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PETA stories: 57 news summaries

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 Live Fish Dinner 
 on YouTube 
 Sparks 
 Uproar 

PETA rips cruel food video

Nov 19, 09 4:34 AM CST
(Newser) - Footage of Chinese diners tucking into a still-breathing fish has outraged animal rights groups. The video, which has attracted thousands of viewers on YouTube, shows the fish being picked apart with chopsticks as diners laugh and the fish gapes. It had been kept alive during cooking with a wet towel... More »

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China • YouTube • animal cruelty • fish • PETA • Chinese food

WELL...SORTA

 PETA Drove Me to Kill My Cat 

After a series of potential veiled threats, woman puts cat down

Nov 4, 09 11:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Buried on the last page of an article about the shiny, happy PETA interns (or, as one passerby called them, “those crazy PETA people”), the Washington Post relates a story of how they contributed to one cat’s untimely demise. Lydia Netzer, who lives next door to the... More »

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animal rights • PETA • cat • crazy

PRINCESS PIGLETTE

Paris to PETA: Pig Better Off With Me Than as Bacon

Hilton escalates feud, says she treats 'pets like children'

Oct 15, 09 9:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Paris Hilton is still squealing with excitement over her new miniature piglet—“It’s a girl!” she tells Us—but she’s not pleased with PETA, which called her a “wretched example” for treating her pets “as disposable.” Not true, the heiress says: “... More »

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entertainment • Paris Hilton • celebrity • PETA • feud • pig

PRINCESS PIGLETTE

 PETA Peeved Over Paris' Pig 

Hilton's latest accessory angers perpetually pissed animal rights organization

Oct 14, 09 6:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - PETA has found a new poster child for its ire: Paris Hilton, who recently adopted a $4,500 miniature piglet. Despite naming the animal “Princess Piglette,” TMZ notes, PETA claims the "wretched example" treats her pets like “disposable accessories”—“as disposable as her friends,... More »

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entertainment • Paris Hilton • celebrity • animal rights • PETA • pig

 Vick Plans TV 
 Documentary 
 Series on His Life 

Show will take a somber, serious look at QB's life: BET producers

Oct 7, 09 2:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Vick will star in an eight-part documentary-style TV series about his life for BET. The Michael Vick Project, due in 2010, will look at Vick’s comeback with the Philadelphia Eagles along with his troubled childhood and—of course—the time he spent running a dogfighting ring. "I... More »

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Michael Vick • animal rights • PETA • documentary • Humane Society • BET

OPINION

Worst. Blog. Name.
Ever. 

The PETA Files are raising some eyebrows

Sep 22, 09 9:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The fine, no doubt well-intentioned people at PETA have a new blog, notes Chris Matyszczyk of CNET, and they evidently didn’t put too much thought into the name. It’s called (drum roll please): The PETA Files. At least, let’s assume they didn’t put much thought into... More »

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PETA • blog • gaffe • People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

(Newser) - PETA has rolled out a new ad campaign that does not sit well with the more portly among us, the Huffington Post reports. A billboard in Jacksonville, Fla., features a cartoon of an overweight woman in a bikini with the message: “Save the whales, Lose the Blubber: Go Vegetarian.... More »

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obesity • women • PETA • vegetarianism • overweight • swimsuit • People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals • Tracy Reiman • beach body

OPINION

Hey PETA,
Vick's an
Animal, Too

Disgraced QB paid
his price, deserves
a second chance

Aug 1, 09 11:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - What Michael Vick did was pretty reprehensible, but he deserves a second chance anyway, writes Raina Kelley of Newsweek, simply because he’s paid the price for his misdeeds. “He lost his freedom, his job, his worldly possessions, his good name, and the esteem of his fellow players.... More »

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NFL • Michael Vick • football • PETA • dogfighting

(Newser) - PETA has released video it says shows cruelty to circus elephants, the Orange County Register reports. The tape shows Ringling Bros. handlers swatting elephants with “bull hooks,” and one pachyderm exhibiting signs of “severe psychological distress.” “This video again shows what we have been saying... More »

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animal cruelty • PETA • elephant • circus • undercover video • protesters • Ringling Brothers

PETA Wants Psych Test for Vick to Return

Animal-rights group threatens NFL with protest otherwise

Jul 22, 09 12:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - PETA may protest if Michael Vick gets another job in the NFL without first undergoing a psychological evaluation, the animal-rights group’s DC office says. A spokesperson tells CBS affiliate WUSA-TV that a person who’s served time has the right to go free, but isn’t entitled to go... More »

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NFL • Michael Vick • protests • animal rights • PETA • dog fighting

 PETA to Obama: 
 Flies Have 
 Feelings, Too 

Group unhappy with prez's brutal fly attack

Jun 18, 09 9:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - At least one group isn’t impressed with the president’s killer reflexes: PETA. The animal-rights group sent Obama a no-kill trap after he nailed a fly, midair, during a CNBC interview Tuesday. The bug-battling tool captures insects alive. “We support compassion for even the smallest animals,” says... More »

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Barack Obama • PETA • bug • insects • President Obama


 Forget Fur: 
 New Celeb 
 Cause Is Food 

Overfishing, too much meat are the top causes

Jun 14, 09 3:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Protesting fur is so last decade. Celebrities are now championing their favorite food-related causes, whether it's Paul McCartney asking Brits to cut back on meat, Jamie Oliver refusing to serve endangered bluefin, or celebs lining up to publicize a new film about overfishing, the Guardian reports. Why now? Government inaction... More »

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PETA • sustainability • overfishing • bluefin tuna • commercial fishing • Food, Inc. • The End of the Line

PETA Protests Seattle Fish-Flinging

Fishmongers nonplussed by PETA effort to defend the dignity of dead fish

Jun 13, 09 5:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - PETA has called foul on the antics of Seattle's famous fishmongers, the Los Angeles Times reports. Workers at the city's Pike Place market routinely chuck fish more than a dozen feet from display case to counter over the heads of shoppers with deadly accuracy. PETA says the practice is "... More »

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fish • fishing • animal rights • PETA • Seattle

PETA Drops
Vick Deal Over Psycho Fears

QB short on remorse, declined test 'to weed out psychopaths'

May 2, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A potential deal between PETA and disgraced Falcons QB Michael Vick, for anti-dogfighting public service ads, is off the table, the animal rights group now says, and has been since December, Advertising Age reports. A PETA rep says they pulled the offer after learning from a USDA report on... More »

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NFL • Michael Vick • animal cruelty • PETA • dogfighting

 Vick May Do PSAs for PETA 


May 1, 09 3:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - As he seeks to scrub his sullied image, disgraced NFL quarterback Michael Vick is in talks appear in public-service ads for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Advertising Age reports. “We want him to discourage people from taking part in dogfighting,” a PETA rep said of charges... More »

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NFL • Michael Vick • PETA • dogfighting • federal prison • PSA

(Newser) - PETA is asking Octomom to hold off on the pets, please. After reports surfaced that Nadya Suleman wanted to buy a dog and a pig—an idea hatched in the pre-flu days, presumably—the animal-rights group wrote Suleman a letter pleading with her to reconsider "adding two more dependents... More »

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pets • PETA • octuplets • Nadya Suleman • Octomom

(Newser) - It's time for Canada to end the systematic slaughter of hundreds of thousands of baby seals, argues Kathleen Parker in the Washington Post. While the US and even bear-hunting Vladimir Putin have banned the practice, Canadians keep up the "gruesome drill" of massacring baby seals for their pelts. While... More »

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Canada • Vladimir Putin • animal cruelty • PETA • Kathleen Parker • sealing

Pet Shop Boys Reject PETA's Request to Change Name 

'Rescue Shelter' boys perhaps?

Apr 10, 09 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Pet Shop boys turned down a curious request from PETA to change their name to the "Rescue Shelter Boys," CNN reports. The animal-rights group admitted its request might seem “bizarre” but exhorted the dance-music duo to consider the attention they could bring to the squalid conditions... More »

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music • animal rights • PETA • Britain

(Newser) - The recent recovery of a statue of KFC’s Col. Sanders from a Japanese river is said to have ended a curse on a baseball team there. Which gave the company a clever idea: offer the effigy to the notably hexed Chicago Cubs, Deadspin reports. PETA strenuously objects. “If... More »

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Chicago Cubs • animal cruelty • curse • PETA • statue • KFC • baseball • Osaka, Japan • Kentucky Fried Chicken • Colonel Sanders

PETA President
Wills Body
to Group

Newkirk suggests her flesh be barbecued,
skin made into purse

Feb 23, 09 3:35 PM CST
(Newser) - The president of PETA has written a will donating her body to the organization along with suggestions about how best to use various body parts, TreeHugger reports. First on the list is the request that her “meat” be used as “human barbecue,” to remind the world “... More »

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food • foie gras • meat • animal rights • PETA • circus • leather • barbecue

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