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Replace Bulldog Gridiron Mascot With Robot, PETA Demands
Offbeat  (tags: football mascot, bulldog, died, peta, robot mascots )

Simone
- 9 days ago - theregister.co.uk
Animal-rights protesters in Georgia, America have asked a local football* team - the "Georgia Bulldogs" - to replace their recently-deceased bulldog mascot with a robot. The protesters say that far from being tough, bulldogs are actually weakly genetic
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Sir Roger Moore Named PETA U.K.'s Person of the Year
Offbeat  (tags: Roger Moore, peta, UK, person of the year, award )

Cher
- 17 days ago - blog.peta.org
"I am deeply touched and thrilled to be awarded the PETA U.K. person of the year. When I first saw their video footage on foie gras production three years ago, I felt compelled to do something to help put a stop to this cruel delicacy. I have since
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City Relents, PETA Elephant Sculpture Goes Up Downtown
Offbeat  (tags: peta, statue, protest, circuses, baby elephant )

Simone
- 56 days ago - stltoday.com
A 5-foot-tall statue of a shackled elephant has gone up in a downtown park near Scottrade Center after the city relented on an earlier decision to deny an animal rights group permission to erect the sculpture.
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PETA Protests Jay Leno's Show Over Advertising Partnership With McDonald's
Offbeat  (tags: animals, protests, Leno, Peta, McDonald's )

Cher
- 57 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Outraged over an advertising partnership between "The Jay Leno Show" and fast-food giant McDonald's, a group of PETA supporters took to the streets of Burbank earlier this week to protest outside the NBC studio where Leno's talk show is filmed.
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PETA Wants to Rent Virginia Prison Building for Use as 'Chicken Empathy Museum'
Offbeat  (tags: animals, Peta, prison, chicken empathy museum, suffering )

Cher
- 80 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Ever vigilant and ever media-savvy, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has written to Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine with an offer to rent his state's Botetourt Correctional Center building. Kaine recently named the prison, which is in the Virginia
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Air Canada: That's a Wrap
Offbeat  (tags: Air Canada, airplanes, Peta, ads, environment, seals )

Cher
- 87 days ago - blog.peta.org
When PETA caught wind of Air Canada's financial woes, we flew into action with a tempting offer that could help keep the company flying sky high and save thousands of seals from being slaughtered on Canada's ice floes each year. PETA V.P. Dan Mathews
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PETA's New "Save The Whales" Billboard Takes Aim At Fat Women (NOT Satire)
Offbeat  (tags: PETA, whales, Vegetarians, blubber, obese, women, health, billboard, ad, campaign, lose, weight, diet, food, odd, unusual, off-beat )

Tom
- 110 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
PETA's new billboard campaign in Florida is raising eyebrows and ire among women and health groups. A drawing on billboards in Jacksonville depicts an obese woman with the phrase, "Save The Whales, Lose The Blubber: Go Vegetarian."
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VIDEO : Advocacy Group Decries PETA's Inhumane Treatment Of Women - SATIRE
Offbeat  (tags: humor, interesting, funny, off-beat, humans, PETA, satire, women's, rights, protest, ad, campaign, animals, fur, glue, traps )

Tom
- 111 days ago - theonion.com
A women's rights group demonstrated outside the headquarters of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protesting the group's "degrading and exploitative treatment of women" in their ongoing ad campaigns. NOTE: THIS IS HUMOROUS FAKE NEWS SATIRE :)
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Heath Ledger and Isaac Brock Receive PETA Award
Offbeat  (tags: animals, whales, music video, Heath Ledger, Peta, award, environment )

Cher
- 121 days ago - blog.peta.org
After much anticipation, the new music video for Modest Mouse's "King Rat" was released this week--and it was worth the wait. The video, which was directed by Heath Ledger, is great not only for its artistry (I am always in favor of a touch of the
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US Airways: PETA's 'End the Seal Slaughter' Billboard?
Offbeat  (tags: seals, hunt, Canada, peta, AnimalWelfare, airplanes, killing, wildlife, protection, unusual )

Cher
- 226 days ago - blog.peta.org
With the 2010 Olympics approaching, people are looking to book their travel to the Games sooner rather than later. So, we'd like to let would-be passengers know that there may be a reason (or 338,200 reasons) to skip that trip to Canada.
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Squirrel Underpants Could Save Thousands
Offbeat  (tags: squirrels, culls, protection, Peta, underpants, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 248 days ago - blog.peta.org
Our friends at PETA Europe are fed up with how "culling animals" is hailed as a solution to so-called population "crises." The latest proposal comes from Scotland, where plans are in place to conduct a £1.3 million cull (read "mass slaughter") of the
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The PETA Principal
Offbeat  (tags: animals, culture, environment, ethics, PETA, animal adcocates, animal welfare, anti-fur, Ingrid Newkirk )

Natalie
- 392 days ago - ft.com
The coffin lay open in the middle of Times Square. Inside, naked and very much alive, Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), sported "just a spray of flowers on my naughty bits". The stunt was part
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Test-Tube Steak? PETA Wants Formula
Offbeat  (tags: in vitro meat, test tube, fake meat, PETA, in vitro meat, food, ethics, health )


- 591 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to pay $1 million for fake meat -- even if it has caused a "near civil war" within the organization. The organization said it would announce plans today for the cash prize to the "first person to come up
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Roselyn Sanchez' Sizzling PETA Ad
Offbeat  (tags: Roselyn Sanchez, PETA, sizzling, advertisement )

Rosette
- 672 days ago - sponkit.com
Roselyn Sanchez has posed naked for sizzling PETA poster. The "Without A Trace" star has been added to the list of celebrities who peeled their clothes for a PETA campaign ad.
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PETA Boycotting Mars Candy Co. Over Animal Cruelty
Offbeat  (tags: PETA, boycott, snack foods, animal cruelty, mice, rats, guinea pigs, rabbits )

Eduardo
- 728 days ago - in.reuters.com
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling for a boycott of M&Ms, Twix candy bars and other snack foods made by Mars Inc, claiming the company funds experiments that kill mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits.
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