PETA UK Staff

Company behind PG tips, Lyons and Lipton teas, has been feeding rabbits unhealthy food to cause extreme hardening of the arteries and then administering tea to see what happens.

PETA launched Meat-Free Monday, a cross-curricular project for schools, in the autumn of 2009.

For Christmas celebration, London’s Covent Garden Market is displaying live reindeer for people to visit and touch, touting the animals as “Rudolph and his mates”.

Today is International Animal Rights Day, when animal rights advocates around the world aim to persuade people that kindness and respect are owed to all sentient beings.

PETA’s Lettuce Ladies were very visible outside Madame Tussauds, handing out tasty vegan sausages to people queuing up for the unveiling of the new Lady Gaga wax figure.

Channel 4’s 90-second opinion programme, 4thought.tv is featuring the question, “Should animals have the same rights as humans?”.

Nocton Dairies Ltd, resubmitted their plans last week to build their giant cow “prison” in Lincolnshire – bringing a US-style intensive dairy factory farm to the UK.

The idea of schools putting fertilised chicken eggs in incubators in classrooms and letting students watch the eggs hatch two to four weeks later is missing something important!

Following meetings with PETA – and thanks to a letter from Sir Roger Moore – Harvey Nichols has agreed to remove foie gras from their restaurant menus come the New Year.

The consequences of the animal overpopulation crisis are tragic; in the UK alone, it’s estimated that one homeless dog is euthanised every single hour.