PETA

"Punch It! Punch It! Punch My Kitty!"

No, PETA doesn't need to get mad, but maybe somebody should. In her new music video, "Punch My Kitty," Glamorous Monique is luxuriating in the tub and urging people to punch her kitty, and not only will your eyes pop, but your head will spin, and by the end of it, you will surely be trying to dive ... More >>

My New Ad For PETA!

Don't eat meat--even if it looks as appealing as naked Austin Armacost (of A-List: New York fame) in this PETA ad shot by Aaron Cobbett.

Zombie Apocalypse: PETA Exploits Texas Dog-Eater To Push Vegan Agenda

As the rest of us try to cope with the impending Zombie Apocalypse, the animal rights group PETA is using the latest case of potential zombie-ism to push its Vegan agenda.As we reported earlier this week, a Texas man was arrested near Waco on Monday after police say he ate the family dog -- after cr ... More >>

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 >>

Scientists Grow Meat in Labs (OMG!)

Meat made in a petri dish is apparently a real thing. In what appears to be the culinary world's latest interpretation of Mary Shelley, scientists have already solved the riddle of making animal flesh in a lab, and are now figuring out how to sell it profitably, according to Food Safety News.

Kick Off Vegetarian Awareness Month By Hugging a Vegetarian

October is officially Vegetarian Awareness Month, meaning for the next 31 days you should be aware that vegetarians exist. Also, try eating a little less meat. PETA is backing off its usual controversial tactics to advocate something a little more adorable -- hugging vegetarians. So, where should yo ... More >>

Obese Monkeys Extraordinarily Depressing

Leah Nash/NYT​There are more rhesus monkeys than you'd think out there getting fat. Getting really fat. And it's not their fault; it's because they're being used as research subjects in studies about obesity and diabetes. At the Oregon National Primate Research Center, scientists are keeping a col ... More >>

PETA Applauds Taco Bell for Cutting Out Meat; Stephen Colbert's Answer is to Just Eat More

Beef-esque Crunch Burrito.​Not everyone is pissed at Taco Bell for skimping on real meat in its taco fillings. PETA recently posted on its blog that it's the 35 percent meat people should be upset about -- not the other 65 percent, which is made up of oats, yeast, soybeans, corn starch, citric ... More >>

GUTS, GLORY

Gore-obsessed black metallers muck up Santos’ Party House

Meatless Moguls: Bill Clinton, Russell Simmons & Steve Wynn Among the Planet's 'Power Vegans'

Bubba, sans burgers.​The steak-and-martini dinner, once a hallmark of heavyweights and big shots, is no longer on the menu for many powerful people. As Joel Stein writes in BusinessWeek, some of the world's biggest successes are going vegan, including Steve Wynn, Russell Simmons, and former fa ... More >>

Ottomanelli & Sons Sees Marketing Opportunity, Takes It

Jason Kottke​A week after telling the Daily News that the dress Lady Gaga wore to the MTV Video Awards was fashioned out of cheap cuts of cow, Ottomanelli & Sons is apparently offering sartorial services to the plebes, to be accessorized with PETA's undying hatred. [Kottke.org via the Daily Wh ... More >>

And, In Case You Haven't Seen it Yet: Lady Gaga Draped in Meat on the Cover of Vogue

E. coli, be damned.​ A decidedly meatless Lady Gaga, who has recently been rumored to be hiding an eating disorder (not very well, one might add), appears on the cover of Japanese Vogue Hommes's fat September issue wearing nothing but raw meat. Of course, PETA's pissed, the blogosphere is atw ... More >>

What's the Weirdest Thing You've Ever Eaten?

Barb N. asks: I know you've probably heard this one a thousand times before, but what's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten? Dear Barb: I never get tired of answering that question, but the answer is usually the same. It's not the cow penis I ate in a Chinese place on College Point Boulevard in F ... More >>

PETA Stages Grossest Protest Ever in Times Square

Click to enlarge, if you must.​Be forewarned: If you haven't chowed that burger for lunch yet, you may not want to look at this. The always creative PETA has once again reminded people that they believe meat is murder -- this time to the apparent torture of three of their own ill-fated activis ... More >>

Animals Taunted With Food in Crazy Japanese Game Show

A clip currently circulating on YouTube shows complacent animals posing motionlessly as excited contestants stack food on or around them. In one sequence, a black dog looks mournful as his owner piles 32 strips of Spam on his nose and forehead (he gets to eat it after the stacks fall off), while i ... More >>

Latest "Take Back the" Cause Involves Lunch

​Well, if you're looking for a good cause but protesting BP or getting involved with PETA or, say, human rights or something seems a little excessive, you can always start a little closer to home. Like, with your lunch. The Energy Project, which "offers organizations and individuals a ground-b ... More >>

Meat Is for Pussies; the 'Sifty Fifty' Snubs

This week, in food blogs ... Eat Me Daily marveled at the fact that some woman in the U.K. carved a 1,000-pound giant crown made of cheddar and is giving it to the queen. Eater was surprised to learn that Superdive is still going strong -- now with weekly beer pong tournaments and co-ed wet T-shir ... More >>

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 >>

Sexiest Vegetarian Mere Tip of Sexy 'Tarian Iceberg

Sexy, yes. But not as sexy as a libertarian.​Someone at PETA feels that making the cause sexy is the best way to promote the cause. And that person might not be wrong. A little sexy on our soy burger is always welcome. But their latest effort, a search for "The Sexiest Vegetarian Next Door," ( ... More >>

PETA Holds Sexiest Vegetarian Alive Contest for Mere Plebians

Hot, bothered, and compostable.​If we've learned anything from PETA, it's this: if you're trying to promote a cause, the most effective, if not subtle, way to get your message across is to use boobies, or some other means of conveying that someone, somewhere, is getting laid. Hence the organiz ... More >>

It's Official: Bluefin Ban Gets Sunk

Sushi lovers sink the ban that could have saved this species.​ Despite the best efforts of Greenpeace, PETA, and OCEANA, the proposed ban on the trade of endangered bluefin tuna was rejected yesterday at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITE ... More >>

(NSFW) Catching Up With America's Next Top Model: The Steak Tartare Episode (Where Is PETA When We Really Need Them?)

​Every TV show has a point where it totally jumps the shark. With America's Next Top Model, it came during Episode 4 in Season 10. In the hour-long show, broadcast March 13, 2008, the contestants were brought to Manhattan's Meat Packing District and sequestered, scantily dressed, inside the co ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

PETA's Thanksgiving Message: Get Stuffed

The PETA pranksters have taken a holiday, so to speak, from objectifying women to turn their attentions to Thanksgiving. In this ad, which NBC will -- surprise! -- not be running during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, an angelic little girl says grace over the Thanksgiving meal, thanking the l ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Letters: July 28, 2009

How To Deal with NYC Cockroaches

 Before I lived in a luxury high-rise, I had to deal with large, feisty cockroaches who were even grosser than the landlord. And though my mother lined the apartment with Combats--always a bizarre sight when visitors walked in--the little creatures would reappear anyway, detemined to fill my li ... More >>

PETA Video Shows Circus Elephants Beaten, Whipped

Here's that PETA video everyone's talking about in which Ringling Brothers personnel beat their circus elephants with bull hooks and whips. It looks bad. Maybe the circus folk have an explanation. They better hurry and bring it -- the circus has several more shows at Coney Island this summer, and ... More >>

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 >>

'Paganfest America Part II'

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 >>

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 >>

George-Clooney-Flavored Tofu?

After coming into possession of his sweaty gym towel, PETA reportedly asked George Clooney for permission to harvest his perspiration to make a Clooney-flavored tofu line. The proposed name for the proposed soy product? CloFu, of course.[EOnline via Eat Me Daily]In Lucca, Italy, a new law banning ne ... More >>

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 >>

Is Foie Gras Torture?

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 >>

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 >>

George the Lobster Rides Again

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 >>

Reality TV Star on Latest PETA Anti-Fur Poster

Breast Milk Ben and Jerry's?

Test Tube Meat Update: PETA 'Civil War'

The First Saturday in May: Spellbound, With Horses

Could use more humans, though

Taking the Fifth

H&M, A&F, and Fendi

Bloody Brilliant

Pie, Anna Wintour, and the history of fur protest

Girls Vs. Boys

Brazilian Girls in heat; Canada's Junior Boys in ecstasy

Terrorist Tactics

A State Law Would Pin the T-Word on Animal-Rights and Eco Protesters