Cooking for a Cause: Red Robin restaurants sell ‘Spicy Honey Glazed Bacon Burger’ to support National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s child safety initiatives.
Hooters Girls from all over the country will be voluntarily donating their torn pantyhose in an effort to help absorb the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico. The laundered pantyhose are used to make booms which are stuffed with hair, fur and fleece to absorb the oil. Hooters expects to collect over 100,000 pairs of pantyhose through this effort dubbed, Project Pantyhose, which could ultimately absorb 1 million gallons of oil in the Gulf, if the booms are reused 8 times, the average life of a boom.
Athena’s Home Novelties, an adult novelty companies, today announced bra collection drives at 2010 Pride Events in support of Athena’s Cup. A national campaign, Athena’s Cup aims to collect and hook together 169,000 donated bras in an effort to raise breast cancer awareness and attempt to break the current bra-chain Guinness World Record. Funds collected at Pride events will support Athena’s Cup, benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
German airline, Lufthansa, recently announced a new policy that prohibits the transportation of cats and dogs to laboratories. Not too long before the airline introduced this new policy, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) released photographs of more than 50 beagles crammed into crates being flown to Charles River Laboratories. The dogs were being transported from an animal breeding facility in New York.
Anne Feeley, a 55-year-old mother and brain cancer survivor, began a 3,781-mile ride across the country on April 9 to raise money and awareness for brain cancer research and support. The effort, called Brains on Bikes, kicked off from the University of California, San Francisco Mission Bay campus following a celebration that included remarks by Dr. Michael Prados, director at the UCSF Division of Translational Research in Neuro-Oncology and Russ Pieper, vice chair at the UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery.
Feeley is scheduled to ride into Washington, D.C. for a finish-line celebration in early July. She