As 007, Sir Roger Moore battled the bad guys, and today, as a real-life Knight of the British Empire, he's still going strong. Moore has spent the past several years going after those who make their living by force-feeding ducks and geese, often until their livers burst, to create...

The battle over fatty duck liver (aka, foie gras) rages on -- fueled in part by Chicago Tribune writer Mark Caro's compelling new book, The Foie Gras Wars: How a 5,000-Year-Old Delicacy Inspired the World's Fiercest Food Fight.

Although some people still attempt to justify foie gras production,...

As a vegetarian for more than 20 years who works on vegetarian advocacy for PETA, I am often asked for my recommendation of the best books for someone interested in learning about vegetarianism.

Here are my favorites, with some reflections on each; I (strongly) suggest that all vegetarians read...

If you don't normally eat healthy soy-based foods, including tofu, tempeh, miso, edamame, and even veggie burgers and soy milk, this month, National Soy Foods Month, is a good time to start. Soy foods are cholesterol-free, low in saturated fat, and packed with protein and essential amino acids.

Unlike...

As a vice president for PETA, I have debated animal protection issues around the world, frequently engaging with representatives from the meat, fur, animal-experimentation and circus industries.

But a funny thing started happening about seven or eight years ago: The other side stopped showing up. Although PETA is always happy...

The Crufts Dog Show -- the world's largest dog show, held in Birmingham, England -- began on March 5, but this year, Brits won't see any perfectly-coiffed pooches prancing around the ring on television. The BBC has refused to air the show because the breeding industry's practices cause dogs to...

This week, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) convened an international panel on food security at which FAO chief Jacques Diouf argued that global food production will have to double by 2050 simply to prevent another billion people from starving. At the same time, two new scientific...

Two extensive reports released in April indicate that our current method of devising food policy is broken and that the current system is doing tremendous harm in many areas, including those that are of particular interest to President-elect Obama: human health, the environment, and global poverty.

The first of...

Did Sarah Palin's recent interview in front of a turkey slaughter operation cause you to almost lose your lunch? If so, you're not alone. Even conservative pundit Joe Scarborough says he may well skip the bird this year. With Thanksgiving upon us, here without further ado are PETA's top...

At PETA, our phones have been ringing off the hook after the president-elect brought up the Obamas' commitment to their children of bringing a new dog into their family.

Apparently, the thing his daughters want more than anything in the world is a puppy with whom they can share their...

With the Indiana Jones dynasty back in all its glory (including a tidal wave of corporate tie-ins), I'm tempted to re-rent my favorite of the four movies, "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."

I won't give it all away in case you haven't seen it, but here's a quick...

In April, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on food policy called the diversion of crops to be turned into biofuels "a crime against humanity". Indeed, 100 million tons of corn and other crops that could feed people instead feed our cars.

What then to make of the fact that more...

There have been multiple HuffPo posts about PETA's efforts to convince former Vice President Al Gore to advocate a vegetarian diet, and we are grateful to environmental activist Susan Smalley for raising this issue again last week, since we strongly believe that the dialogue needs to continue. Are you...

Gone are the days when vegetarians were served up a plate of iceberg lettuce and a dull-as-dishwater baked potato. With the growing variety of vegetarian faux-meats like bacon and sausages and an ever-expanding variety of vegetarian cookbooks and restaurants, vegetarianism has taken the world by storm.

With World Vegetarian Week...

Last week in our nation's capital, the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) held a climate change conference focused on solutions to the problem of human-induced climate change. And in Paris the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is sharing the Nobel Peace...

The New Year is upon us, and at PETA, we're encouraging people to, for their new year's resolution, give a healthy vegetarian diet a try.

Just last month, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta celebrated that the average cholesterol level in this country has fallen to 199, which is...

In the August 27 New Yorker, there is a cartoon showing two men on a private plane. Off to the side is a recycling bin; as one man tosses a piece of paper into the bin, he explains, "I try to do my part." This cartoon made me think of...

People have become increasingly aware that virtually all of the 10 billion land animals slaughtered in the U.S. each year for their meat, eggs and milk are terribly mistreated. In fact, routine farming practices are so abusive that they would warrant felony animal cruelty charges were they done to cats...

I'm tempted to move to Britain, and not just because I saw an early screening of Michael Moore's amazing new movie, Sicko (go see it; tell all your friends). What got me is that an official with the UK's Environment Agency has acknowledged that humans can significantly help stop global...

The Green Issue of Vanity Fair, currently on shelves, correctly notes in discussing the impact of our purchasing decisions that "fur and leather...mean slaughtering animals," but in an issue packed with otherwise thoughtful analysis, they missed the fact that in addition to the sad fact that wearing fur or leather...