A member of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment Animals) threw flour at a fur-wearing Lindsay Lohan as she arrived at Paris’s VIP Room Theater late Saturday night with Samantha Ronson.

Ronson expressed her frustrations with the activists actions on her MySpace blog saying-
“It’s a pity that some groups feel the need to assault people as opposed to fighting with words. Whenever I feel the need to vent about something that feels unfair to me I reach for my computer, I don’t run out of the house with abusive intentions. I don’t expect everyone to react the same way, but I do expect people to respect each other.

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I wrote about Art Brut a while back, in which frontman Eddie Argos said he’s a sometimes-vegetarian, which is good enough for the purposes of the Sunday Vegetarian Post.  Well, even if he does eat meat sometimes, Argos - and the rest of Art Brut and a dozen other bands - doesn’t like to see fashion companies use real fur for their clothing.  As Argos says,

I don’t understand why anyone would wear fur. Everyone knows how animals are killed for their fur is brutal– it all comes down to vanity, which is pretty sad. [peta2 via Pitchfork]

And that’s where peta2 comes in with their petition to get Burberry to stop using fur.  The clothing company (which, full disclosure, I really like but really can’t afford) still uses actual animal fur in their collections, even though synthetics are readily available.  Other bands that have signed on are Jack Penate, Jamie T, The Maccabees, The Courteneers, The Rakes, Super Furry Animals, Los Campesinos!, Friendly Fires, Good Shoes, Hadouken!, Air Traffic, and The Wombats.  And, yes, those are all British bands, as Burberry is a British brand.  British band/British brand.  I’d rewrite that confusing sentence, but I’m lazy, so I’ll pretend I meant it.

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Only watch this video if you actually have time to watch the entire thing.. And beleive me it is sooo worth it to watch the entire video. It is maybe the BEST internet video I have ever seen. I was a little bored at first but as it picks up my mouth didn’t close.

The video takes place at Kruger and was captured by a group on a safari (who also couldn’t believe what was happening)

WOAH! The pan and the reveal..

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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Safeway has adopted new policies to improve its animal welfare standards. This gigantic California-based grocery chain, with 1,743 stores in the U.S. and Canada, is bowing to some firm but gentle arm twisting from those friends to farm animals everywhere, The Humane Society of the United States:

“Safeway’s new policies represent important progress on basic animal welfare issues and will positively affect many thousands of animals,” said Paul Shapiro, senior director of The HSUS’s factory farming campaign. “Safeway’s move also sends a strong message to the agribusiness industry that it must rapidly move away from the worst factory farming abuses, such as intensive confinement systems and the conventional poultry slaughter method.”

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