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PETA

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    PETA Sponsors 'Sexiest Vegetarian' Contest

    When you think of vegetarians and vegans, do you think of skinny, pale people with wan faces who wear baggy brown trousers and bare feet? Yeah, you do. Don't lie.To combat this image, PETA--you know, the lovingly whacko freaks who proposed that fish be renamed "sea kittens"--is running their annual ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    PETA Loses Whale of a Slave Suit But Still Crows

    ​A federal judge Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that argued five orcas should be freed from SeaWorld under the anti-slavery 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.Judge Jeffrey Miller of the U.S. District Court in San Diego reasoned in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    Original Russo's Pet Experience Now Targeted by Puppy Mill Foes

    ​Animal rights groups claiming Russo's Pet Experience sells puppies raised in mills managed to pressure the Irvine Co. to end the pet store's lease at one Irvine shopping center and the Irvine City Council to ban such retailers outright.Now, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Ringling Bros. Pays $270k Fine Over Animal Care--and Disagrees with PETA About It

    Photo by Keith May/OC Weekly​We explored in August the Rashomon reactions of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to an adult elephant hitting the ground while being loaded into a boxcar in Anaheim, with PETA claiming a sick Sarah collapsed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    PETA Seeks to Stop Kangaroo Boxing at Costa Mesa Circus

    ​People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) today lodged an "urgent" complaint with the California Department of Fish and Game in a bid to stop kangaroo boxing in Costa Mesa this weekend, the animal rights group announced.Nancy Foley, Fish and Game's Law Enforcement Division chief, is aske ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Omaima Aree Nelson Parole Condition Sought by PETA

    ​People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has written a letter to the warden of Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla asking that a condition be part of Omaima Aree Nelson's parole, should the state board grant the model-turned-cannibal wife's request today.  See if you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2011

    INFOGRAPH: Are You a Vegetarian?

    ​ Apparently, the stars have aligned and it's Vegetarian Weekend here in the United States of Where's-The-Beef.Today is Hug-A-Vegetarian Day, sponsored by those lovable but disturbed whackjobs over at PETA. Not content with trying to get fish renamed "sea kittens" and actually driving more busines ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    PETA Chides Ringling Bros. for Federal Inspection of Tiger Hurt in Anaheim and Ill Elephant in LA

    ​Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was cited for "serious violations" of the federal Animal Welfare Act during this summer's engagements at the Honda Center in Anaheim and Staples Center in Los Angeles, an animal rights group charges.A U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection report ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Tennesee DMV: F-U to ILVTOFU Vanity Plate

    ​A PETA employee called Whitney Calk moved from Virginia to Tennessee and tried registering her car in the new state with a custom tag that expressed her love of tofu, not her love to F-U. Either way, that state's DMV refused the application for a vanity plate that read ILVTOFU under the grounds o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Elephant on Ground Near Boxcar Brings Rashomon Explanations from Ringling Bros. and PETA

    ​People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) claims that a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephant collapsed while being loaded into a rail boxcar in Anaheim following Sunday night's finale at the Honda Center.Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait has been sent a letter from PETA "urging h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    [UPDATED with PETA Response:] Ringling Bros. Says It'll Put Its Protection of Elephants Up Against PETA's Efforts Any Time

    Photo by Keith May/OC Weekly​UPDATE, JULY 27, 1:53 P.M.: Call this the battle of the dueling spokespeople: Amanda Schinke of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) today emailed the Weekly a letter responding to comments made in the original post (after the jump) by Trudy Williams of F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    [UPDATED with Lawsuit:] Santa Ana Zoo Urged to Cut Ties with Elephant Ride Contractor in Wake of Abuse Alleged in Video

    ​UPDATE, JUNE 27, 10:40 A.M.: A Los Angeles-based animal rights group today announced the filing of a lawsuit against the contractor who runs the elephant rides at the Santa Ana Zoo.However, the suit does not concern the ride operations that have been blasted by advocates for animals but Perris-ba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Santa Ana Zoo Urged to Cut Ties with Elephant Ride Contractor in Wake of Abuse Alleged in Video

    Jay Brockman/OC Weekly​An animal rights group is urging the city of Santa Ana to break ties with the supplier of elephants for a Santa Ana Zoo ride after allegations the same company abused a mammal that appears in the recent film Water for Elephants starring Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Seabirds Truck Honored by PETA

    ​OCMetro reports that the Seabirds Truck has been honored by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) as one of the five most animal-friendly food truck in the nation. In a rare collision of PETA and good taste, they have chosen Seabirds for vegan cuisine that actually tastes good.In my ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Five Things You'd Think Would Be Vegan--But Aren't

    ​It's not easy to be an observant vegan. None of us here at Fork are vegan, but we all know plenty of vegans, we respect vegans for the most part, and we know it's hard to follow that diet in a meat-centric world. Some foods are obviously not vegan: no tuna salad in the world is vegan, and Thai fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Charo to Papi Pulido: Stop Santa Ana Zoo Elephant Rides

    Charo--you know, of "coochie-coochie" fame--has sent a letter to Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido urging him to stop elephant rides at the city-operated Santa Ana Zoo."Ay-yi-yi yeem whiting tu jew tu bane ..."Okay, that thick Spanish accent ain't working for me either. Let's drop it, shall we?

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    [CORRECTION:] Santa Ana Zoo Defends Elephant Rides as County and Animal Rights Groups Seethe

    ​CORRECTION: Residents cannot get into Santa Ana Zoo free this weekend, that promotion was last weekend. We regret the error. If you happen to pass by the elephants at Santa Ana Zoo, you might want to think twice before going on a ride.That's because the County of Orange has a rule: Don't touch th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Octomom Nadya Suleman's Home Now Owned by Attorney; Her Financial Situation More Dire

    ​Jeff Czech, the lawyer for Octomom Nadya Suleman, has taken over the title of her La Habra home. A review of public records shows that the title was transferred from the single mother of 14's father, Ed Doud, to Harmony Enterprises, Inc. which is owned by Czech.Suleman, who staved off her mortga ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 22, 2010

    Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

    Honda Center

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    What You Missed: World Cup Viewing Parties, Dirty Little Secrets Burlesque, PETA Protest, Lilith Fair

    Keith May​ Break out the vuvuzelas! What'd you miss this weekend? We were in Long Beach's 2nd St. visiting all the World Cup viewing parties, checking out the gals of the Dirty Little Secrets Burlesque (straight outta Huntington Beach!), dropping in on the PETA protest of the Ringling Bros. circus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    PHOTOS: PETA Combats Ringling Bros. Circus Cruelty With Near-Naked Redhead

    Christopher Victorio​Another year, another Ringling Bros. stop in Anaheim, another PETA protest. Today's protest took place at the southeast corner of S. Lemon St. and W. Center St. Promenade. And how did they protest, you ask? With an almost naked, chained redhead, of course!

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    Another Nekkid PETA Lady Precedes the Ringling Bros. Circus Arrival in Anaheim

    ​A year ago, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey announced its July 2009 show in Anaheim, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced its pre-circus protest featuring a nude woman in a cage, and Ringling and PETA went on to hold their respective elephant-parade/caged-babe pre-show spe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    Octomom Goes Through With PETA Stunt

    Photo by Christopher VictorioA desperate attempt to generate publicity about a social ill and a PETA poster.​As promised, Octomom Nadya Suleman today unveiled an ironic poster from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) outside her La Habra home.In exchange for serving as the butt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Now PETA Offers to Bail Out Octomom

    UPDATE: PETA and Nadya Suleman make a deal. ​A day after a porn king offered to bail Nadya Suleman out of foreclosure of her La Habra home, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has sent Octomom a letter stating PETA will assist her financially. And she doesn't even have to appear in an adul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    PETA-Ringling Bros. Elephant Spat Gets Curiouser (Plus Bonus Nude PETA Spokesmodel Flap)

    Photo by Keith MayVegan Mel spreads the word.​When Clockwork reported in June that Melissa "Vegan Mel" Sehgal confined her nude painted body to a cage to demonstrate against Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus' treatment of elephants and other animals as the circus prepared to come to An ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Slideshow: PETA Protest at Santa Ana McDonald's

    Keith MayProtesting is fun!​ You heard it here first in Dave Lieberman's post, and we sent photog Keith May to yesterday afternoon's PETA protest at a Santa Ana McDonald's location. Armed with some super uplifting shots of bloody chickens and scary clowns, PETA members rallied against cruel slaugh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Slideshow: PETA Protest at Santa Ana McDonald's

    Keith MayProtesting is fun!​ You heard it here first in Dave Lieberman's post, and we sent photog Keith May to yesterday afternoon's PETA protest at a Santa Ana McDonald's location. Armed with some super uplifting shots of bloody chickens and scary clowns, PETA members rallied against cruel slaug ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2009

    PETA to Send Giant Chicken to Santa Ana

    Courtesy of PETALet's hope their signs are bigger tomorrow. Harbor has a 40 mph speed limit.​If you're going to be driving in the area of Harbor and McFadden tomorrow, Wednesday, December 9, from noon to 1 p.m., be aware that there will be a person in a chicken suit protesting McDonald's chicken s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Dishney: PETA Recommends Animal Sanctuaries Over Disneyland

    In yet another effort to make both meat eaters and vegetarians further dislike them, Ingrid Newkirk, president and co-founder of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), has issued an open letter to President Obama via the Huffington Post, pleading for him to send the traditional Than ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    Activists Hopping Mad at Brookstone Hawking African Dwarf Frogs

    Brookstone.comSticker shock, at your local Brookstone retailer.​Local animal activists have joined a national campaign blasting gadgets store Brookstone, Inc., which has five Orange County locations, for selling a most unusual gift: the "Frog-O-Sphere Ecosystem" with two live African dwarf frogs.S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2009

    Consumer Group Lashes Out at "Fringe" PETA's Camp Pendleton Protest

    ​People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is a "fringe group" that is hypocritical about euthanizing animals, charges a Washington, D.C.-based consumer group that also denounced today's PETA protest against Camp Pendleton's use of live pigs in medical training for troops.The Center for Consumer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    PETA Tee Prefers Breasts Over Animal Testing

    PETACatalog.org​ We all know PETA is no stranger to using "edgy" marketing campaigns, showcasing naked (and half-naked) women to trumpet their cause--see our recent slightly NSFW Ringling Bros. protest slideshow here--but some think their priorities are a little misaligned, worthy cause or not.Che ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2009

    UPDATE: Franks For The Memories... Is It The End Of The Road For The Wienermobile?

    Sadly, Oscar G Mayer Jr., the hot dog company's retired chairman, died on Monday. According to TMZ (!), he requested that the famed sausage-shaped vehicle not make an appearance at his funeral, saying it would be "too much of a spectacle". Now PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2009

    One Good Ringling Bros. Demonstration Deserves Another

    Courtesy of ElephantCenter.comA Ringling Bros. elephant performer gets a washing.When Melissa "Vegan Mel" Sehgal of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) carried out her nude and caged protest against Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus late last month in Anaheim, a representa ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 9, 2009

    Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

    Honda Center

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2009

    Can "PETA Girls Gone Wild" DVDs Be Far Behind?

    Courtesy of Vegan Mel's MySpace pagePETA's Melissa Sehgal (right), who also goes by "Vegan Mel," demonstrates against McDonalds.Melissa Sehgal, who vows to strip down to a nude body painted like a tiger and confine herself to a cage with a banner above reading, "Wild Animals Don't Belong Behind Bars ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2009

    Vegan Mel Carries Out Her Nude Protest

    Photo by Keith MayHear Vegan Mel roar!You were told this morning about the vow made by Melissa Sehgal, who also goes by Vegan Mel, to sit in a cage in Anaheim while her nude body was painted like a tiger. If you point your eyes in that direction, you can still make out the smoke trail produced when ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    Corey Feldman Scheduled to Attend OC Event for Animals

    Who says the stars don't come out to Orange County? The Orange County People for Animals (OCPA) have snagged an A-list couple for its annual fund-raiser and write-in this Saturday night: Susan and Corey Feldman.That's right, the star of Goonies, The Lost Boys and Stand By Me, along with his wife and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2007

    Trailing Me

    I like the idea of bribing me with food in order to get me to pay attention to a cause. PETA, for one, would do better to give away free vegetarian food that tastes good rather than getting celebrities to act like idiots -- sorry, but I'm not gonna spare the poor animals' lives if it means eating d ... More >>

  • Film

    July 19, 2007

    Special Screenings

    Movie of the Week: The Most Dangerous Game

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2007

    One's PETA, the Other's Pitiful

    Congrats to PETA Vice President (and Costa Mesa' own) Dan Mathews, whom Out Magazine named the 37th-most powerful gay in America earlier this month in its annual list of America's 50 most powerful gays. Buy Mathews' memoir, Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir, today. Congrats of a different sort are ... More >>

  • News

    August 3, 2006

    Dumbo and Dumber

    Handlers give circus Elephants the bullhook

  • Columns

    July 22, 2004

    Diary Of A Mad County

    Handlers give circus Elephants the bullhook

  • Columns

    March 25, 2004

    The Muck Stops Here

    Handlers give circus Elephants the bullhook

  • Features

    January 15, 2004

    Like,Gross!

    Four Reasons to Throw Away this Issue NOW!

  • Columns

    August 14, 2003

    Letters

    Four Reasons to Throw Away this Issue NOW!

  • Columns

    August 7, 2003

    Letters

    Four Reasons to Throw Away this Issue NOW!

  • Features

    July 31, 2003

    How to Stuff a Lettuce Bikini

    To the Costa Mesa thugs who used to beat up Dan Mathews: The fat gay punk kid grew up to save lives and jet set with Pam Anderson. Howzabout you?

  • Columns

    March 7, 2002

    Letters

    To the Costa Mesa thugs who used to beat up Dan Mathews: The fat gay punk kid grew up to save lives and jet set with Pam Anderson. Howzabout you?

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