Jan 21, 2025 · Phil could easily be replaced with an animatronic groundhog or any of the other clever updates that PETA has offered over the years. You can help by asking The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club to demonstrate actual respect for Phil …

Feb 1, 2023 · Punxsutawney Phil is a groundhog, not a meteorologist. For more than century, Punxsutawney has been known for this one awful thing: forcing a shy animal out into the cold, subjecting him to crowds of people, and treating him like an object, all so he can make a completely unreliable “prediction.”

Jan 22, 2024 · PETA is calling for some serious change this Groundhog Day: The group sent a letter this morning to The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club’s president, Tom Dunkel, offering to send a giant gold coin to replace Punxsutawney Phil—whose weather predictions are no more reliable than a coin toss—on the condition that Phil finally be allowed to live ...

Jan 27, 2025 · PETA announced on Jan. 20 that it hopes to end the Punxsutawney Phil Groundhog Day tradition by offering a free vegan cake to Pennsylvania holiday observers.

6 days ago · This isn't the first time PETA has asked for Punxsutawney Phil to be relieved of duty. Last year, the group suggested the groundhog be replaced with a giant gold coin and in 2022, they suggested ...

Jan 29, 2025 · PETA activists are calling for Punxsutawney Phil, the region’s fluffiest weather predictor, to be replaced with a vegan “weather reveal cake” during Sunday’s annual Groundhog Day celebration...

Jan 24, 2024 · In a letter sent this week to Tom Dunkel, the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club’s president, PETA expressed concerns that the groundhog is being cruelly exploited for publicity.

Jan 25, 2024 · PETA has a proposal for Punxsutawney Phil. The animal rights organization has written a letter to Tom Dunkel, president of The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, asking the group to retire the...

Jan 29, 2025 · PETA has offered the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club a vegan cake to use for weather prediction if they retire Punxsutawney Phil to a sanctuary. The animal rights organization believes Phil is being ...

6 days ago · Just two days before Groundhog Day, which is observed annually on February 2, Shapiro responded to PETA's offer to replace the state's famed Punxsutawney Phil with a vegan cake on X, formerly ...