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.

2007_05_15_macaque.jpgPicton 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.

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