PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA — With Groundhog Day fast approaching, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is making its annual plea to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club to retire Punxsutawney Phil.

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.

The animal rights nonprofit organization is seeking to replace the Groundhog Day tradition with a vegan "weather reveal" cake. PETA announced the proposal in a news release on Jan. 20.

However, PETA -- the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals -- wants to cancel Groundhog Day. Instead, they'd like to replace Pennsylvania's treasured Punxsutawney Phil tradition with a ...

The cake would be a weather reveal; an ode to gender reveals PETA is urging Punxsutawney Groundhog Club to remove Punxsutawney Phil from his Groundhog Day duties. The animal activist organization ...

In a letter to Dunkel, PETA offered to deliver a vegan cake to Punxsutawney Phil's home of Gobbler's Knob in Pennsylvania each Groundhog Day, indefinitely. That's if Dunkel agrees to the let the ...

The animal rights nonprofit organization is seeking to replace the Groundhog Day tradition with a vegan "weather reveal" cake. PETA announced the proposal in a news release on Jan. 20. " ...

Obviously. It seems like I am not the only one who wouldn’t mind seeing this holiday come to an end. PETA has made a case against Groundhog Day, saying that groundhogs are shy animals who tend to ...

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. — Editor's Note: This story was first published by NBC10 Philadelphia. Click here to view the original story. Let them eat cake? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ...