Archives for "General Animal Rights"

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next Page 1 of 13 11/19/2009 P.E.T.A. EYES PRISON MAKEOVER An idea you don’t see every day: The intersection of P.E.T.A. and Guantánamo Bay.>more New York Times, "The Caucus" 11/3/2009 WASHINGTON'S OTHER INTERNS What does it take to be a PETA intern? Showering on the sidewalk at a busy intersection when discussing the green economics of going vegan {Clean your conscience: 1 lb meat = 2,463 gallons of water}, or handing out Vegetarian Starter Kits to passersby, or lying on the street wrapped in cellophane just as meat is packaged. PETA interns are bringing the message home to the public that factory farming is animal cruelty. A vegan lifestyle is better for the animals, the environment, and us.>more WASHINGTON POST 9/10/2009 PETA COMES TO MSU On a campus no stranger to animals, PETA's in town to make people look twice. They came showing pictures of mistreated humans to drive home their message of animal mistreatment.>more WLAJ-TV 7/29/2009 PETA: WE'LL BACK BRIDGE IF RENAMED AFTER KITTENS No fishing off the Friendship TrailBridge? That's what People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants. And the group will pay for it.>more The Tampa Tribune 7/12/2009 PETA PROTESTS SEATTLE FISH-TOSSING SEATTLE, July 12 (UPI) -- Animal-rights activists who oppose fish-tossing in Seattle's Pike Place Fish Market say veterinarians shouldn't condone the practice. Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals staged a peaceful protest at the American Veterinary Medical Association's annual conference in Seattle Saturday. >more UPI International 7/11/2009 PETA PROTESTS PIKE PLACE FISH THROWING SEATTLE -- A group of half-naked animal-rights activists dressed like fish say a veterinary convention is no place for fish-throwing. About a dozen members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protested today outside the annual convention of the Illinois-based American Veterinary Medical Association. >more Associated Press 7/10/2009 PETA's MERMAIDS, MERMEN WILL RETURN TO PROTEST FISH TOSS Last month, PETA made it known that it wasn't happy with the American Veterinary Medicine Association's decision to hold a Pike Place Market-imitating fish toss at the Seattle AVMA convention. A PETA spokesperson said the toss is "morally no different from a dead kitten toss," and the group offered to buy the AVMA rubber fish.>more The Seattle Weekly 7/10/2009 PETA TO PROTEST FISH-TOSSING The fish-tossing is on. So is the protest. Members of an animal-rights group say they'll demonstrate outside the Washington State Convention & Trade Center on Saturday with some of their members painted to look like dead fish on the sidewalk to protest the planned salmon-tossing being held inside at the American Veterinary Medical Association's convention. >more The Seattle Times 6/19/2009 NO FLIES ON PETA I thought it awfully strange that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was weighing in on President Obama's fly-swat (the headline on website TMZ: "PETA Swats at Obama for Killing That Fly!"), so I emailed PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich this morning to ask why he was devaluing his currency on such nonsense. Shocking, I know, but it seems his remarks were taken out of context for the sake of a better, if ridiculous, story.>more Washington Post, "PostPartisan" 6/4/2009 PETA WANTS TO USE N.J. LIGHTHOUSE FOR FISH INFORMATION PROJECT An animal rights group wants to use a New Jersey lighthouse and two others in Michigan to publicize what it says are the horrors of killing fish for food and sport.>more Associated Press  | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next