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Clive Barker
Drew Barrymore
Kim Basinger
Ed Begley Jr. Candice Bergen
Sandra Bernhard
Larry Bird
Linda Blair
Rosanne Cash
David Chokachi
Charlotte Church
Paula Cole
Jamie Lee Curtis
Ellen DeGeneres
Gérard Depardieu
Fabio
Peter Falk
Mike Farrell
Edward Furlong
Jennie Garth
Dick Gregory
Woody Harrelson
Hulk Hogan
Chrissie Hynde
Indigo Girls
K.D. Lang
Sheryl Lee
Ali MacGraw
Bill Maher
Ziggy Marley
Peter Max
Linda McCartney
Paul McCartney
Kevin Nealon
Natalie Portman
Rob Reiner
Judge Reinhold
Lisa Rinna
Marcus Schenkenberg
Martin Scorsese
Steven Seagal
Alicia Silverstone
W. Shatner
Jimmy Stewart
Michael Stipe
Oliver Stone
Rider Strong
Christy Turlington
Shania Twain
Mo Vaughn
Keenen Ivory
Weyans
May I appeal to you, on behalf
of my friends at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, to listen to
your heart regarding the welfare of these suffering animals? -- Steven Seagal
- Animal Times/PeTA's Magazine
Fall 1997
"I have developed a deep
respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain
rights that should not be violated any more than the rights of humans." --
Jimmy Stewart - Animal Times/PeTA's
Magazine Fall 1997
"Get with the times and realize
the benefits of making your company one of the greatest state-of-the-art,
cruelty-free companies of the '90s and the new century to come." -- Hulk Hogan
- Animal Times/PeTA's Magazine
Winter 1998
A little leg goes a long way
in Washington," says Baywatch star David Chokachi in a
new PeTA public service announcement, in which he asks viewers to send
pictures of their legs to the White House along with the message "Ban
Leghold Traps!" - Animal Times/PeTA's Magazine Winter 1998
Former Twin Peaks star Sheryl Lee has resurrected her "Laura Palmer" character for
PeTA's latest Anti-Fur campaign. - Animal Times/PeTA's
Magazine Winter 1998
As local activists worked
tirelessly on the case, PeTA and New Mexico residents Ali
MacGraw and Judge Reinhold fired off letters to
the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) asking that the circus's license
be revoked and all remaining animal confiscated. - Animal Times/PeTA's Magazine Fall 1997
Star Trek's William
Shatner urges people to "be heroes for animals" in PeTA's new
television spot about disaster relief. - Animal Times/PeTA's
Magazine Fall 1997
TV's "Lieutenant Columbo," Peter Falk, is asking police and sheriff's
departments not to use elephants in fundraisers. - Animal Times/PeTA's Magazine Winter 1998
"I've always been a big supporter
of animal rights. Let's save the animals so we can all live in harmony in
the next millennium and beyond." --Peter Max - Animal Times/PeTA's Magazine Winter 1998
Pamela Lee or Pamela Lee Anderson modeled semi nude in anti-fur ads for
PeTA.
Pamela's appeared on an enormous billboard in New York's Times
Square..- Animal Times/PeTA's Magazine Winter
1998
"Fiona Apple is a vegan. The singer is also helping spread the word about animal
rights. Last fall, Fiona recorded a message for PeTA's holiday hot
line--resulting in more than 8,000 phone calls for free veg recipes". - Animal
Times/PeTA's Magazine Spring 1998
Contributors to PeTA Animal
Times Spring 1998 issue:
"In the wake of the largest beef
recall in U.S. history, concerned new mom and vegetarian Jenny Garth appeared in a PeTA ad urging people to forgo
animal flesh". Beverly Hills 90210 actress - Animal Times/PeTA's Magazine Spring 1998
"Purrs to basketball legend Larry Bird and Red Sox slugger Mo Vaughn for dispelling the notion
that gunning down animals is "sporting." Bird told Esquire magazine he
stopped hunting because "I just don't want to kill anything anymore." And
Vaughn says, "I don't believe in hunting. Give the animals a gun, and then
maybe I'd hunt." - Animal Times/PeTA's Magazine Spring
1998
Purrs to "The
Artist" for being a "Prince" of a guy to animals. The vegan
singer declares, "We need an Animal Rights Day when all slaughterhouses
shut down." - Animal Times/PeTA's Magazine Spring
1998
Comedians Bill
Maher and Ellen
DeGeneres starred in PeTA's "Thinking About Fur" ad, featured
in TV Guide, on Entertainment Tonight, and in The New York Times.
Hollywood's Kim Basinger,
Alec Baldwin, Edward Furlong, Alicia Silverstone, Jennie Garth, Woody
Harrelson, and Sandra
Bernhard signed PeTA's letter to Vogue magazine, calling for an end
to fur ads. - PeTA's Annual 1997 Media in Review essay.
On behalf of PETA, horror icon Clive Barker wrote a letter to the editors
of the top 100 U.S. newspapers, asking them to "put hunting and fishing
columns where they belong: on the obituary pages." - PeTA's Annual 1997
Media in Review essay.
Hundreds of coats poured in when romance king Fabio recorded PeTA's toll-free hot line,
1-888-FUR-AWAY, telling listeners to show their "inner beauty by giving
their old fur" to PeTA for use in protests. - PeTA's Annual 1997 Media in
Review essay.
At PeTA's request, actor Ed Begley Jr. wrote to McDonald's, asking the
company to improve conditions for pigs and chickens on its suppliers'
farms and urging the company to offer vegetarian burgers. - PeTA's Annual
1997 Media in Review essay.
Melrose Place's Lisa
Rinna appeared on the cover of PeTA's new 1998 Shopping Guide
for Caring Consumers, - PeTA's Annual 1997 Media in Review essay.
In PETA TV spots, "Golden Girl" Bea Arthur urged viewers to use alternatives
to Premarin, which is made from pregnant mare's urine. - PeTA's Annual
1997 Media in Review essay.
Exorcist star Linda
Blair kicked off PeTA's 1997 campaign urging people to donate
only to charities that don't fund animal experiments by appearing in our
"Animal experiments make my head spin" ad. - PeTA's Annual 1997 Media in
Review essay.
After watching PeTA's undercover video, film stars Gérard Depardieu, asked Monaco's Prince
Rainier to ban animal acts at the Monte Carlo International Circus
Festival. - PeTA's Annual 1997 Media in Review essay.
Keenen Ivory Weyans,
Emmy-winning creator of In Living Color and host of his own late-night
show, gave Animal Times readers a lesson in vegetarianism with a
light-hearted quiz. - PeTA's Annual 1997 Media in Review essay.
Country Music singer
Rosanne Cash, lended her voice to help PeTA
to ban canned hunting-the tracking and killing of nearly tame animals kept
in penned enclosures on facilities in New York.PeTA Press Release dated
05/30/2000
Dick
Gregory, Actor, did a Public Service Announcement for Peta
Linda
McCartney, gained fame when she shot Public Service
Announcements for PeTA, did the prologue to Ingrid Newkirk's books.
Mike
Farrell, Actor of MASH fame filmed a Public Service
Announcement for PeTA
Goldfinger the ska/punk band from L.A
and their top hit, “Here in Your Bedroom.” Lead singer John
Feldmann is an animal rights activist with "Meat Is Murder” bumper
stickers, animal rights T-shirts, hands out literature at concerts, and
sings a song about hunter Ted Nugent.
Soprano Charlotte
Church states on her Web site that she would never wear real
fur.
Vegetarian Shania
Twain allowed her image and and the following text in GRRR
magazine Spring 2000 issue. "Vegetarian Shania Twain would never eat a
fast-food burger. Even her dog is veg!"
Actress Drew
Barrymore made the cover of GRRR's Spring Magazine. She
also stated in "Seventeen Magazine" that one of her secret wishes: to
“save all the little live lobsters in restaurants and throw them back into
the ocean..."
Jamie Lee
Curtis decorated her car with a “Proud Parent of a Student Who
Won’t Dissect” bumper sticker from PETA -
Singer Paula
Cole is on the PeTA website is a vegetarian
Singer Ziggy
Marley on the PeTA website is a vegetarian
Actress Natalie Portman on the PeTA website is a
vegetarian
Actor
Rider
Strong (Boy Meets World) on the PeTA website is a vegetarian
PeTA
compiled two animal rights albums, Animal Liberation and
Tame
Yourself, featuring artists such as Chrissie Hynde, Indigo Girls, Michael
Stipe, and
Belinda
Carlisle. PETA also held several concerts featuring The B-52's. Long-time supporter
Paul
McCartney invited PeTA to set up literature tables on his world
tour.
Supermodels
Christy Turlington, Tyra Banks, and
Marcus Schenkenberg, have posed for the "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear
Fur" Campaign.
PETA received pledges
from filmmakers including Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, and Rob Reiner to keep fur off movie
sets.
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