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  • 27
  • Feb

New Virus Means More Suffering for Animals Raised for Food

Many of us will have seen stories in the media about the Schmallenberg virus, the latest disease to hit animals already suffering in severely crowded and filthy conditions. The virus causes birth defects and miscarriages in sheep, goats and cattle, and it effects milk yields in cows and causes them to have diarrhoea. It is believed to have started in Germany, but cases have now been confirmed at 74 farms in the UK.

In addition to being forced to… Read more.


  • 21
  • Feb

Repent – This Lent – With Cruelty-Free Pancakes

This Pancake Day, we’ve got a mouth-watering recipe to share with you! Pancake Day, also known as Shrove Tuesday, is the last Tuesday before Lent. Traditionally, Lent is a time of abstinence and making amends for one’s sins, and Pancake Day was the last chance people had to indulge themselves and use up the fatty foods in their homes, such as butter and eggs, which are forbidden during Lent.

But things are about to change. Here’s a pancake recipe that’s free of all those sinful animal fats, which means that people can… Read more.


  • 27
  • Jan

Unveiled: The Best Vegan Breakfasts in the Country

Everyone agrees on the importance of starting the day with a nutritious and satisfying breakfast. Fortunately, more and more Britons are moving away from the traditional artery-clogging fry-ups of cholesterol-packed eggs, fatty sausages and greasy rashers and demanding lighter and more nourishing fare – which often means delicious vegan options. To mark Farmhouse Breakfast Week (22 to 28 January), we’ve scoured the country to find the top 10 vegan breakfasts in the country. Winners were chosen based on a number… Read more.


  • 20
  • Jan

PETA Supports Eating Meat – Find Out Why

A subject that has generated some interesting discussions in the office and that we’d love to hear your views on is PETA-approved meat – in vitro meat, that is! Although in vitro meat isn’t on supermarket shelves yet, it will be in our lifetime. The technology involves painlessly taking a few cells from a live animal and putting them into a nutritious medium in which they will divide. Scientists have already concluded that a few cells can feed… Read more.


  • 11
  • Jan

Benjamin Zephaniah Blasts Antony Worrall Thompson

It’s fair to say that Antony Worrall Thompson is having a pretty bad week! Following the deluge of bad press he’s been getting for reportedly stealing from a supermarket in his hometown, The Daily Mail has just reported that prior to filming an episode of Ready Steady Cook (or Ready Steady Crook?), Worrall Thompson was forced to eat some humble pie after criticising PETA friend and Rastafarian vegan poet Benjamin Zephaniah.

According to The Daily Mail, Zephaniah said, “I told [Worrall Thompson] I was a vegan, and he looked at me and… Read more.


  • 05
  • Jan

Pow! Owain Yeoman Slams Proposed Industrial-Size Dairy in Wales

Owain Yeoman's PETA Ad

Owain's PETA Ad

In Owain Yeoman’s opinion, it doesn’t take a mentalist to see that factory farming is a recipe for disaster. That’s why the Welsh-born star of the hit American television programme The Mentalist has just fired off a letter to Powys County Council urging councilmembers not to allow a new industrial-size dairy – a factory farm where 1,000 cows would be artificially impregnated, drugged and used as milk machines – to be built at Leighton near Welshpool. In the letter, Yeoman explains that densely crowded,… Read more.


  • 27
  • Dec

Morrissey Named PETA’s Person of the Year 2011

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For helping to make the world a kinder place for animals, we’re proud to announce that compassionate crooner Morrissey is PETA’s 2011 Person of the Year.

A long-time champion of animal rights and vegetarianism, this year the Lancashire born singer – described by NME as “one of the most influential artists ever” – has once again been using the limelight to shine a light on the terrible suffering that animals endure on factory farms and inside abattoirs.

During his European tour, Morrissey had… Read more.


  • 22
  • Dec

Chantelle Houghton: Ho, Ho, Faux – Don’t Buy Foie Gras

Christmas shoppers outside Fortnum & Mason’s Piccadilly store got a festive surprise today when Big Brother winner Chantelle Houghton, dressed in a seasonal red velvet robe, led a protest against the department store’s sale of foie gras. Our favourite socialite handed out free tins of deliciously decadent, cruelty-free faux gras to shoppers who signed PETA’s enormous Christmas card urging the department store to end its sale of a product so cruel that its production is illegal under UK law.

“I’m dreaming of a kind Christmas – one where foie gras is… Read more.


  • 18
  • Dec

Trading Standards Warns Fortnum & Mason To Stop Misleading Customers Over Animal Welfare Claims

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In response to a complaint we filed, Fortnum & Mason has been warned by Westminster Trading Standards that if it does not amend its corporate social responsibility policy or make it clear that the policy does not cover foie gras, it could be in breach of the Consumer Protection From Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 and face legal action!

The company disingenuously states that “animal welfare is very important to us” and claims that all its meat is of the highest welfare standard, complying… Read more.


  • 15
  • Dec

25 Celebrities Who Won’t Be Eating Turkey This Christmas

Who eats turkey at Christmas?! Not these compassionate celebrities, who have made the choice not to gobble down something that used to … gobble. This holiday, take a tip from the stars – extend the season of goodwill and compassion to animals by leaving them off your plate:

Sir Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney

Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman

Owain Yeoman

Owain Yeoman

Leona Lewis

Leona Lewis

Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson

Eliza Doolittle

Eliza Doolittle

Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

Sadie Frost

Sadie Frost

Jared… Read more.


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