Hey Canada, Stop Slaughtering This Guy

Bar patrons squirt fish along canals

(NEWSER) - A Seattle bar has ended its weekly goldfish races after PETA unleashed its fury—but other hangouts “are saying screw you to the PETA folks,” says the bar owner halting the practice. What, you ask, is a goldfish race? It means plopping fish into plastic tubes of water, then propelling them to the finish line by blowing in a straw or firing a water pistol, reports Seattle Weekly . More»

Motley Crue drummer writes letter on behalf of PETA

(NEWSER) - Tommy Lee's seen some crazy stuff in his time but nothing to match Sea World's treatment of a "sperm bank" killer whale, the Motley Crue drummer writes in an angry letter to the park. Sea World claims Tillikum—an orca that has killed 3 people —no longer has direct contact with trainers, despite the fact that he is masturbated by them, "which is about as direct as it gets," the PETA supporter writes in a letter obtained by TMZ. More»

Apparently she's 12

(NEWSER) - Bosnian police have found the red-hooded girl who posted a video of herself throwing puppies into a river—and they’re not charging her with anything. According to a report in a German newspaper and translated by Gawker , police said the girl was only 12 years old, and hence “too young for punishment,” and that the puppies had been rescued anyway by an old woman. More»

Officials claim it's sexist

(NEWSER) - Pamela Anderson managed to get her PETA ad banned in Canada without even going naked. She was in Montreal to unveil the pro-vegetarian ad, in which she wears a bikini while marked up like a piece of meat, but officials denied the event a permit because, they say, the ad is sexist. One official attempts to explain: “It is not so much controversial, as it goes against all principles public organizations are fighting for in the everlasting battle of equality between men and women.” More»

(USER SUBMITTED) - They sell hundreds of thousands of animals annually to companies like PETCO, PetSmart and Petland as well as many other small pet stores across the country. Based on the disturbing undercover video PETA made inside the Atanta facility owned by Sun Pet, abusing small animals for profit and amusement is quite common, including supervisors instructing the new employee on how to physically squeeze a small rodent with enough force to make the male genitals protrude when sexing them. More»