December 2008
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The Muppets Eat Tofurky!
The Muppets have a new movie, The Muppets: Letters to Santa and it is definitely worth watching this holiday. It’s one of the funniest new movies I’ve seen besides Bolt. Letters to Santa has a great message and at the end they have a huge X-mas feast complete with TOFURKY! Finally this classic holiday dish gets some primetime TV love. You can watch the The Muppets: Letters to Santa...
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Tim Gunn Against Fur.
CEO of Liz Claiborne and star of Project Runway, Tim Gunn has joined the fight to end the use of fur in the fashion industry. Tim has teamed up with PETA to help other fashion designers learn the truth about the fur trade. The debate centers around fur farms in China which currently have no laws around animal cruelty and from which most of the fur in America comes. Tim has a great new video...
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Enslaved Monkeys Fight Back.
I think PETA spoke to soon when they published their Top 10 Karmic Moments for Animal Abusers in 2008 so I’m going to submit one of my personal favorites. A Chinese man has trained monkeys to perform on the streets with him. The animals were always beaten when they did no perform correctly and during a recent performance, the monkeys decided they had had enough. One of the bicycle-riding...
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Gay Penguins Make Better Parents.
A pair of gay penguins were recently expelled for stealing eggs at a Chinese zoo because they wanted to be parents so badly. After mass protests from animal rights groups, the pair where aloud to adopt and raise a baby from birth. The penguins have proven to be the ‘best parents’ out of the whole group. The story has made scientists think differently about the parental drive of gay...