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PETA has unveiled its first edition of an animal rights version of a very popular board game.

PETAopoly, a spin on the real estate themed Monopoly, is available for order both from the organization and through select online retailers.

Last year, the group championed Hasbro for putting a rescue cat as a new token.

It’s version of the game has several key themes, including:

• Popular pets and farm animals as tokens, including a cat, dog, chicken, cow and pig.
• A jail that puts players in small, cramped cages akin to those animals endure on factory farms. Players must pay extra money to overcome conditions and diseases animal develop (e.g. avoid getting de-beaked, finance their own antibiotics).
• Get out of Jail Free cards that allow shelter pets to find permanent, loving homes.
• Multiple properties available for purchase to start small-scale organic farming and/or other plant crops.

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PETA has a new mobile billboard that will serve to remind visitors to the Kentucky Derby this weekend that horse racing is not always fun and games.

Up to and during the day of the race, this ad will be driven outside the racetrack to highlight the use and abuse of drugs used on race horses, which PETA says has contributed to the death of several horses on the race tracks.

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PETA’s president Ingrid Newkirk has a lot on her mind these days.

The recent horse meat scandal, hunting and faux meat are just a few of the issues she discussed with Forbes contributor Michael Charles Tobias.

Newkirk is not just informed and passionate about these animal welfare and food safety concerns.

The Forbes interview demonstrates she can also be quite quirky about them to prove a point.

Such was the case when asked to comment on horse meat making it into the food supply in Britain and other places.

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“Americans toss out nearly every other bite of food. We squander up to 40 percent of the nation’s food supply each year — throwing away, on average, 20 pounds per person per month — while making excuses for our wastefulness. This is shameful enough. Now consider the nightmare that billions of animals — who feel anxiety, fear and pain every bit as profoundly as we do — endure on factory farms, in transit to slaughter and at the slaughterhouse itself. Nowadays, they are confined to cages and crates, their babies are taken away from them and they are kicked and prodded and deprived of everything that makes their lives worth living just so that we can take their milk or kill them for their flesh. And then we toss half of it all into the trash. This may be one of the most compelling reasons yet to go vegan.”

—Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder of  People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on a report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council on food waste.

Photo: David Shankbone/Creative Commons

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Being the accomplished singer he is, Morrissey probably has a lot on his mind these days. That doesn’t mean he won’t take the time to think about all the homeless cats and dogs in the world and remind animal lovers that the best way to control the unwanted pet population is by spaying and neutering.

“Despite the fact that they’re incredibly intelligent, animals unfortunately haven’t yet worked out how to slip on a rubber, which is why thousands of them are being put to sleep in overcrowded shelters and thousands more are desperately waiting to be adopted,” the British singer said.

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Michael Vick, NFL player convicted for his involvement with dog-fighting activities, has expressed an interest in owning another dog. Now that his parole has come to an end, he could be eligible to do so.

“I would love to get another dog in the future. I think it would be a big step for me in the rehabilitation process,” Vick told NBC Nightly News. “I think just to have a pet in my household and to show people that I genuinely care, and my love and my passion for animals; I think it would be outstanding. If I ever have the opportunity again I will never take it for granted. I miss having a dog right now. I wish I could.”

Two different perspectives on Vick’s possible new dog ownership were expresed by animal rights groups People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Humane Society of the United States.

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Gavin Rossdale stopped by a fur-free demonstration PETA put on in Portland, Maine.

Rossdale has good taste in fashion and women, as PETA reports that both her and his, “fur-free wife, Gwen Stefani, are teaching their children to be kind to animals.”

Rossdale was once quoted as saying, “The person I love would never wear fur.”

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Several Bollywood and Hollywood celebrities have collaborated to create a vegan cookbook filled with recipes and tips that is set for release in 2013.

The Bolly Holly Vegan Cookbook contains contributions from big names like Amrita Rao, Vidya Balan, Sonakshi Sinha and Neha Dhupia.

“It will be perfect for everyone – veteran vegans, curious newcomers and those who just want to try the occasional meatless meal – as well as both kitchen novices and culinary wizards,” said Poorva Joshipura, head of animal rights organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India and vice president (International Operations), PETA Foundation UK.

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