Yesterday afternoon, two People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) members staged a mini-protest on Shanghai's most famous pedestrian shopping street -- East Nanjing Road. more ›

In a plea to China to stop the importation of seal meat and oil obtained from the annual seal-hunt in Canada, Pamela Anderson has taken it upon herself to send a personal letter to Xu Shaoshi, China's minister of land and resources. In it, she invites him to visit her in Canada and witness the animal cruelty she has been donning tight t-shirts and tweeting up a storm to prevent. From AFP: more ›

We warned you a few years ago about buying those adorable baby bunnies from street vendors and flower markets around Shanghai (they are often doomed before you even get them home.) Now it looks like all of China has gone hare-crazy over the little guys and pet shops are scrambling to keep up with demand as the Year of the Rabbit approaches. But animal rights groups from China and abroad are issuing desperate pleas to Asians around the world to abstain as animal abuses mount. Dead bunnies have already started turning up in dumpsters and mailboxes across China. more ›

While Chinese "animal rights activists" and their adversaries continue to argue about PETA's arrival in Shanghai and the implications that might hold, it has come to our attention that there are more connections between China and the vegan movement at large than a few angry vegans in their skivvies. And unfortunately for our chilly brothers and sisters, the news isn't good: shoes may be next on the list of items they'll have to remove from their homes in order to be ethically compliant. more ›

The fact that Heather Mills will be ice skating with a glued-in prosthesis is, as it turns out, only the second-biggest item of PETA-related news today. It has been revealed that everyone's favorite "animal rights organization" will be setting up shop here in Shanghai. In fact, says our sources, a photo shoot boycotting China's secondary fur trade has already occurred. more ›

• Yesterday, four Tibetan activists managed to unfurl two protest banners (including one that read "One World, One Dream, Free Tibet") and other Tibetan flags near the Bird's Nest. The flags were up for close to an hour before they were taken down by authorities and the activists detained, say Students for a Free Tibet.
• This loin-stirring ad featuring US swimming star Amanda Beard in her birthday suit was meant to be unveiled in a press conference by animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), but the conference was canceled after a midnight visit by the PSB to PETA representatives at their hotel. Undeterred, Beard went ahead to hold a small protest outside the Olympic village by holding up her poster.
• Less than 24 hours before his flight to Beijing, Olympic speed skating champion and Team Darfur founder Joey Cheek has had his Chinese visa revoked.