Subject: PETA

• Pet Peeves: A Chesterfield pet store is dogged by accusations of selling mistreated puppies

  February 4, 2009

• Cold Comfort

  August 21, 2007

• Daily Web Crawl

  September 21, 2007

• The Morning Brew: Thursday, 9/27

  September 27, 2007

• Press Release of the Day

  December 31, 2007

• The Morning Brew: Monday, 4.21

  April 21, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Thursday, 4.24

  April 24, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Thursday, 5.22

  May 22, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Monday, 6.30

  June 30, 2008

• Bar of the Week: Krueger's Bar and Grill in Clayton

  August 13, 2008

• PETA Honors St. Louis' Match Meats

  Match Meats, a St. Louis-based company specializing in vegan meat alternatives, received national kudos this week. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) named Match Meats "Best Food-Service Innovation" in its sixth annual Proggy Awards. The Proggies honor businesses, products and individuals that show a strong commitment to animal rights. In a January 13 press release, PETA executive vice president Tracy Reiman said, "Not only are Match Meats' faux meats healthy and humane, they are

  January 15, 2009

• PETA Veggie Ad Too Hot for TV

  PETA produced a Super Bowl ad urging viewers to go veggie. It was deemed too hot to broadcast. Give 'em credit: PETA understands the football demographic.

  January 29, 2009

• PETA Supporters Bare Beliefs Downtown

  Those familiar with animal rights organization PETA know the group puts out risque advertisements in order to draw attention to their cause. It's not often though, that they take to the streets of the Gateway City.After the jump, two PETA protests spotted today at 9th and Olive streets downtown.

  February 13, 2009

• News Real

  January 27, 1999

• Pope and Circumstance

  February 3, 1999

• Don't Stalk George Clooney. EAT HIM.

  OK. We here at Gut Check International Headquarters are as guilty as anyone of obsessing over George Clooney's presence in our fair city. However, today brings news that makes even us blanch. PETA wants to sell tofu that tastes like the actor.Yeah. You read that right.From the always reputable E! (via Eater) comes news that the animal-rights organization has somehow acquired a towel soaked with Clooney's sweat and wants to use said sweat to flavor tofu. "The technology actually exists to take yo

  March 13, 2009

• No One Saw This Coming: PETA Urges Zoo to Close Polar Bear Exhibit

  flickr.com/photos/79947165@N00The zoo's polar bear confines.The other day we noted how the Saint Louis Zoo's last polar bear, Hope, died this week from cancer at the age of 23. Now today...wait for it...that's it...just a second...more...okay, here it comes...PETA announced that it is urging the zoo to permanently close its polar bear exhibit. The animal-rights agency notes that Hope had lived alone at the zoo since Penny and Churchill, the zoo's other two polar bears, died within weeks of each

  April 2, 2009

• Hold That Tiger: The recent big cat attacks in Missouri have residents and state officials calling for tougher exotic animal laws

  August 20, 2008

• Unreal cleans our sidearm and champions Phyllis Schlafly

  May 14, 2008

• Most Precious Blood

  Saturday, November 26; The Creepy Crawl (412 North Tucker Boulevard)

  November 23, 2005

• Letters

  Week of December 1, 2004

  December 1, 2004

• Bone Appétit

  Villa Farotto makes it OK to love meat

  November 3, 2004

• "I only remember a stuck-up doctor's kid who, when he got with his football player buddies, was one of the bullies."

  Week of February 1, 2007

  January 31, 2007

• Must Love Dogs

  January 3, 2007

• Fish Sick

  Unreal always cleans our plate, but now we're a little nervous about fish. Oh, and hot dogs. Plus -- the cops don't like it when you fake a carjacking. Who knew?

  April 26, 2006

• Hungry, So (Not) Angry

  A local music fan starts Broke & Hungry Records, Matador Records gets its videogame on and the debut of "Yo! RFT Raps"

  April 12, 2006

• Puppy Love

  Nintendogs' charm will win over the most jaded of gamers.

  October 19, 2005

• Where Do Wolf Babies Come From?

  Sometimes Mother Nature can use a little human intervention

  April 20, 2005

• Beat Meat

  Lose your appetite for flesh with Cattle Decapitation

  March 23, 2005

• Eat More Beaver

  Missourians have a healthy appetite for wild game meat. Some say raccoon tastes better than roast beef.

  January 5, 2005

• Hot Air

  Unreal sees what all the inflatable fuss is about, learns why kitties are bad presents and talks to a man who loves hotties-but-smarties; plus, the second installment of Local Blog o' the Week!

  December 22, 2004

• Letters

  Week of July 28, 2004

  July 28, 2004

• Letters

  Week of November 26, 2003

  November 26, 2003

• Hot and Bothered

  Fight off the November chill with this extra-sizzlin' edition of Unreal (once we put our clothes back on, we'll check in with the Sanford-Brown Indians, pick up a few local papers and have our groceries bagged by inmates)

  November 19, 2003

• Suits & Thugs & Rock & Roll

  Cockfighting, prescription-drug abuse and other pursuits that tiptoe over the line of legality; plus, we give a shout-out to Plaza Frontenac

  July 30, 2003

• Dead to Rights

  Stripped of pretentious excess, Danny Boyle gets his mojo back in 28 Days Later

  June 25, 2003

• The Stunted

  Against all odds -- and several plot implausibilities -- director William Friedkin stages a comeback

  March 12, 2003

• Gale Farce

  Kevin isn't the only thing Spacey in this overlong death-penalty drama

  February 19, 2003

• U.S. Prime

  If we don't eat meat, the terrorists win

  October 23, 2002

• Dr. Strange

  May 29, 2002

• Mount My Squirrel! Local taxidermist Rick Nadeau has a lot of fun with his "little buddies"

  August 12, 2009

• Powers-that-be Prohibit PETA Protest Pachyderm

  blog.peta.orgProtest statue, "Ella Phantzperil"​PETA does not clown around about hatin' on circuses. Earlier this year, they did an uncover investigation on Ringling Brothers and posted some elephant-beating footage on the aptly named Web site, ringlingbrothersbeatsanimals.com.Well, the big top is coming to the Scottrade Center on October 15, so PETA filed a request to display their protest statue, "Ella Phantzperil," at the corner of Market and 15th street around that time. The statue itself

  August 26, 2009

• Sweet as Pie: Songstress Nellie McKay honors Doris Day with an album of her own

  November 12, 2009

• Video: Happy Thanksgiving from PETA

  ​ ​Via Huffington Post, which reports that NBC won't air a Thanksgiving-themed ad from PETA. Frankly, I think that's outrageous. Who the hell is offended by rainbows?

  November 24, 2009

• 2009 in Review: January

  ​​When Gut Check learned that the Chocolate Oreo Milkshake at Baskin Robbins had been named the worst food in America, checking in at 2,600 calories and 263 grams of sugar...well, we just had to try it! The grim results and the rest of the month in review after the jump.

  December 21, 2009

• Atheist Organization Promises to Take Care of Your Pet Post-Rapture

  flickr.com/photos/marcnGuess He didn't make it that time. But He'll be here. Eventually.​To Unreal, the Rapture seems like a very selfish thing. Sure, you get saved (Unreal is pretty sure we will not be in that number), but what about the sinners you left behind? What about your pets for God's sake? Those selfless creatures who exist for no other reason but to love you and who will be abandoned as soon as Jesus comes to carry you away just because they happen to be animals? What about them, hu

  December 29, 2009

• Well Red: Readers debate the effectiveness of traffic-light cameras and the fate of taggers

  December 30, 2009

• 2009 in Review: November

  ​​November was all about Thanksgiving -- though not in the traditional sense. No, our Thanksgiving was all about booze. (Or maybe that is traditional.) Anyway: The Beertender told you what beers to drink with Thanksgiving dinner, the Noble Writ discussed how to pair wines with your feast, and we listed what you need for a true dive-bar Thanksgiving. The rest of the month after the jump.

  December 30, 2009

• Vegans Who Aren't Morrissey Also Love the Pageant

  Todd Owyoung​Morrissey's concert rider bans meat from whatever venue he happens to be playing that night, due to his staunch vegan status. (When he played the Pageant last year, the hot dog cart even had to take the night off!) We're not sure if that has anything to do with the following item, but who knows? Congratulations to the Pageant, which is one of five venues nominated for "Best Concert Venue" by peta2, the youth- and music-leaning animal rights arm of PETA. In the "Libby Awards" (

  January 18, 2010

• Imagine If You Will a Robotic Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day

  For the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, every day is Groundhog Day. This of course means that every day is a new day to summon yet another spasm of outrage and cite a further example of man's inhumanity -- to animals. On this particular Groundhog Day, PETA has outdone themselves, a difficult task indeed. Seems the always creative and ever outrageous animals rights group -- again, engaged in staging its own fascinating theater of rant -- is all fired up that o

  February 2, 2010