Pin Itemailprint When you decide to lift a ban on slaughtering horses, you wouldn’t exactly expect People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to be in your side. That’s what members of Congress are finding, though, as they’ve decided to bring horse slaughter facilities back to the U.S. after a 5-year-ban. PETA founder Ingrid [...]
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has slapped Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus with a record $270,000 fine for violating federal animal welfare laws. Ringling Bros. has agreed to pay the mammoth fine. Feld Entertainment Inc. of Vienna, Virginia, which owns Ringling Bros. and other well-known acts like Disney on Ice, did not admit [...]
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Reese Witherspoon has gotten rid of her python ChloéChloé < purse after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) put pressure on her to ditch the handbag. After Witherspoon was photographed carrying Chloé’s Paraty python bag, PETA sent the Oscar winner a video (narrated by her “Walk the Line” co-star Joaquin Phoenix) on the horrors [...]
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Will it come with dressing? Lady Gaga has been asked to replace her infamous “Meat Dress” with a lettuce frock during her visit to India as a way to honor the country’s vegetarian majority. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in India sent a letter to the “Poker Face” singer asking that she don [...]
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OK, the people at PETA have officially lost it. I can see that there is a point to some of things that they do and some of the things that upset them, but this is getting just plain stupid. The PETA folks are apparently upset over a story that ran on the New York Times [...]
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Well, this should be interesting. In an attempt to attract more eyeballs to their cause, the folks over at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals will soon be launching their own porn site. Celebrity flesh has never been something PETA has shied away from, but this should take things to a whole new [...]
Cindy Jackson is over 50, but she doesn’t look it…and with good reason. The 55-year-old has spent over $100,000 on 52 different cosmetic procedures, including 14 full-scale operations, Botox, five facelifts, work on her knees, upper and lower eyelids, and she’s even injected collagen into her hands. Jackson, a Londoner who is originally from the [...]
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GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons just bagged an elephant. A video of Parsons shooting an elephant in Zimbabwe is currently going viral on the web and, as you might expect, he’s taking some heat for it. Of course, PETA has chimed in by closing its account with GoDaddy, and they’re asking others to do the same. [...]
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PETA is never afraid to shy away from controversy. There was that infamous Tiger Woods billboard, the Tony Gonzalez ad, Pamela Anderson in a lettuce bikini, and of course, the State of the Union ‘Undress’. In 2009, PETA offered NBC $3 million to run a Super Bowl ad called “Veggie Love”, which featured scantily-clad ladies [...]
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Dodge has come under fire from PETA as of late for a new commercial in which a monkey seemingly blows itself up. The original advertisement caused PETA to write an open letter to Dodge for using the monkey for such a purpose, “given the well-documented abuse that young chimpanzees and orangutans suffer in the entertainment [...]
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The Tiger Woods camp is going to love this one. The golf star’s image appears on a new PETA billboard bearing the tagline “Too Much Sex Can Be a Bad Thing”. Underneath, it reads “…for little tigers too. Help keep your cats (and dogs) out of trouble: Always spay or neuter!” The organization has not [...]
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A killer whale lived up to its name this afternoon at SeaWorld’s Shamu Stadium in Orlando, Florida. The whale killed trainer Dawn Brancheau, 40, around 2 p.m. Early reports indicate that she fell into the whale tank and was fatally injured by one of the whales, named Tillikum. SeaWorld uses the name Shamu only as [...]
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