Lady Gaga vs. PETA – Round 2

Lady Gaga may be celebrity fur wearing public enemy #1 for PETA. Gaga didn’t make any vegetarian, vegan, or even PETA friends when she wore a meat dress to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. Yes, the dress was made of raw meat – beef to be exact. It certainly stood out – something difficult to do at any MTV awards show since fashion seems to be a free-for-all. Even TIME gave her the top fashion statement of 2010. The “statement” Gaga was trying to make with her dress, designed by Franc Fernandez, was that people should fight for what … Continue reading

PETA Awards Celebrity Grinches

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has awarded the worse accolades for celebrities this side of the Razzies – the “Celebrity Grinch Awards.” This the first year for PETA’s “Celebrity Grinch Awards,” co-sponsored by the World Entertainment News Network, and the awards are used to call out the most animal-unfriendly celebrities of the year. Who made the Grinch list this year? It may come to you as no small surprise that Kim Kardashian ranked high on the list. Kardashian and PETA have crossed paths before due to her love of furs. In December, PETA sponsored a Beverly Hills … Continue reading

Kim Kardashian Gets Pelted

Reality star Kim Kardashian and PETA have tangled in the past due to her love of real fur. So, when I read the other day that Kardashian had been pelted on the Red Carpet last Thursday with a bag of flour, I just assumed someone from PETA was behind it. (This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.) PETA activists have been known to throw flour in the past, but this time PETA denied any connection to the woman. However, the organization did pipe up after Kardashian said she planned to press charges against her … Continue reading

Green Celebrities: Bob Barker

Bob Barker left “The Price is Right” in 2007, but as a game show host, he remains a television icon. If you ever watching him on the show, you may remember that at the end of almost every episode, he reminded us to “Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.” (This work is in the public domain in that it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1977 and without a copyright notice. Unless its author has been dead for several years, it is copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of … Continue reading