It's More Than a Bathroom Break' PETA has made similar offers to replace Punxsutawney Phil in years past. In 2024, the group asked The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club to retire the rodent in favor of ...

PETA’s proposal for a Groundhog Day cake On January 21, PETA—along with its president, Ingrid Newkirk—issued a statement detailing why it wants to swap Phil the Groundhog with a cake.

PETA President Ingrid Newkirk told the New York Post that Phil is denied the traditional lifestyle of a groundhog "for a tired old gimmick." {{#rendered}} {{/rendered}} While Groundhog Day is ...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling to ax a beloved American tradition – and to replace it with what it calls a "delicious" vegan substitution. The animal rights ...

"PETA will deliver a delicious ‘Weather Reveal’ vegan cake each Groundhog Day in perpetuity if [the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club] agrees to let Punxsutawney Phil and his family retire to a ...

The crowd started piling into Gobbler’s Knob at 3 a.m. on Sunday, happy to wait more than four hours in freezing cold to see the celebrity groundhog Punxsutawney Phil emerge from his tree trunk ...

Their solution? Replace Phil with an AI-powered animatronic groundhog, a weather-reveal cake, whatever that is, or a simple coin flip. I told Thurber about PETA’s thoughts — being from Punxy ...

That's especially true for a small town in Pennsylvania, where celebrity groundhog Punxsutawney Phil delivers his annual weather prediction on Feb. 2 to thousands of people in person, and millions ...

Over the last 20 years, NOAA found Phil was 35% correct - but still a lot less accurate than some of his groundhog competitors. Going back all the way to his first prediction in 1887, he's been ...

Punxsutawney Phil is getting ready to make another key weather prediction this coming Groundhog Day, Feb. 2 -- and it'll be the first year he will do so as a parent. The famous groundhog and his ...

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