Victory! Hens Spared Horrific Death in Grinder
Last week , we told you about TWJ Farms, an egg factory farm in Nebraska that planned to kill 70,000 unwanted chickens by placing them in an industrial machine and grinding them up-while still alive....
View ArticleConsumers Trust PETA More Than Factory Farmers
When I was on an egg factory farm , I had no idea that I was actually looking at a chicken safe house. A recent industry survey about how much credibility consumers give to different information...
View ArticlePrime Inspirations: Holding Vigil for the Victims of a Cruel Industry
Michele Thorn is a full-time mother of a teenager and a part-time “soccer mom.” She has worked in child protection for 15 years and has been vegan for five years. In the past few years, she has been...
View ArticleThe Chicken Who Made Me Give Up Chicken
When I was in my early 20s, I fell in love with a meat-eater named David. He was willing to give up eating red meat, but he wanted me to compromise by eating chicken. Back in those days (30 years...
View ArticleA Rooster on the Couch
The latest issue of PETA’s Animal Times magazine just rolled off the presses. In addition to campaign news and updates, investigative reports, and tasty recipes, this issue includes an exclusive...
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Eat Eggs
I used to eat a lot of eggs, on the premise that eating just the eggs doesn’t hurt chickens . I imagined the idyllic barnyard of yesteryear, with a dozen hens pecking wherever they like, enjoying...
View ArticleWho Are You Calling ‘Bird Brain’?
Mark Twain once said, “It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.” If ever there were an animal who could say, “Amen!” to that, it...
View ArticleThere’s Poop in Our Chicken Meat!
I’ve known for a long time that chicken can be toxic, but an April article in the New York Times showed that almost half of the chicken in grocery stores is contaminated by E coli, which researchers...
View ArticleIs Chicken to Blame for Bladder Infections?
I’m so glad that I eat faux chicken rather than chicken flesh—and it has nothing to do with the recent Chick-fil-A furor. An ABC News and Food and Environment Reporting Network study found that...
View ArticleEgg-Free Living Is Easy
Eggs aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. You can make brownies, cookies, and cakes—and even quiche, breakfast scrambles, and “egg” salad—without cracking open a single cholesterol bomb . In a recent...
View ArticleGive Roosters Something to Crow About This Chinese New Year
Happy New Year! It’s not too late, really—the Chinese new year begins on January 28. It’s the Year of the Rooster, according to the Chinese zodiac. So it’s a fitting time to speak out for roosters and...
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