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PETA Wants To Make O.J.'s House A Meat Is Murder Museum: Free Tofu For Everyone

​In an act of sheer and utter genius, People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals' President Ingrid Newkirk wants to turn O.J. Simson's soon-to-be-foreclosed Miami house into a Meat is Murder museum.We called PETA's headquarters and spoke with Ashley Byne, Manager of Campaigns, who confirmed that ... More >>

PETA Wants to Turn OJ Simpson's Foreclosed Home into a Vegetarian Museum

PETA, a sad, attention-trolling parody of an animal rights organization, never lets a prime opportunity for cheap publicity go to waste, so they've decided to jump on the news that OJ Simpson's Kendall close is in foreclosure. PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has penned a letter to the foreclos ... More >>

Reader mail: "Animals are not garbage"

PETA, a sad, attention-trolling parody of an animal rights organization, never lets a prime opportunity for cheap publicity go to waste, so they've decided to jump on the news that OJ Simpson's Kendall close is in foreclosure. PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has penned a letter to the foreclos ... More >>

PETA and Thanksgiving: Talking Turkey

​People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, has a long history of being controversial. Their polarizing anti-meat, anti-research, and anti-fur campaigns can be harsh, in-your-face, and brilliant.  And there's no better time for PETA to activate its campaign machine than during Than ... More >>

PETA Sues SeaWorld Over Alleged "Whale Slavery"

Does this orca have Constitutional rights?​PETA, everyone's favorite group of totally rational animal activists, has launched a new legal attack against SeaWorld this morning, accusing parks in Orlando and California of mistreating five killer whales. Which, actually, OK! There are lots of reasona ... More >>

Sara Pizano, Hounded by Animal Rights Activists, Resigns as Animal Services Director

Sara Pizano resigned yesterday​The heads keep fallin' in Miami-Dade.Never mind that Animal Services Director Sara Pizano technically resigned yesterday. Animal rights activists have been after her for so long that they'll feel they earned the scalp one way or another. But Pizano didn't leave witho ... More >>

Vladimir Mironov's Lab-Grown Meat: Would You Eat It?

usda.govIs livestock soon to be obsolete?The cows that make up our burgers consume 80 percent of the planet's farmland, generate 20 percent of our greenhouse emissions, and consume 10 percent of our fresh water. Also, cows don't like getting killed.Feel bad? You could go vegetarian, but that takes s ... More >>

Mercy For Animals 41-City Farm to Fridge Tour in South Beach Tonight

Laine Doss Mercy For Animal's Phil Letten with tour truck​Mercy for Animals, the Chicago-based animal rights organization that targets factory farming, is in South Beach today as part of its 41-city Farm to Fridge Tour. The tour features a mobile theater equipped with LCD screens that show ... More >>

Disease Epidemic Forces Miami-Dade Animal Services to Temporarily Suspend Many Services

​Following an outbreak of infectious diseases in the animal shelter, Miami-Dade Animal Services has announced that they will temporarily suspend numerous services for "no more than two weeks, effective immediately." The shelter will no longer accept the intake of any new dogs. Most stray dog pick- ... More >>

Animal Rights Activists Want to "Recall" Animal Services Director Sara Pizano

​Miami-Dade has reform fever, and the only cure is more recalls. Following Tuesdays political massacre of Carlos Alvarez and Natacha Seijas at the polls it's no surprise that other groups feel inspired and want to see more change. Now a group of animal rights activists is calling for the "recall" ... More >>

Casablanca Hotel's kitty killings

​Miami-Dade has reform fever, and the only cure is more recalls. Following Tuesdays political massacre of Carlos Alvarez and Natacha Seijas at the polls it's no surprise that other groups feel inspired and want to see more change. Now a group of animal rights activists is calling for the "recall" ... More >>

Casablanca Hotel Caught Trapping Miami Beach Cats, At Least Eight Euthanized

casablancamiamibeach.blogspot.comA cat trap behind the Casablanca Hotel on Collins Ave. in Miami Beach​Since when did Miami become the Guantánamo Bay Prison of the animal kingdom? First there were puppy mills in Liberty City, then outrage over questionable conditions at Miami-Dade Animal Services ... More >>

Animal lovers declare war on Mayor Carlos Alvarez's Facebook page

casablancamiamibeach.blogspot.comA cat trap behind the Casablanca Hotel on Collins Ave. in Miami Beach​Since when did Miami become the Guantánamo Bay Prison of the animal kingdom? First there were puppy mills in Liberty City, then outrage over questionable conditions at Miami-Dade Animal Services ... More >>

Mayor Carlos Alvarez Besieged By Animal Rights Activists on Facebook

​Carlos Alvarez already has a cantankerous billionaire -- and 95,000 equally irate voters -- trying to get him canned. Now the Miami-Dade County mayor can't even find peace through Farmville: His Facebook page is under attack by animal rights activists.

BK flame-grilled chicken on whole-grain ciabatta bun

​Carlos Alvarez already has a cantankerous billionaire -- and 95,000 equally irate voters -- trying to get him canned. Now the Miami-Dade County mayor can't even find peace through Farmville: His Facebook page is under attack by animal rights activists.

BK Flame Grilled Chicken on Whole Grain Ciabatta

You got that headline right. Burger King, the Miami-based fast food giant, announced yesterday that is now serving what sounds like gourmet dish for $4. The thing has only 470 calories and in the corporate speak of BK senior vice president, global product marketing and innovation, John Schaufelberge ... More >>

The Humane Society Began Its Battle with Farmers Right Here in Florida

You got that headline right. Burger King, the Miami-based fast food giant, announced yesterday that is now serving what sounds like gourmet dish for $4. The thing has only 470 calories and in the corporate speak of BK senior vice president, global product marketing and innovation, John Schaufelberge ... More >>

Battle Heats Up Over Factory-Farmed Food

​This week's feature story, "Down on the Farm," chronicles an increasingly heated national battle over "factory-farmed" food. On one side: a phalanx of corporation- and family-owned farms across the country. On the other: the Washington, D.C.-based Humane Society of the United States.Caught in the ... More >>

PETA Not Amused With Open Season on "Reptiles of Concern"

via The Daily Beast​Despite its name, The Daily Beast is not a per diem review of large, threatening wild life. Well, usually anyway.Even after parting ways with Gerald Posner, Tina Brown's internet concern hasn't kept its eyes off South Florida. This week they sent former Newsweek senior rep ... More >>

PETA Grasps at Cat Killer Straws to Push Anti-Dissection Campaign

via DanPerry.com's FlickrNo, Mr. Meowington we do not want to cut you up, but can you scratch PETA for usRiptide never takes too kindly to organizations piggy backing on a big news story to push their agenda. Yeah, sure, it's PR 101, but it's just so annoying. So, on the heels of the Cat Killer ... More >>

Pet Shop Boys Play Filllmore Miami Beach on September 9

Earlier this year, the publicity machine known as PETA decided they'd get their name in the papers again by requesting the Pet Shop Boys change their name to the Rescue Shelter Boys. No really, they did. The request was respectfully declined, which I'm sure was a crushing blow to animal rights activ ... More >>

Dog Fight

Pit bull ban, what pit bull ban?

Pit Bull Lovers Fight Miami-Dade's Ban, Hustle Dogs To Broward

Mary is a 38-year-old stay at home mom. She loves animals. And, in the eyes of Miami-Dade Animal Services, she's a criminal.via Wikimedia CommonsThat's because Miami-Dade is Death Row for pit bulls, thanks to a 20-year-old county-wide law banning the whole breed. Animal Services kills hundreds of pi ... More >>

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 mar ... More >>

Sit, Ubu, Sit

It’s a dog’s life at Pawpurrazzi tonight.

Updated: Ringling Bros. Elephant Injures Trainer

It’s a dog’s life at Pawpurrazzi tonight.

PETA Likes Dolphin Stadium

It’s a dog’s life at Pawpurrazzi tonight.

PETA Likes Dolphin Stadium

It’s a dog’s life at Pawpurrazzi tonight.

Miami: Not So Animal Friendly

It’s a dog’s life at Pawpurrazzi tonight.

Creating Monsters

A luxury mag promotes mongrels for millionaires, for millions

Letters from the Issue of July 20, 2006

The birds' livers can enlarge up to ten times their normal size"

Letters from the Issue of April 6, 2006

“Miami is moving from a drug-trafficking, superfluous, decadent city to a cultural metropolis”

Letters from the Issue of February 9, 2006

Our letters section has gone to the dogs

Front Line

Local animal rescuer opens her home to unwanted pets

Death by the Pound

Hidden from the public and cloaked in euphemism, regulated execution of dogs and cats is a routine horror. Can a new animal services director make a difference?

Pet Dumb

County cops ripped off kitties and doggies, auditors say

Barks and Bling

County cops ripped off kitties and doggies, auditors say

Duck, Duck, Loose

Fowl hit the water for big bucks

Bad Neighbors and Dead Dogs

The county's animal shelter is plagued by old problems, but retaliation would be a new one

Letters from the Issue of February 6, 2003

The nation's animal lovers bite back

A King and His Not-Quite Castle

Monkey Jungle's owners say their gorilla is as happy as a clam in his cage. Animal activists say he's going bananas.

Flipper's Revenge

They're cute. They're cuddly. They're smart. And as the fiasco at Sugarloaf Key shows, they make humans do crazy things.

And You Thought Hot Flashes Were Bad

A nationwide estrogen study has animal-welfare activists pissed off about the collection of horse urine

Letters

A nationwide estrogen study has animal-welfare activists pissed off about the collection of horse urine

One Million and Counting

A nationwide estrogen study has animal-welfare activists pissed off about the collection of horse urine

Get Back, JoJo

Will JoJo the bear leave his home in Davie for some Oregon grass?

Life's a Bitch

A Miami veternarian's assistant goes out of his way to rescue the greyhound industry's castoffs from the needle of death

Program Notes

A Miami veternarian's assistant goes out of his way to rescue the greyhound industry's castoffs from the needle of death

A Heartworming Story

Dade County's Animal Services wants you to adopt a stray. Just so long as it's healthy.