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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 >>

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.

Cattle Decapitation

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.

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 >>

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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 >>

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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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

Letters From the Issue of June 18, 2009

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 >>

Final Fourth

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Lions and Tigers and Clowns, Oh My

​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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

Chrissie Hynde has closed her vegan restaurant.​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 wi ... More >>

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 >>

PETA Sends "Compassionate Legislator Awards" to Margate Commissioners

guzer.comElephant playing basketball.​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 co ... More >>

PETA Coffee: A Cruelty-Free Wake-Up Call

PETA CoffeePETA Coffee : For guilt-free mornings.​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- ... More >>