I Can't Do This All On My Own ... November 30, 2006
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I'm no Superman! So okay, I've been practically dying waiting for the new season of Scrubs to start. I am an addict and have no problem admitting it. I own the first four seasons on DVD, and I love quoting the show. Anyway, I'm starting to go off on a tangent. Basically, the show is amazing not only because of the actors and brilliant writing, but have you ever caught the vegan-goodness that comes through on the show? Ever see the episode where J.D. and Turk are eating Rice Dream ice cream from Saki cups (they mistakenly thought they were just really tiny bowls)? Or catch Elliot with some Silk soy milk on her cafeteria tray? And I mean, seeing Turk sport a PETA shirt last season practically made me swoon.
What's even cooler is that Sarah Chalke (a.k.a. Dr. Elliot Reid) is a vegetarian in real life, too. She was even nominated for peta2's most recent World's Sexiest Vegetarian contest.
If you are cool like me, you will be tuning in tonight at 9:00 p.m. to catch the season premiere of Scrubs. If you aren't, well, then we'll have nothing to talk about the next time we're standing around the water cooler. Don't make things uncomfortable—the World's Most Giant Doctor wouldn't approve.
-Marta
P.S. If you got that last reference, you're amazing, and I'm giving you a virtual smooch on the cheek.
Cool Tool For Those of You With Firefox November 29, 2006
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"Perhaps you would think twice about spending your hard-earned cash on shampoo if you knew that the company that manufactured it tested it on animals?"
The folks at CorporateSnitch.com have created a really neat Firefox add-on called CSNotifier that provides you with info on companies animal-testing policies—as well as other business practices such as offshoring and war profiteering—when you're browsing their products online. The best part is that the info on animal-testing comes straight from PETA's Web site CaringConsumer.com.
Click here to install CSNotifier for Firefox. Once it's installed, you'll receive small, non-obtrusive window inside your browser when you view a Web page, with info on the company's current animal-testing status. For example, if you look at Crest toothpaste on Amazon, you'll receive this little pop-up letting you know that Crest's parent company Procter & Gamble still experiments on animals.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you don't use Firefox, install it now!
-Noah
It's Official: KFC is 'Filthy' November 28, 2006
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As if it wasn't bad enough that KFC's suppliers torture animals for their greasy buckets of death, now the restaurant has been charged £24,000 (roughly $46,840.80 in U.S. dollars) for a "poisoning risk" at a KFC in the United Kingdom. According to The Sun:
FAST food giant KFC has been fined £24,000 after staff were found to be wearing filthy uniforms and not washing their hands.
Bridgend County Borough Council, in south Wales, took the fried chicken chain to court after environmental health officers spotted a catalogue of failures during two visits to one of its restaurants.
During the first visit to the Bridgend branch, at Heronstone Business Park, on September 25 last year, noted practices which could lead to food poisoning.
Staff were wearing dirty aprons and not washing their hands after handling raw chicken.
A second inspection in May this year found the restaurant in a poor state of cleanliness.
Yesterday, at Bridgend Magistrates Court, KFC pleaded guilty to 12 charges - six on each inspection.
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This isn't the first time this kind of thing has happened at KFC. There's even a Web site, KFCMadeMeSick.com, for people to tell their grossest KFC stories. Ugh, just the thought of KFC makes me want to vomit...
-Noah
Unsigned Band of the Month - Bury Our Own November 28, 2006
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This is the first monthly installment of peta2's Unsigned Band of the Month blog. Every month, I will be bragging on a band that has caught our collective eyes. Our all-so-strict criteria to become an Unsigned Band of the Month (or UBOTM as we affectionately call it) is that you must a. rock and b. support peta2.
So drum roll please, November's band is... (so suspenseful...) Bury Our Own!
To fully understand why Bury Our Own is our first pick for UBOTM-= you should check out the video below to see them in action. Note frontman Stephen rockin the peta2 shirt.
They don't just rock, they are also quite well spoken-
Stephen Murray, "peta2 is the reason I went vegetarian. Just like in any of my convictions, I've never looked back, and peta2 was always there as a strong backbone."
Congrats Bury Our Own! Make sure to check 'em out.
xoxo-lara
Meg and Dia Contest! November 27, 2006
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Meg and Dia are all over the place these days from the Myspace tent on Warped Tour to the pages of Spin. So it is no shocker that they are now on peta2 too. They just did an amazing new anti-fur ad for us, and below are some of the unbelievably cute outtakes from the shoot.
If you haven't passed out from cuteness overload-we have even more to brighten up your day. During the shoot, Meg and Dia signed our Mean People Wear Fur shirt to give away to one lucky winner.
All you have to do to enter the contest is comment on which outtake pic you like the best and why!
Brown the bunny wishes you luck.
xoxo-lara
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Put Our Turkey Video On Your Page for Thanksgiving November 22, 2006
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Turkeys want you to eat Tofurky this Thanksgiving. They also want you to put PETA's "Turkey Terror" video on your MySpace, LiveJournal, or Xanga.
Here's the code:
Also, all of you who are having a veg(etari)an Thanksgiving should sign peta2's "Spare a Turkey" petition.
-Noah
'Meat Tray' Demo on Channel 4 in the UK! November 22, 2006
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If you live in Britain, you might have seen that peta2 UK's Violet Owens and her very brave younger sister Rhian were featured on a show about naked protesting on Channel 4, with footage of Rhian lying naked in a tray wrapped with plastic to show that all animals are made of flesh. They interviewed Rhian (who doesn't want to interview the naked girl?) and I must say that she did a knockout job.
Here's a clip:
If you wanna get naked with peta2, you gotta sign-up for the Street Team! Unless you're a creepy old man, in which case, we don't want to see your naked arse.
-Noah
VICTORY: Jack Spade Stops Selling Dissection Kits! November 21, 2006
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Very exciting news ... just yesterday I told you about the "Frog Dissection Kits" that were being sold by menswear brand Jack Spade in its New York City store. After receiving PETA's letter and a number of complaints from all of you, Jack Spade has announced that it will be halting the sale of the kits, and issuing a public apology! Three cheers for Jack Spade for saving animals from being needlessly killed. Here is the story from Reuters:
Shoppers at upscale U.S. menswear and accessory store Jack Spade in Manhattan's trendy SoHo district were hopping mad to see frog dissection kits selling alongside $775 leather file cases and $145 Italian calfskin passport holders.
The $40 kit came in a cloth bag complete with a vacuum-sealed formaldehyde-treated frog, scissors, magnifying glass, forceps, probing sticks, ruler, instruction booklet on how to explore the animal's innards, and a moist towelette.
After a barrage of complaints from shoppers and animal activists, the store said on Tuesday that it had cleared its shelves of the kits and would no longer offer them.
"We're going to issue an apology," said company spokesman Mordechai Rubinstein.
"The intent was to celebrate science and biology, present something educational for children and adults," he said. "Jack Spade doesn't support the unethical treatment of animals."
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Thanks to every single one of you who e-mailed or called. The millions of frogs and other animals killed for dissection each year asked me to give you all a kiss on the lips!
-Noah
More Window Protests at Bebe and Burberry! November 21, 2006
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Just a few days after PETA UK appeared in Burberry's window in London, four Canadian activists rose to the occasion and jumped up into the window of Bebe's store in Vancouver on Sunday holding a huge banner reading "Death Fur Sale - FurIsDead.com".
Can you believe it? And the store's manager locked the doors to keep the activists inside while waiting for the police, so because of Bebe itself no one was able to come in to shop for several hours. When the police finally did arrive, the four people in the window were just asked to leave. See ... even the police know fur is cruel!
Aside from stopping every passer by dead in their tracks, the protest also got lots of media attention, including 24 Hours Vancouver and this article in the Vancouver Sun:
VANCOUVER - An animal rights group prompted a Robson Street clothing store to close for several hours on Sunday, after protesters entered the shop and took over its window display with an anti-fur demonstration.
About a dozen protesters with the activist group Liberation BC gathered outside the Bebe store at Robson and Burrard St. around noon, wearing placards showing skinned and captured animals. Four others inside held up a banner in the window that read "Death fur $ale," and repeatedly chanted, "Don't buy fur."
"If people didn't buy fur, there would be no fur industry," said Liberation BC spokeswoman Jan Olson. "The fur industry is the cruelest animal industry, and it's not even necessary. It's for fashion."
As if that all weren't enough, earlier today, four activists walked into the Burberry store in New York City armed with signs reading "When Plaid Goes Bad". All four were picked up by security (literally) and removed from the store, but not before one activist managed to get inside the Burberry store window and start spreading fake blood all over it. Once outside, the activists started chanting "No more cages, no more traps, no more fur on Burberry racks!" and "Burberry tortures animals!" while one animal defender spread fake blood on the outside of the Burberry window display. The police arrived within a few minutes and arrested all four of the people who had entered the store, while the remaining protestors who had come to help out, carried right on leafleting and showing graphic video to everyone who passed by.
All you store owners/managers: If you sell fur, you might have some rather angry guests in your window one day soon.
-Noah
Lindsay Goes Faux November 17, 2006
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Before you get all enraged about the coat, check the button on her bag. That's right, it's a PETA "No Fur" button, which Lindsay picked up at a special late-night shopping spree at Topshop's Oxford Street locale in London. She assured our Dan Mathews that the coat is faux when she bumped into him at the World Music Awards Wednesday night.
Oh, and by the way, Paris is still fur free.
XOX
Patricia
Q: What's More Fun Than Smearing Red Paint on a Window? November 16, 2006
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A: Nothing!
Today PETA UK officially launched its version of the "Bloody Burberry" campaign in the United Kingdom with a window takeover at the clothing store's flagship store in London. We've been trying to get the company to listen to PETA and its customers for a quite a while now, but they still insist upon selling the skin of tortured animals and calling it "high fashion". After the Burberry runway takeover at the Milan Fashion Show back in September, it was hard to top that, but they did it ...
A group of activists, including peta2 UK's lovely Youth Outreach Coordinator Violet snuck into the store with "Burberry: Death for Sale" and a bit of red paint, and well, pictures speak louder than words.
Since we can't all jump into Burberry's stores' windows, go here to send them a message. (I know, not nearly as exciting, but it helps.) And please, send Violet a message at myspace.com/theviolet to tell her how amazing she is.
-Noah
Elephant Freedom! November 15, 2006
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Last night, 42 activists (including more than 20 peta2 Street Teamers) lined the entrance to the United Center in Chicago to protest the freaks from Ringling for abusing—and even killing—elephants and other animals. If you live in Chicago, and you weren't there, you should be kicking yourself right about now. Nickelodeon was there to film a show for Nick News about Street Teamer Blake Wilson who led the protest. They also filmed a bit of Blake gathering sign-ups for peta2 at the Rise Against show. The show will be airing in January. I'll give more info as it gets closer.
Here are some pics from the protest. Look at the elephants on stilts! Their signs are pretty effing clever, don't you think? "It's High Time to Ban Bullhooks" ... get it?! Because they're on stilts! OH MAN. The humor.
In other news, did you see that "Save the Turkeys" got the most votes on the CBS News: Assignment America poll that I told you about the other day? They'll be doing a story on "the latest efforts to save [turkeys] ... from your dinner plate" this Friday at 6:30 p.m. Thanks to everyone who voted! Be sure to tune in on Friday night. I really hope they mention our Butterball investigation.
-Noah
Rise Against Video Game! November 15, 2006
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Just when you thought that Rise Against couldn't get any better, they go ahead and make a video game where you have to liberate bunnies from an animal testing lab (all while listening to songs from The Sufferer & the Witness) to win!
The key is to hit the platform above you to stun the dude holding the bunny hostage and then free him from his cage. Unfortunately, I am not very good at this game yet, but I will keep tryin until I am on the high scorers list. You can play the game here- so good luck. Oh and congrats to Rise Against on their peta2 Libby Award for Best Animal Rights Song of 06! It is no secret that I voted for em.
x to the o-lara
KFC 'Funny Money' November 14, 2006
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The folks at KFC seem to care about nothing but making a profit—even if it means torturing animals. They see the more than 850 million chickens killed for their restaurants each year as nothing more than dollar signs with feathers. Since KFC doesn't get that animals don't deserve to be abused for their disgusting, greasy food, we figured it was time we start speaking in their language: Money.
To help get the word out that KFC is cruel, we designed these leaflets designed to look just like dollar bills at first glance. When you look closer, however, you'll see that the bills are covered with facts about what happens to chickens before they end up as corpses in KFC's buckets.
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When we went to actually print the leaflets, though, we ran into a bit of a snafu. Apparently there are really strict rules regulating printing fake money, and in order to meet the legal requirements to have them printed, we would have had to significantly change the leaflets and make it so that they didn't look like dollar bills. :( Stupid counterfeiters ... ruining things for everyone! I didn't want the wonderful work our designers did to go to waste, though. So there they are; enjoy them. Pass around the pictures to your friends who still eat KFC, then maybe I won't be so sad about the whole debacle.
Curse you U.S. Department of Treasury!
-Noah
Did You Know? November 13, 2006
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Someone made this video and sent it to us, and it's possibly the most adorable thing I've ever seen.
If you want to put it on your page, you can get the code for it here.
-Noah
If You Use Firefox ... November 11, 2006
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... you may have noticed the "Not a Nugget" chick now shows up in the Urlbar when you visit peta2.com (it doesn't work in IE at the moment, but we're working on it). It should look something like this:
If you don't use Firefox, get it for crying out loud!
-Noah
Catch peta2's Warped Tour Documentary on Concert TV November 10, 2006
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All this month, peta2's Warped Tour documentary Wake Up Screaming will be airing on demand on Concert TV. For those of you who have digital cable, check it out! Here's how you can find it (take a look at concert.tv for more info):
On Comcast:
Music on Channel 1 > select CONCERT
On Cox:
Free2one on Channel 1 > then music > select CONCERT
On Charter:
More or Free Programs on Channel 999 > select CONCERT
If you don't have digital cable, pick up a copy on DVD!
-Jason
Ugly Betty Rules! November 9, 2006
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Ugly Betty is by far my favorite new show this season. From the minute it starts I'm glued to the set. I won't take phone calls—maybe if it's Davey Havok, but even then he'd have to talk fast because as soon as the commercial was over he'd be listening to the dial tone—and no one in my house is allowed to make a peep until it's over. I totally get that I'm over the top about it and to me that makes my psychosis acceptable. It's got everything a girl could want on a Thursday night all wrapped into one glorious hour of suspense, comedy, lying , cheating, backstabbing, sex, murder, and fashion. I just love the way that the plucky, lovable fashion disaster that is Betty always manages to somehow save the day. Did you happen to catch peta2 anti-fur poster boy, Nicholas Gonzalez as he stole ideas from Betty and the Mode mag crew for his own fashion rag? I'm hoping he'll be showing up a lot. And what about the anti-fur stuff that is in practically every episode? Like last week when the evil scheming fur wearing Wilhelmina was unexpectedly surprised by a visit from her daughter Nico who ruined all of her mom's plans and staged an anti-fur protest in the Mode magazine lobby. She donned a few tiny pieces of strategically placed cloth with "fur is dead" painted on them in red "blood" and caused quite the scene, until her horrible mother Wilhelmina showed up in nothing but fur, staging her own protest. Don't worry, she'll get hers, the truly wretched always do. I can't wait to see what happens tonight. Oh, and just so you know, I'm not alone in my Betty obsession, she was a pretty popular Halloween costume this year. This one's my fave:
The finest Betty in town.
And speaking of Halloween...
You want make a sexy time?
"Pam" and "Kid Rock" taking a bite out of the Big Apple.
XOX
Patricia
Eat Tofurky or Die Trying! November 8, 2006
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There's a point to all of this I swear ... two points as a matter of fact! For the fourth year in a row, peta2 is going to air ship Tofurkys to five lucky people. All you have to do to enter to win one this Thanksgiving is click here and send a message to your friends and family telling them why they shouldn't eat turkeys. We'll pick five winners the week of November 20, and then fly the Tofurkys out to each of them in time for the family holiday feast. As if that all wasn't amazing enough, Turtle Island is holding a contest of their own: The "One-Millionth Tofurky Roast Contest"! Here's the deal ... as of January 1, 2006, 882,310 Tofurkys have been sold. Turtle Island wants you to try to guess how many will have been sold as of January 1, 2007. To enter to win, send your guess to info@tofurky.com or fill out the form here. The person who comes the closest will win an Evader electric scooter. So basically, if you're lucky, you could win a free Tofurky and a sweet electric scooter in just a few months. If you're really really lucky.
-Noah
If You're From the UK, You NEED to Read This! November 7, 2006
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Bears killed for their skins either are shot during hunts or get caught in steel-jaw traps, where they can suffer for days before a trapper finally comes along and kills them. We're pretty bored of being fobbed off with the MoD's excuses. (They must spend half days thinking up stories for PETA about why they're still killing animals to make hats.) We need your help to make them listen and to stop killing the bears!
On Monday, 13 November, PETA Europe will be meeting with the MoD's defence clothing team. Bears need as many people as possible to call, write, fax and e-mail on their behalf. Please, sometime before the 13th, take a minute to let the MoD know that you do not support the killing of bears for hats!
The Rt Hon. Des Browne, MP
Secretary of State for Defence
Ministry of Defence, Main Building
London SW1A 2HB
defencesecretary@mod.uk
Fax: +44 (0)207 218 7140
Telephone: +44 (0)207 218 9000 (Ask for the office of the secretary of state, Des Browne.)
Remember to be polite, but don't be afraid to give them an earful!
-Violet
Vote or (Animals Will) Die! November 6, 2006
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In Arizona:
Vote YES on Proposition 204—Arizonans for Humane Farms is leading the charge to pass Prop 204 which would prohibit the cruel confinement of pregnant pigs and veal calves in small crates. The proposition requires that the animals have enough room to turn around, lie down, and extend their limbs.
In Colorado:
Vote YES on Amendment 38—The Petition Rights Amendment (Amendment 38) helps citizens who wish petition their state's government by simplifying the procedure for petitioning, reducing petty technicalities used to reject petition signatures, and making the process uniform by having the state and each city operate under the same rules. This amendment will make it easier for animal advocates in Colorado to have a direct voice in the law-making process.
In Florida:
Vote NO on Amendment 3—Over the last twelve years, Florida has taken the lead in using the ballot box to enact much needed animal protection reforms. Florida voters have passed a "Save our Sea Life" amendment that prohibited the use of certain cruel fishing nets, as well as a groundbreaking ban on the use of gestation crates, the horrible metal-and-cement cages that the pig flesh industry confines mother pigs in. Now large companies that exploit animals are among those pushing to make it harder for voters to pass these ballot initiatives. If Amendment 3 is passed, the percentage of voters needed to pass future initiatives will be raised for no reason other than to make the process more difficult for citizens.
In Michigan:
Vote NO on Proposal 3—Widely recognized as a symbol of peace, the mourning dove has been protected from hunting in Michigan since 1905. Now, Michigan's beautiful birds of peace are once again in danger of being subjected to target practice by bloodthirsty hunters! On November 7, you can help maintain the 100-year-old protections for mourning doves by voting NO on Prop 3 and encouraging everyone you know to do the same.
No matter what party you identify with or what you think of politics in general, if you're of voting age it's extremely important that you make your voice heard on these issues. If you don't, animals will suffer. Period.
-Noah
Win $100 Worth of Goodies from Dirty Shirty! November 6, 2006
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I have been known to dig through the children's tee section of the thrift store looking for some sweet "new" vintage wear. I have come up with some good finds including my 1979 Pittsburgh City of Champions tee, my Ghostbusters tee, and my various prep-school sweaters. But I have been hitting a dry spell lately in my thrift store hunts.
But low and behold, the answer to my repetitive wardrobe problems was right in front of me- peta2 is having a contest to win $100 worth of tees from Dirty Shirty! If you are not familiar with Dirty Shirty, here is a short debriefing: sweet company that doesn't use animals to make their one-of-a-kind clothes and wide selection of vintage tees.
All you have to do to win is fill out the form below, hit submit, and you will be entered to increase your wardrobe by ten-fold.
xoxo-lara
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The O.C. and peta2 November 3, 2006
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I don't know if any of you caught The O.C. season opener last night, but in case you missed it, check it out ...
No, you're not hallucinating—although I bet Che and Summer were at some point (what's with that anyway ... not all activists are pot smoking, bongo playing weirdos, damn it)—those were in fact peta2 posters and bumper stickers splashed all over Summer's dorm room. Pretty sweet, huh? It seems that dear, sweet Summer's becoming a bona fide activist this season, leafletting, tabling and all. Last night she and her crew were championing the rights of chickens and I must say, if you've never tabled, their experience was pretty accurate, especially when it comes to the comments they were getting from the boneheads passing by. Like when the guy said, "I love chicken nuggets," to which she replied, "It's because of people like you that chickens can't fly free," and his witty comeback was, "Chickens can't fly." Yes, people really are that stupid. The next thing you know someone will be asking her if she eats "PETA" bread, it happens all of the time. It's really sad that most of the opposition aren't more clever. Anywho, I can't wait to see what the rest of the season brings. I really hope that Che doesn't lead her further down the granola path. Resist, Summer, resist!
XOX
Patricia
I Love Halo November 2, 2006
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Master Chief doesn't fuck around.
-Noah
Even Zombies Hate KFC November 1, 2006
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For Halloween, activists across the country held special protests outside of local KFC restaurants ...
... dressed like zombies. Brilliant right? These pictures are all from a protest in Moscow, Idaho. The "AURGH GRAUH UARGH" signs are the best. Yep, eating flesh is for zombies. Oh man, that really needs to be a peta2 t-shirt...
-Noah
P.S. If you're starting to get a little too old for peta2 (i.e. if you find yourself shaking your fist at kids who are listening to some new-fangled rock-and-roll music on their boomboxes), then check out my dear friend Jack Shepherd's blog on PETA.org. It's lovely!
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