Archive for the 'PETA' Category

06
May

Jenna Jameson’s Anti-Leather Campaign Lasted About as Long as Her Serious “Acting” Career

pleather.jpgIt seems like just about 8 weeks ago that porn star Jenna Jameson was promoting fake leather (called “pleather” — I’m not making that up) for the animal rights group PETA. Oh, wait … it was just 8 weeks ago. So here’s a question: What the heck was she doing on May 1 at London’s Amika nightclub wearing a leather bomber jacket?

jenna-jameson-in-leather.jpgAnd here’s the answer: She was being a big fat slutty phony. PETA bragged in March that Jenna is “a woman of her word and practices what she preaches.” Uh-huh.

What is it with these PETA spokes-drones? They show up and front for some nutty facet of the overall nutty save-the-cows cause, and then go back to their ordinary life (like the rest of us — you know, the massive majority who don’t worship at the altar of tofu and vinyl). Don’t they think someone’s going to notice?

And lest you think it’s a “pleather” jacket she’s wearing, note the “Members Only” tag on the front. No, it’s not retro. The brand is making a comeback. Here’s the very same leather jacket from the Members Only spring 2008 collection.

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Still not sure it’s real leather? Here’s a snippet from the press release:

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If Jenna announces she’s anti-fur next week, just hold your breath and count to twenty. She’ll turn out to be full of it. They all do.

Hat tip: Deceiver reader Katherine, who pointed us to the photo. Nice going!

02
May

Posing for PETA Leads to Drug Abuse?

jenna_london.jpgI’m no scientist, but the evidence is building that soon after you sign up to be a PETA spokesperson, you get in trouble for being a total coke fiend.

First there was Eva Mendes, who did an “I’d Rather Go Naked” ad, followed by a stint in rehab for a “substance-abuse problem.” She reportedly checked into Cirque Lodge in January after a three-day cocaine binge.

Now there’s Jenna “Pleather Yourself” Jameson, who, after exploring new orifices into which she can put things, came up with her nose. She was tossed out of a London club on Wednesday for trying to snort cocaine in the bathroom.

I guess our extensive coverage of both Jenna and Eva’s raging bouts of hypocrisy can be explained now — they’re too wasted to know what they’re agreeing to.

ETA: Simon just reminded me about Steve-O and his drug-addled mind. Are there others?

29
Apr

PETA Helps Struggling Animal Actors Find Unemployment. Sometimes.

aflac-duck.jpgI know I’ve been harping on PETA a bit much lately, but it’s hard to ignore this gem from Columbus, Georgia:

PETA has nominated Aflac for a PETA Litterbox Award for using a live, young ape in one of its latest commercials, “Orangutan.” The annual “awards” single out companies that portray animals negatively or use creatures like apes in advertising …

[PETA spokesdweeb Kristie] Phelps admitted PETA does not know which agency the orangutan used in the Aflac ad came from. But the animal rights group is now pushing Aflac to pull the ad and pledge to never use apes again in its advertisements …

In the “Orangutan” commercial, an employee asks her boss if the business has Aflac. Her boss tells her they have “something else” and gestures to an unruly orangutan hanging from a factory light, which represents another insurance company.

Aflac used the commercial — which first aired in January — to convey the idea that there is no substitute for Aflac. It was the 33rd installment of Aflac’s commercial series produced by the New York-based Kaplan Thaler Group.

Has PETA never seen the AFLAC commercials?

Hint: There’s a freakin’ DUCK in every single one. All 33 of them. And if that annoying voiceover from Gilbert Gottfried isn’t an example of “portraying animals negatively,” I don’t know what is. But it took a hairy ape to get PETA’s attention.

I guess the pigs from Animal Farm were right: Some animals are more “equal” than others.

All together now, with feeling … AFLAC!

28
Apr

Pam Anderson Shows Larry King Her Two Remarkable … Faces

Pam Anderson, talking about her hepatitis C on Friday night’s “Larry King Live,” as widely reported on all sorts of celeb-u-tard news feeds this weekend:

“I’m doing really good. Actually, I just went to my doctor, Dr. Huizenga. He took all my blood work and went through all my tests. And I hadn’t really been to him in a year-and-a-half. And he said he’s never seen me healthier. That, he said, it’s a miracle. You know, I don’t really work out a lot. I walk and play sports with my kids. But he says, ‘You’re in the best shape I’ve ever seen you in. You’re 40 years old and your liver is in great shape, all your blood work came back really well, low cholesterol.’ … I’m treating it homeopathically.”

And here’s what she said about 30 seconds later, which nobody seems to have noticed. (scroll the video to 02:30):

“I’m here in Washington because Dan Mathews and I are actually lobbying and getting some attention to, against, um, animal experimentation. And they finally met with us today, which is a miracle. They’ve been trying to meet with — PETA’s been trying to meet with them forever. And so they saw us today.”

barbwire.jpgUm … earth to Pammy … even if you are treating yourself with herbs and tree bark (which I’m not buying), animal experimentation is how we cure things in the part of the world where Playboy, not National Geographic, takes the naked pictures. It’s only been 18 years since scientists identified the virus that causes your disease. And the best hope for a cure involves studying chimpanzees to try and figure out why some of them are immune, since they’re the only animals that get hepatitis.

The fact that you pal around with PETA while they throw up roadblocks to this research should put you in the Deceiver.com Hall of Fame, if we ever build one. I’m betting they tested boobie implants, hair dye, collagen injections, and botox on animals at some point, too.

(BTW, who’s this Dr. Huizenga? I can only find one in the Los Angeles phone book, and he’s the guy who testified in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. For the defense. I’m just saying …)

While I’m on the subject of Pam Anderson, I’m not getting sucked in by the rumor that she recently ate a meat hot dog (fill in your own joke here) at her son’s Little League game. I don’t care if it was a veggie dog. PETA be damned, she served the real thing at her own wedding reception. Which she now claims “never happened,” thanks to the technicality of an annulment.

Two more things make me wonder how many personalities this bizarro woman has. She goes on the warpath against wearing fur coats, but here’s what Robin Leach says about the world-renowned underwear retailer Trashy Lingerie (yes, that’s its real name):

“On any given day you may run into Madonna, picking up another one of her famous Bullet Corsets which Trashy specially designed for her. Or perhaps you might see Pamela Anderson Lee coming in for a fitting for another one of those super low V leather corsets like the one she wore in Barb Wire.”

I didn’t see the movie either. But WTF? It was real leather? Why didn’t PETA boycott this piece of cinematic guano?

And here’s my personal favorite: This month Pammy refused to film a scene for her new flick because there was supposed to be a dog in it:

The animal rights campaigner was upset when she discovered she would be starring alongside the canine in ‘Superhero Movie’, because the scene goes against PETA’s guidelines for using real animals in movies.

So much for Seabiscuit, Ben-Hur, The Wizard of Oz, Borat

Borat? Yep. Pam Anderson was in that movie, too. She told Larry King on Friday that “It was my crowning achievement.” Remember that scene with the grizzly bear hanging out of the ice-cream truck window? With a chain around its neck?

PETA and Pam deserve each other.

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21
Apr

PETA’s Endorsement of Lab-Grown Meat is a Crock

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Those ass-tards at PETA have apparently announced a sort of X-prize for the first team of pocket-protectored lab geeks to invent a commercially viable lab-grown chicken meat substitute by the year 2012. Writes the NYT:

A founder of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, said she had been hoping to get the organization involved in advancing in vitro meat technology for at least a decade.

But, Ms. Newkirk said, the decision to sponsor a prize caused “a near civil war in our office,” since so many PETA members are repulsed by the thought of eating animal tissue, even if no animals are killed.

Okay — my B.S. detector is going off wildly. Not that I expect those batshit crazies at PETA to be in sync with reality most of the time, but if a PETA program exists that’s more hypocritical than its puppy-killing enterprise, this one just might be it.

As anyone who survived college-level biology will tell you, you can’t just grow cells in a vacuum. You need something to grow ‘em in. We used to use bovine serum albumin (yes — from cows), and I’m pretty sure it’s still the gold standard. In other words, every package of lab-grown “chicken” nuggets is going to be percolated up in fluid from a regular animal anyway. Yes, even if the fake “meat” itself is soy protein or something else.

Second, unless PETA abolishes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by 2012 (hah!), the resulting faux poultry pieces would have to be …wait for it … extensively tested on animals, before they were approved for human consumption.

And once this cluck-cluck soylent green concoction reaches our Wal-Mart shelves, what then? How will PETA go about persuading lions, tigers, and bears to swear off their horrible speciesism and stop making their fellow creatures suffer in the name of nourishment? Will Knut, the celebrated German polar bear, be satisfied eating petri-dish-grown vittles? I nominate PETA spokesman Steve-O to carry out the first few weeks of feedings.

18
Apr

That Gritty Taste Is The Delicious Animal Slowly Dying

Jenna I’d-rather-go-naked-than-wear-leather Jameson has fallen off the PETA wagon. Again.

Last week, we dug up a photo of the former professional cooch monkey celebrating a successful fishing trip with boyfriend Tito Ortiz. And now the professional paparazzi douches at TMZ have spotted her shucking and slurping live oysters at an outdoor Hollywood cafe.

jenna-jameson-eating-an-oyster.jpgif you actually want to see Jenna eating a mollusk, fast-forward to the last 20 seconds of the video. The rest consists of the pap making guttural grunts and dragging his knuckles.

Honestly, it’s hard to know who to root for here, because starlet-chasing videographers and used-up porn queens who shill for PETA are equally unsavory. But hey — now that it’s springtime in Los Angeles, maybe somebody can get us a photo of additional PETA nuts indulging in non-vegan behavior. In fact, we’ll pay a bounty for it.

Here’s what we can afford:

  • Alec Baldwin devouring a cheeseburger: $50
  • Holly Madison shopping for real fur: $75
  • James Cromwell eating a pork chop: $100
  • Alicia Silverstone with a milk moustache (not the Perez Hilton kind): $150
  • Oprah Winfrey buying a dog from a pet store: $200
  • Natalie Portman buying leather shoes: $250

Let the games begin!

16
Apr

Bring On the Bull

morrissey.jpgPETA made the mistake of going after TMZ for criticizing punk rocker Morrissey (a PETA spokesman) after he chowed down at the STK steakhouse in West Hollywood.

Apparently PETA is fine with steakhouses (!?), according to the powers that be:

PETA big cheese Ingrid Newkirk tells TMZ she’s got no beef with steakhouses — she’s been to the STK in New York herself.

We’re wondering if it’s ok for Pam Anderson to shop for spandex at Fred the Furrier…

UPDATE: Michael McGraw from PETA just called us to say he was upset by our story, adding, “PETA is fine with vegetarians dining at steakhouses. It’s just like shopping at stores like Whole Foods that also sell meat, because it’s good to show proprietors they can make money by selling veggie options.”

But then it turns out that Morrissey didn’t actually eat at STK that night. He went next door, to the Belmont, and his rep says as a vegetarian Morrissey refuses to eat at steakhouses.

Neat trick, TMZ. You just got PETA to give us all their blessing to eat at Ruth’s Chris, Outback, and Sizzler, just to save face with one of the spokesmorons in their stable (and a lesser one at that). Nice going!

09
Apr

Another PETA Tartlet Can’t Stop Killing Animals

It’s not like we should expect more from a porn star, but still …

Jenna Jameson’s relationship with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals goes back at least to last August, when she did some anti-KFC shizz for the chicken huggers. And this March, she unveiled an anti-leather ad for PETA with a big photo-op party during Los Angeles Fashion Week.

Here’s how the star of such video masterworks as “Cherry Pie,” “Blown Away,” and “Hell on Heels” describes her conversion to animal rights in a PETA video:

I was doing research and I found a film [about animal rights] called “Earthlings.” And I watched it. And I was so shocked to think that I had no idea what was happening. My best friend was standing there. And I said to him, I said, “I think my life just got changed.” And a week later I was talking to PETA.

But somewhere between watching the movie, going anti-chicken, doing a fake-leather ad, and practically begging Charlize Theron to get naked for PETA, Jenna did this:

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That’s Jenna with her boyfriend, the Ultimate Fighting Champion Tito Ortiz, after a successful October 2007 Caribbean fishing trip. Here’s how Ortiz captioned the photo on his MySpace page:

Fishing in St. Martin island. Full day boat- 5 mahi, 1 yellowfin, and 82lb wahoo. We had a great time.

Maybe Jenna didn’t know that PETA has, oh, a big problem with fishing. Or maybe she’s banking on the fact that since she’s still semi-attractive (and did I mention she used to be a porn star?), PETA will look the other way. Yep. That’s got to be it. When it comes to (media) sluts, it takes one to know one.

04
Apr

Dita Von Teese Is a Silly Goose

Remember this, not too long ago?

 

PETA and Dita, sittin’ in a tree! But not anymore:

Burlesque star Dita Von Teese has clashed with animal charity People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA), after confessing her love for controversial French delicacy foie gras… telling The New York Times, “My guilty pleasure is eating foie gras in Paris. I feel guilty and horrible about it.”

Her comments have angered PETA.

She shouldn’t take it personally, though. There’s very little that doesn’t anger PETA.

03
Apr

PETA Offers Britney a Job

britney_in_fur.jpgPETA is hiring for a receptionist and for some odd reason they think Britney Spears is the person for it. The letter to Britney from PETA president Ingrid Newkirk reads:

“After seeing your excellent performance on How I Met Your Mother, PETA would like to offer you a real job as a receptionist. It could be for as little as an hour, and you would see — from the inside — why we are so concerned about issues like fur and homeless dogs and cats. As a ‘thank you’ for your willingness to learn and help, we would donate $1,000 to a children’s charity.”

OK first of all even if she needs the $10 an hour (which, lets face it, she probably does), she wouldn’t take the job because Britney loves her some fur. She just gleefully received $30,000 worth of it for her birthday.

Second, she buys pet-store dogs about as often as she buys Frappuccinos. I don’t get why those media whores suddenly want to capitalize on Britney’s comeback after they’ve criticized her on numerous occasions. Oh wait, I totally do.




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