People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): The animal rights organization

Can’t Stomach These Videos? Then Don’t Stomach an Octopus

Dead or alive, octopuses don’t belong on your plate. But don’t take our word for it: These three alarming videos will have you convinced.

Why Should Animals Have Rights?

When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

9 Vegan Wedding Registry Ideas for Compassionate Couples

Globe-trotters, wine aficionados, and charitable souls: Our nine vegan wedding registry ideas offer inspiration for every bride- and groom-to-be!

We Are Smitten With This Kitten

Sugar and spice and everything nice—that’s what this kitten is made of.

Hanover Zoo Staff Caught Beating Baby Elephants to Make Them Do Tricks

Animal abuse can take place anywhere, but if you see wild animals performing stupid tricks, that’s a dead giveaway.

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2017 Vegan Cookbooks We Can’t Cook Without

Eighteen vegan cookbooks in 2017—and counting!

PETA Members Rally to Tell North Korea: Don’t Go Ballistic—Go Vegan

PETA has a saucy reminder that we can all make the world a more peaceful place simply by choosing nonviolent meals.

City Council in California Nixes Plan to Trap, Kill Coyotes

The California city failed to perform an environmental impact assessment before voting in favor of snaring and killing coyotes. PETA is taking legal action to stop its cruel plan.

Fur Flies as Protesters Gather at Canada Goose’s Initial Public Offering

UNZIP! Activists Talk to People Who Wear Canada Goose Coats

On the day of its Initial Public Offering, Canada Goose finds out that when you’re trading in lives, IPO means Inviting Public Outrage.

R.I.P., Doctor Titilo

Doctor Titilo’s owner didn’t care about the horse’s age. He just wanted the bragging rights for getting him to run in 200 races.

Check Out PETA India’s First Fashion Lookbook: Fashion Fauxever

PETA India compiled a lookbook of the season’s chicest vegan styles with Meg and Komie Vora of Delikate Rayne shot in Mumbai. It’s a must see!

Tell SeaWorld’s Newest Shareholder Not to Bring Animals to China!

Please tell Zhonghong Zhuoye Group to open parks that feature only innovative, exciting, non-animal attractions that thrill the public and don’t harm any animals.

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Alzheimer’s Researchers Admit That Experiments on Animals Are a Big Fat Failure

After a string of failures, experimenters are finally realizing that the way they’ve been trying to develop treatments for Alzheimer’s disease has gotten them nowhere.

Snip ‘Kitten Season’ In the Bud This Spring

No kitten—now is the time to spay and neuter your cats.

Watch Bear Family Experience Their New Sanctuary Home

Watch PETA Liberate These Bears From Hellhole Zoo

After more than 20 years in captivity, Elsie is home, and her offspring—born at a roadside zoo in 2002—are finally experiencing life in a naturalistic habitat.

President Trump Wants to Slash Science Funding—Tell Him to Slash These From NIH’s Budget

Pres. Trump: Cut These Government-Funded Animal Experiments!

Please urge your congressional representatives to mandate that NIH stop wasting taxpayer money on cruel, useless animal experiments and instead focus on modern, non-animal methods of research.

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Chinese Group to Be SeaWorld’s Largest Shareholder, Prompts PETA Plea

PETA, Sea Shepherd, and others urge Zhonghong Zhuoye Group to use state-of-the-art non-animal attractions in any new parks.

Shocking Video Shows Matador Gored at Spanish Bullfight

This is the moment when a young bullfighter was gored through the throat by a bull. This man’s injuries are gruesome, but so is what happens to bulls.

Marine Parks Are No ‘Adventure’ for Orcas!

Please tell Adventure Student Travel that marine parks are no “adventure” for orcas!

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Family Takes Petco to Trial After Infected Rat Killed Their Son

Petco knew some rats could be infected, but to the infamous animal seller, it was just business as usual.

TAMU, Tell the Truth About Your Shameful Dog Laboratory!

Texas A&M University is either too scared or too ashamed to tell the truth about its muscular dystrophy dog laboratory.

Urge Candy Companies to De-Bug Their Sweets

Please ask Tootsie Roll Industries and Ferrara to de-bug their glazes and switch to a vegan alternative.

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Amina Blue: Everybody Should Consider a Vegan Lifestyle

Get Amina Blue's Sexy Head-to-Toe Vegan Glow

For Amina Blue, being a vegan is about so much more than just food. From nutrition to fashion to beauty products, every choice she makes is a compassionate one.

The Proof Is in the Poll: Orcas Belong in the Ocean

In light of recent poll results, PETA is calling on SeaWorld to listen to public opinion and let marine mammals out of their concrete cells.

Victory! Good Riddance to Yet Another Roadside Zoo

For years, Hollywild Animal Park survived while the captive animals there suffered. Today, the tables have turned.

PETA Encourages Nintendo to Put the Cruelty Back in Dairy

After playing a cow-milking game on Nintendo Switch, we’re left asking, “Where’s the reality?”

Stuff Your Face With Plants and Still Lose Weight, Study Finds

New research has found that a diet of plant-based whole foods can shrink your waistline, reverse type 2 diabetes, and lower cholesterol levels.

Jordan World Circus Needs to Drop Its Cruel Animal Acts!

Please ask venues still planning to host Jordan World Circus to require that scheduled performances go forward without animals.

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Are Companies Illegally Marketing Cosmetics Tested on Animals?

Thanks to an appeal from PETA U.K. and a petition signed by more than 15,000 supporters, the British government has agreed to request an investigation.

SeaWorld’s Worst Year Yet

All Joel Manby’s forces and all of his spin can’t put SeaWorld together again.

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PETA in Action

PETA Member Asks Canada Goose Jacket Wearers to Unzip Cruelty
A longtime PETA member is asking Canada Goose jacket wearers in New York City to remove the cruelly obtained fur trim. She's donating it to a charity for orphaned wildlife as well as $50 to PETA for each jacket.
We 'Fixed' Diesel and Domino for Free
Diesel and Domino were just two of the many companion animals PETA transported and sterilized for free on our mobile spay/neuter clinics this month.
Activist Speaks Up for Dogs in Texas A&M Laboratories at SXSW
During a South by Southwest panel featuring Texas A&M University President Michael Young, a PETA supporter walked on stage with the sign, "Michael Young: Stop Cruel Muscular Dystrophy Experiments on Dogs."
UniverSoul Circus Met by PETA Protests in Charlotte
A bodypainted "zebra" protested in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina prior to a UniverSoul performance, reminding passersby of the abuse that all animals endure in the circus.
Activists Lead Caged Protest for Chickens in the Philippines
PETA Asia led a protest in Manila inside a cage to remind passersby that they can spare chickens on farms and in slaughterhouses cruelty by going vegan.
Max Gets a Much-Needed New Doghouse From PETA
We brought this sweet dog a brand-new wooden doghouse to replace the broken plastic one he had. For more information, visit PETA.org/Doghouse.
Protest Held Against Ostrich-Racing Festival in Arizona
We promoted this protest against a festival in Chandler, Arizona, in which ostriches and emus were tied to crude chariots or ridden bareback and forced to race in a cruel, dangerous spectacle.
'Outdoor Dog' Photo Exhibit Debuts
Photos of some of the many dogs PETA and volunteers have helped in Virginia and North Carolina are now on display at Norfolk's Slover Library. For more information, visit PETA.org/CAP.
PETA Leaflets National Museum of African American History
PETA canvassed outside the museum, passing out vegan starter kits with recipes from local restaurant Detroit Vegan Soul inside.
PETA Staff Rescues Skunk
Staffers helped ensure that this juvenile skunk, whom they found out in the daytime, was brought to sheltering officials for assessment.