PETA

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Jameson Dons Pleather for Sexy Ad

 

Retired porn star Jenna Jameson is giving veteran sex symbol Bettie Page a pleather makeover for Los Angeles Fashion Week.

 

The ex-X-rated actress will don a black wig and pleather bikini to evoke screen siren Page in a new People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals anti-leather campaign, which will debut at Fashion Week next week.

 

Adult film icon Jameson admits she was happy to wear fake leather for the shoot because she often has sexy outfits made from pleather.

 

She says, "Anybody who knows me knows that I've kind of lived half my life in it. I love the idea of having choices outside of leather.

 

"The outfit that I'm wearing in the ad is so sexy that I suggest if people want to have a better time in the bedroom -- then please explore the pleather side."

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Animal rights activists People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) have offered to pay soul legend Aretha Franklin's $19,000 tax bill if she agrees to stop wearing fur.

PETA president Ingrid Newkirk has written to the R.E.S.P.E.C.T. singer, offering to help her avoid foreclosure on her Michigan home with a cash hand-out - if Franklin hands over her collection of fur coats. In a letter to the diva, Newkirk writes, "We would like to help you out by paying the approximately $19,000 in back taxes that you owe - if you'll agree to save animals from hideous suffering and death by promising never to wear fur again and donating your old furs to PETA. "We are absolutely sincere in making this offer - we believe that you know in your heart that your fans will love you even more if you make a fur-free resolution. "As you no doubt now realize, animals who are trapped in the wild can suffer for days before dying from exposure, frostbite, shock, or infection or by being strangled, stomped, or bludgeoned to death by trappers." The PETA president concludes by writing, "Our offer is a win-win situation: You get to keep your home, and animals get to keep their lives. We are rooting for you to please give animals the R-E-S-P-E-C-T that they deserve by giving up fur."

 

Source: Panachereport.com

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PETA offers Britney Spears a job

The Scoop

 

It’s close to April Fool’s day so let’s preface this by pointing out that this is not a joke: PETA has offered Britney Spears a job. For a day.

 

In a letter PETA president Ingrid Newkirk penned to Spears after seeing her “How I Met Your Mother Performance,” Newkirk offers Spears the chance to be a receptionist “for as little as an hour.”

 

Newkirk contends that the PETA target would see “from the inside, why we are so concerned about issues like fur and homeless dogs and cats. … We might have criticized you in the past for contributing to the dog overpopulation crisis and wearing real fur, but perhaps now that your own crisis has abated, a new day calls for a new relationship, a new outlook, and a new understanding,” the letter said.

 

The hourly pay isn’t so bad, either. The group is offering Spears a $1,000 donation to a children’s charity of her choosing.

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Von Teese Clashes With Peta Over Her Foie Gras Fetish

 

 

Burlesque star DITA VON TEESE has clashed with animal charity People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA), after confessing her love for controversial French delicacy foie gras.

 

The exotic dancer has already been accused of hypocrisy for continuing to eat meat and wear fur, despite her ties to the animal rights organisation.

 

And now she has confessed one of her favourite foods is the engorged liver of ducks and geese, telling The New York Times, "My guilty pleasure is eating foie gras in Paris. I feel guilty and horrible about it."

 

Her comments have angered PETA.

 

The charity’s media director Michael McGraw tells WENN, "We were aware that Dita is not a vegetarian before working with her, and she has brought much needed attention to an important PETA campaign promoting spaying and neutering of companion animals.

 

"But foie gras entails some of the cruelest factory farming abuses, which is why most people choose not to eat it.

 

"Foie gras is made from the grotesquely enlarged livers of ducks and geese who are cruelly force-fed by pipes that are shoved down their throats every day, pumping up to four pounds of grain and fat into their stomachs. We hope that Dita does the right thing and eliminates foie gras from her diet."

 

Source: pr-inside

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PETA Praise Beyonce

 

Animal rights group People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) has called off its war with BEYONCE KNOWLES after discovering the newlywed pop sensation has ended her love affair with fur.

 

The singer was once near the top of PETA's 'hitlist' because of frequent sightings of her wearing fur coats.

 

A member even won an auction to have lunch with her, only to confront her with video footage showing animals being skinned for fur.

 

But the group has decided Knowles is now fur-free - and sent her a fake fur throw as a wedding present to mark her marriage to Jay-Z last week (ends4Apr08).

 

The accompanying note reads, "From all of us at PETA, we wish you much happiness in your life together. Please accept this faux-fur throw with many good wishes and a hope from us that together, you'll be a fur-free couple!"

 

PETA Vice President Lisa Lange says, "Celebrities know that the easiest way to keep PETA off their backs is by keeping fur off their backs. Time will tell if Beyonce is truly committed to being fur-free, but all indications are that she's become a real 'dreamgirl' for fur-bearing animals."

 

Source: contactmusic

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Morrissey's Got Beef with PETA

 

So you know PETA was pissed at TMZ for calling the organ-ization out after we ribbed an animal rights activist out for eating at a steakhouse. PETA felt it was just ducky for non-meat eaters to eat at meat eateries.

 

Turns out Morrissey -- who is a vegetarian -- wasn't actually at STK on Monday, but at the Belmont, the joint next door. Moz's rep tells TMZ that he not only didn't go to STK -- he would never go to a steakhouse! Meat IS murder. That kinda leaves PETA hangin'...

 

So how do ya like them meatballs, PETA?!

 

Source: TMZ

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Anderson Hand Delivers New Peta Report To Washington Politicians

 

PAMELA ANDERSON will make her first trip to Washington, D.C. as an American citizen on Friday (25Apr08) when she hand delivers a report to politicians blasting the U.S. Government for failing to update animal testing procedures.

 

The actress/model was a Canadian when she was last in the U.S. capital and she’s determined to make a stir on Capitol Hill when she joins People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals activists to berate officials for not replacing outdated animal tests.

 

Anderson will make a personal appeal to her ‘new government’ to replace a profusion of outdated animal tests with modern technology that is already widely used in Europe.

 

The report she’ll deliver to politicians on Friday afternoon is the same PETA science report that inspired a recent front-page Washington Post article, which condemned the failure of the Department of Health and Human Services for not using "sophisticated, non-animal test methods in place of animal tests".

 

Anderson says, "Being a citizen excites me not just because I can vote, but because I can crack the whip on Capitol Hill to defend animals."

 

Anderson will continue her lobbying efforts at Saturday’s (26Apr08) White House Correspondent’s Dinner, which she is attending with pal and PETA Vice President Dan Mathews.

 

Source: pr-inside

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How about a double scoop of mama's milk?

PETA proposes that Ben & Jerry's use breast milk in its ice cream

msnbc.com

 

WATERBURY, Vt. - Mooove over, Holsteins. PETA wants world-famous Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream to tap nursing moms, rather than cows, for the milk used in its ice cream.

 

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is asking the ice cream maker to begin using breast milk in its products instead of cow's milk, saying it would reduce the suffering of cows and calves and give ice cream lovers a healthier product.

 

The idea got a cool reception Thursday from Ben & Jerry's officials, the company's customers and even La Leche League International, the world's oldest breast-feeding support organization, which promotes the practice — for babies, anyway.

 

PETA wrote a letter to company founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield on Tuesday, telling them cow's milk is hazardous and that milking them is cruel.

 

"If Ben and Jerry's replaced the cow's milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers — and cows — would reap the benefits," wrote Tracy Reiman, executive vice president of the animal rights advocacy group. She said dairy products have been linked to juvenile diabetes, allergies and obesity.

 

Ashley Byrne, a campaign coordinator for PETA, acknowledged the implausibility of substituting breast milk for cow's milk, but said it's no stranger than humans consuming the milk of another species.

 

"We're aware this idea is somewhat absurd, and that putting it into practice is a stretch. At the time same, it's pretty absurd for us to be drinking the milk of cows," she said.

 

It takes about 12 pounds — or 1 1/2 gallons of milk — to make a gallon of ice cream. Ben & Jerry's, which gets its milk exclusively from Vermont cows, won't say how much milk it uses or how much ice cream it sells.

 

As a standardized product under federal regulations, ice cream must be made with milk from healthy cows. Ice cream made from goat's milk, for example, would have to be labeled as such.

 

Presumably, so would mother's milk ice cream.

 

Ben & Jerry's will stick to cows

To Ben & Jerry's, the idea is udderly ridiculous.

 

"We applaud PETA's novel approach to bringing attention to an issue, but we believe a mother's milk is best used for her child," spokesman Sean Greenwood said in an e-mail. He didn't respond to requests for an interview.

 

Leon Berthiaume, general manager of the St. Albans Cooperative Creamery, which provides milk products to Ben & Jerry's, called the dairy products "among the safest in the world."

 

"Milk from cows has long-term health benefits and has been proven to be safe and healthy and an important part of the American diet for generations," he said. "I'm not ready to make that change."

 

Cow's milk and mother's milk aren't interchangeable, according to La Leche spokeswoman Jane Crouse, who says breast milk is a dynamic substance that's different with each woman and each child and might have difficulty being processed into ice cream.

 

Then there's the question of who would provide the milk, and whether they'd be paid.

 

"Some women feel compelled to donate milk to a milk bank for adopted babies, or for someone who's ill or unable to breast feed. There's plenty of anecdotal evidence about sisters who nurse each others' babies. There's a population of women very willing to share their milk. Whether there's enough to do it for a commercial entity, who can say?" she said.

 

At the Ben & Jerry's factory in Waterbury, consumers gave a collective "Eww" to the idea Thursday.

 

"It's kind of creepy," said Jeff Waugh, 42, of Dayton, Ohio.

 

"I think it's a little nutty," said the Rev. Roger Wooton, 83, of Malden, Mass., finishing up a cup of Heath Bar Crunch.

 

"How would they get all that milk?" said his wife, Jane Wooton, 77.

 

Jen Wahlbrink, 34, of Phoenix, who breast-fed her 11-month-old son, Cameron, said she wouldn't touch ice cream made from mother's milk. She remembers her nursing days — and not that fondly.

 

"The (breast) pumps just weren't that much fun. You really do feel like a cow," she said, cradling her son in her hands.

 

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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How about a double scoop of mama's milk?

PETA proposes that Ben & Jerry's use breast milk in its ice cream

msnbc.com

 

WATERBURY, Vt. - Mooove over, Holsteins. PETA wants world-famous Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream to tap nursing moms, rather than cows, for the milk used in its ice cream.

 

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is asking the ice cream maker to begin using breast milk in its products instead of cow's milk, saying it would reduce the suffering of cows and calves and give ice cream lovers a healthier product.

 

The idea got a cool reception Thursday from Ben & Jerry's officials, the company's customers and even La Leche League International, the world's oldest breast-feeding support organization, which promotes the practice — for babies, anyway.

 

PETA wrote a letter to company founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield on Tuesday, telling them cow's milk is hazardous and that milking them is cruel.

 

"If Ben and Jerry's replaced the cow's milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers — and cows — would reap the benefits," wrote Tracy Reiman, executive vice president of the animal rights advocacy group. She said dairy products have been linked to juvenile diabetes, allergies and obesity.

 

Ashley Byrne, a campaign coordinator for PETA, acknowledged the implausibility of substituting breast milk for cow's milk, but said it's no stranger than humans consuming the milk of another species.

 

"We're aware this idea is somewhat absurd, and that putting it into practice is a stretch. At the time same, it's pretty absurd for us to be drinking the milk of cows," she said.

 

It takes about 12 pounds — or 1 1/2 gallons of milk — to make a gallon of ice cream. Ben & Jerry's, which gets its milk exclusively from Vermont cows, won't say how much milk it uses or how much ice cream it sells.

 

As a standardized product under federal regulations, ice cream must be made with milk from healthy cows. Ice cream made from goat's milk, for example, would have to be labeled as such.

 

Presumably, so would mother's milk ice cream.

 

Ben & Jerry's will stick to cows

To Ben & Jerry's, the idea is udderly ridiculous.

 

"We applaud PETA's novel approach to bringing attention to an issue, but we believe a mother's milk is best used for her child," spokesman Sean Greenwood said in an e-mail. He didn't respond to requests for an interview.

 

Leon Berthiaume, general manager of the St. Albans Cooperative Creamery, which provides milk products to Ben & Jerry's, called the dairy products "among the safest in the world."

 

"Milk from cows has long-term health benefits and has been proven to be safe and healthy and an important part of the American diet for generations," he said. "I'm not ready to make that change."

 

Cow's milk and mother's milk aren't interchangeable, according to La Leche spokeswoman Jane Crouse, who says breast milk is a dynamic substance that's different with each woman and each child and might have difficulty being processed into ice cream.

 

Then there's the question of who would provide the milk, and whether they'd be paid.

 

"Some women feel compelled to donate milk to a milk bank for adopted babies, or for someone who's ill or unable to breast feed. There's plenty of anecdotal evidence about sisters who nurse each others' babies. There's a population of women very willing to share their milk. Whether there's enough to do it for a commercial entity, who can say?" she said.

 

At the Ben & Jerry's factory in Waterbury, consumers gave a collective "Eww" to the idea Thursday.

 

"It's kind of creepy," said Jeff Waugh, 42, of Dayton, Ohio.

 

"I think it's a little nutty," said the Rev. Roger Wooton, 83, of Malden, Mass., finishing up a cup of Heath Bar Crunch.

 

"How would they get all that milk?" said his wife, Jane Wooton, 77.

 

Jen Wahlbrink, 34, of Phoenix, who breast-fed her 11-month-old son, Cameron, said she wouldn't touch ice cream made from mother's milk. She remembers her nursing days — and not that fondly.

 

"The (breast) pumps just weren't that much fun. You really do feel like a cow," she said, cradling her son in her hands.

 

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

OK, thats just gross.

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OK, thats just gross.

Maybe if they let us get the breast milk ourselves...sort of like...self serve.

 

Kidding...so kidding.

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OK, thats just gross.

Maybe if they let us get the breast milk ourselves...sort of like...self serve.

 

Kidding...so kidding.

 

Good one

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Karl Lagerfeld defends fur industry saying 'beasts' would kill us if we didn't kill them

The fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has defended the fur industry saying it is justified because the "beasts" fur comes from would "kill us if they could."

By Stephen Adams, Arts Correspondent

02 Jan 2009

 

Lagerfeld also said the issue of size zero models was insignificant compared to the 'zillions' of fat people Photo: AFP

The Chanel supremo said it was "childish" to even discuss the issue of wearing fur in a world where eating meat was normal.

 

German-born Lagerfeld, 75, a contemporary of the late Yves Saint Laurent, said that he did not himself wear fur. But he defended the practice, saying there was "an industry who lives from that".

 

Hunters in the north "make a living having learnt nothing else than hunting", he said, "killing those beasts who would kill us if they could."

 

Animals should be killed "nicely" if at all possible, said Lagerfeld, who admitted to being queasy about eating meat.

 

"I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive," he said.

 

He concluded: "In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish."

 

In an interview on the Radio 4 Today programme, Lagerfeld also said the issue of size zero models was insignificant compared to the "zillions" of fat people.

 

Doctors have criticised the use of size zero models, saying it has contributed to a rise in eating disorders among girls who feel pressured to conform to this idea of beauty.

 

But he said: "In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

 

"There are nearly 30 per cent of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that's left."

 

In further questions Lagerfeld said he viewed the global recession as "more like a cleaning up."

 

"It too was rotten anyway, so it had to be cleaned up," he said.

 

A spokesman for the support group Beating Eating Disorders said Lagerfeld's comments on size zero models were "a very sad reflection" on attitudes within the fashion industry.

 

She said: "We talk to thousands of people every year with eating disorders, who say 'If we look like that, we are told that we should be in hospital.' Yet these models are being celebrated."

 

A spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) described Lagerfeld as a “dinosaur” who had got his facts wrong.

 

She said: “Karl Lagerfeld is a fashion dinosaur who is as out of step as his furs are out of style.

 

“The vast majority of fur these days comes not from hunters as he suggests, but from Chinese fur farms, where no law protects the millions of animals who are routinely beaten and skinned alive.

 

“Lagerfeld’s childish refusal to acknowledge the needless suffering behind every piece of fur and listen to public opinion means that he is being overtaken in the style stakes by an increasing number of designers who believe that cruelty has no place in fashion.”

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PETA to Pet Shop Boys: Rescue Shelter Boys, perhaps?

The band has turned down a request from an animal rights group to rename itself

 

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Just because they named their new CD "Yes," does not mean that British electro-pop duo, the Pet Shop Boys, will agree to just about anything.

 

PETA has asked the Pet Shop Boys to change the band's name to Rescue Shelter Boys.

 

The band has turned down a request from an animal rights group to rename itself the Rescue Shelter Boys.

 

The organization, the People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals (PETA), sent a letter to Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe acknowledging that its request, at first blush, might appear "bizarre."

 

But, by changing its name, the band could raise awareness at every tour stop of the "cramped, filthy conditions" that breeders keep animals in before selling them to pet stores, PETA said in its letter. Read how the Pet Shop Boys got their name

 

The duo, which has performed under its current name for more than 20 years, reproduced PETA's written request in full on its Web site.

 

Pet Shop Boys come back with a lot of 'love, etc.'

The musicians said they were "unable to agree" to the request "but nonetheless think (it) raises an issue worth thinking about."

 

The animal rights group said it was pleased the Pet Shop Boys had drawn attention to the issue by posting its letter so prominently on the band's site. Talking about its campaign on a blog entry, a PETA staffer wrote:

 

"I think I may have to stick "West End Girls" on my iPod right now to celebrate."

 

"West End Girls" is one of the many hits the group has had in its long career.

 

PETA is no stranger to oddball campaigns. A recent one was aimed to re-christen fish as "sea kittens" because "who could possibly want to put a hook through a sea kitten?"

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It took PETA 20+ years to come up with this idea????

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PETA urges Usher not to replace fur coats

 

Animal activists are urging singer Usher not to replace fur coats that were stolen from his vehicle during a Christmas shopping trip.

 

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) bosses have written to the R&B star in a bid to persuade him to stop buying furs as gifts.

 

The coats were among items taken from the "Yeah!" singer's SUV while he and a pal shopped at a store in Atlanta, Georgia on December 14, 2009.

 

In the letter, PETA official Michelle Cho writes, "When it comes to these coats, you're not the first victim. The animals who were beaten, electrocuted, or drowned for those coats - the original owners - are the real victims. Please pledge to be fur-free.

 

"You would be in great company! Other compassionate folks who refuse to wear real fur include Eva Mendes, Charlize Theron, Michelle Obama... and Nia Long, just to name a few. We'd be thrilled to add your name to the list."

 

 

source: http://www.sfgate.com

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PETA calls for 'cruel' Mike Tyson pigeon show to be scrapped

 

 

Former boxing champ Mike Tyson is facing a challenge from animal rights campaigners over his upcoming bird racing reality show after they branded the program "cruel."

 

The retired sportsman has harbored a passion for pigeon racing for years and recently landed a TV deal to bring his hobby to the small screen in the series "Take on Tyson."

 

But the concept of the show has infuriated activists from PETA, and they are calling on the show to be halted before filming starts in Brooklyn, New York in April.

 

PETA general counsel Jeffrey Kerr says, "It is inherently cruel. The birds often end up lost in storms, being injured, or just becoming so exhausted that they're unable to fly."

 

Tyson's show is already under investigation by the New York District Attorney's office over allegations it involves illegal gambling and Kerr is hoping state authorities ban the series from going to air.

 

He adds, "Pigeon racing as an industry involves gambling. That's why people do it, to make money."

 

However, bosses at the Animal Planet network, who bought the rights to Tyson's show, insist the complaints are unfounded.

 

Representative Patricia Kollappallil tells the New York Daily News, "There have never been any plans for wagering on the pigeon race. (The birds will be) cherished and respected by their owners, including Mr. Tyson."

 

 

source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate...7#ixzz0ixu5CHRh