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Iggy Pop is backing a movement in his home state to prevent wolves from being hunted for sport, a measure many current residents of Michigan agree with.

The iconic singer supports the Keep Michigan Wolves Protected campaign and has written a letter to Governor Rick Snyder in protest of the state’s first sanctioned wolf hunt in decades.

Such a hunt has not taken place since the animals were put in protective status in the 1960s.

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Another pop star has decided he’s not into Canada’s club scene.

Yesterday, we revealed Ke$sha‘s anti seal hunt ad and today we bring you the message from a legend in rock and roll, Iggy Pop.

[T]he screams of horror from the animals that watch the first other ones be bludgeoned—they don’t even try to run,” Iggy said in an interview with PETA. “They don’t know what’s gonna hit ’em. I don’t think anyone who’d seen that would want to wear fur.”

The behind the scenes video component to Iggy’s ad shoot can be viewed below.

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Suck

Suck recently premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.

It’s a vampire horror comedy featuring stars like Moby, Alice Cooper, and Iggy Pop.

A rock band wishes to become famous and gets a chance to do so after meeting a vampire-and gets more than a record deal in the package.

“It’s sort of like an exaggerated rock & roll world,” says director and writer Rob Stefaniuk. “I’ve seen a lot of rock & roll movies, but what I wanted to do differently is make it less of a cinéma vé?rité — this is what it feels like to be in a real band, and yet I didn’t want to do a parody of a bunch of guys that go ‘Yeah dude’ and a big roadie. I wanted it to feel real, so you’re not in a band with a bunch of druggie people; you’re in a band with a bunch of vampires.”

The movie, as expected, features lots of blood and guts, and latex rubber “meat” was created to throw at vegan Moby, who plays “Beef Ballow,” lead singer for the band Secretaries of Steak.

Great idea these guys used fake meat-unlike that horrible meat tree from True Blood, so Moby wouldn’t hurl blood from disgust.

via rollingstone.com

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Iggy Pop might act like an animal on stage, but he knows there’s no room for them in the circus.

Iggy recently wrote a letter to the University of Michigan in support of their decision to ban the circus from campus after officials there learned of the horrors the animals often endure.

Who knew hardcore rocker Iggy had such a soft spot? An excerpt from the letter:

As a Michigan native, I was thrilled when my friends at PETA told me about the Michigan State Board of Trustees’ compassionate decision to ban animal circuses from campus in 2009. I hope that you will consider making this a permanent policy.

As students who are concerned with animal welfare have told you, performing animals are deprived of everything that is natural to them, including the ability to roam, forage, and form families and friendships. Circus trainers beat, shock, and whip animals such as tigers, bears, and animals to make them perform tricks that are confusing and meaningless to them.

Read the rest of Iggy’s letter to the University of Michigan.

via blog.peta.org.uk

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The horror/comedy film Suck, which vegan musician Moby has a role in, has just completed a few days of filming in Toronto.

As we told you earlier, the story is about a loser band that meets a vampire that while changes their fame and make others lust after them, results in their insatiable lust cravings for blood as well.

Since there is so much blood and guts in the film, you might wonder what kinds of props they’re using. Rest assured, Moby’s not down with being covered in real meat.

Suck’s production crew had fake beef created from latex rubber and foam, then dripped in fake blood.

The latex beef will be thrown at Moby’s character, Beef Ballow, lead singer of a band called Secretaries of Steak. Secretaries of Steak is a rival band to the loser band, The Winners, who’s luck improves after meeting the vampire.

Other stars in the film include Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, and Henry Rollins.

via The Star

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Vegetarian vampires are the happening thing these days, and one vegan vampire wants to get his 15 minutes of blood sucking fame before the fad ends.

Moby, a vegan, is set to play the frontman for a band called, “Secretaries of Steak,” (vegan pun, ha, ha, ha) in the upcoming vampire horror/comedy film Suck.

Suck follows the adventures of a band not doing so hot, but still calls itself The Winners. Their luck changes when they happen to meet a vampire (in the real world these same creatures are called agents) who gives them a chance at rock and roll, as well as other kinds of immortality. Of course, there’s the inevitable blood cravings. The Secretaries of Steak are a rival band to the Winners. Get ’em Moby!

Other notables include meat shunning Henry Rollins, who plays a radio host, Dimitri Coats of the indie band Burning Brides as the vampire, Iggy Pop as music producer, and Alice Cooper as a blood sucking bartender.

Oh, yeah. Can’t wait to watch Moby get his vegan vampire on!

via i09

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