Norfolk, Va. — Former President Barack Obama is having a meat-free Hawaii-inspired menu for his 60th birthday party this weekend, so PETA is sending him a vegan birthday cake shaped like a (Hawaiian) pineapple and a little carrot cake decorated with a sun for his beloved, aging dog, Sunny. (Dogs love carrot cake.)
“This marks the first and we know not the last meat-free presidential birthday bash,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “Our cakes extend the aloha spirit to him and to all the animals in the land.”
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
Please see the following statement from PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna regarding the felony conviction of Texas-based monkey importer and U.S. laboratory supplier Gary Tucker of Orient BioResource Center for lying to federal agents during their investigation into monkey trafficking:
PETA applauds the federal agents investigating monkey trafficking into U.S. laboratories. PETA has long suspected wrongdoing by these shady import companies and has documented the misery of monkeys stuffed into small wooden boxes, stacked in the cargo holds of planes, and shipped around the world in fear, sometimes dying on the way. These animals can harbor deadly pathogens that kill humans—an experimenter in China recently died after being infected with the Monkey B virus—and the horrors that these primates face as experimental subjects should be (and one day will be) illegal. It’s time to shut down the trade in monkeys and modernize research, something technology now allows us to do.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on or abuse in any other way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
Keka attempted to send an animal into space in 2009, but the rocket went off course and smashed into a rock—and Kavira, the rat inside, was never found and is presumed to have died.
“The lives of vulnerable animals shouldn’t be placed at risk aboard terrifying rocket launches,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA urges Développement Tous Azimuts to join the human space race by banning the use of animals in experiments and sending Galaxionaut the guinea pig to an approved sanctuary.”
Following vigorous PETA campaigns, NASA and the European Space Agency—which represents Switzerland among its 22 member states—ended space experiments on monkeys, and the agencies have acknowledged that results from these experiments were not relevant to human astronauts.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
Following more than six months of talks with PETA and Kindness to Animals in Taiwan, Lian Hwa Foods Corp.—a major supplier to 7-Eleven convenience stores in Taiwan that’s known for its snack foods—has adopted a new public policy stating, “Lian Hwa Foods…does not conduct, sponsor, or entrust/outsource to third-parties to conduct animal testing unless expressly required by regulations.” (English translation of the original policy in Mandarin)In prior years, the company conducted or funded tests on at least 178 animals in attempts to make human health claims for marketing its products.
“Animals shouldn’t be locked in laboratories and mutilated and killed so that a food company can market its products,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “Lian Hwa Foods’ compassionate decision to ban animal tests will delight consumers, who don’t want to snack on cruelty.”
PETA has called on 20 major food companies in Taiwan—including its largest food and beverage conglomerate, Uni-President Enterprises Corp., and Nestlé licensee AGV Products Corp.—to end needless animal experiments, which have involved force-feeding, electroshocking, drowning, starving, bleeding, poisoning, dissecting, and/or killing more than 8,000 animals over the past two decades. Lian Hwa Foods now joins Standard Foods Group—the largest health food company in Taiwan and licensee of PepsiCo’s Quaker Oats Company—and the third-largest health food company in Taiwan, Vitalon Foods Group, in banning such tests, none of which are required by law.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
In time for the Iowa State Fair, one of the biggest agricultural and industrial expositions in the country, PETA is placing patriotic ads on local buses touting vegan eating, which helps animals, boosts health, benefits the environment, and is the way of the future for the nation’s farmers—plus, it’s as American as apple pie.
“During the Iowa State Fair is the perfect time to kick back with veggie burgers, soy dogs, corn on the cob, and egg-free potato salad,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA’s heartland ad is all about having a heart and celebrating animal-free agriculture, and Iowa is already a leading soy and corn producer.”
A report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America states that if U.S. farmers were to use all the land currently devoted to raising cows, pigs, and chickens for growing plants for human consumption instead, they could feed more than twice as many people as they do now. And such a move would prevent animals used for food from suffering in crowded facilities and enduring a terrifying trip to the slaughterhouse, where they’re strung up and their throats are slit. Animal farming is also responsible for greenhouse gases, massive water consumption, groundwater contamination, and fecal pond pollution, and it’s linked to cancer of the colon and prostate, diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
Each bus will display PETA’s ad for four weeks and run a route in the greater Des Moines area that includes trips to and from the fair.
