peta2 Owns the Northeast (LOTS of Pictures!) October 10, 2009
Posted by Ryan at October 10, 2009 9:51 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 2 ) | TrackBackAs you no doubt noticed, I haven't posted a blog in a little while (just flatter me and say you noticed).
Rest assured, there is good reason. I've been racking up the miles cruising around the Northeast, helping to promote our amazingly-successful "peta2 Presents" events on college campuses!
Most recently, we've spent time on the campuses of the University of Pennsylvania, Vassar College, Penn State University, NYU, and Columbia University—drawing big crowds, starting a buzz, and capturing headlines at every stop!
Check out some of the highlights:
Me and my buddy Ben F., chillin' at the University of Pennsylvania.
PETA's resident animal testing expert, Dr. Alka Chandna, speaking at Vassar.
Did I get your attention yet?
Up to no good, at Penn State.
The massive crowd at Penn State, listening to PETA VP Bruce Friedrich slam the meat industry!
Dr. Chandna, laying into animal experimenters.
Want us to come to your area? Don't worry—we're just getting started.
Next week, we're making a surprise appearance at the University of Maryland, to support the student campaign to remove McDonald's from campus. Check out this fun flyer!
So where should we come next? I'm all ears ...
P.S. Remember that debate we hosted at Harvard a few weeks ago? Well, one of the hundreds of students that attended decided to film the event, and posted it to YouTube. If you've got 90 minutes to spare, check it out!
Win An iPod Shuffle By Helping Stop Deadly Training Exercises On Animals! August 26, 2009
Posted by Pulin Modi at August 26, 2009 5:09 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 16 ) | TrackBackThe U.S. military has declared war on animals by burning, stabbing, and shooting them in unnecessary training exercises, and it's time to fight back! Animals need you to enlist in the army of animal lovers willing to speak out against these cruel exercises. If you go above and beyond the call of duty for this mission, you'll be in with a great chance to win an iPod Shuffle (see details below).
Enlist Now
Join the battle for animals by signing the Facebook petition to end military trauma training on animals.
Recruit Your Friends
Click "Ask Friends to Sign" on the petition page to recruit your friends to this cause. The more invites you send out, the more people you will recruit. Tell them how live pigs are shot, stabbed, and burned; live goats have their legs broken with bolt cutters and cut off with shears; and live monkeys are poisoned with harmful chemicals!
Go Home Victorious
The individual who recruits the most petition signatures by September 10th wins the iPod Shuffle (we'll let you know if you're the winner by the 14th).
Share the petition on your Facebook wall, and everywhere else you can. The harder you fight the larger the impact you'll make and the greater the chance you'll go home with an iPod in hand.
Please take action today for all the monkeys, pigs, sheep, and other non-human victims killed in military training. Humane, responsible training is essential in our effort to work towards a peaceful world. Learn more about this campaign at peta2.com/trauma.
Heads up: By entering the contest you're acknowledging that you've read and agreed to our privacy policy and the contest terms and conditions.
Good luck, soldier!
Free Stuff Friday: 'Breasts Not Animal Tests' Tank Top! August 14, 2009
Posted by Tiffany Wright at August 14, 2009 9:17 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 345 ) | TrackBack
We love boobies! And so does Keep A Breast! That's why we've teamed up with them to create our brand new 'Breasts Not Animal Tests' Tunic Tank. This hot little number lets everyone know testing on animals will not save our precious tatas.
Over the years, billions of dollars have been poured into animal testing yet we still have no cure for cancer in humans. Scientists have only been successful curing cancer in the rats and mice they pump all sorts of chemical garbage into. I mean, I don't have a PhD or anything, but I'm smart enough to know my insides don't look anything like those of a mouse or any other animal these monsters test on.
Not only has animal testing proven itself unreliable, it's just plain wrong. If you're as passionate as I am about putting an end to animal testing, you won't wanna miss out on this week's contest cause we're giving away five 'Breasts Not Animal Tests' tanks! I don't know about you, but if people are gonna stare at my boobs, they might as well learn a little something.
For your chance to win, comment below with what you'd say to an animal experimenter if you ever came face to face with one. Entries must be received by August 21. The five people with the most original comments will be chosen as our winners and notified by August 24.
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Also by commenting, you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions.
GOOD LUCK!
Y'all Ever Met a Monkey with a Texan Accent? July 20, 2009
Posted by Ryan at July 20, 2009 2:11 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 7 ) | TrackBack |
One monkey says to another (in monkey language, of course), "So where are you all from?" The monkey answers "Duuuude, I was raised in Southern California. I miss it. The waves there were sooo sick—it was totally badical." Another monkey chimes in, "If y'all think this place is bad, you shoulda seen the places I was locked up back in Texas. They ever send me back there, and they're fixin' for a fight."
THIS COULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN. (Well, sort of.) You see, studies have concluded that, like humans, monkeys can acquire regional accents based on where they live. According to the study, two large groups of Japanese monkeys were separated back in the '50s, and lived in separate regions since then. As such, they have two noticeably different accents.
Additionally, a recent study has concluded that monkeys can even recognize bad grammar. For example, monkeys can tell that the saying "ed-walk" is wrong, and that "walked" is correct. Presumably, they could also determine that "etarian-veg" is not the correct pronunciation of "vegetarian". Heck, I have relatives that aren't that evolved.
So what do you think, should people be allowed to test on animals that are clearly more intelligent than some of our (human) relatives?
Fighting for Alternatives to Dissection at Marquette! April 5, 2009
Posted by Ryan at April 5, 2009 1:56 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 0 ) | TrackBackWritten by Danika Rahn, a student at Marquette University
I am helping to lead a campaign to implement a Student Choice Policy at Marquette University regarding classes that use unnecessary animal experiments. I wanted to help with the campaign because the root of human kindness is being an advocate for living beings other than us. The issue of performing cruel tests on animals is devastating to me, because it is outdated and unnecessary.
peta2.com
With the help of close friends and a peta2 crew of four members, we have collected over 1,200 petition signatures on campus—more than 10% of the student population!
March Mad Scientists: The Fatal Four! March 31, 2009
Posted by Ryan at March 31, 2009 12:15 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 4 ) | TrackBackAs those of you who have been keeping up with your NCAA "March Madness" brackets will know, this year's college basketball championship series is down to the final four schools, all vying for the top spot. Unfortunately, they're all losers.
I say this because in a tragic irony, the universities that have the most talented athletes also seem to hire some of the cruelest animal abusers in the nation.
Need proof?
At Villanova University:
Experimenters inject meth into rats' stomachs, to determine whether the drug influences the rats' response time in behavioral tests (gee, I wonder). As you might have seen in our "Who Cares?" video though, these kinds of pointless and cruel tests on rats and mice are still legal, since no experiment on them, no matter how painful, is against the law.
At the University of Connecticut:
Experimenters implant steel rods into rabbits, to keep them immobile during cruel experiments. They then shock the rabbits with electrodes, and measure their brainwaves, while the animals are still awake.
At the University of North Carolina:
Maria Boccia, a vivisector at UNC Chapel Hill, removes rat pups, 2 to 14 days old, from their mothers for extended periods of time to induce deep depression in the mother rats. She then places the mothers in cylinders of water from which the rats can not escape to see how quickly the rats become overcome with a sense of helplessness and stop swimming.
At Michigan State University:
Not to be outdone, our returning "champion" from last year's "Giant Douche vs. Turd Sandwich" contest, MSU vivisector Arthur Weber has continued his "work", removing the eyes of cats while they're still alive. Weber attempted to justify his cruel and pointless experiments last year, stating that "The animals are completely anesthetized, receive painkillers, and once the animals come out of the anesthesia, 10 minutes later you can't tell the difference." Yeah, you're probably right, Arthur. I'm sure EYES are overrated anyway. What?! And don't forget the part where you keep them alive for a week after the operation and then kill them—I'd be willing to bet my March Madness pool money that they notice that too!
Of course, it's not the basketball players' fault that their schools hired such colossal creeps—animal experimentation is big business. As shown above though, no amount of money can keep animal abusers from being morally bankrupt.
Electronic Noses? December 30, 2008
Posted by Ryan at December 30, 2008 11:42 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 7 ) | TrackBackAs you may or may not know, the armed forces have frequently "enlisted" dogs into intelligence and combat service, using them to find bombs and drugs — tasks that often endanger their lives. As is always the case, the authorities claimed that it was the best and most scientific way to seek these items, and as usual, they were wrong.
That's because Yushan Yan, a UC — Riverside professor, and his team, have created electronic bomb-sniffing technology, which is able to identify tiny amounts of explosives, hazardous materials, and even landmines. These "electronic noses" can easily be used at airports and in military operations.
This is just the latest in a series of technological advances that have helped take animals out of harmful situations (see "use of animals in crash tests" that PETA helped end at General Motors).
Unemployment is a big issue these days, but somehow I don't think these dogs will mind losing their fatal "jobs" once and for all.
The Return of "Giant Douche vs. Turd Sandwich"! August 5, 2008
Posted by Ryan at August 5, 2008 10:49 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 15 ) | TrackBackYou cast your ballots in last month's "Giant Douche vs. Turd Sandwich" contest to determine the biggest jerk who abuses animals in laboratories, and the results are in! After Marta spent many a sleepless night counting the votes, we are proud to announce that Michael Weed (aka "Giant Douche") won the honor of being the biggest of the jerk of the month! As a reminder, he was the one who forces monkeys to ingest alcohol, cocaine, ecstacy, and other drugs, to test their responses. Well done, Mike! You earned it!
But now, it's time for this month's match-up. In this corner, hailing from New Haven, CT...
Nickname: "Giant Douche"
Real Name: Marina Picciotto
School: Yale University
Interests: Feeding or injecting monkeys, mice, and rats with nicotine, cocaine, morphine and alcohol to measure "behavioral assessments", sometimes stating that the goal of the test is to make the animals suffer. In one test, she gave monkeys a Kool-Aid drink mixed with nicotine as their sole source of fluid. One monkey ingested the equivalent of 17 packs of cigarettes per day. Umm, Truth Campaign, you want to get on this?
Visual approximation, compliments of looptvandfilm / CC
Nickname: "Turd Sandwich"
Real Name: Allyson Bennett
School: Wake Forest University
Interests: Taking baby monkeys away from their mothers and forcing them to live without parents. Always the busy bee, Bennett has also researched whether or not binge-drinking might be bad for monkeys (because clearly that's a huge issue in today's society), and in her spare time she dabbles in torturing rats and mice by depriving them of food for up to two days. My my, Allyson, you really should take a permanent vacation.
Visual approximation, compliments of looptvandfilm / CC
I'm casting my ballot for "Giant Douche". How about you?
- Ryan!
March Madness: Vote for the Evil Eight! March 28, 2008
Posted by Ryan at March 28, 2008 3:11 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 15 ) | TrackBack
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Just when you thought things couldn't get any crazier, the quest to find the cruelest college in the country has revved up a notch! All 16 of last week's contenders proved tough teams to beat, but only 8 could advance, and despite some powerful showings from Pittsburgh, KSU, Washington State, OSU, Purdue, Hopkins, Vanderbilt, and the University of Washington, only the nastiest can move forward ... so without further delay let's get down to narrowing the field even further as we prepare to put these vivisectors on the national stage in the Fatal Four next week!
Just like last week, I'll be highlighting what I consider to be the key matchup in this exciting tournament, and you can consult the cheat sheet to help determine who else to vote into the next round. Use the voting form or leave a comment to cast a vote for this week's Vilest Vivisectors in the Evil Eight!
Duke University vs. Texas A&M
Michael Platt, Duke Like 'em or hate 'em, Duke University always puts forward a strong team, and for the past decade, that's been largely due to the work of their MVP, Michael Platt, who drills metal screws into monkeys' skulls, pushes electrodes into their brains, and implants wire coils under their eyelids. A similar winning technique has been made popular by UConn's David Waitzman—another strong contender in this tournament, so if we're lucky, we may see a classic Big East/ACC showdown in the finals this year. The published results of Mr. Platt's cruel experiments include such timeless pieces of knowledge as the fact that one rhesus macaque monkey will often look in the same direction as another rhesus macaque monkey, so there's no question that Michael's earning his keep! To vote for Michael Platt, use the form or leave a comment below. |
Michelle Hook, Texas A&M Texas A&M might traditionally be the underdog in this matchup, but don't make the mistake of underestimating Michelle Hook of Texas A&M University's Department of Psychology. Her medium of choice is rats, and from the sounds of it, there's not much she hasn't done when it comes to slicing and dicing these animals. Michelle's preferred technique involves cutting up the animals' spinal cords, injecting them with chili pepper solution, pushing them into restraint tubes, and electroshocking their hind legs. Hook's world-beating conclusion speaks for itself: "These data suggest that peripheral inflammation, accompanying spinal cord injuries, might have an adverse effect on recovery." You heard it here first, folks: Giving electric shocks to torture victims might slow down their recovery time! To vote for Michelle Hook, use the form or leave a comment below. |
Use the dropdown menus to pick a winner!
- Ryan!
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