Our Bare Skin, Don't Wear Skin demonstration hits London, Ontario.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Meat's Not Green!
Eating meat is one of the main causes for some of the most serious environmental problems we face today - from the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest, air and water pollution, water shortage, and even climate change! To spread our message and show our support for a Tar Sands protest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, PETA's Lettuce Ladies handed out free soy-cocoa to the demonstrators.
Learn More: Meat's Not Green
Laura Vandervoort Unveils Exotic Skins Ad
Laura Vandervoort unveiled her new Exotic Skins ad in Toronto just before Toronto Fashion Week to encourage fashion enthusiasts to keep reptile, snake, alligator, crocodile, and other exotic skins of their shopping list and instead choose fakes - like Mock-Croc. Exotic animals are routinely skinned alive, and since they have a slow metabolism, remain alive and fully able to feel pain for hours or even days after they've been skinned.
Turkey's Give Away Free Tofurky Roasts before Thanksgiving
Every year in Canada roughly 20 million Turkeys are slaughtered, most of them are killed for Thanksgiving. Swap your bird-flesh centerpiece with a tasty, yummy, delicious Tofurky roast to spare a life (that's already stuffed to save you the hastle!). I go bananas anticipating my Tofurky dinner!
Meat Tray Demonstrations in Canada Reaches 12 Cities
PETA's Human Meat Tray demonstration has reached 12 major cities in Canada including: Toronto, Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary, Kelowna, Vancouver, Victoria, Montreal and Ottawa. The protests took place in front of slaughterhouses, butcher shops, and steakhouses across the country. Below are some highlights:
GoVeg.com
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Bear Hugs, Not Bear Hats - Canada Day
PETA's 'bear' has been following the royal family for years now, just as I follow the Prime Minister as a seal - and followed Will & Kate on their trip to Canada including Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, and Prince Edward Island. These are photos from Canada Day as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended the Canada Day Show on Parliament Hill. There were over half a million people there, and our bear got hundreds of hugs and photos.
Alex sporting a faux-fur bearskin cap :)
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Bears Deserve a Change Too: Change to Faux Caps
It can take up to just one Canadian Black Bear to make just one bearskin cap for the Queen's Guards. Bears are shot, often several times before dying. Many bears escape wounded and die a slow death in the woods from blood loss, gangrene, infection, dehydration, or starvation. Bears are also mothers who leave behind orphaned cubs who cannot survive on their own - a death sentence for the cubs as well. Hunting is cruel, especially when it's so simple to switch to synthetic faux fur. Visit UnbearableCruelty.com
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Meat Tray Protest at Toronto Slaughterhouse
The human meat tray demonstration is a shocking image to remind people that whether it's a person, cow, pig, or chicken - flesh is flesh. Before they end up wrapped in cellophane, chickens and turkeys have their throats slit while still fully conscious and scalded alive, pigs have their teeth, tails, and testicles removed without painkillers, and cows are often skinned alive at the slaughterhouse. It's appalling to think of slaughtering and eating a human being, but animals have the same capacity to feel pain and suffering, joy and love just like us. They have personalities and emotions, and form families and friendships if given the chance. Pigs and chickens are more intelligent than dogs and cats, yet are abused in ways that would be illegal if cats and dogs were the victims.
EUROPE!
We traveled to Spain, France, Austria, Italy, and Turkey with our painted skins demo "Animal Prints, Not Animal Skins" and "Animals Are Not Ours to Wear". Istanbul had never seen such a demonstration and we were mobbed by the media! The protest was in over 13 Turkish Newspapers, and newscasts including CNN Turkey!
Leopard Ladies in Madrid, Spain
Snakes at the Louvre in Paris, France
Leopard Ladies in Vienna, Austria
Snakes on the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy
Leopard Ladies at Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey
Watch Whose Skin Are You In?
Rev Your Engine: Go Vegan
Going vegan won't only jump start your health by reducing your risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes; but it will also give you more energy and stamina in and out of the bedroom. Meat causes impotence and that's a hard medical fact. It also stinks for the animals and the environment.
Steve-O Protests to Save Lucy the Elephant
The Edmonton Zoo has held Lucy the Elephant captive for over 30 years. She is all alone, and is kept in a small barn during Edmonton's freezing winters. She's sad, sick, and needs friends. Zoocheck Canada, PETA, Bob Barker, and now Steve-O are calling on the Edmonton Zoo to send her to a sanctuary in the United States where she will have a chance to be free.
Canada Flag Seal Protest
When people around the world see our flag of red and white they think of blood-stained ice flows from the seal slaughter. With the United States and European Union banning seal products, and world leaders like Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama condemning the slaughter - it's no doubt that it's a stain on our countries reputation.
Canada Flag Day, Parliament Hill
Sudbury
Turn Over a New Leaf - Go Vegan!
In Lettuce Ladies bikinis and a tray of hot soy-cocoa, we traveled from Vancouver to Winnipeg giving away free samples to encourage people to go vegan as their New Year's Resolution. New Year's is the time that people make a pledge to make a change - and what better pledge to make than one that's the easiest to help stop cruelty to animals, get you healthy and in shape, as well as helping to save the planet! Going vegan does all of those things - and the only catch is that you get to do it by eating delicious vegan food! We braved temperatures of -20 degrees Celsius in some cities!
Calgary
Regina
Vancouver
Our volunteers in Vancouver did this awesome nail art for the demonstration.
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