathered to spread the message that McDonald’s suppliers mutilate conscious chickens. Although a couple of teenagers who hovered around Ozzy Osbourne’s [...]

Bioculture, the company that planned to open a monkey-breeding facility in Guayama, Puerto Rico, suffered another crippling blow today when Puerto Rico’s Court of Appeals upheld a December 2009 Superior Court ruling that the construction of the facility was illegal because of zoning and permit issues. primatediaries.blogspot / CC   You may recall that PETA [...]

When Food Network chef Giada De Laurentiis asked her viewers what they’d like her to cook, they overwhelmingly requested more vegetarian meals. In fact, De Laurentiis predicts vegetarian meals will be the hot trend in 2012, and in preparation, she’s been testing a variety of mouthwatering vegetarian concoctions. She says in a Food Network video [...]