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With opposition to the annual "Running of the Bulls" and the ensuing killing of the bulls in bullfights mounting throughout Spain and around the world, PETA is pulling out all the stops to recruit nude runners for its humane alternative run, the "Human Race," and the group expects more than 1,000 runners in Pamplona—double the number of people who participated in last year’s event, which grabbed headlines around the world. Vendors are selling Running of the Nudes T-shirts, and Pamplona bars have snatched up special matchbooks that read, "Run FOR the Bulls!" on the outside and have a sketch...

Topeka, Kan. — Hoping to prompt Topeka’s lunch crowd into realizing that whether fish, foul—or even Frank!—a corpse is a corpse, PETA will slather a 10-gallon-hat-wearing effigy of a cowboy with barbecue sauce and pretend to cook "him" on a mock grill downtown tomorrow. PETA’s point? That all animals are made of flesh, bone, and blood, just as humans are, and that eating meat entails eating the corpse of an animal who was an individual with feelings, a family, and a distinct personality. In addition to the "human barbecue," activists will hold signs that read, "Meat Is Murder," and give...