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April 30, 2012
PETA: Pigeon Racing Is A "Blood Sport"
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is in a huff after the group's 15-month "investigation" revealed that pigeons often die during pigeon races. In most cases, however -- as even PETA admits -- the animals aren't killed by their handlers, but by things that would kill the birds if they were ... More >>
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April 21, 2012
Bronx Woman Arrested for Starving Her Pups
No one likes a canine abuser so here's a story that most likely will not cheer up your Saturday.At the end of February, the Humane Law Enforcement responded to a complaint in the north borough by neighbors who had spotted two frail pups hanging around an apartment building on Webster Avenue. Th ... More >>
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April 12, 2012
Which Celebs Are Vegetarians/Vegans And Why?
A PETA brochure I picked out of a box like Alicia Silverstone's baby picks food out of her mouth told me the answer. It's everyone from Alicia to Pamela Anderson to the Dalai Lama, with stops along the way for black swan Natalie Portman ("I really, really love animals") and ex-Spider-Man Tobey Magu ... More >>
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March 21, 2012
Assemblymember Micah Kellner on The Companion Animal Access and Rescue Act (UPDATE)
Amy Paulin (D-Westchester) isn't the only assemblymember sponsoring an animal shelter bill in Albany. Micah Kellner (D-Manhattan) is pushing a rival piece of legislation, which he says would do a better job of protecting stray cats and dogs. Kellner's Companion Animal Access and Rescue Act would ... More >>
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March 19, 2012
In Defense Of Richard Ferrugio, Alleged Cat Bludgeoner...
An Associated Press article made the Internet rounds over the weekend about a man who was arrested last week for allegedly beating a cat to death with a tire iron outside of a bar in Queens last month.As much as we'd like to vilify 39-year-old Richard Ferrugio for being the complete shit-bag he a ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
The Horse-Drawn Carriage Debate Continues; Local Groups and Celebrities Call for a Ban
Michelle D. AndersonThe effort to ban horse-drawn carriages in New York City rages on. Another report of a carriage horse collapse in a two-week span has left animal-rights advocates -- including celebrities such as Glee's Lea Michele and Pamela Anderson -- with a renewed passion to end the u ... More >>
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June 19, 2011
Terrified Turtle Rides Roomba as Cruel Humans Look On
Crushable calls this "Sunday Cute" but I call it Sunday Borderline Animal Cruelty. Get that turtle off the Roomba, you monsters. [@_rosiegray]
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May 25, 2011
Angelo Monderoy, Cat Killer, Gets Six Years in Prison, May Be Deported
People who abuse defenseless animals are perhaps the most heinous of people, akin to people who abuse children and the elderly. Thus we are happy to report that a Brooklyn judge has given a six-year sentence to Angelo Monderoy, 21, who set his super's cat, Tommy Two Times, on fire after dousi ... More >>
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April 21, 2011
Donald Trump vs. Jerry Seinfeld: What's the Deal With Demagoguery in Public Discourse?
Jerry Seinfeld has ended up in Donald Trump's doghouse after pulling out of a performance for the Donald's son's charity foundation. Yahoo reports that Seinfeld cited Trump's persistent attacks on Obama's citizenship as the reason he backed out of the fundraiser that was to benefit St. Jude's ... More >>
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April 8, 2011
NJ Lawmakers Petitioned for Harsher Animal Abuse Laws After Pit Bull Found in Trash Chute
We have a rather serious adorable animals in trouble for you today. Did you hear about the 1-year-old pit bull, now named Patrick, who was cruelly thrown 19 stories down an apartment trash chute in Newark and left for dead? He was rescued by Humane Society workers the day before St. Patrick's ... More >>
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March 20, 2011
PETA Says Knut's Death Was Preventable
Knut's Vanity Fair cover with Leonardo DiCaprio. PETA, always quick to point fingers, is claiming that the sudden death at age four of Knut the polar bear was preventable. A PETA representative told TMZ that they reached out to the Berlin Zoo months ago because Knut was allegedly being "terrorize ... More >>
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February 16, 2011
LIFE, SHOT-BY-SHOT
A picture says a thousand words
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August 20, 2010
Special Things for People Without Summer Fridays: The Anti-High-Five Dog and Bieber-Hating Cat
Once upon a time, we hated high-fives with a passion. Then Foster made us start doing them regularly as a "morale-booster" around Runnin' Scared HQ, and, hey, now we even practice them on ourselves in the mirror to rev up for a morning of hardcore blogging. But this video of a dog with a fier ... More >>
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July 7, 2010
Amanda Cohen Wins PETA's Faux Foie Gras Challenge
Faux foie fabulousness!We're no strangers to the delights of the mushroom mousse Amanda Cohen serves at Dirt Candy, and now PETA isn't, either.
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May 10, 2010
Saturday's Foie Gras Protest Outside Per Se Was Sort of a Non-Event
Drawing controversy, or not.That warily anticipated foie gras protest that happened outside of Per Se on Saturday? It turned out to be a bit of a non-starter. Eater was there and has an account of the demonstration, which was attended by a mere 10 individuals who attended with pet dogs and gr ... More >>
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April 20, 2010
Supreme Court Overturns Animal Cruelty Law
Today the Supreme Court voted down a federal law banning the sale of videos and other depictions of animal cruelty, saying it violates the right to free speech. The law had been enacted in 1999 to limit Internet sales of videos that show women crushing to death small animals, like kittens and ... More >>
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January 25, 2010
PETA Responds to Last Week's Kanye West/Amber Rose Fur Parade in Paris
So guys, we got it wrong--the tiny genocide of a fur coat Amber Rose sported at fashion week in Paris? It was not mink or chinchilla, as we guessed. It was lynx. You know: these guys. For this honor, PETA dubbed Rose Kanye's "sleazy sidekick," quoted "All Falls Down" ("The prettiest people do ... More >>
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January 4, 2010
PETA, Unsurprisingly, Has Something to Say About the White Slab Palace Taxidermy Incident
Melissa Mango for the Daily NewsPETA naturally has something to say about this. Where there is smoke, there is PETA: in the wake of the news that a woman was suing White Slab Palace after being clobbered by the bar's taxidermied moose (or was it caribou?) head, the animal rights organization ... More >>
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December 2, 2009
New PETA Celebrity Nude Spurs Outrage, Masturbation (Plus: Tiger Woods!)
Bless PETA. Their latest celebrity nude ad has both nudity and blasphemy. Joanna Krupa (Something, Something Else) is an "Angel for Animals" with a crucifix concealing her nipples. Bill Donahue of the Catholic League rises to the bait -- and he's mad on behalf of animals and Jesus Christ! " I ... More >>
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November 23, 2009
UK PETA Celebrity Nudes Superior to US, Study Finds
American PETA's celebrity nude ads are pretty good, but we have to admit the UK has them beat. Here's Keeley Hazell -- yeah, us neither, but PETA says she's a "sexy glamour model" -- in their latest. We will reproduce the full ad, and another, after the jump so you can enjoy the full effect ... More >>
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November 17, 2009
Jonathan Safran Foer Speaks Up About 'Eating Animals'
When Natalie Portman compared eating meat to rape in her Huffington Post account of how reading Eating Animals transformed her from a vegetarian to a staunch vegan, she may have been missing the point. The book, many agree, is less about shunning meat and more about shunning industrially farm ... More >>
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November 14, 2009
Oreo, RIP
Oreo, the pit bull terrier mix who survived a six-story fall from a Red Hook roof last summer, was euthanized by the ASPCA Friday despite protests, twitters, 2 death threats and over 2oo phone calls from animal lovers.
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August 10, 2009
Justice for Oreo: Alleged Dog Thrower Charged
Oreo, the pit bull who was allegedly thrown from a Red Hook roof in June, is still nursing her considerable injuries, but may take some comfort from the fact that her alleged assailant, 19-year-old Fabian Henderson, has been indicted by the Brooklyn D.A.'s office for aggravated animal cruelty ... More >>
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April 30, 2009
Greatest Show on Earth, Animal Abuse Come to Coney Island
Tickets for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus' "Coney Island Boom a Ring," scheduled for Coney Island this summer, go on sale today. (Warning: link plays horrible music.) A Ringling exec tells the New York Times, "this opening night in June will be a celebration of Coney Island." "J ... More >>
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April 22, 2009
'Paganfest America Part II'
Tickets for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus' "Coney Island Boom a Ring," scheduled for Coney Island this summer, go on sale today. (Warning: link plays horrible music.) A Ringling exec tells the New York Times, "this opening night in June will be a celebration of Coney Island." "J ... More >>
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March 19, 2009
Nude Pregnant PETA Protest Fries Bacon Advocate
It's a little early for Mother's Day celebrations, but PETA UK nonetheless wished an Unhappy one on British chef Jamie Oliver for his promotion of British pork on a TV show, "Jamie Saves Our Bacon," and had two of their pregnant operatives get naked on all fours in metal pens in front of his Londo ... More >>
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March 19, 2009
Brooklyn DA Nabs Killers in Vicious Cat Murder
The vicious teen killers apparently had nothing better to do: On October 7, Angelo Monderoy, 18, and Matthew Cooper, 17, broke into a vacant apartment at 1933 Union Street. There, they allegedly lured the helpless victim inside. Pinning the innocent to the floor, the duo squirted lighter fluid all ... More >>
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March 17, 2009
New Life For Chicken Slaughterhouse?
Courtesy Times-Picayune A Chicken Empathy Museum sounds like an upscale showcase for all the young boys molested by a certain pop star. But that's not at all what we're talking about here! We're talking about how, when a Pilgrim's Pride poultry processing plant in Farmerville, Louisiana was announc ... More >>
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February 18, 2009
Crazed Chimp 911 Tape Revealed; "PETA" Peeps Harrass Owner (Updated)
The Daily News has obtained "graphic audio" of the 911 call concerning Travis, the crazed chimpanzee who attacked a woman in Stamford, Connecticut and was killed by police. You can hear, at appalling length, Travis' owner Sandy Herold hysterically telling the dispatcher that the chimp has assaulted ... More >>
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February 11, 2009
Geezer Wins at Westminster Dog Show
Ch Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee (aka Stump) was born December 1, 1998. In dog years, he's Harrison Ford, but that didn't keep the superannuated Sussex spaniel from showing up the young stars at the Westminster Dog Show at Madison Square Garden last night and taking Best in Show. Stump, whose comp ... More >>
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January 28, 2009
Fuck vegetables? Hell, yeah!
'Veggie Love': PETA's Banned Super Bowl Ad PETA's banned video advises: Once you go broccoli, you never go back. Is that a carrot in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? NBC won't let PETA even try to ask that question, banning the animal-rights group's proposed Super Bowl ad campaign. FO ... More >>
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January 12, 2009
George the Lobster Rides Again
'Veggie Love': PETA's Banned Super Bowl Ad PETA's banned video advises: Once you go broccoli, you never go back. Is that a carrot in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? NBC won't let PETA even try to ask that question, banning the animal-rights group's proposed Super Bowl ad campaign. FO ... More >>
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January 9, 2009
140-Year-Old Lobster Liberated From City Crab to Maine
Along with those naked celebrity ads we all enjoy, PETA does a lot of ground-level animal-saving. They scored a small but noteworthy victory today at City Crab, the venerable Manhattan seafood restaurant, which agreed after negotiations to release a 140-year-old lobster in its possession. City Crab ... More >>
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December 11, 2008
Reality TV Star on Latest PETA Anti-Fur Poster
Along with those naked celebrity ads we all enjoy, PETA does a lot of ground-level animal-saving. They scored a small but noteworthy victory today at City Crab, the venerable Manhattan seafood restaurant, which agreed after negotiations to release a 140-year-old lobster in its possession. City Crab ... More >>
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September 24, 2008
Breast Milk Ben and Jerry's?
Along with those naked celebrity ads we all enjoy, PETA does a lot of ground-level animal-saving. They scored a small but noteworthy victory today at City Crab, the venerable Manhattan seafood restaurant, which agreed after negotiations to release a 140-year-old lobster in its possession. City Crab ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 23, 2008
Johnston Foster
Along with those naked celebrity ads we all enjoy, PETA does a lot of ground-level animal-saving. They scored a small but noteworthy victory today at City Crab, the venerable Manhattan seafood restaurant, which agreed after negotiations to release a 140-year-old lobster in its possession. City Crab ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 23, 2008
GIMME SHELTER
Helping your fellow animals
Blogs
April 21, 2008
Test Tube Meat Update: PETA 'Civil War'
Helping your fellow animals
Blogs
July 2, 2007
Man Attacks 'Negative' Peacock on Staten Island
Helping your fellow animals
News
June 13, 2006
Targeting the Testers
Animal rights activists move beyond fur and the circus
NYC Life
October 18, 2005
Bloody Brilliant
Pie, Anna Wintour, and the history of fur protest
Specials
August 30, 2005
Letters
Pie, Anna Wintour, and the history of fur protest
Music
December 14, 2004
Girls Vs. Boys
Brazilian Girls in heat; Canada's Junior Boys in ecstasy
Dance
November 30, 2004
Del Conte and Visiting Spaniard Heat Up Sunnyside Boîte
Brazilian Girls in heat; Canada's Junior Boys in ecstasy
News
November 11, 2003
Terrorist Tactics
A State Law Would Pin the T-Word on Animal-Rights and Eco Protesters
NYC Life
June 19, 2001
Animal Rights Goes Legit
A Dostoyevskian Dilemma, or The Nature of the Beast
Specials
April 24, 2001
Letters
A Dostoyevskian Dilemma, or The Nature of the Beast
NYC Life
March 27, 2001
You’re an Animal
Bestiality and Bioethicist Peter Singer
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September 26, 2000
Letters
Bestiality and Bioethicist Peter Singer
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September 12, 2000
Horse Rules
An ASPCA Campaign Is Saddled With Criticism
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