PETA WATCH

THE MILITANT founder of the hardcore-porn promoting animal rights lobby PETA has revealed she is 'offended', 'sickened' and in a state of disbelief after seeing a photo of a sexy young chick in the New York Times.

But if you think the publicity hunting Ingrid Newkirk has had a change of heart about the virtually nude young women she prefers for her own campaigns you would be wrong.

Instead the offending picture -shown top left above- is that of a slightly raunchy pre-cooked bird possibly about to be roasted.

In a typical and hypocritical rant however it was the New York Times that got roasted after Newkirk unleashed her fury and bizarrely linked the photo to even necrophilia.

"When I saw it I just couldn't believe that an editor of The New York Times would find it acceptable," she declared with not a hint of irony.

"It's downright offensive, not just to people who care about animals but almost to everyone. It's [a] plucked, beheaded, young chicken in a young pose. It's necrophilia. It's not amusing. It's just ghastly and sickly."

Tina Loit, photo editor of the NYT Dining section which published the picture strongly disagreed and remarked that after they had gone to the effort of assembling it in this fashion it seemed to her like a "chicken with attitude".

Newkirk's latest hypocrisy was also not lost on the RSPCA.

"While PETA chooses to use celebrities and images of scantily clad young women to publicize many of their campaigns, the RSPCA is an animal welfare organization which bases its policies on science and common sense," said spokesman Tim Mayne.

APPLE COMPUTER Visionary Steve Jobs delayed conventional cancer surgery for nine months in favor of a radical vegan diet, a new biography has revealed.

Jobs died earlier this month from a slow-growing form of pancreatic cancer that is often treatable in its early stages, however his decision to initially eschew standard medicine and flirt with bouts of veganism and fruitariansim has lead some experts to suggest the delay might have been deadly.

Silicone Valley investor Dave Asprey has speculated that his diet may also have included the 'Dr Dean Ornish Cancer diet' which some claim starves the body of vital fat-based nutrients. The diet is heavy in processed frozen foods, estrogen-riddled soy and includes frankenfoods such as Tofurky- a substance heavily promoted by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

Harvard medical research associate Ramzi Amri explicitly blamed the long delay for allowing Jobs’ neuroendocrine tumor to grow out of control.

"Jobs waited so long before seeking normal treatment that he had to undergo a Whipple procedure, losing his pancreas and whole duodenum in 2004. This was the first alarming sign that his disease had progressed beyond a compact primary to at least a tumor so large his Pancreas and duodenum could not be saved," he wrote on the Quora website.

"[He] seemingly waited long enough for the disease revealed to have spread extensively to his liver. The only reason he'd have a transplant after a GEP-NET would be that the tumor invaded all major parts of the liver, which takes a considerable amount of time. Years, in most neuroendocrine tumors. It could be that this happened before his diagnosis, but the risk grows exponentially with time.

We then saw the tumor slowly draining the life out him. It was a horrible thing to see him lose weight and slowly turn into a skin and bones form of himself."

Amri then states that little can be done when an individual pursues a form of treatment that is known medically to be ineffective even if it means death to the patient. And even if the patient is the brilliant innovator Steven Paul Jobs.

ANIMAL RIGHTS 'charity' People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will launch a debauched hard-core porn site this coming Christmas in a bid to promote its extreme vegan ideology.

In a move which will further fan the flames of critics who already view the extremist group as morally bankrupt, degrading to women and unworthy of its 'charity' status the website will depict images of explicit xxx pornography alongside advice on how to turn vegan.

"We're hoping to reach a whole new audience of people, some of whom will be shocked by graphic images that maybe they didn't anticipate seeing when they went to the PETA triple-X site," said Lindsay Rajt, PETA's associate director of campaigns.

However critics have already slammed the unscrupulous move as sexist, useless and disgusting.

"PETA is extremely disingenuous," said Jennifer Pozner, executive director of the New York-based advocacy group Women In Media & News. "They have consistently used active sexism as their marketing strategy to garner attention. Their use of sexism has gotten more extreme and more degrading.

"This may be in their minds the only thing left at their disposal to lower the bar," she said.

According to Dr. Peter C. Kleponis, the assistant director of Comprehensive Counseling Services in Pennsylvania, the lobby group's foray into hardcore porn is “ridiculous”.

“I can’t see this website doing anything to help their cause,” he said. “The people looking at it, they’re not going to care about the animals, they’re going to look at the porn. It’s not going to change their attitudes towards the treatment of animals. I don’t know who came up with that idea but it’s ridiculous.

He also says the site could be used by those more interested in bestiality than tofu.

“The people who would be really interested in this site are the people who have fetishes of hurting animals, who may have fetishes for bestiality, who associate animals with sex. “This is what it might actually increase."

PETA is also so focused on animal rights that they are willing to trample on human rights to advance their cause, he said. “It’s all about animals. Even if they have to exploit women for their own purpose, they will do it.”

News website Bikyamasr has also joined the fanfare of outrage and says PETA should be ashamed of itself.

"The exploitation of women for animal killing is abhorrent enough, but for a group that had earned the respect [?] of so many for so many years, this new porn site is yet another example that they have lost their way and continue to disgracefully corrupt the animal rights community," it editorialized recently.

The Christianity today women's blog is also 'shocked' and 'disgusted' at the forthcoming .xxx site.

* A FRUMPY pair of PETA supporters appeared on a catwalk at a Melbourne Spring Fashion Week function last week denouncing the use of fur before the lobby group devastated local fashionistas.

Melbourne's Herald-Sun reports that RMIT graduate Molly Herben was told last-minute to pull hand-made rabbit fur pieces from her collection due to pressure from the lobby group. Fellow design student Jack Loder also withdrew pieces.

Herben's employer Nadia Napreychikov says it was `outrageous' that Molly had been subjected to the demand so late in the lead up to the show. "She is devastated. She was under the impression she could use the pelts all year and then three days before her big show they decide to pull it. We don't know why RMIT and MSFW are doing this bowing down to PETA,'' she said. Melbourne designer Alannah Hill could perhaps offer her perspective...

* A world-record 21-foot-long saltwater male crocodile is currently being held in the Philippines after he ate a local man and is suspected of biting the head off a twelve year old girl. After acquiring the taste for human blood the reptile has not been killed as some would encourage but instead will be relegated to captivity in a zoo. PETA however is bizarrely calling for the reptile to be released back into the wild. "The government should do the compassionate thing and order this crocodile to be returned to his natural habitat, as taking him away to be locked up in an animal prison is just plain wrong," offered PETA's robotic 'Asia-Pacific' campaigner Ashley Fruno.

* While the novelty value of nude PETA pin-ups is now grossly wearing thin, there are still some media types who appear eager for the publicity. This week British model Kelly Brook and the ex girlfriend of George Clooney Elisabetta Canalis have both respectively stripped for the tired and tiresome 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur' campaign. Never has resurrecting Pamela Anderson around about now seemed like such a great idea.

AS A vociferous and active member of PETA, Heather Mills has stood on the streets of New York berating celebrities for wearing fur, and even threatened to stalk the fur- clad Jennifer Lopez...

This week a tabloid newspaper printed stills from a video from 1989 which apparently shows Heather wearing a mink coat.She is on the arm of her former husband, Alfie Karmal, on her way to a friend's wedding in North London.

Old friends of 39-year-old Heather, the estranged wife of Sir Paul McCartney, say she adored the coat, which used to belong to her mother. Her former sister-in-law, Dianna Karmal, says: "She really loved that coat. When I see her anti-fur campaigns now, I always chuckle."

She continues: "It's laughable that she's called so many celebrities hypocrites. She's styled herself as an anti-fur campaigner, but was proud to be in her mum's mink."

(via the Mail Online).

(via Kirsi)

* The hunt to find burqa-shy Muslim chicks is on! PETA has announced it is seeking to base two campaigners in the Middle East where it hopes to offend local sensibilities - sorry 'strengthen animal welfare laws'. Let's hope it doesn't descend into farce as did the pressure group's last outing in Jordan last year.

* HALF-NUDE PETA protesters were caught swanning around in Shreveport, Louisiana on Wednesday protesting against the use of animal skins. Holding a sign reading: "Bare Skin, Don't Wear Skin", the two women drew attention from local folk clearly dedicated to their cause. "I just heard there was a naked lady out here," said Kelvin Anderson, who works downtown in Shreveport. "So I came to see if it was true."

* PETA has weighed in on a camel race to be held at a festival in Tara southern Queensland, Australia. Advised PETA spokesman Des Bellamy: "Well the thing about Tara is it's a festival of culture, so ... it's not like they're just dependent on the camels," he said. Okay. In related news the lobby group has also demanded an end to the 41 year old Alice Springs Camel Cup which was immediately rejected by organizer Ian Rowan. " "The camels are looked after like kings and queens," he replied.

A PICKY Texan pet snake has unwittingly revealed the bizarre tension that now exists between pet stores that need to respond appropriately to pet dietary needs and the radical demands forced upon them by the extremist pressure group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

At the center of this ordeal lies US Pet store giant PETCO and a fussy pet python named ‘Fluffy’.

According to Fluffy’s Texan owner- who wrote exclusively to PETA WATCH - the snake had been off its usual diet of live mice and rats for a while and after consultation needed to gobble a gerbil to restore its appetite.

After an uneasy encounter with a PETCO employee, the gerbil was sold to Fluffy but it was subsequently revealed that PETCO were in future unable to sell anything other than mice and rats for snakes - not because it breached health or dietary recommendations for the animals - but because of a ‘huge contract with PETA’.

PETAWATCH has not received a response from either PETCO or PETA about the farce as at publishing date.

At issue however is whether a militant and highly political lobby should have the right to dictate the diet of a creature that is legal to sell in the US and whose dietary requirements are grossly removed from its antagonists who advocate a rigid vegan lifestyle that requires even you to stop eating butter.

Fluffy’s owner told this site: ‘...the idea that they'd (PETA) be willing to let a snake starve so a cute widdle (sic) gerbil wouldn't get eaten is just asinine’.

In 2005 PETA also succeeded in stopping PETCO from selling large birds.

What more do they do?

Academics including a professor from Oxford university have launched an assault on common English language terms such as 'wildlife' and 'pets' claiming they are derogatory to animals.

An editorial in the new academic publication the Journal of Animal Ethics insists animal lovers should stop referring to their treasured friends as pets because it is insulting and use the term 'companion animal' instead.

“Despite its prevalence, ‘pets’ is surely a derogatory term both of the animals concerned and their human carers,” the editorial complains.

“Again the word ‘owners’, whilst technically correct in law, harks back to a previous age when animals were regarded as just that: property, machines or things to use without moral constraint.”

“We invite authors to use the words ‘free-living’, ‘free-ranging’ or ‘free-roaming’ rather than ‘wild animals’.

In a bizarre PETA-style effort, the editors Professors Andrew Linzey and Priscilla Cohnalso also want phrases such as 'sly as a fox', 'eat like a pig' and 'drunk as a skunk' banned.

Next up: world peace.

(via Doug and Sharon)

* Good news for the poor in Sacramento: they can now eat if they are prepared to go vegan. The not-for-profit Sacramento Food Bank has partnered with Earthsave International to implement a 'health program' for hungry citizens that supplies free food and education to 'dramatically improve their health'....Yet the lofty sounding scheme has some fine print that includes a strict vegetarian ideology and a lurking Ingrid Newkirk, who serves on Earthsave's international advisory board. The Meals for Health program started on April 8th and consists of a 'low-fat, plant-strong diet'. But critics are wondering: are the starving best served when nourishment depends upon vegan criteria?

* OSCAR WINNER and self-proclaimed 'vegan activist' Natalie Portman is no longer vegan because "...if you're not eating eggs, then you can't have cookies or cake from regular bakeries...." Portman - who recently designed a line of vegan shoes- went back to being plain vegetarian when she became pregnant and says "...I was listening to my body to have eggs and dairy and that sort of stuff."

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has written a letter to the translators of the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible accusing the current text of being "speciesist" and requesting that pronouns like "he" and "she" be used instead of "it" when referring to animals. Ubiquitous PETA spokesman and all-round killjoy Bruce Friedrich told CNN that "Language matters. Calling an animal 'it' denies them something...".

* A PETA insider has alleged to this site that the lobby group could be in a financial pickle, citing salary freezes and an apparent slashing of its operational budget and staff of up to 15 percent. PETA WATCH has been unable to confirm any details to date, but will keep you updated on related news. The group appears to still be hiring staff. Could it be that donors are waking up to the fact that much of what they donate is going to causes other than those they would have wanted?

(Thanks to readers).

BARBARIC animal-rights lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has decided to 'honor' The National Infertility Association's 'Awareness Week' - a week in April/May where issues surrounding infertility for couples are at the fore - by offering one of their supporters a free vasectomy.

The competition on the group's site says:

Win a vasectomy by PETA!

Get your animal companion fixed, and get yourself fixed too!

Human overpopulation is crowding out animal life on the planet, and dog and cat overpopulation is creating a euthanasia crisis that is a crying shame...

Now, one lucky man can be reproduction-free, free of charge, just like his pooch or feline friend.

In honor of National Infertility Awareness Week (April 24 to 30), PETA will give one free vasectomy to a man who has recently had his companion cat or dog neutered. To enter, leave a comment answering the question, "Why should PETA neuter you?" in the comments section.

But the stunt appears to have backfired with angry PETA members chastising its gross insensitivity on the sites blog.

Hurt comments:

GERMANY'S world-famous polar bear Knut has died to a fanfare of lecturing by animal-rights lobby People for the Ethical treatment of Animals (PETA).

The photogenic bear was reared from a cub at Berlin Zoo by devoted keeper Thomas Doerflein after being rejected by his mother at birth.

The cub weighed just nine kilograms when born and became a star attraction at the zoo.

His untimely death this week was purportedly from a heart attack, although the cause is still being investigated.

Controversy broke soon after Knut's birth when PETA activist Frank Albrecht said he should have been put down after he and his twin brother were rejected by their mother. Apparently 'animal rights' does not include the right to live.

PETA then went on to launch a campaign to castrate the bear and this week has been reported as blaming the zoo for the death.

'We asked zoo authorities to move Knut. His premature death could have been avoided,' PETA said.

The group went on to attack what it said was 'intensive' breeding of polar bears in zoos and claimed putting him in an enclosure with three females led to 'enormous stress'.

The lobby declared that polar bears 'do not belong in captivity' although quite what the better option would have been for a hand-reared polar bear than being looked after by veterinarians and animal specialists at the zoo is anybody's guess.

But perhaps this was already answered by Mr. Albrecht several years ago.

Looking to send a little extra cheer to colleagues and family this Christmas?

Feel as though your gifts lack a zealous vegan touch?

Then why not share this free animated e-card from PETA?

Combining cutting-edge animation with a compelling and dulcet jingle, you'll be spellbound when Santa gets run over by his Reindeer's after consuming evil milk and cookies.

And the sight of seeing PETA pelt Mrs Claus with red paint for wearing a fur coat in the freezing north pole evokes a poignant yet challenging image that lingers sublimely with the viewer long after the clip has concluded.

It's the best way to spread some festive joy around AND ruin it at the same time!

UPDATE: The animation makes the curious claim that 'PETA does not fling red paint on fur-wearers who are not cartoons'. Wikipedia disagrees.

* LADY GAGA has launched into a meaty new project: the singer will release a line of flesh-themed jewelry based on her 2010 MTV dress. The line is being designed by LA's Onch Movement and will feature -amongst other things -a necklace that looks like a New York steak.

* PETA is alleged to have planted a 'fake pedestrian' among the crowd at an anti-fur demonstration in Amsterdam in November. The male appeared off the street in front of a television crew posing as a stranger converted to PETA's cause. But the ruse was apparently laid bare when a suspicious journalist investigated further and found the man had previously been caught on film pulling the same performance before.

* Retailer Talbot's has joined the pointless PETA boycott of mulesed Australian wool.
'Talbot's is showing that style doesn't have to come at the expense of animals,' groaned renowned stylist Ingrid Newkirk.

* PETA has launched a new cyber-pressure campaign against DKNY. The lobby has demanded it's fans trash DKNY's facebook page with lectures about the evils of fur. They duly did.

* Singer Aubrey O'Day is strutting around in leather and fur, despite doing a campaign for PETA two years ago against fur. This wouldn't be the first time a PETA celeb has been exposed as being not entirely in agreement with the lobby's agenda.

(Thanks to readers Mick, Darren and Lucy)

DONORS to the violent vegan 'charity' People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) could now be paying for the rehabilitation treatment of troubled actress Lindsay Lohan.

In a publicity-seeking move the militant lobby has promised to part with $20,000 of its donors cash towards Lohan's US$50,000 bill for her three-month Betty Ford Center stay - on the proviso that she adopts an extremist vegan lifestyle.

PETA's historical relationship with Lohan has been strained ever since one of its rabid supporters smashed a flour bomb over her head at a fashion show in Paris last year. Her ostensible crime was to sport a fur coat.

But the latest stunt will confound the lobby's donors-many of whom are still under the impression that cash donated directly benefits animals.

In a patronizing letter to the star PETA spokeswoman Michelle Cho wrote: 'As you know, a crucial part of any recovery is showing charity to others. One way to do this is to be kind to animals, the Earth, and your own body.'

Another would be to reject the advice of a vegan fanatic who as far as we know has no qualifications as a therapist.

* BRISBANE popettes the Veronicas are again hawking for PETA in a new macabre anti-fur campaign. After finally scoring a campaign with the violent lobby last year singer Jessica Origliasso declared she was 'pushing the assumption of what people think they know about The Veronicas'. Indeed.

* Busty Pamela Anderson, perennial ambassador-at-large for PETA, has given a lecture at Oxford University. Altogether avoiding the topic of physics, Anderson told the student union she believed vegetarianism was 'better for your health'. Accompanied by PETA mouthpiece Dan Matthews she said after the event that 'I think we had a really profound effect on the audience.'

* Victoria Beckham is the target of a new PETA campaign to stop her from using animal skins in her designs, according to the Mirror. The paper claims the lobby is threatening to pull 'its most controversial stunt ever' - by dousing her in lizard blood . The paper states:

'One of the ideas being mooted is that Victoria gets covered in a bucket of animal blood - cow or lizard - at her next UK public appearance. Another rather sick suggestion was to pelt crocodile feet at her when she goes to an editors' lunch in London next month. Victoria tries not to surround herself with bodyguards but her security has had to be increased.' Beckham meanwhile is refusing to cave in.

UPDATE: More on the Veronicas in comments

PETA ACTIVISTS have swooped on fashion designer Camilla Frank's Bondi beach store in Sydney in an effort to force her from using fur.

Three PETA activists crouched in cages out the front of her store on Tuesday wearing fake-blood splashed faux-fur and carrying signs lecturing 'Camilla: Animals Suffer on Fur Farms'.

The last Aussie designer targeted by the lobby was Melbourne's Alannah Hill last year who received death threats against her son and was forced to enlist 24 hour security.

She ended up caving in to the lobby's demands after stating she was 'intimidated into consent'.

PETA mouthpiece Angie Stephenson has declared 'If Camilla refuses to talk to us and refuses to remove fur from her fashion we will be escalating our protests around her shops internationally'.

The designer closed the store during the ruckus and police were deployed.

...'Lady' Gaga's meat outfit at the MTV video music awards on sunday night.

PETA is predictably outraged.

We supply a photo- but in the interest of the public good - no further comment.

HOLLYWOOD BEAUTY Angelina Jolie has revealed that her secret to good health is a big juicy steak.

The Salt star had previously followed a vegan diet but now says it left her suffering from health problems.

'I joke that a big juicy steak is my beauty secret. But seriously, I love red meat,' she said.

'I was a vegan for a long time, and it nearly killed me. I found I was not getting enough nutrition.'

(Via a reader)

CELEBRITY CHEF Robert St. John has said his month-long attempt to give up meat has resulted in him gaining weight - despite claims by animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that he would lose it.

The acclaimed chef from Hattiesburg Mississippi says he was 'inspired' to turn vegetarian after spying the notorious billboard erected by PETA in Florida last year that fat-shamed women.

'The impetus for the month-long lifestyle change was in response to a billboard campaign in Florida in which the controversial animal-rights outfit, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, posted a picture of a very large woman with the tagline, “Save the Whales, Lose the Blubber, Go Vegetarian,' he posted on his blog.

But the self-professed carnivore has said the novelty backfired.

'I didn’t lose any weight like the PETA billboard stated I would. I actually gained three pounds living as a vegetarian,' he said.

While the chef has now ostensibly reverted back to a traditional diet, a PETA blog entry on friday touted him as vegan with the disingenuous heading:

Robert St. John: Chef, Author, Restaurateur, Vegan.

Now you too can be hailed as a vegan for giving up meat and dairy for a month!

Your average PETA supporter...

INGRID NEWKIRK, the militant face and co-founder of radical vegan lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has suddenly donned a moderate mask - claiming that the goal of PETA is simply to get people to eat less meat.

'Absolute purists should be living in a cave,' she declared to Time magazine this week.

'We have to be pragmatic (in what we demand). Screw the principle.'

But the claim is at odds with the group's ubiquitous slogan 'Go Vegan' and the extremist views of the co-founders past.

Besides promoting veganism and allegedly advocating a ban on guide dogs, the vegan feminist atheist has previously said she wants portions of her corpse delivered to those skeptical of her philosophy.

But perhaps it is more a case of relinquishing principle when things don't go according to plan. According to a vegetarian publication only 0.5 percent of the US population buy PETA's vegan agenda.

UPDATE: 'Moderate' Newkirk in 2002: 'Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective'.

MEGASTAR Janet Jackson has joined the growing coterie of A-list fur-happy celebrities after she signed a deal with BlackGlama to promote a collection of minks.

The singer follows closely in the footsteps of Brooke Shields who was recently branded a 'fur pimp' by militant vegan lobby PETA after revealing she would design and promote her own fur coat.

In teaming up with BlackGlama Jackson is joining the likes of Hollywood royalty Sophia Loren and Elizabeth Taylor.

In a case of perennial de ja vu PETA took the inevitable swipe at Jackson's career.

'It's amazing what celebrities will do when their careers are on a down-slide...' claimed Amanda Schinke from the lobby.

But buxom PETA ambassador Pamela Anderson attributed the motive to greed.

'I guess some people get greedy, but it's sad,' she told Out magazine.

Theory number three (and the one we think closer to the truth): Jackson likes fur.

A HIJAB wearing PETA 'lettuce lady' has been arrested in Jordan after a demonstration to guilt people into turning vegan turned sour.

Jordanian PETA member Amina Tariq was arrested yesterday in Jabal Amman province after reports of a traffic jam and rumours of a woman in an 'immodest lettuce dress'. Tariq was waiving a placard in both Arabic and English that said 'Let Vegetarianism Grow On You'.

Public Security Department officials broke up the crowd and escorted both Tariq and ubiquitous PETA agitator Ashley Fruno into a police car and away from the area.

Although PETA claims to have 10,000 members in the region, reaction from the Muslim locals was negative.

Taxi driver Mohammed Kheir called the disruption pointless, stating 'This is crazy. People here want to eat and they want to live. People can barely afford meat.'

Ahmed Thibani said he was angry after learning that the activists stopped traffic in order to save animals from reaching his kitchen.

'I work two jobs to make sure there is meat on the table at least once a week,' he said. 'You want me to give that up?'

UPDATE: A Jordanian Public Security Department official has said the pair will not be charged.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is demanding the release of mollusk medium 'Paul' who has become an international celebrity after predicting a slew of world-cup match winners.

The British-born calamari resides in a tank in Germany and has had a string of successes picking the winners in this year's world cup.

The eight-legged oracle has picked Spain as the winner in the forthcoming final.

But in a predictably killjoy move PETA Spokesman Bruce Friedrich has announced the animal rights outfit is urging people to sign an online petition demanding Paul's release.

'No animal deserves to be confined to a tiny tank and we're hoping that Paul's popularity, or in Germany notoriety, will cause people to think a little bit more about the inner lives of octopuses,' he claimed.

Predictions are being sought from the octopus about the future of PETA's campaign.

UPDATE: Spain wins!

(via Chris)

IN AN ESCALATING war of words outspoken singer Kelis has branded the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) as terrorists and says it is her right to eat and wear what she wants.

Earlier this year the singer responded to a harping letter by the lobby criticizing her diet and clothes by declaring on her myspace site that she would '... eat pterodactyl if you found some and you told me it was meaty and delicious'.

She also said PETA Founder Ingrid Newkirk was 'batty and certifiably insane'.

Revisiting the sentiments she has told USA Today that the lobby is a terrorist group and is muscling in on her individual rights.

'At the end of the day, they're terrorists and that's my issue. I don't think anybody's beliefs should be forced on anyone like that. I'm an American; I live here. It's my right, and that's my stance on it,' she said.

She also issued a warning to the group not to vandalize her furs with red paint.

'I wouldn't suggest that someone do that because you terrorize me, I'll terrorize you, basically.'

SELF-PROFESSED 'press slut' People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has branded Hollywood beauty Brooke Shields a 'fur pimp' and taken a swipe at her career.

The screen legend sparked a nasty attack by the militant lobby last Tuesday after she recently attended a Kopenhagen Fur workshop where she was designing her own mink coat.

In a bitchy post on its website, the lobby's kindness was on full display:

'We understand that when some actors' careers begin to fade, they'll do just about anything to stay in the limelight, including appearing in eyelash-growing commercials and starring in short-lived TV shows. But Brooke, did you really want the world to remember you as a 'fur pimp' who stares agog at rows of animal skins?'

Unfazed by the nastiness, Shields cheekily said 'I will advocate that both my generation and the younger generation can wear fur and I will wear the fur garment when I follow my children to school, when I drink coffee and when I sleep.'

(Via APBTA)

US Price is Right Host Bob Barker has donated $2.5million to PETA for start-up costs for its new LA office.

US R&B SINGER KELIS has savaged both PETA and its founder Ingrid Newkirk after receiving a stinging letter from the lobby for the sin of wearing a fur hat.

The drama ignited the other week after the popular singer was spotted by the group wearing a tall Russian-style fur hat she labeled one of her favorites due to its ‘Cruella de Vil’ vibe.

The militant lobby then duly sent a harrassing letter.

But the singer hit out on her myspace blog speaking candidly on her feelings about the lobby's vegan agenda and its nutty founder Ingrid E Newkirk.

• On PETA’s founder Ingrid Newkirk she states “She is completely batty…I mean certifiably insane!” Kelis takes issue with the fact that Newkirk is a diabetic who requires insulin (which is derived from laboratory pigs), suggesting that she is hypocritical since she champions animal rights and attacks animal abuse, except when “it can help” her.
• On the animal rights organization choosing to use her as an example: “If u want to preach, do it about something worthwhile — don’t waste my time trying to save the dang chipmunk.”
• On her appreciation for fur: “It’s not just the look of fur. It’s warm as hell and feels glorious.” Kelis says that faux fur can’t compare, claiming that there’s “nothing luxurious about that.”
• Regarding endangered animals, she says that she does “believe in the preservation of endangered species” and would totally understand PETA attacking her for wearing polar bear or orangutan fur, but explains that the animals she chooses to wear – such as chinchilla and mink – are commonly available rodents that she “would demand they be put to death anyway.”
• On her meat-eating lifestyle: “I eat meat, and in fact my mouth salivates as I type the word meat!”