The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals urged President Barack Obama to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he’s pestered by a fly in the White House.

Burberry denied animal rights group Peta entry to its annual general meeting today where protesters planned to call on the designer brand to stop using fur.

The natural foods grocery chain Whole Foods Market Inc, which has several stores in the UK, is to stop the “inhumane” sale of live lobsters and crabs.

Christian and Jewish clergy in the US say a billboard that promotes vegetarianism by claiming “Jesus was the prince of peas” is historically inaccurate and sacrilegious.

Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, asked by an animal rights group to drop animal products from his diet, sasid he understands the cause but doesn’t fully support it.