The Lingerie Football League's Toronto Triumph Protests Fur with "Tackle Cruelty: Bench Fur" Message

Be an Angel: Don't Wear Animal Skins

PETA's Angels made a heavenly appearance in Montreal and Quebec City to encourage Christmas Shoppers to shop like saints and cross fur, leather, wool, and exotic skins off their lists. The holidays is a time of mercy and kindness and we hope to inspire people to extend that to animals - and buy fashionable and luxurious fabric options like synthetics and faux's instead of real animal skins for gifts. Other ways you can be a guardian angel for animals and not send anyone to the Pearly Gates is to have a Vegan Christmas dinner this year, and to also not buy products that were tested on animals such as cosmetics, and bath stuff. Visit PETA.org to learn more about helping animals for the holidays.

Fashion Police Ticket Fashion Violators

PETA's Fashion Police toured Southern Ontario (Hamilton, Kitchener, and Windsor) to take charge of the laws of common decency and ticket anyone wearing fur, leather, wool, or exotic animal skins for supporting an industry of violence and cruelty. The Fashion Police were just giving out warnings, and encouraged those caught wearing stolen goods (stolen from the backs of animals) to buy synthetics next time. 

Who's Skin Are You In?

Flesh Is For Zombies! Go Vegan!

Zombie Walks draw thousands of people in cities around the world. Our vegan zombies joined in to make the connection that meat eaters are real-life flesh-eating zombies because they feed on animal corpses.

I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Animals

Our Bare Skin, Don't Wear Skin demonstration hits London, Ontario.

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!

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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:

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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 :)

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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

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?