PETA: Discrimination Is Wrong 'Whether You're a Woman or a Chicken'
On Tuesday morning, the Twitter account for PETA, the generally unhinged animal rights advocacy group, tweeted the above quote from its president.
Mariah Carey Admits She Is Pregnant
- In a segment that aired this morning on Today, but was taped while sitting in a dark, candlelit room, Mariah Carey confessed that she is pregnant and expecting in the spring.
Cities Across America Reject PETA Ads
PETA has done a lot of things to piss people off, but their newest offer - to help cash-strapped cities pay off their deficit through ads on trash cans - makes us wonder if anyone can stomach the organization.
Ingrid Newkirk Is The Worst Person In The World
PETA — the animal-rights organization whose media strategy seems to be three parts B-list celebrities, one part fake blood, and five parts boobies — co-founder Ingrid Newkirk wrote an op-ed today defending the use of "sexy women in our ads."
PETA Founder "Apologizes" For "Save The Whales" Billboard
Yesterday morning, PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk appeared on the radio show Montel Across America to discuss her organization's horrible "Save the Whales" billboard in Jacksonville, Florida.
PETA Disgusts Americans With Adolescent Advertising
We've received a bunch of tips about this PETA ad, which was rejected by NBC for a Super Bowl time slot. The commercial shows several women getting down and dirty with various vegetables.
The Financial Times profiles Ingrid Newkirk, 59, co-founder and president of PETA, which catalogs her controversial animal rights activism through the years. PETA protests have led to the introduction of the veggie burger at Burger King, McDonald's auditing its slaughterhouses, and Mercedes-Benz offering a pleather…
PETA's Ingrid Newkirk has been criticized for using naked women in her ad campaigns, and in a recent
interview with , she says: "It's rubbish because the organization is run by a woman, who is me. I marched in the earliest of rallies, I am an adamant feminist, but I'm not a prude and I think you can go to the beach…
PETA's Ingrid Newkirk defends her organization's objectification of women in a letter published in today's NY Times. Over at the LA Times, Newkirk weighs in on the head of the Humane Society, Wayne Pacelle, calling him a "very charming man" with a "slower approach." [NY Times, LA Times]
Ingrid Newkirk: Even Blood Suckers Are Cuter Than Cheney
Last night, PETA president/Gaultier nemesis Ingrid Newkirk dropped by The Colbert Report to talk about one of our favorite topics — animals — and one of our less-favorite topics, sexism. (Meaning: the somewhat questionable practices utilized by PETA to covey its message.) And though Stephen Colbert didn't grill…
Madonna is thisclose to becoming the next Anna Wintour, at least in the eyes of animal-rights activists. The pop star and friend of vegan Stella McCartney dyed the sheep at her English estate an array of hues, the better to art direct them for a shoot for Vogue. Says an RSPCA spokesman: "It sends out the wrong message…
PETA Founder Thinks Fur Is Yucky, Alexander McQueen Is 'Desperate'
When we open our mail most people tend to fear things like, oh, tons of bills and the mailers from the Episcopal church. Not so much for PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk, who "knows that finding a bloody animal organ or a vicious death threat is not just likely — it's expected." Depending on your POV, Newkirk is a freedom…
