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Clothing and lifestyle brand October’s Very Own (OVO), co-founded by Drake, has announced it will stop using real animal fur in its products. The decision comes after advocacy group PETA and its supporters sent over 100,000 emails urging the company to ban fur from rabbits, coyotes, and other animals. In response to OVO’s decision, PETA…
Legendary music producer and longtime PETA pal Jermaine Dupri rushed a letter today to Chick-fil-A congratulating the fast-food chain, based in his hometown of Atlanta, on its new Cauliflower Sandwich and requesting that the company go a step further by making it vegan. Dupri, owner of vegan ice cream company JD’s Vegan, says that if…
Lizzo thinks it’s about damn time people go vegan! On the heels of her just-released album, Special, the Grammy winner’s hit song “Good as Hell” appears in a new PETA video—launching today—that celebrates going vegan as a way to “eat good and feel good.” Lizzo has been 100% that vegan since 2020 and recently scored…
Kicking off World Vegan Month, which begins today, rapper and entrepreneur Styles P appears in a new video campaign for PETA in which he discusses everything from the way vibrant vegan food keeps him feeling good to the need for greater access to healthy food in low-income communities. “A plant-based diet kinda makes your soul…
Rapper T-Pain has teamed up with his labelmate Sixx Mann for a fun new video for PETA encouraging fans to treat animal companions like family, just as they do. Gushing about his pampered dog Rallo—who will use only the elevator in his three-story home—and joking that he needs to burn his outfit to avoid making…
Following reports that Drake has gone vegetarian, PETA is sending the rapper a gift basket with passionfruit and other vegan treats and urging him to extend his compassion to all animals by refusing to wear them and ending his fashion company’s collaboration with Canada Goose. Dear Drake, We’re so happy that your animal-friendly eating is…
What do Waka Flocka Flame, Russell Simmons, and Mýa have in common? Not only are they some of the biggest names in music, they’re also part of the growing vegan movement that’s sweeping up everyone from RZA to Ne-Yo and Jhené Aiko to Raury. And in a new PETA video shot at Crossroads Kitchen in…
Wearing an edible bespoke dress made entirely of fresh vegetables, Grammy Award–winning singer Mýa stars in a brand-new campaign for PETA that proclaims, “Life in Color. Go Vegan for Life.” The ad, available here, was shot during the singer’s Planet 9 world tour. In an exclusive video interview with PETA, Mýa shares how her life…