Results tagged “animalrights”

Why, here's a shot from this afternoon's PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) protest against McDonald's, over on the 600 block of Van Ness. Not nearly as erotic as we had anticipated, but effective. Yes? No?

Want to see slinky, kinda nude women bathing in a tank of blood-colored water on Van Ness at noon? Of course you do. According to , PETA campaigner Jena Hunt "organized a protest scheduled for noon today at 600 Van Ness Ave., where two PETA 'chicks' in red bikinis will be crammed together in a tank of 'bloody' water with the message 'McDonald’s Scalds Chicks; to Death.'" (Aside: While we do not care much for McDonald's culinary vision, we highly recommend their Crispy ranch BLT sandwich, which you can get grilled or fried. Well worth the 600 calories. Trust us.) In an interview with the Ex, Hunt explains, there "a more humane slaughter method called controlled-atmosphere killing ensures that animals are killed painlessly while still in their transport crates before they have their throats cut or are handled by workers." Good point, Hunt. Also, there's a "McCruelty: I’m Hatin' It" billboard up at Sixth and Brannan today.

On one hand, we hate the idea or horses being used as engines to carry tourists around city streets; on the other hand, these bitches are batshit. See, it seems Peta (AKA: the National Organization of Helping Pamela Anderson's Breasts Put a Stop to KFC's Savoriness) sent an "urgent letter" to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Board of Supes, asking them them to ban horse-drawn carriages throughout San Francisco. This comes on the heels of a spooked carriage horse running amok this past weekend, injuring several passersby. According to PETA director Debbie Leahy, "Forcing horses to pull heavy loads through busy city streets is cruel, and it's an accident waiting to happen ... This incident should be a wake-up call for the city, and we urge officials to ban these rides before the next accident occurs." UPDATE: SFist asked Newsom's office what they thought of PETA's request. Newsom spokesperson Nathan Ballard (brilliantly) told us, "Next they’ll be asking us to ban cobblestones, monocles, hoop skirts, top hats and gas lamps!" (Well said, Nathan.)

• Kicking it at the Days-Inn on Lombard. [Butter Retriever]
• Twitter explained in plain English. [Laughing Squid]
• The very hot Tyler Florence to take over the very gay Plush Room. Intriguing. [Eater]

An update on today's story about a UC Santa Cruz faculty member whose home was invaded by, according to local media outlets, members of the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty animal rights group: the animal rights group claims zero responsibility for last night's attack.

Pro-life animal rights group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty is being accused of taking part in a break in of a UC Santa Cruz faculty member, whose research using animals "sheds light on the causes of breast cancer and neurological diseases," and attacking a man at the residence. According to Santa Cruz Sentinel:

A recent video has emerged showing Giants' legend Juan Marichal joining current legend Pedro Martinez in a little bout of cockfighting in their native country, the Dominican Republic. Apparently, Juan's cock took on Pedro's cock and won. Way to go, Little Juan. The video of it appeared on YouTube but was recently taken down, but this being the internet, a video in some form still exists. For obvious reasons, we won't post it but for those curious about it, you can see it here (warning-- site contains pictures of excessively well-endowed women.)

--Check out Ross Mirkarimi's Gavin hair! Didn't someone else try this too?

We did a confused circle around the first floor of the Women's Building Saturday night, until we noticed the sign which you see at your right, telling us to go upstairs for the SF Women's Film Festival documentary shorts screening, featuring movies all directed by women.

. Boooo!). It's actually a pretty decent article about the future of the Chron online, the criminal lack of mentioning of Eve notwithstanding. Book section. Meredith Brody tries out Top Chef entrees around town. SFist Ced is outraged that she would review a TGI Friday's when there's no TGI Friday's in the City. Wasn't there a TGI Friday's in Fisherman's Wharf? What happened to that one? The (((folkYEAH!))) festival in Big Sur. Doc's Clock, everyone's second-choice hipster bar. And Dan Savage ate too much pot pumpkin cake.

Josh Wolf's Ninth Circuit appeal is officially dead, and it looks like he's stuck in jail for the next 18 months -- unless he wants to turn over his video footage. And in other grand jury contempt of court news, an animal rights activist is scheduled to stay silent before the federal grand jury today, and the LA Times laments the fate of Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada.

, to the point where Leong had contacted the authorities. Leong was also active with the Freemasons and imported shark fins. We hope the FBI is looking into animal rights illuminati groups too.

We'll start, as always, with last week's winner, the East Bay Express. Cover story is on the Richmond Steelers midget football team -- no, really, it is! Bottom Feeder on animal rights activists who've crossed the line. Cityside on the conflict between industry and residence in Oakland. Justin Benton on the Seldom Seen Acting Company. SFist Sarah, do you know Ramen freak Mira? We prove ourselves to be old by getting excited about Rob Harvilla's piece on Calvin Johnson playing in a 3 bedroom apartment. Our horoscope (not online) is basically just advice that could apply to anyone.

It's animal time on SFist again! Fwee! A Sausalito-based company called Genetic Savings and Clone (ha) that helped fund the cloning of this cute kitten (DNA donor on far left, surrogate mom in the middle, and cc: the kitten on the right) has sold its first cloned kitten to a Texas woman who donated the DNA from Nicky, her sorely-missed cat of 17 years. The woman has named the kitten "Little Nicky" and says the two cats are identical. "His personality is the same," she reports, noting that Little Nicky also loves to jump into water. The woman would not give her name, fearing reprisals from animal rights group who suggest that people just adopt the many cats languishing at shelters instead. The company estimates that it should be cloning the more profitable dog by next May at the earliest. From cats to rats -- a woman in the Haight woke up on Tuesday to find three crates filled with rats (176 of 'em) on her front doorstep. A known animal lover, she brought them into the SPCA for adoption. In the meantime, three of the rodents gave birth to 10 babies apiece, making it a grand total of 206. 138 of them have been adopted already (80 by local rat advocacy group Rattie Ratz) but there's still 38 left for that perfect present for your boss! (n.b.: it is never a good idea to give live animals as gifts.) There's a $10 adoption fee to cut down on snake owners coming in and "adopting" the rats as cheap food, and a 114-question application form (with questions such as your "hopes and expectations" for your pet). For some reason, both the Chron and the Examiner profiled the same rat adopter, which makes us think maybe she's the only person that's adopted a rodent this season (but that may be anti-rat bias on our part).

Oakland and SF Zoo elephant news

Some follow-ups on stories we read about earlier this week and last:

SFist doesn't know why were on the animal experimentation tip so heavy. May have something to do with the intersection of the biotech industry and animal rights activism.