Just in time for William and Kate’s (the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) first official visit to Canada, two PETA volunteers wearing little more than faux-bearskin hats and smiles joined the Changing of the Guards ceremony in Ottawa to ask for a change of their own. God save the bears! PETA and PETA U.K. [...]
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Chicago’s O’Hare said “Oh, no!” to PETA when we offered to buy one of the airport’s new high-tech mirror ads. Our ad would have filled a bathroom mirror, then shrunk to the corner when someone approached, and it would have warned them about McDonald’s cruelty to chickens. The airport rejected our ad on the grounds [...]
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Animals are mad, and they’re not going to take it anymore. Here’s the most recent crop of stories about animals who have turned the tide on their tormenters: An angler learns the hard way that being hooked really does hurt. A man poised to open a dangerous-snake zoo finds out firsthand what dangerous snakes do. [...]
READ MORE »Update: Iowa’s general assembly adjourned for the year on Thursday without voting on HF 589, essentially killing the “ag gag” bill. New video footage shot during an undercover investigation on an Iowa pig factory farm should be enough to make anyone who isn’t profiting from the abuse of pigs swear off pork chops. [...]
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An Osceola, Indiana, man suffered two broken arms and severe flesh wounds after his dog escaped from a cage and attacked him while he was sitting on the couch. And a 4-year-old Brooklyn boy was mauled to death inside his apartment by a dog who was normally kept caged. As a neighbor aptly said, “When [...]
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Passengers flying out of JFK International Airport in New York this week hit some unexpected turtlebulance. About 150 diamondback terrapins scooted across Runway 4L on their way to lay their eggs at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens. USFWS Headquarters/cc by 2.0 Pilots paused and gave the pedestrian mothers the right of way across the [...]
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Update: Eighteen people with homes near the Yerkes National Primate Research Center have filed a complaint with city and county officials demanding that the facility be shut down. The female rhesus monkey still has not been found. It shouldn’t come as any surprise that the 4,000 intelligent, sensitive nonhuman primates at Emory University’s Yerkes National Primate [...]
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John McDougall MD describes a recent archeological discovery in Turkey where researchers concluded Roman gladiators ate a vegan diet. This is a short excerpt from Dr. McDougall’s fascinating talk THE STARCH SOLUTION at the Healthy Lifestyle Expo 2009. In his talk, Dr. McDougall gives example after example from the historical record showing that all successful [...]
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