Vegetarian Star

The Humane Society of the United States recently hosted a benefit gala featuring Moby as the emcee. Several stars had dog stories to tell that evening, including American Ballet Theater principal Marcelo Gomes, who once pulled a dog’s tail so hard, it fractured. Gomes was only a child and didn’t know any better and thankfully the dog’s parts healed quickly. Gomes was also probably thankful his hand was able to be reattached after the irate dog bit it off and buried it in the backyard.

Moby has the best dog story of all that evening, as he told of how his dachshund became a surrogate mother to an abandoned kitten.

“When I was about ten years old, I was walking by my town dump in Darien, Connecticut… And I heard a little mew. And I looked in a box and in this box were five dead kittens who were about ten days old, and one barely-alive kitten,” Moby said.

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Talbots

When a company reverses or ignores a previously established policy, it loses creditability. Talbots, a clothing store specializing in women’s fashions, has been on the Humane Society’s fur-free retailers list for a decade. However, the company recently listed an $89 rabbit fur collar for sale as part of its fall collection.

Word of this got out and the company received a deluge of phone calls, emails and posts on Facebook from unhappy consumers regarding the decision to reinstate fur. As a result, the company has dropped the fur offering and declared itself fur-free again. For now.

“Thank you for your concern.,” a statement from the company read. “Talbots always seeks to operate under the highest ethical standards. We have heard our customers’ concerns regarding the items offered that contained real fur. These items have been pulled from stores and are no longer available for sale. Talbots remains committed to its policy against the use of real fur in our collection.”

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Lady Gaga‘s meat dress for the MTV VMAs not only looked disgusting, but smell the part too.

The dress, designed by Franc Fernandez, was designed from REAL raw meat cuts from a local butcher (hey, hey, should we at least give him credit for not making it travel and using more emissions?). Gaga may be hot, but she’s not warm enough to cook meat, and as you may suspect, the raw dead flesh began to smell almost instantly, much to Eminem‘s displeasure.

The rapper refused to sit by Gaga and a source told The Mirror, “Marshall said he didn’t want to be sat next to a pile of raw meat all night. He said it smelled pretty bad.”

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Moby‘s interview with BlogCritics mentions his work with the Humane Society of the United States. The musician cites the organization as his favorite because of their work to protect animals at the legislative level.

“What I like about the Humane Society is how big and effective they are, especially on a legislative level. I mean, there are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed.”

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Jillian Michaels has whittled down her animal intake to sustainable fish, citing her reasons to the Houston Chronicle as being for animal welfare.

“Personally I’m not eating chicken or beef right now. It’s not about health; it’s about the slaughterhouse practices. I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, fish, organic yogurt and eggs and a lot of beans and nuts. But I also eat things like dark chocolate.”

Those who avoid red meat but still eat chicken may want to know that, according to the Humane Society of the United States, about 95% of land animals in the United States slaughtered for food are chickens, which undergo painful deaths to get to the plates of Americans.

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Paul Watson, Whale Wars and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society get mocked (South Park Whale Whores), criticized and talked about in the media, but apparently, all this attention is great for publicity–and winning over the hearts of ebay fans.

The group was chosen as the #1 favorite charity among ebay visitors, receiving 7,025 votes. Sea Shepherd will receive a grand prize of $15,000 that will be used for their efforts to rescue wildlife in the Gulf Coast.

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All she wants to do…is save some animals.

Sheryl Crow is putting her fame behind the Humane Society of the United States to encourage people to adopt animals, donate money and help fight animal cruelty.

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Has Michael Vick been elevated to sainthood?

The NFL player convicted for his involvement in dog fighting activities is scheduled to host a celebrity party at the MI-VI Club at Gulfstream Park Racing & Casino in Hallandale Beach in Florida where his guests will be met by protesters, according to an article in Palm Beach Post.

But representatives from the Humane Society of the United States say Vick’s work with the organization has actually steered youth from following down his path.

“He has been effective in helping young men choose a better path,” said John Goodwin, the Humane Society’s manager of animal fighting issues. “He is the example of how dogfighting is a destructive, dead-end activity with enormous consequences.”

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