Results tagged “animalrights”

Attention Wintourites, Olsen fan club members, and other fabulously fur-clad denizens of our fair city:

Recently, Torontoist went canoeing in Algonquin Park (we got 34 mosquito bites). However, arguably the most amusing thing to happen during our entire trip was passing a billboard on our way into the park advertising a "Dock in a Box." We instantly became distracted by a lengthy fantasy that the company knew exactly what it was doing and included a YouTube video on its website about how it created the Dock in a Box (you know—"One, we cut a hole in the box; two, we put our tech in the box!"), but were recently disappointed to find that there’s nothing funny at all on the company website.

Picton residents cautiously unshuttered their windows and unbolted their doors after a 20-pound Japanese snow monkey was successfully sedated by police and returned to his home at a roadside zoo.

Faux fried chicken? Nothing wrong with that. Alas, PETA founder and international activist Ingrid Newkirk will not be joining the Toronto leg of the tour. Occurs on October 8-9, for 129$, or students for 35$. Sign up before the 15th of this month and get a pal in for half price.

When it comes to animal rights, count on Torontoist to deliver all your vegan and vegetarian news. This week, over fifty Toronto-area KFC managers received a copy of PETA activist Pamela Anderson's video (no, not video, LOL). Anderson sent a tape depicting graphic torture of KFC-owned chickens before they end up in batter, in a radical effort to at the very least change the company's handling of their stock. KFC currently places still-living chickens in scalding hot defeathering tanks. If the chickens survive the defeathering, they are often grabbed by the legs and smacked against a hard surface at least until they stop screeching in pain.