PETA volunteer Nicole Reusser hands out a soy 'turkey,' called a Tofurky, to Jennifer Johnson. More >

The Post and Courier

An idea you don’t see every day: The intersection of P.E.T.A. and Guantánamo Bay. More >

New York Times, "The Caucus"

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wanted to take pigs to Capitol Hill to protest how they are treated in corporate hog farms. More >

Raleigh News & Observer

Eli Roth, the horror director best known for his torture scenes from the Hostel films, has joined with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to address animal abuse in the wake of last week's discovery of nearly two dozen dog corpses in a Long Island woman's backyard. More >

CanWest News Service

Thanksgiving and turkey go hand-in-hand, except when it comes to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. PETA is making it as easy, cheap, and possible for you to try a vegan Thanksgiving by giving away Tofurky. For those unfamiliar with vegan-speak, that's a tofu version of turkey. More >

NBC Bay Area

Getting Perry Martijena to eat his vegetables is not a problem. The 9-year-old Jersey City boy is proud to be a vegetarian. More >

Jersey City Journal

The Edmonton elephant at the centre of a tug of war between the city and animal rights activists will be getting a treatment program aimed at improving her breathing capacity, helping her lose weight and addressing her arthritis, zoo officials said Friday. More >

Canadian Press

PETA set their sights on the Tucson Child and Family Resource lobster dinner benefit. CFR has agreed to use a "stun" device to effectively make the live lobsters brain-dead prior to cooking. The device, developed by Simon Buckhaven, knocks the lobster unconscious within half a second by running an electrical current through it's brain, the current continues for several seconds destroying the nervous system of the lobster, and will be provided by PETA at no cost to CFR. Critics to the existing adopted processes of cooking lobsters state that a lobster boiled alive struggles for between two to three minutes before dying. More >

KGUN/Channel 9

PETA – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – has a love/hate relationship with video games. Some games, such as Cooking Mama, are evil. Why? Because Mama promotes a carnivorous lifestyle. Other games, like early Mario platformers, are great. Especially when used as vehicles for pushing an animal-friendly agenda. More >

Game Informer

PETA renewed its campaign against the "happy cows" promotions by the California Milk Advisory Board. PETA's complaint to the Federal Trade Commission claimed the Modesto-based board misleads consumers by depicting cows in lush pastures. The group said the cows live mostly in manure-filled dirt lots and suffer udder infections because of a lack of veterinary care. More >

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