The creators of Westworld have come under fire from PETA for its use of elephants in the series, saying that one that appeared on screen had been previously abused. HBO has responded with a resounding “nah.”
ATTENTION: in a move being described as “fearless,” Kim Kardashian-West has appeared publicly in bike shorts, a fanny pack, the sweatshirt from my bottom drawer, commuting sneakers and socks, fucking socks–so that we may feel the sun on our faces once more.
Instagram already bans photos of animal abuse on its platform. Now, they want you to know that your selfie with a sedated monkey also likely qualifies as animal abuse, no matter how cute you both look.
Good news, captive orcas of SeaWorld San Diego! You get to retire your tap shoes and bowler hats as the theme park you call prison has announced a “less theatrical, more natural” killer whale show will debut this summer.
After years of protests from the Humane Society and other animal activists, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus are retiring their elephants.
The good news: SeaWorld announced on Monday that its San Diego park will phase out their killer whale show by 2017. The bad news: those same orcas will continue to perform in a similarly shitty but vigorously re-branded version of the current show, with “experiences that look more natural in the environment.” Oh, word?
In darker National Cat Day news, a North Carolina woman named Aimee Cook has been charged with 14 counts of animal abuse after a suitcase containing 14 dead cats and kittens was found near near the dumpster of an apartment complex.
After a long day of speeches, the California Coastal Commission voted to ban captive whale breeding in SeaWorld’s San Diego park, as well as to significantly restrict the movement of whales in and out of the park. These were set as conditions for the approval of SeaWorld’s $100 million habitat expansion, which…
SeaWorld released its most recent quarterly report on Thursday, and it’s pretty funny, as quarterly reports go!
A man in California is accused of a particularly heinous and disturbing crime, committed against an ex-girlfriend he abused and stalked.
Disturbing footage has emerged of Desmond Hague, the CEO of Centerplate (a company that provides catering for more than 300 major venues in North America ) brutally abusing a dog. Centerplate is disciplining Hague, but many feel that it's not enough.
In another edition of PETA Is The Worst, parents in Woodland Hills, California allege that the organization handed out pamphlets to their children at school containing graphic pictures of mutilated cows. The children were traumatized by these pamphlets on the same day that a baby cow was on campus as part of a lesson…
Just in time for the holidays, some British clothing stores are pulling angora products from the shelves amid claims that millions of rabbits are being mistreated in China because it's not enough for humans to demonstrate their superiority over the rest of the animal kingdom by shaving them naked and using their fur…
It’s probably best not to take PETA’s outrage too, too seriously (I mean, it’s not like they’re going to throw paint all over your decadent fur coat or anything), but a spokeswoman for the animal rights organization has criticized Katy Perry for exploiting exotic animals in her new video for the single “Roar.”
Remember the brusque but ultimately golden-hearted transient woman in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York who helped Kevin defeat his adult foes with her team of loyal pigeons? Yeah, well, this story about a vigilante pigeon strangler stalking the streets of Cambridge, England is nothing like that at all. It’s actually a…
PETA, the sanctimonious, paint-flinging organization that showed us its vegetable dicks and ruined Valentine’s Day is catching some flack for its reluctance to move to a “no kill” shelter model amid a groundswell of no-kill support from animal rights advocates. How can the same group that criticizes a child celebrity…
There have been some truly egregious political fuck-ups in the past, and while Tennessee Republican State Rep. Andy Holt’s email exchange with the Humane Society’s public policy coordinator in which he compares the Humane Society investigations to the human trafficking of 17-year-old women and makes use of the phrase…
Here's some news to cry yourself to sleep with tonight.
And with this, I am so ready for 2012 to be over and to get to 2013, a time and place where puppies haven't yet been abandoned in dumpsters. I know, I know, as soon as 2013 is here, I will be like "WTF I THOUGHT I SAID NO DUMPSTER PUPPIES," and 2013 will be all "Oh, my bad."
