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Does Your State Have a Dissection-Choice Policy? Text to Find Out!
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 3:54 pm | by Christina | Permalink | Comments (1)
Warning: Extremely Cute Animals
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:32 pm | by Christina | Permalink | Comments (4)PETA undercover investigators spend months working tirelessly to help expose cruelty to animals that the public and law-enforcement officials would otherwise never know about. While these heartbreaking investigations rightly receive…
Save the Environment From Pink Poop!
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:23 pm | by Whitney | Permalink | Comments (1)So we know that animals raised for food produce about 130 times more poop than the entire human population of the U.S., but have you ever wondered where their poop…
Cut Out Dissection Before Summer Break!
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:13 pm | by Whitney | Permalink | Comments (5)The end of the school year is approaching, and we know the last thing that you want to do before summer break is chop up dead animals in class. Am…
Weekly Dose of Cuteness: Pooch and Piggies at Play
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 3:34 pm | by Sunny | Permalink | Comments (2)Did you know that piggies are way smart (they're the fourth-smartest animal in the world!), super-duper-cuddly, and ridiculously cute and that they loooooooove to play and get their spaz on…
URGENT: Pigs Cruelly Exploited at Expo Need Your Voice!
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 4:13 pm | by Christina | Permalink | Comments (10)This weekend, "pig races"—in which animals are forced to run around a track lined with a screaming crowd—are scheduled to be held at the 12th Annual Super Pet Expo in…
Three Ways to Help Pigs on National Pig Day!
Posted on March 1, 2012 at 1:08 pm | by Rachel S. | Permalink | Comments (7)Today is a special day for pigs because it's National Pig Day! The intelligence of pigs is often underestimated, so today is the perfect day to set the record straight…
Could an App Change the Way We See Pigs?
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 12:19 pm | by Sunny | Permalink | Comments (2)You've played Words With Friends, but what about lights with pigs? A new app called "Pig Chase" puts players finger-to-snout with real pigs on farms. A player moves a ball of…
Fake Butcher Shocks Supermarket Shoppers
Posted on January 12, 2012 at 12:00 pm | by Sunny | Permalink | Comments (13)As it turns out, people are genuinely taken by surprise when they find out where sausage meat comes from, as evidenced by this amusing Portuguese video showing what happens when…
Pigs Suffer While Smithfield Takes Its Sweet Time
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:38 am | by Sunny | Permalink | Comments (5)Smithfield Foods, Inc., the world's largest pig supplier, announced yesterday that it will phase out gestation crates for pregnant sows by 2017. Let's hope it keeps its word this time. Smithfield has…
