PETA WATCH

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.

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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)

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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.'

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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)

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

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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!”

Reports Ecorazzi: 'In a final zinger, Kelis stated that anyone who “hate(s) the world so much (should) go live in the forest where no one else has to hear you complain about the perfectly good food chain the good Lord created. Everyone has the right to an opinion, and that’s mine on that!'

Indeed...

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VULGAR vegan lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has had yet another advertisement pimping its vegan agenda rejected: this time by Southwest Airlines.

The ad, shown left, displays a 'security scan' of a woman in her underwear with the words, "Be Proud of Your Body Scan: Go Vegan."

Southwest rejected the ad which was submitted to its in-flight magazine Spirit, stating it was too provocative to run in the publication.

PETA Vice President Dan Matthews predictably rejected this.

This site has been unable to gauge whether the lobby reveals the amount of donor money it injects into creating failed advertising campaigns.

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A NEW study released by the University of East Anglia in Britain has made a bizarre PETA-style claim: that wildlife documentary makers are infringing animals' rights to privacy by filming their most private and intimate moments on camera.

Film studies lecturer Brett Mills claims that footage of animals giving birth in their burrows or mating crosses an ethical line that film-makers should respect.

'We have an assumption that humans have some right to privacy, so why do we not assume that for other species, particularly when they are engaging in behavior that suggests they don't want to be seen?

'We can never really know if animals are giving consent (to being filmed), but they do often engage in forms of behavior which suggest they'd rather not encounter humans,' he said

But the BBC's natural history unit says that filming animal behavior results in minimal disruption to the animals and that studying them is crucial for wildlife conservation.

'Natural history films play a major role in spreading knowledge of their work. And understanding the world around is vital in the continuing endeavour to preserve our ecosystem,' it said.

(Via Glenn)

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MILITANT vegan lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has claimed it will suspend its campaign against retailers who sell Australian wool if the industry produces a time-line to breed sheep that do not need mulesing.

The ABC network is Australia reports that the pressure-group has written to the Federal Government offering to end its tiresome campaign against wool farmers if the government sets up a timeline to 'solve the mulesing issue' by using genetics.

Australian Wool Innovation - Australia's peak wool growers body - is already spending millions on genetics and is prioritising flystrike research.

The government has yet to respond to PETA's demand.

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* PETA activists in Shreveport, Louisiana donned giant condom costumes on wednesday in an effort to advance the lobby's bizarre 'sterilize every pet' campaign. The tacky stunt was conducted during the mad lunch hour near the Greyhound Station and Federal Courthouse.

* Animal rights group HSUS has taken out the curious honor of beating the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on the issue of trust. Independent American charity evaluator Charity Navigator has slashed the rankings for HSUS stating it offers a lower level of trustworthiness than previously and 'is not adequately fulfilling its stated charitable purpose'.

* Pneumatic PETA puppet Pamela Anderson's stint on 'Dancing with the Stars' is being supplied with an artificial boost according to MSNBC. After being placed in the bottom two in the first week, PETA supporters have apparently been instructed to keep voting her in. A spokesperson for the lobby claimed: 'Pam's tireless work to expose cruelty in the meat and fur trades has created a very emotional bond with PETA's two million members and supporters who are thrilled to see her and vote for her on ‘Dancing with the Stars.’

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Supporter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Emily Lavender gets pied in downtown St. John’s 29 January by Salty Dog, the Downhome mascot.

Lavender, 21, was in town to protest the seal hunt to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who was a speaker at the Canadian Construction Association conference. — Photo by Keith Gosse/The Telegram

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JANUARY 2010: PETA member Emily McCoy has been arrested for assault after striking Canadian Fisheries Minister Gail Shea in the face with a pie moments after she began speaking at an event in Burlington.

Shea was targeted for supporting Canada's annual seal hunt but said the assault would not deter her from advocating the cause.

'This just strengthens my resolve to support the seal hunt and Canadian sealers,' Shea said.

'It's unfortunate that people have to resort to this type of behavior because they are not dealing with the facts of the seal hunt.'

Thirty-seven year old New York City resident McCoy has been charged with assault and is expected to appear in court over the incident shortly.

Tracy Reiman from the lobby dismissed the attack, claiming 'a little tofu pie on her face is hardly comparable to the blood on Ms. Shea's hands.'

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A very happy vegan Easter, Passover etc from PETA WATCH.

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PETA CO-FOUNDER Ingrid Newkirk has taken the rare step of issuing a media release today to advise the noisy vegan lobby will no longer be issuing media releases.

The media release in part states:

From time-to-time PETA has in the past very reluctantly issued media releases.

These were only ever sent out after very careful deliberation and only then on issues of the most paramount importance.

For example the one we sent out condemning President Obama for swatting a fly wasn't something we did lightly.

The time, care and effort we put into it remains largely unknown and certainly unappreciated by the wider public.

PETA considers this thankless task a stretch on its resources and unsustainable in the long term.

A subsequent media release issued by the group minutes later however has qualified the above, stating that PETA could still issue future media releases 'about topics such as fat men, fat-women and Heidi Fleiss' should the need arise.

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PETA has called for the Livingstone County, MI, Animal Shelter to retain it's policy of euthanasing all Pit Bull type dogs.

"As someone whose work involves rescuing pit bulls from abuse, I urge Livingston County Animal Control to continue protecting pit bulls by retaining the agency's current policy against adopting them out ("Livingston animal shelter extends adoption time, may drop 'bully breed' ban," March 15). We all wish for happy endings, but pit bull adoptions often end in tragedy.

Every day, PETA staffers meet sad and lonely pit bulls who have been trapped for years at the ends of heavy chains with nothing but bare patches of dirt and plastic barrels for shelter (if they're lucky), trembling in fear, full of heartworms, ribs protruding, and scarred all over from fights. In winter, they shiver from the cold and in summer, they are eaten alive by flies, fleas and ticks. They are often physically abused and starved, sometimes to death, for losing in illegal dogfights, or for being "bad guards," or "not mean enough."

Nice families rarely visit shelters in search of pit bulls, and pit bulls from unknown backgrounds don't always make good family additions. No one wants to end the euthanasia of animals at shelters more than those holding the syringe, but supplying pit bulls to dogfighters and those seeking "macho" status symbols and cheap security systems aren't solutions. Spaying and neutering to prevent more pit bulls from coming into the world is.

Teresa Lynn Chagrin,Animal Care & Control Specialist, PETA, Norfolk, Va."

Blogger Brindle Stick responds angrily.

Michael Vick's dogs discuss life after rescue

(Pictured is Ernie in his new life, rescued from Michael Vick's Bad Newz Kennels)

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The Commonwealth of Virginia requires reports from all “shelters”. Of particular interest to animal welfare groups is the one in Norfolk, VIRGINIA: PETA Headquarters.

The 2009 report is now out and showed that of 2,366 animals taken in by PETA only 39 survived. 8 were adopted out, the remainder transferred.

Since July 1998, the group has killed 23,640 pets.

Year	Received†	Adopted	Killed	Transferred	% Killed	% Adopted
2009	2,366	8	2,301	31	97.3	0.34
2008	2,216	7	2,124	34	95.8	0.32
2007	1,997	17	1,815	35	90.9	0.85
2006	3,061	12	2,981	46	97.4	0.39
2005	2,165	146	1,946	69	89.9	6.74
2004	2,655	361	2,278	1	85.8	13.60
2003	2,224	312	1,911	1	85.9	14.03
2002	2,680	382	2,298	2	85.7	14.25
2001	2,685	703	1,944	14	72.4	26.18
2000	2,681	624	2,029	28	75.7	23.27
1999	1,805	386	1,328	91	73.6	21.39
*1998	943	133	685	125	72.6	14.10
Total	27,478	3,091	23,640	477	86.0	11.25
* figures represent the second half of 1998 only † other than spay/neuter animals

Dana Chivvis for AOL News writes: "The numbers are remarkable in contrast to nearby shelters. In the same town, the Norfolk City Pound euthanized 54.7 percent of its dogs and cats in 2009. In 2008, the most recent year on record, the Norfolk SPCA found homes for 86 percent of its dogs and cats and euthanized only 5.3 percent".

David Martosko, director of research at the Center for Consumer Freedom, said of PETA: "It's whoring itself out for media coverage. They'll do the ridiculous stuff, but they won't put an ad in the Norfolk press saying, 'We have puppies and kittens, come adopt one.'

Defending PETA's kill rates Daphna Nachminovitch, vice president of cruelty investigations at PETA said "Our euthanasia program has never been a secret. This is one of many, many things that we do to alleviate the suffering of animals." She says that they don't have puppies and kittens available for adoption because they are not an adoptive agency.

Gina Spadafori, Pet Connection, journalist for 30 years and recipient of threats of legal action for criticising PETA writes: "PETA tells its donors that the animals they killed were unadoptable … suffering, in many cases. When someone challenges that, they don’t provide veterinary records or behaviorist reports — they send out their lawyer to rattle a saber".

Nathan Winograd, who also received a letter from PETA’s attorney threatening litigation for defamation, writes on his blog The Butcher of Norfolk: "In the last ten years, they have killed 21,537 animals: that’s roughly 2,000 animals a year every year for the last decade; or over five animals killed by PETA every single day....rescue groups and individuals have come forward stating that the animals they gave PETA were healthy and adoptable. ".

Brent Toellner writes on his KC Dog Blog: "...no one is upset when shelters "euthanize" animals -- but that is by the real definition of euthanasia. There is no question that sometimes animals are too sick, too injured or too aggressive -- and as such, euthanasia IS the most caring solution. But killing 97% of all the animals you touch? That's not "euthanasia", that's killing. And people ARE upset when shelters kill animals -- it's neither caring, nor noble. It's slaughter. And it's slaughter by people who are supposed to be CARING for animals".

Brent goes on to say: "PETA is not a Humane organization. They are animal killers - and the sooner that everyone realizes that and quits giving them money, the better off we'll all be."

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The UK Kennel Club has complained to the Advertising Standards Authority about a PETA advertisement it has deemed offensive.

The ad in question features a Maltese Terrier with a black comb held across it's upper lip and the caption "Master Race? Wrong for People. Wrong for Dogs. Boycott Breeders. Adopt!”

Blogger Houndbound agrees with the Kennel Club: "I really think PETA should stop stigmatizing anyone who disagrees with them as fascists".

Vet Pete Wedderburn writes on his blog: "Their Hitler dog poster campaign would have passed well beneath the radar if the Kennel Club had not chosen to complain about it to the Advertising Standards Authority...ensuring publicity that would have been well beyond the reach of PETA’s budget".

The Telegraph reports that PETA spokeswoman Poorva Joshipura defended their ad saying ''It is not our ad that is offensive but the false and dangerous belief that some breeds or races are superior to others. We are asking people to take a bite out of cruelty by boycotting breeders and saving the life of a dog or a cat from a rescue shelter instead.''

The Advertising Standards Authority found in PETA's favour with a spokesperson stating in the Telegraph: ''We acknowledged that the image and text were emotive but did not consider the ad was likely to cause serious or widespread offense or to mislead. Consumers were likely to understand that the advertisers were expressing their opinion."

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'Octomom' Nadya Suleman -the American woman who gave birth to octuplets in January 2009 - has accepted cash from the exploitative vegan lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in return for her coopertaion in a bizarre stunt.

After hearing that the mother of fourteen was facing foreclosure on her home the lobby paid money to the women to erect an undignified PETA sign directly in her front yard.

The sign lectures pet owners not to allow their dogs or cats to have as many offspring as she did.

"Don't let your dog or cat become an "octomom" reads the degrading slogan.

(Via BS, who emails '...this doesn't seem quite ethical somehow'.)

UPDATE: Click here to see some of PETA's other past sign disgraces.

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TIGER WOODS has threatened legal action against the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) if it pursues a plan to erect a billboard mocking his recent sex scandal.

The vegan lobby was planning to erect a billboard close to the golfer's Florida home that linked the golfers infidelity with its militant 'Spay or Neuter' campaign.

But after the golfing great threatened to sue the lobby it quickly backed down.

A PETA spokesperson confessed: 'In light of conversations we have had with Mr. Woods' attorneys, plans to run our billboard are on hold at this time.'

Pity you cannot sue for bad taste.

(via Lucy)

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FLAMBOYANT American figure skater Johnny Weir, now best friends with Aussie media personality Eddy McGuire, says he has been unfairly targeted by militant pressure group PETA for wearing a pelt of white fox fur on his shoulder and leather skates.

But in defiance to the lobby Weir claims he won't be caving in to PETA's perpetual pontificating.

'I like fur and I like things that come from dead animals,' he said.

Weir believes he has been unfairly targeted by the lobby at the Vancouver Olympics because nearly all skaters are wearing leather skates.

In other FUR news, the Independent reports that the forthcoming New York Fashion Week will be awash with fur. Designers had better be on the watch for the inevitable red paint...

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VULGAR vegan lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has labeled Australia's peak wool growing body Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) a 'maggot in the sheep farmers' backside' in a full page advertisement in Fairfax media's Farm Weekly newspaper.

In a move that seems to be an attempt to drive a wedge between Aussie wool growers and AWI, the ad which is titled The Future of Australian Wool Is in Your Hands makes the claim that 'AWI has wasted farmers' time and money by clinging to crude and inhumane mutilations. It has become a maggot in the sheep farmers' backside.'

'It is up to Australian sheep farmers to save their arses and the sheep's by taking the initiative to end cruel mulesing mutilations themselves.'

But Australian Wool Growers Association chair Martin Oppenheimer said he was surprised at PETA's latest attack against AWI and believes it will fail. He said the industry was working more closely with most animal welfare groups than in the past and was taking the issue seriously.

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Hollywood beauties Catherine Zeta-Jones and Kate Hudson must be reaching for the prozac after being labelled 'worst dressed celebrities' in PETA's latest publicity-seeking stunt.

Zeta-Jones and Hudson unashamedly wear fur, with Zeta-Jones being singled out by the lobby for her 'fetish for wearing anything that once moved'.

That reminds us of PETA co-founder Ingrid Newkirk's prior confession that in her twenties "...I was eating my way through the animal kingdom, and what I didn't eat I wore."

Well if it was once good for the goose...

(via Lucy)

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* PETA has paid yet another porn identity to feature in one of its tiresome campaigns. Sasha Gray joins other illustrious sex identities such as Heidi Fleiss and Jenna Jameson who have been paid by the 'charity' to front its campaigns. This one continues the group's efforts to lecture pet-owners to de-sex their pets.

* A pig race being conducted for the Australian Liver Foundation in a Brisbane, Australia pub has come under fire from PETA who has predictably branded it 'barbaric'. The event is being overseen however by the responsible animal welfare group RSPCA and the pub spokesperson Damian McGuire has assured the pigs will be more than well looked after.

* Another organization has caved to PETA pressure because of a mistaken belief that the radical group really cares about animals. The Neumann University Alumni Association says it will stop distributing discounted tickets to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus in response to PETA’s latest protest. The alumni association was offering discounted admission to the February 27 show in Philadelphia.

* Your team at PETA WATCH is lazing around in burger-friendly San Diego. This town ain't vegan friendly folks.

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Extremist vegan lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has claimed it is opening an office in Australia this year despite saying exactly the same thing last year.

Its current "office" runs from a suburban Adelaide home. It has other staff based in Manila.

The ABC network in Australia quotes PETA mouthpiece Jason Baker as saying the lobby will set up an office in Australia this year, but no details of its location and address have been supplied.

Baker says the lobby will 'pressure Australian industry and companies, but doesn't rule out targeting individual farmers'.

'When we write to a company, they know if they don't listen to PETA they're probably in for bigger troubles,' he claimed.

'That's why most companies do sit down with us and do talk to us.'

This site will keep you up to date on all PETA's tactics and tricks in Australia- if indeed the claim turns out to be true.

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It seems the city of San Francisco isn't a huge fan of the violent vegan lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

The team at PETA WATCH has spied some crabtastic seafood at the Fishermans Wharf precinct and despite the Californian recession hordes are tucking in to huge bowls of clam chowder and local fresh crabs with gusto.

The precinct also hosts an artisan baker who is famous for shaping its delicious sourdough into breads that look like crabs.

But when we got talking to the locals about PETA and its campaign to change the name "fish" to "sea kittens" the locals were broadly unimpressed.

"That won't catch on around here, no way", said a pragmatic fellow working at a store.

"What do I think of the idea? Its stupid. Who wouldn't think it was stupid? Fish are fish and crabs are crabs and that's that as far as I'm concerned."


"I love these crabs and I'm gonna be eating em' for as long as they're here", remarked a lady with her husband.

"PETA are nuts", said another worker through a laugh that suggested both disbelief and belief at the idea at the same time.

Looks like the locals will be enjoying their tasty bay-side offerings without guilt for a long time time yet!

And PETA Donors who payed for its campaign can see how effective it has actually been.

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News just in from Canada:


26 January 2010

A PETA activist, unhappy with Canada's seal hunt, was arrested yesterday after striking Fisheries Minister Gail Shea in the face with a pie moments after she began speaking at an event in Burlington. Ms. Shea said she was shocked when she was hit by the tofu cream pie. She said she remains steadfast in her approval of the controversial seal hunt. "This just strengthens my resolve to support the seal hunt and Canadian sealers," Ms. Shea said. Sergeant Brian Carr, a spokesman with the Halton Regional Police, said New York resident Emily McCoy, 37, is charged with assault.


27 January 2010

An incident in which the federal fisheries minister was hit with a tofu cream pie by a PETA protester should be seen as a terrorist act, says a Liberal MP. Gerry Byrne made the comment to Newfoundland radio station VOCM after Gail Shea was hit in the face on Monday by an American animal-rights activist, unhappy with Canada's seal hunt.

29 January 2010

A People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) protester was on the receiving end of a pieing on Friday. Emily Lavender stood outside a hotel where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was slated to talk Friday before meeting with Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams. Dressed as a seal and protesting the hunt, Ms. Lavender was accosted by the dog mascot for Downhome Magazine who came up behind Lavender and pulled her around, tripping her in the process. Her seal head went flying and, as the dog mascot helped pull Lavender up, he pied her in the face and ran off down the street.

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Some extracts from a recent NYT article:

...[B]efore we cede the entire moral penthouse to “committed vegetarians” and “strong ethical vegans,” we might consider that plants no more aspire to being stir-fried in a wok than a hog aspires to being peppercorn-studded in my Christmas clay pot.

The more that scientists learn about the complexity of plants — their keen sensitivity to the environment, the speed with which they react to changes in the environment, and the extraordinary number of tricks that plants will rally to fight off attackers and solicit help from afar — the more impressed researchers become, and the less easily we can dismiss plants as so much fiberfill backdrop, passive sunlight collectors on which deer, antelope and vegans can conveniently graze.

Plants:

-“forage” for resources like light and soil nutrients and “anticipate” rough spots and opportunities

-respond to touch, sight, hearing, speech, recognize different wavelengths of light, listen to chemical signals and "talk” through chemical signals.

-Cry for help. Some of the compounds that plants generate in response to insect mastication — their feedback, you might say — are volatile chemicals that serve as cries for help.

PETAWATCH ethical dietary tip for PETA supporters: try dead twigs and sticks.

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This site will be reporting exclusively from the US over the next few weeks.

Stay tuned.

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