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PETA

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    Confessions of a Meat-Eating Vegetarian

    I recently accepted an offer to judge a burger competition, as I do from time to time.  Recently, our food critic Melissa McCart asked me a question about the deep, dark secret I usually keep from Clean Plate Charlie readers, "you're a vegetarian. How are you going to judge burgers?"Allow me to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Model/Real Housewife of Miami Joanna Krupa Unveils PETA Campaign at Sublime

    Joanna Krupa -- Playboy model, Dancing With the Stars alum, and the newest cast addition to the hit Bravo reality series Real Housewives of Miami -- was at Sublime in Fort Lauderdale recently to celebrate the unveiling of her new PETA ad, which reminds us to adopt our furry companions.Krupa, who was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Donald Trump's Sons Kill Giant African Animals

    ​The blogosphere has been all a-flutter today about photographs of Eric and Donald Trump Jr. that surfaced on an African hunting website showing the brothers in a Lion King-themed nightmare: big guns, dead Zimbabwean animals all over the place, and one elephant tail, sans elephant.

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    PETA Coffee: A Cruelty-Free Wake-Up Call

    ​People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals is now in the coffee trade, selling organic coffee from Central America that's pesticide and beast of burden free.  The animal rights organization has even set up its own website for the politically-correct java. PetaCoffee.com sells three differen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    PETA Sends "Compassionate Legislator Awards" to Margate Commissioners

    ​Now there's something for Margate commissioners to hang on the fridge -- an award from PETA.For the commission's unanimous vote to ban bull hooks, electric prods, and other devices that can be used to harm animals, PETA announced today that it's sending the commissioners "Compassionate Legislator ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    Holiday Gifts: Five Food Shirts for Warped Friends

    It's that time of year again, when every website will offer gift suggestions for gourmands of all types. Though we'll eventually get practical, today's list is for gastronauts with a warped sense of humor. After the jump, five more shirts for your consideration. First up, behold the I Love ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde Closes Her Ohio Restaurant, Citing Bad Economy

    ​Chrissie Hynde closed her vegan restaurant on Sunday, citing a bad economy.  The Akron, Ohio, restaurant was open four years and was voted one of the top five vegan restaurants in America by Business Week.The Vegiterranean served vegan dishes with an Italian-Mediterranean flair. On the resta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2011

    Vegan Cooking Series: Dreamy Desserts

    ​What do Oreos, 7-Eleven apple pies and those Dollar Store staples Mrs. Freshley's Oatmeal Creme-filled Cookies all share in common? Besides their empty wrappers stuffed between my car's backseat? That's right, all three are vegan. But while these PETA-approved snacks can satisfy a sugar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Steve-O, a Vegan Now, Boycotts Charity Event on Ethical Grounds

    The dope-smoking, hard-partying, poop-jumping prankster Steve-O has turned his life around since leaving Boca Raton for the world of Jackass. He's clean and sober now, a hardcore vegan and PETA supporter, and when he acts like a jackass these days, it's on Dancing With the Stars.This week, he was in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    PETA Names Sublime's Apple Crumb Pie The Best Vegan Pie in America

    PETA Sublime's apple pie - delicious and cruelty free.​People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals just named Sublime's Apple Crumb Pie ala Mode the best vegan pie in America. The pie, made with an oatmeal streusel, Granny Smith apples and currants, is totally vegan, as is the ice "cream" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    Hey Vegans - How About Some Lab-Generated Meat?

    Meat grown in petri dishes may be on your table soon.​It might be safe to say that many of us would turn vegan in a heartbeat except for one small thing....a lot of animals just taste good. You know the joke - what does PETA stand for? People Eating Tasty Animals. Well, what if you cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    PETA vs. Farm Photo Bill: What are Florida Farms Hiding?

    flckr/vxlaAn American farm... and an American photograph?​Get this -- around the country "ag-gag" bills are being introduced that would prevent photos or video from being taken on farms. PETA has long thrived on these images for their anti-meat campaigns. Investigative journalists and documentary ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Fitness and Nutrition Tips from a Super Hot Guy (Mike Fitch, Finalist in Wilhelmina Models "Hottest Bodies in America" Contest)

    courtesy Mike Fitch​I must confess, in another life, I used to be a fitness-person bigot. They all seemed to be these Disney-cheery, spandex-wrapped people who lived on alien-looking, blue-green smoothies and who felt like a bunch of jiggly rocks when they, usually for no good reason, hugged me ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 23, 2010

    Lions and Tigers and Clowns, Oh My

    courtesy Mike Fitch​I must confess, in another life, I used to be a fitness-person bigot. They all seemed to be these Disney-cheery, spandex-wrapped people who lived on alien-looking, blue-green smoothies and who felt like a bunch of jiggly rocks when they, usually for no good reason, hugged me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    Video: Puppy Palace Hired "Thugs" to Protest Protesters

    ​Since they started earlier this year, the regular animal-rights protests outside Puppy Palace in Hollywood have run the gambit from the awkwardly sarcastic to the deeply personal to the nearly violent. There have been police, PETA cookies, and a petting zoo. This weekend, though, as about 30 prot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    TSA Body Scan-Themed Graphics -- Top 5 Most Entertaining

    via www.tnr.com​We hate bombs, hate radiation, and (most of us, some?, no?) hate getting groped by strangers, but America, it seems lately, we can't have our safety and keep our dignity too. People are really upset about this, and it's great that they give a damn, because it would be really awful ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Free Weed, and Other Ideas for a Better Pro-pot Rally

    Photo by Eric BartonSabrina displays a foam finger of fun.​You're on the internet reading the blog of an alternative newsweekly, so there's a damn fine chance that you'd like to smoke a joint legally. So why were so few people at the pro-pot rally yesterday in Fort Lauderdale?Sabrina Koramblyum, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    How to Make the Perfect Roast Chicken (Hint: Pre-Salting)

    ​Is there any food more delicious, more comforting, more soothing to the soul and taste buds than a perfectly juicy, succulent, crisp and golden-skinned roasted chicken?  In a word, no.  Unfortunately, finding that perfectly juicy, succulent, crisp and golden-skinned roasted chicken is a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2010

    Puppy Protest Gets Personal in Hollywood

    Tara Nieuwesteeg​Over the past couple of months, the protests and counterprotests in front of Puppy Palace in Hollywood have been increasingly heated. In addition to signs and chanting, there have been fake dead dogs, people wearing dog suits, a death toll, sarcastic welcome signs, an impromptu pe ... More >>

  • News

    April 15, 2010

    The Humane Society's Battle With Farmers Began Right Here in Florida

    Tara Nieuwesteeg​Over the past couple of months, the protests and counterprotests in front of Puppy Palace in Hollywood have been increasingly heated. In addition to signs and chanting, there have been fake dead dogs, people wearing dog suits, a death toll, sarcastic welcome signs, an impromptu pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Another Round of Puppy Protests Scheduled for This Weekend

    Tara Nieuwesteeg​A few weeks ago, Puppy Palace in Hollywood was the site of a large animal rights demonstration and a simultaneous counterprotest. One side decried puppy mills and held signs that attempted to explain how many dogs go unadopted and die when people purchase expensive, commercially b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2010

    Hollywood Animal Rights Protesters Get Protested

    Tara Nieuwesteeg​ Many people were very confused as they drove down Hollywood Boulevard on Saturday. There was a full-on protest on both sides of the street, replete with colorful signs, matching T-shirts, chanting, music, and adults wearing large, heavy dog costumes. Some drivers thought it was a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2010

    PETA Backtracks on Neutering Tiger; Juice Has List of Alternates

    ​People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has scrapped plans for a billboard featuring Tiger Woods ("Too Much Sex Can Be a Bad Thing"), meant to encourage the spaying and neutering of pet kitties. They'd planned to debut the billboard in Tiger's hometown of  Windemere, Florida. But ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    Clowns Protesting Elephant in the Room

    courtesy of PETA and ARFF​Outside American Airlines Arena in Miami this Friday will be a pack of angry clowns. No, it's not a Nickelback concert; it's the circus. And the clowns outside won't be working for Ringling Bros. They're animals rights activists protesting Ringling's treatment of elephant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    PETA Fretting Over Humane Deaths for Giant Snakes

    PETA says: Stun and decapitate​Florida Fish and Wildlife has yet to respond to a July 30th letter from Lori Kettler, senior counsel for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), concerning humane death for Florida's thousands of Burmese pythons. Tori Perry, senior cruelty caseworker at P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    Why PETA's Dan Mathews Oughta Be Committed

    Mathews: Make em laugh​"We'd love it if the world turned vegan tomorrow," Dan Mathews says breathlessly. Mathews is senior vice president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the controversial animal rights group founded by Ingrid Newkirk in 1980. When I spoke to Mathews by phone ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2009

    Animal Rights Foundation Asks Broward Schools to Stop Supporting Circuses

    ​I can admit it: I really don't know that much about training circus elephants. And I dare say most Juice readers don't either. But there is still something unsettling about seeing videos in which these magnificent beasts are slapped with sticks, shocked with prods, and left with de ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 2, 2009

    Final Fourth

    ​I can admit it: I really don't know that much about training circus elephants. And I dare say most Juice readers don't either. But there is still something unsettling about seeing videos in which these magnificent beasts are slapped with sticks, shocked with prods, and left with de ... More >>

  • News

    June 18, 2009

    Letters From the Issue of June 18, 2009

    ​I can admit it: I really don't know that much about training circus elephants. And I dare say most Juice readers don't either. But there is still something unsettling about seeing videos in which these magnificent beasts are slapped with sticks, shocked with prods, and left with de ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2009

    PETA PR Strategy: Rinse, Repeat

    The political point was a bit convoluted, as we discussed yesterday, but this afternoon PETA hotties made good on their promise to take a shower on West Clematis. The animal rights group has used this stunt in a whole bunch of cities as a way to call attention...Oh, hell with it. The guys have click ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Forecast for West Palm: Expect a Shower

    photo courtesy PETATomorrow on Clematis, a spectacle like the one aboveHot chicks. Nude. Showering. In public. The prospect is so dazzling...well... it's damned hard to focus on the political point. But if you can pry yourself away from that photo, we'll give it a try.Before we get to that, it behoo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Win 25 Grand for your Beefcake

    Beef has taken some serious body punches in the last couple of years. Michael Pollen, Mark Bittman, and a merry cast of vegetarians have been steadily hammering away at our poor American steers, calling them expensive, health-hazardous resource hogs that have done little to whittle the national wais ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    PETA's Super Bowl Advert is Banned, Legions of Sports Fans Indifferent

    Just how irrelevant has PETA become? The one-time-animal-rights-organization-turned-ludicrous-marketing-machine long ago gave up trying to reach people with reasoned arguments about the sanctity of all life or the wastefulness of our meat-happy culture. Instead they've adopted a fairly standard mark ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    Weakened at Bernie's: PETA Gets the Ponzi Treatment, Too

    She will not be streaking at the inauguration.You probably thought today's inauguration ceremonies would provide a day's relief from the death march of victims of area reprobate Bernard Madoff. Well, sorry. Turns out the Palm Beach financial wizard made special-access inauguration tickets disappear ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    Cowed by Bernie Madoff, PETA Shenanigans Are Uninspired

    Like we told you earlier, PETA's inauguration day high jinks were hampered by Bernard Madoff, and judging by the photos Deirdra's sending from D.C., the animal rights group had to resort to this old gag.More photos from our correspondent's day in D.C., after the jump.

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2008

    Week's Top Food-Related Headlines

    Like we told you earlier, PETA's inauguration day high jinks were hampered by Bernard Madoff, and judging by the photos Deirdra's sending from D.C., the animal rights group had to resort to this old gag.More photos from our correspondent's day in D.C., after the jump.

  • News

    March 27, 2008

    Save the Fishies

    Like we told you earlier, PETA's inauguration day high jinks were hampered by Bernard Madoff, and judging by the photos Deirdra's sending from D.C., the animal rights group had to resort to this old gag.More photos from our correspondent's day in D.C., after the jump.

  • News

    April 26, 2007

    Letters for April 26-May 2, 2007

    Like we told you earlier, PETA's inauguration day high jinks were hampered by Bernard Madoff, and judging by the photos Deirdra's sending from D.C., the animal rights group had to resort to this old gag.More photos from our correspondent's day in D.C., after the jump.

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    April 12, 2007

    A Gourmet in Party Central

    Chef Hammi gets fresh at Himmarshee

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    April 6, 2006

    Pretty Girls Make Saves

    As videogames go indie, Outtakes imagines a few likely pairings.

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    July 21, 2005

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  • Calendar

    August 12, 2004

    Bronco Girls

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    July 22, 2004

    Perfecta Meets Prada

    The old Gulfstream becomes a shopping mall

  • Film

    June 26, 2003

    Dead to Rights

    Stripped of pretentious excess, Danny Boyle gets his mojo back in 28 Days Later

  • News

    January 16, 2003

    Letters for January 16, 2003

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  • Calendar

    November 14, 2002

    Big Top Guns

    The cats and cannons of the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus have come to town

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    May 16, 2002

    Best Reminder that South Florida Is Still the South

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    February 7, 2002

    Rabbit Run

    In western Palm Beach County, the sugar harvest also brings a bumper crop of bunnies

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    January 10, 2002

    A Fine Mess

    A troubled wild kingdom looks to set up a SoFla outpost

  • Culture

    November 22, 2001

    Don’t Get Holidazed!

    Holiday Gift Guide 2001

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