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Peta: Using stupidity and sex to sell a good cause
Peta president Ingrid Newkirk defends the controversial organisation’s use of sexy woman, sensationalist tactics and “baby steps” approach in the fight for animal rights: it’s worth it if it gets results.
PETA’s latest controversy-baiting campaign: nudity and Christianity
PETA’s new ad campaign has offended someone. It must be Friday. This time, it’s an ad featuring a naked woman with a halo holding a crucifix, with the tag: “Be an angel for animals”. The Catholic Church is not amused.
Is pork from a petri dish vegetarian?
Scientists in Holland have successfully grown pig meat in a lab for the first time. The breakthrough has huge implications for the environment, but one big question remains: is it vegetarian? Peta says yes, but other groups are more cautious.
BREAKING NEWS: PETA PR stunt pisses people off
Hot on the heels of its tasteful Unhappy Meal stunt, animal rights group PETA has a new campaign to get fists a-shakin’: a billboard depicting a fat woman in a bikini that says: “”Save The Whales, Lose The Blubber: Go Vegetarian.” to promote the weight-loss benefits of vegetarianism.
PETA’s Unhappy Meal stunt ruffles feathers
PETA’s latest tasteful PR stunt is all about getting McDonald’s to use more humane methods of slaughtering chickens, by targeting kids with “Unhappy Meals”: including a rubber chicken stained with fake blood and a paper cutout of Ronald McDonald wielding a bloody knife.
Dutch animal righters one-up PETA
PETA may have cornered the market on graphic, disturbing and inventive ploys to stop people from hurting animals but Dutch non-profit Animals Awake has an ad with a stripper being gutted live, like a fish.
PETA — a fly in anyone’s ointment
PETA is suggesting that fly-slaying ninja President Obama use more humane means to get rid of insects in future. This isn’t their first plea to Obama. Then again, at least they are non-partisan in their pestering.
Che Guevara’s granddaughter poses nude for PETA
Just when you think PETA’s publicity stunts can’t get any kookier: they have enlisted Che Guevara’s granddaughter, Lydia Guevara, to pose wearing only a beret and carrot-filled bandoleer with the slogan “Start a Vegetarian Revolution”.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: PETA applauds Rudd’s vegetarian stance
Mr Rudd may have spit the dummy on a RAAF flight at the prospect of having his diet derailed by a fatty meat meal, but who wouldn’t? writes PETA’s Alistair Cornell.
Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks
Meaty snippets from the home of government plus the daily reality check and the pick of other people’s political coverage. Richard Farmer writes.
PETA’s king and queen of limp lettuce
In a ceremony long on sequins and short on edible canapés, the American group PETA has again anointed its King and Queen. Every year at around this time, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals takes pause from its important work of saving Our Broken Earth to recognise The World’s S-xiest Vegetarians.
