They think it is fun to hunt my brothers and sisters. They think it is jolly good fun to put the fear of death into us. They think it is fun to watch our parents being ripped apart by their hounds. They think they are exceptional and superior and laws should not interfere with their …
The only prisons where all the prisoners are innocent are zoos. 10 FACTS ABOUT ZOOS
National Day of Action Saturday 8 December TUI formerly known as Thomson Holidays continues to sell tickets to SeaWorld, despite being fully aware of the company’s cruel treatment of animals for profit. Major travel providers including the UK’s biggest, Thomas Cook, have severed ties with the cruel marine park following dedicated PETA …
I have changed the link at the bottom of the page for The Captive Animals’ Protection Society (CAPS) because it is now Freedom for Animals. Freedom for Animals began as the Captive Animals’ Protection Society in 1957 and is one of the UK’s longest-running charities working to protect animals. Wikipedia link: Captive Animals Protection Society …
Change.org petition by Ed Winters London Fashion Week starts this week! It has long been regarded as one of the pioneering and defining events of the fashion world. Spawning countless trends and providing platforms for some of the most famous designers that have ever existed. Yet even though London Fashion Week prides itself on paving …
UK Day of Action! Tell Thomas Cook to Stop Promoting SeaWorld The Thomas Cook Group continues to sell tickets to SeaWorld, despite being fully aware of the company’s cruel treatment of animals for profit. On Saturday, 9 September, PETA will coordinate a national day of action, with events held across the UK. Facebook Link
Casey Affleck Exposes How Big Cats Are Dragged and Hit With Sticks in the Circus
The “world’s saddest zoo” is in the Grandview Shopping Mall in Guangzhou, China. Polar bears, arctic foxes, beluga whales, a wolf, and walruses, are being kept in conditions that are so vastly removed from their natural habitat, they represent one of the most distressing examples of animal deprivation. Conditions at the Grandview do not even …
Although I have promoted various petitions in the past, I have not promoted any funding requests from charitable organisations. I am making an exception today. The Captive Animals Protection Society, which is a small charity, is being threatened with an injunction by a company that provides animals to the entertainment industry. This would severely restrict …
In the last PETA UK article that I posted, a comment by Mél@nie made me think that I have not posted anything for a long time, regarding animal cruelty, which actually had a good outcome. So here is a happy PETA story: Author: Ruby Le Galle digital marketing assistant at PETA. PETA Awards Teen Who Campaigned …
Ringside Seats for a Spectacle of Cruelty Animals don’t want to ride bicycles, stand on their heads, balance on balls or jump through rings of fire. Elephants, big cats, monkeys and other animals used in circuses perform tricks because they have no choice. If circus audiences knew the truth about the violence and suffering that …
A new bill is up for debate this Wednesday that could finally spell the end of cruel wild-animal circuses in England and Wales. For years, the government has been promising to ban the use of wild animals in circuses in England and Wales by 2015, but progress has stalled. These delays mean that wild animals …
£10,000 Reward Offered After Elmo the Dog Had Almost All His Bones Broken and Was Dumped in a Graveyard A heartbreaking case of cruelty has unfolded in Prenton, Merseyside. A small dog, named Elmo by rescue staff, was discovered abandoned in a cemetery with an extensive list of injuries. Almost every bone …
The unethical dog-racing track will now be turned into a football stadium and new affordable housing. The decision comes after years of campaigning by local groups and almost 15,000 PETA supporters signed a petition to the council. Full post by Anne Clark HERE More posts by Anne Clark. …
An email I received from PETA recently, had the above picture in it. I looked at the image, but I could not understand what I was seeing until I read the description. “A spiked ring was fastened to this calf’s nostrils to prevent nursing. Rings were sometimes screwed on so tightly and left on for …
Four old bears are happy now after decades of hell. Story Link
STOP putting dyed chicks in plastic bags to be sold as TOYS In Koh Lanta, an Island of Thailand, young chicks are painted neon green, yellow or pink all-over, to be put in closed plastic bags (!) and sold to children “to play with”: As a TOY! Without water or food and at 35 degrees they barely can breathe and die. Continued …
David Cameron promised to ban wild-animal circuses by January 2015 but failed to bring any legislation to Parliament during the last government. I’ve just written to him and asked him to get it done now! Please join me in taking action: petauk.org/circusban
Dozens of lions, tigers, zebras and camels are still used in travelling circuses in the UK. A new law to ban this use of wild animals in circuses is being repeatedly blocked by three Conservative MPs, despite the personal support of David Cameron, the government, Labour and over 90% of the British public. The British …
Free Ricky The Bear Author: Chris Wolverton Ricky, an 18-year-old black bear, has spent her entire life caged in a concrete enclosure outside Jim Mack’s Ice Cream parlor in York, Pa. The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) observed and took footage of Ricky with matted hair, eating dog food with only green-looking water available. The …
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