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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

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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

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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

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* 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

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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

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(via Kirsi)

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* 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

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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

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What more do they do?

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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'

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* 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

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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,

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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

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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

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* 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

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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

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* 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.

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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

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...'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.

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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.'

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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

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Your average PETA supporter...

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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

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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

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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'.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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We'll be back before you know it. Stay tuned.

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This site is in recess. We will be back with you soon.Send through your tips to:administration@petawatch.com

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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News just in from Canada:26 January 2010A 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

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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

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

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A KIWI couple in Texas who are facing animal cruelty charges have claimed that one of their employees - an undercover PETA worker - set them up by willfully neglecting animals.New Zealand couple Jasen and Vanessa Shaw own US Global Exotics, a business based in Texas that was raided just prior to Christmas. Over 26,000 animals were seized.The couple's lawyer Lance Evans has said one of the

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THE WHITE HOUSE has been angered by a sneaky move by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for using a picture of US first lady Michelle Obama in a campaign against fur without her consent.The ad features model Tyra Banks, Oprah Winfrey, singer Carrie Underwood and Michelle Obama with the strap line 'Fur-Free and Fabulous!''We did not consent to it,' said Semonti Stephens,

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A Trappist monastery in a tiny town in Canada has been attacked by militant vegan lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for the cardinal sin of running a farm.The Our Lady of Calvary Abbey based in Rogersville, New Brunswick raises chickens and cows on its property and was awarded 'Farm of the Year' in 2008 by the National Farmers Union.But the animal rights group has loudly

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Virginian resident Lydia Netzer has told the Washington Post she has killed her cat after fearing the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) would take him instead.Lydia Netzer, who unfortunately lives next door to PETA's Norfolk head office office, says she put 'Hoity' the cat down, after months of lectures from her neighbors about letting him outside.In the end she feared PETA would

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A recent attempt by a bunch of car racing fans to set a world-record for the largest group 'chicken dance' has met a killjoy hurdle: a letter by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) sent to the Guinness World Records insisting the attempt be declared invalid.Around 125,000 people gathered at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama on Sunday in an effort to beat the previous

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A Connecticut based member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has spoken out about her despair after she realised the 'dream property' she was about to purchase was on a street named Roast Meat Hill Road.PETA member Joan Hinchcliffe purchased the small farm several years ago in Killingworth Middlesex County but was horrified when she learned of the street's name."I considered

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Pressure group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) celebrated its 10th anniversary in India last week, against a backdrop of rising meat consumption in the country.A self-congratulatory 'gala' event was held recently with a handful of Bollywood faces attending.But amidst the vegan cheer and unhealthful sanctimony one fact appears to have slipped under the radar: the country's meat

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A pastor at the Morningside Presbyterian Church in Iowa has slammed animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for trying to grinch the Christmas spirit.In a letter to the Sioux City Journal the killjoy group complained about the churches annual nativity scene that portrays Mary and Joseph alongside live sheep, llamas and donkeys.Jennifer O'Connor from the lobby made

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This site is going into 'leisurely mode' over the festive season.Postings will be less frequent than usual.

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A PETA subscriber has told this site that in the lead up to this years festive season the animal rights group's pleas for cash have been 'relentless'.The subscriber has received seven separate emails within the space of a few weeks asking for money.PETA has a donated annual budget of over US$30 million, which it uses in controversial ways to market the idea that all humans should be vegan.Check

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Pop singer and PETA activist Pink is annoyed after sending lecturing letters to members of Britain's royal family and not receiving a reply.The singer has lashed out at Prince William for ignoring her anger about his penchant for fox hunting and taken a swipe at the Queen for ignoring her demand to not use bearskin for her guards' hats.The singer told Q magazine, 'I wrote to him (William) to

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Vegan cult People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has taken yet another swipe at Aussies by claiming Australia is cruel to its animals and that this cruelty 'takes many forms'.The bizarre claim has been made against the backdrop of the recent filming of British reality show 'I'm a celebrity get me out of here' in Queensland.The show had been taken to task by local animal welfare group

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FUR is making a huge comeback in the fashion stakes according to a columnist for The Guardian newspaper and PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk isn't happy about it.'Fur has never been more popular', says a spokesman for Origin Assured, in the article.'From 1998 to 2008 there has been year-on-year growth in global sales for fur. People now are more comfortable showing their love of fur'.But militant PETA

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has been classified as as a terrorist threat by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.The militant animal rights lobby is listed alongside groups such as the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and Animal Liberation Front (ALF) in a recent document created by the USDA. The group is listed under the heading 'domestic special interest terrorists'.The FBI

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* ECORAZZI is reporting that PETA is beefing up its LA division to enable the group to have greater visibility in the Hollywood scene. The self-described 'press sluts' will move 40 employees from it’s Norfolk, Virginia Headquarters to LA to cozy up to as many celebrity puppets and media outlets as possible.* PETA is demanding that the Georgia Bulldogs football team replace its recently deceased

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Manipulative vegan lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has created outrage for hiring a playboy model to stand naked with a crucifix in an ad.The advertisement features Joanna Krupa wearing nothing but a crucifix and a seductive smile in a campaign designed to promote the adoption of pets from rescue shelters.'It's totally inappropriate,' said Deal Hudson, publisher of

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Eva Mendes is continuing as a PETA mouthpiece in a rehashed campaign against fur.The actress is not entirely fur-adverse - as this previously published picture shows - and still eats some animal products.

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As Australia's outback continues to be ravaged by an explosion in the feral camel population, animal rights lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has weighed into the control debate claiming the looming necessary cull is 'inexcusable'.Camels were introduced into Australia in the 1840's and there are now over a million feral camels at large.The animals kill native flora and

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Pictured here is PETA member Dani Lugosi successfully converting Sydney construction blokes to veganism.

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A member of radical animals rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) wandered virtually nude down Sydney's Pitt Street Mall yesterday promoting tattooing as an alternative to fur.PETA member Dani Lugosi hovered in Pitt Street Mall clad in nothing but 'skin-coloured undies, two bits of tape, a bunch of tattoos and a sign declaring, "Ink not mink".The vegan was subjected to

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Premier US television network NBC has rejected a PETA commercial which seeks to guilt-trip families for eating the delicious thanksgiving staple of roast turkey.The ad depicts a family sitting down during thanksgiving with a young girl praying before the meal thanking the turkey farms inter alia for 'burning their feathers off while they are still alive and for when turkeys get kicked around like

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Animal rights outfit People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has announced to the world: 'We saved two animals'.In the latest newsletter to its worldwide membership of 'more than two million members' the lobby has gloated it saved two animals: Magpie the Dog and Sherlock the pig.Let's just not mention the fate of some 20,000 other animals previously in PETA's 'care' who weren't quite

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Hysterical vegan lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has hit out at the producers of iconic kids show Sesame Street for agreeing to a sponsorship deal with the American Egg Board.Believing eggs to be harmful, the animal rights group has sent 'extensive evidence' to the programs producers claiming the humble household staple damages health.'Sesame Street is misleading

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Animals rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) intends to sue the California Milk Advisory Board over its award winning 'Happy Cows' dairy campaign.The campaign has been successfully running for two years as a series of commercials that feature animated cows discussing the pleasures of life in the pastures of California.The ad slogan is: 'Great cheese comes from happy

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Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin has taken aim at vegans in her soon-to-be-released memoir by stating she wouldn't be swayed into adopting their finicky lifestyle.'If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come he made them out of meat?,' she has written.'I love meat. I

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Cute kitty.

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US actress and PETA celebrity spokeswoman Dominique Swain was spotted dumping a box of eight-week-old, half cocker spaniel puppies at a Malibu animal shelter over the weekend.“She was really strung out and just wanted to dump the puppies there, they had never even been to a vet,” an eyewitness told Fox news. “She was told that it was crucial that they had their shots at four and eight weeks, and

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Tacky vegan lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is attempting to forge a connection with the coastal NSW town of Byron Bay by urging its Mayor to introduce a 'vegetarian day' once per week.The group wrote a letter last week to Byron Mayor Jan Barham urging her to proclaim one day a week as a vegetarian day to 'help fight climate change by changing people's diets.''Byron Bay

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After much debate by our small (but fiesty and not entirely argument-adverse) team, the winning entry of our 'Name the E' competition is:Entoprocta - by Devon Mcdonaldword definition: A group of bryozoans, sometimes considered to be a subphylum, having a pseudocoelomate visceral cavity and the anus opening inside the circlet of tentacles.Runners upEbola - by BrianEmeo - by Captain CookEwwww - by

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Share any tip-offs in this thread or email us: administration@petawatch.com

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Fat-shaming vegan lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of animals (PETA) wants to erect another trashy billboard in Hagerstown, Maryland that ridicules overweight and unattractive men.The move follows an infantile survey conducted by website totalbeauty.com that claims that the men of Hagerstown, Maryland are the second ugliest in the US.PETA's proposed billboard depicts an 'unattractive,

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Virginian resident Lydia Netzer has told the Washington Post she has killed her cat after fearing the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) would take him instead.Lydia Netzer, who unfortunately lives next door to PETA's Norfolk head office office, says she put 'Hoity' the cat down, after months of lectures from her neighbors about letting him outside.In the end she feared PETA would

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US Basketball star Manu Ginobili swatted a hovering bat on court in San Antonio last week prompting violent vegan lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) into an hysterical rage.The incident occoured in a game against Sacramento with the bat delaying the game once in the first quarter.When it swooped again later in the match Ginobili batted the bat from its flight pattern with

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News that the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are recruiting for a new Aussie 'Celebrity marketing and media coordinator' has unearthed a curious question in the job application form that asks if the potential candidate agrees with the lobby's killing policy.See the application form here.The question reads:8. Please review the argument regarding euthanasia and explain whether

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A new mcjob has become available for the Australian limb of radical vegan lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in the form of a 'Celebrity Marketing and Media Coordinator'.The job will be based in either the lobby's spacious Sydney office or attractive Manila.Crucial animal-welfare responsibilities include:- Staying informed about celebrity and internet celebrity news and

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This site has been wondering for a while what the 'E' stands for in Ingrid 'E' Newkirk.Do you have an idea what it is? Or do you think you know what it should be?What is that mysterious 'E'?Post your ideas in this PETA WATCH comment thread. The most creative idea, be it true or not, will win a very cool prize!!#*So get your entries in while you have time! Competition is open worldwide and ends on

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Controversial vegan lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is seeking to lease a former Elvis Presley property in Mississippi and turn it into an animal-rights museum promoting veganism to children.The 'Don't be cruel' museum would feature the group's notorious propaganda in the form of 'educational displays about farm animals' and include a cafe offering vegan food."...[the

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The following statements by PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk are from the New Yorker magazine which published a 14-page essay on the lobby. It is entitled "The Extremist: The Woman Behind the Most Successful Radical Group in America." Newkirk on violence"[People] need to understand that if they support the torture and misuse of other animals they will be made to pay. The animals are defenseless. They

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Pressure group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is now calling for a boycott of zoos in Malaysia using model Amber Chia as its celebrity carrot.Zoo's play a critical role in educating people about the animal kingdom, conduct breeding programs for endangered species and routinely assist animals injured, abandoned and unprotected in the wild.The lobby however claims animals in

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Reader-in-exile 'Truth' has been summoned to reply to a fellow reader: Truth, many of the personalities you claim to be vegan have later denounced the whole concept. Gandhi even went so far to say that veganism is the reason why Indian people were suffering so much.A fiery type, let's hope Truth can respond calmly and with rationality.

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US Pest control company Motomco Limited has accused animal rights lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) of making false claims in a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission last year following its campaign against glue traps: devices designed to trap and control rats.The traps are one tool in a range of rodent-control products the company makes and work by holding fast any

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Thirty four year old Asian Elephant Lucy from the Edmonton Valley Zoo is now embroiled in a legal stoush thanks to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) threatening the zoo with legal action to force it to move her to a sanctuary.Toronto-based lawyer Clayton Ruby acting for PETA says unless the City of Edmonton agrees by Nov. 19 to allow Lucy to be shipped to a sanctuary in

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Islam is the latest target by animal rights lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) with a PETA website being launched to promote vegetarianism to Muslims.The new site - Islamic Concern - includes hadiths, quotations from the Qur'an and Fatwas on Vegetarianism.PETA already operates a Jewish website alongside a Christian one and has claimed in the past that Jesus was a

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Just weeks after Melbourne designer Alannah Hill was forced to drop the use of fur trimming in her collections following a PETA campaign and death threats to her son, Sydney designer Gail Elliot has also surrendered to the pressure group and ditched her signature fur vests.The designer is the latest Aussie victim in PETA's war against everything and has long featured fur elements in her Boho

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This poignant piece of art has naturally been condemned by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).Apparently only the lobby has the right to make statements using dead animals -such as the time it threw a dead raccoon onto the restaurant table of Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine.

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People for the Ethical treatment of Animals (PETA) is offering a cash reward for information on why four dogs were found in a US dumpster recently despite the arrest of its own employees in 2005 for allegedly killing 31 adoptable animals and tossing their bodies into its own dumpster.The militant lobby is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction in the case of

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