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PETA Names Los Angeles Third Most Vegan-Friendly City in America

PETA, or the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, recently announced its list of the 10 most vegan-friendly cities in America. And it should surprise no one that we came in pretty high, ranking third. Because we have lots of movie stars, and they're mostly all vegan these days, aren't they. ... More >>

Shark Dies On Van Nuys Kmart Ad Set; Investigation Launched

Updated at the bottom with a statement from Kmart and an assertion that PETA got it wrong. First posted at 7:09 a.m. An independent investigation has been launched into the death of a shark that was being used for the filming of a Kmart commercial in Van Nuys, the American Human Association tells t ... More >>

Evelyn Lozada Poses Nude For PETA Ad (Photo)

If you're hungry for publicity, all you have to do these days is renounce your formerly sinful ways, get naked and embrace PETA. That is, if you're a hot reality star. Such was the case for Evelyn Lozada, four-season star of VH1's Basketball Wives, who has switched teams more in love than Dennis R ... More >>

Top 10 Famous Vegans, 2012 Edition

Nearly one year has gone by since our first list of Top 10 Famous Vegans caused an outright internet vegan-type revolution. Well, not really. But plenty of readers didn't shy away from outrightly hating or loving the list, so we thought we'd catalog a few more for 2012. The obligatory public figures ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Ken Frank on Foie Gras, PETA Protest in Echo Park No Food Aid to North Korea

Daily Dish: Chef Ken Frank of Le Toque in Napa Valley argues that the upcoming foie gras ban will "will create the biggest black market since Prohibition." He recommends replacing it with "the world's highest standards for humane foie gras." Reuters: In the wake of North Korea's failed missile lau ... More >>

PETA to Swarm Echo Park McDonald's in Protest Over Chicken McNuggets (Really)

Taking on the global scourge of chicken abuse, PETA members plan to swarm an Echo Park McDonald's tomorrow. The source of their ire? "Terror and agony for millions of chickens" that are each year destined to become tasty, golden Chicken McNuggets, PETA says. According to an announcement from the g ... More >>

Food Word Clouds: Wolfgang Puck's Meat Menu at Cut

If you're a vegetarian, this might seem less like a highly curated menu than a do-not-enter sign. If so, no Snake River Farms Wagyu and John Baldessari art for you. But if you're happily carnivorous, then this menu -- the dinner menu from Wolfgang Puck's Beverly Hills steakhouse Cut -- may read like ... More >>

PETA's "Sunny Acres Farms" Video: A Juicy Portion of Propaganda

We like a juicy portion of propaganda about as much as we like a good dry-aged, grass-fed, sustainably-raised steak. All the same, some of the most dedicated opponents of factory farming might blanch at the gruesome spectacle that is Sunny Acres Farms, the hell-hole that produces "happy meat" in PE ... More >>

Zina Bethune Gets Posthumous PETA Award After She's Killed Trying to Help Animal

Zina.​Following the death of a famed dancer, Zina Bethune (a.k.a. Zina Feeley), PETA today announced it was posthumously bestowing upon her a Compassionate Action Award. Bethune was struck by at least two vehicles after she stopped to help an injured opossum near Griffith Park over the weeken ... More >>

Michael Mann's New HBO Show Luck Is So Hard-core That 2 Horses Have Died Already

We knew Luck would be hardcore. With Deadwood's David Milch on the screenplay and Miami Vice's Michael Mann in the director's chair, HBO's new ode to horse-racing was bound to be grittier and manlier than Cormac McCarthy' 5 'o' clock shadow. But are they taking the realism too far? In a single sea ... More >>

11 Craziest Nude Scandals in L.A. in the Last Year (Photos NSFW)

Lots of crazies get in trouble in our fair city, and lots of those crazies are also nude. Just this week a naked man (above) climbed a radio tower in downtown L.A. and threatened to jump. Do they have this problem in, say, North Dakota? What is it about L.A. that brings out the unhinged unclothed? ... More >>

SeaWorld Whales Are Slaves Protected by U.S. Constitution? Federal Judge in SoCal Actually Considers It

SeaWorld Facebook​Updated at the bottom: Case dismissed. First posted at 11:51 a.m. on Monday. You might have blown off PETA's claim that whales under the care of SeaWorld San Diego were deserving of constitutional protection barring slavery (we sure did), but a federal judge in the case toda ... More >>

Naked Protesters to Mimic Pork Packages Outside Farmer John Planet Near Downtown L.A., PETA Warns

We love meat. We love naked people. Put them together and you have a PETA protest. (Only in L.A.) The animal rights group is targeting Farmer John and its pig slaughtering operation (mmm, pig) in Vernon near downtown tomorrow. And get this:

PETA Moves to Echo Park, Home of Some Great Dead-Meat Tacos

Perhaps this is the ultimate sign that Echo Park, former home of Mi Vida Loca, has turned a another corner of gentrification: Animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) this week opened its new West Coast headquarters in the former barrio, reports The Eastsider LA ... More >>

PETA Wants in on Santa Monica Religious Display Controversy

Secret TenerifeIt's a miracle.​The circus that has become the religious (and areligious) display at a Santa Monica park just got more clowny. PETA wants in on the action. Organization president Ingrid E. Newkirk sent a letter to one of the display holders asking if the animal rights group c ... More >>

SeaWorld Whales Are Slaves Held in Violation of 13th Amendment, PETA Says in SoCal Lawsuit

PETA's a FAIL on this one if you ask us.​Updated at the bottom with reaction from SeaWorld and L.A. author Earl Ofari Hutchinson. First posted at 11:27 a.m. Animal rights -- perfectly normal, perfectly healthy. Yet where does the movement go too far, surpassing even the best wishes of a life- ... More >>

NSFW Photo: Man Caught Smuggling 159 Pounds of Iguana Meat, Covered in Fish, Across Mexican Border

www.jagendorf.comThe one that got away​And here we thought Tupac's alleged shooter was the man of the hour (closely trailed by a way-too-stoked John Edwards). Nope! The anonymous U.S. citizen trying to cross over from Mexico with 167 pounds of Iguana meat in tow on June 7 wins top blogroll hon ... More >>

10 Places to Celebrate World Cocktail Day

Guzzle & NoshSo many cocktails to drink, so little time.​World Cocktail Day, the culmination of World Cocktail Week, is tomorrow, May 13th, but in true tippler fashion, we're starting the celebration today. Didn't even know you had an excuse to drink, did you? Why May 13th? Our pal at Thirsty ... More >>

[UPDATED, Again]: Pink Taco's Pink Donkey Angers Animal Rights Activists

[Update (May 11th, 1:30 p.m.): Through May 15th, the Pink Taco in Century City will be featuring a special margarita, the "PETA-rita," with 100% of the proceeds from going to PETA. And Friday, May 13th is "bring your pet to the patio day" from 3 to 7 p.m.] [Update (May 5th, 1 p.m.): Our sister bl ... More >>

Pink Taco's Owner Says No More Pink Donkeys in Century City Following Cinco De Mayo Controversy

Ben Decker / OC Weekly​Major issues in our world these days: Potential terrorism in the wake of Osama Bin Laden's demise. A $400 million-plus deficit facing the city of L.A. Unemployment that doesn't seem to be getting much better. Oh, and a pink donkey outside a Westside mall taco restaurant ... More >>

Tai the Elephant Abused Prior to Filming of Robert Pattinson Vehicle 'Water For Elephants,' Animal Rights Group Says

havetrunkwilltravel.comTai the elephant was abused?​Updated after the jump: PETA calls on the city of Santa Ana to stop using elephants supplied by the same company for animal rides at its zoo. An elephant who stars in the current Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson film Water for Elephant ... More >>

Breaking Nudes: PETA Girls to Bare All on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood

Unfortunately Olivia Munn won't be there. We don't think.​Updated after the jump with photos of hot, vegan action thanks to hollyhoodian.com: You still have a chance to perv out support animal rights and check out these beauties tomorrow. Details after the jump. Breaking nudity: Two sexy wome ... More >>

Cows In Space: Scientists Working to Make Meat in Laboratories

Santa Monica farmers market​ Meat is more trendy than cupcakes these days, with all standard apologies to Morrissey. Consider the seemingly permanent bacon trend, the rising popularity of butchery, happy whole pig farm-to-table excursions, and local butchers who generate so much interest that ... More >>

Los Angeles Is 8th Most 'Veg-Friendly' City In America, Says PETA

Flore Vegan Cuisine​ According to a recent survey by PETA, Los Angeles is the 8th most vegetarian/vegan friendly city in North America. "Los Angeles residents should be proud that the City of Angels is on the cutting edge of healthy cuisine that is Earth- and animal-friendly," PETA Executive V ... More >>

Los Angeles Is 8th Most 'Veg-Friendly' City In America, Says PETA

​According to a recent survey by PETA, Los Angeles is the 8th most vegetarian/vegan friendly city in North America. "Los Angeles residents should be proud that the City of Angels is on the cutting edge of healthy cuisine that is Earth- and animal-friendly," PETA Executive Vice President Tracy ... More >>

Breaking: Olivia Munn To Protest Circus With PETA In Downtown Los Angeles

​Suddenly this whole PETA protest of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus outside Staples Center got a whole lot more interesting. PETA tweeted (via LA Observed) that G4 television host Olivia Munn will be joining the anti-circus festivities at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Suddenly we're down ... More >>

Your Latest Dietary Law Kitchen Gadget: An Instant Pork Tester

Flickr/agtwo​ At last, a portable kitchen gadget for anyone trying to keep halal, kosher, vegan, vegetarian, or any combination of the above. Scientists in Kazakhstan have come up with an instant pork tester. The plastic-stick test, which changes color rather like a pregnancy test, detects fo ... More >>

G4 'Attack of the Show!' Host Olivia Munn Gets Naked for New PETA Billboard... With Elephants?

TV personality Olivia Munn, host of G4's Attack of the Show!, is the latest celebrity/activist (much cooler than actress/waitress) to team up with animal rights group PETA for its series of anti-cruelty advertisements, this time targeted at the circus. Munn stripped into action after seeing an onli ... More >>

Zombies Fried Chicken = "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead"

Trauma​So you missed last night's screening of "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead," a grindhouse zombie musical about the fast food industry, at the New Beverly Cinema? The film PETA called "A vegetarian-manifesto masterpiece"? Here's a taste of what you missed: When the Tromahawk Ind ... More >>

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'Don't Let Your Dog Or Cat Become An Octomom' - PETA

PETA​PETA is offering to pay "Octomom" Nadya Suleman to endorse the spaying and neutering of pets, the animal-rights group announced Tuesday. A proposed slogan would be posted on a sign on Suleman's front lawn: "Don't let your dog or cat become an 'Octomom.'" The offer comes amid reports that ... More >>

Animal Rights Group Targets 'The Jay Leno Show'

Those pesky, and controversial, animal rights activists at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will dress up as chickens and attempt to protest a taping of The Jay Leno Show tomorrow in Burbank, City News Service reports. Talk show host Jay Leno​PETA's peeved at Leno for shilling fo ... More >>

Fuck You, Penguin: When Cute Animals Make You Angry

Matthew Gasteier runs the blog FU, Penguin. He is 27 years old and lives in Watertown, MA, just outside of Boston. His blog just got turned into a book, which he will be signing tomorrow afternoon, September 12, at Fred Segal. The book and the blog are filled with stuff like this: ​ Why do yo ... More >>

Naked Chicks, Scandalous Veggies and Horseshit: A Thumbnail Sketch of PETA & Food

Public Service Announcement: This story contains provocative images, including nudity, and may not be suitable for those who blush easily--or for Gordon Ramsay. PETA wants your attention. Part of their mission is to educate the public and bring awareness, thus activism and change, to inhumane tr ... More >>

Singular Sensations

PETA's Lady in a Cage: Protesting Animal Treatment by Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Hold that tiger! Foot traffic pauses on Hollywood Boulevard as reporters, tourists and photographers catch a glimpse of near-naked activist in painted stripes

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