People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

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This Notorious Circus Will No Longer Exploit Elephants in Its Shows

Great news! Following a vigorous PETA campaign, a notorious circus will finally stop exploiting elephants in its acts.

April 17, 2024

Another Foreign Lab Is Using Your Money to Hurt Animals—Here’s How to Stop It

PETA has found even more reasons to urge your legislators to act. Let’s save lives and stop the National Institutes of Health from using our tax money to fund foreign laboratories.

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Their Town Was Reduced to Rubble—Watch How 60 Animals Made It Out Alive

The day before PETA-supported teams arrived, two bombs hit a town in Ukraine. Watch the video to see how they worked with compassionate people to get animals out.

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April 19, 2024

This Is the Best Way to Stick a Fork in the Climate Catastrophe

Living on Earth is one of the things humans and all other animals have in common, and animal agriculture is devastating our planet.

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You’re Invited! Attend the Event of the Season to Turn Your Animal Rights Work on Its Head

See PETA’s president in person! After this event, you’ll have a new spring in your step, knowing you’re an integral part of the “all” in “all together now.” See a list of all upcoming tour stops and get your tickets here.

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Is Charles River Labs Misleading Shareholders About Its Link to Monkey Smugglers?

PETA is urging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Charles River Laboratories after its actions and sugarcoated statements didn’t add up.

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Learn How to Keep Cats Feline Their Best in Just Half an Hour 

This National Cat Lady Day, sharpen your feline guardian skills with an exclusive book talk on the cat guardian’s bible by PETA’s president.

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PETA IN ACTION

Protesters Rattle EVMS Over Killing 4 Baboons When Sanctuary Was Ready

PETA demanded that Eastern Virginia Medical School shut down Gerald Pepe’s laboratory, in which he tortured and killed hundreds of baboons in pregnancy experiments and violated the law repeatedly. Take action at PETA.org/EVMS.

PETA Descends On Prosecutor’s Office to Demand Charges Against Blood Bank

Protesters in Indiana urged Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney Jeffrey Chalfant to file charges against The Veterinarians’ Blood Bank, which denied sick animals veterinary care. Learn more at PETA.org/Blood.

‘Polar Bears’ Occupy Nevada Starbucks Over Earth-Killing Pro-Dairy Policy

PETA pointed out that Starbucks’ upcharge for vegan milk encourages people to opt for dairy, the production of which releases vast quantities of the greenhouse gases that melt ice caps and kill polar bears. Take action at PETA.org/Starbucks.

Wahoo! Fieldworkers ‘Spay’ the Day for Bruno and Mario

PETA held a “CAP Day” and transported 49 animals in North Carolina, including Bruno and Mario, to and from their free spay/neuter appointments in just one day.

‘Fashion Police’ Crack Down on Leather Wearers in Nashville

PETA members issued “tickets” to anyone caught wearing skins for contributing to the suffering of more than a billion cows and other animals killed every year by the leather industry.

Fieldworkers Flip Yoyo’s Useless ‘Shelter’ for New Digs

A dog named Yoyo was chained to a flatbed trailer that served as her only shelter, so PETA fieldworkers delivered a custom-built, insulated doghouse to better protect her from the spring wind and rain.

‘Beagles’ Blast Ajinomoto for Deadly Tests on Animals

PETA supporters in Illinois urged the National Restaurant Association to reconsider positive recognition of Ajinomoto, the world’s leading MSG company, until it stops tormenting and killing animals. Take action at PETA.org/MSG.

Mass Chicken Killings Amid Avian Flu Outbreaks Prompt PETA Vegan Egg Giveaway

Hen defenders in Texas gave out WunderEggs and urged everyone to switch to delicious, nutritious, and disease-free vegan eggs. Learn more at PETA.org/VSK.

Young Dolphin Defenders Descend on SeaWorld

Students Opposing Speciesism members protested outside SeaWorld San Antonio to urge the park to release the dolphins and whales it keeps captive into a seaside sanctuary. Take action at PETA.org/Corky.

‘Monkeys’ Tormented by Flashing Lights Swarm Harvard Over Cruel Experiments

PETA supporters mimicked Harvard Medical School experimenter Margaret Livingstone’s latest monstrous test, in which she subjected infant monkeys to strobe-effect lighting all day every day for 18 months. Learn more at PETA.org/Harvard.

30,000 Lives Are at Stake—and That’s Just the Beginning! Take Action

Tell Georgia officials to reconsider a plan for the largest monkey prison in the U.S. before a single shovel breaks ground.

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VIDEO: Elderly Elephant Viola Flees Her Circus Abusers, Runs Panicked on City Streets

PETA urges everyone to help protect elephants by refusing to buy a ticket to any circus that forces them to perform.

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April 16, 2024

alpaca stand in a green pasture at Lebenshof Aurelio, a vegan animal sanctuary in Lucerne, Switzerland

PETA Investigation Nets First-of-Its-Kind Victory for Alpacas—Check It Out

Find out what groundbreaking victory PETA’s evidence helped achieve and how to urge retailers still selling alpaca wool to make a compassionate change.

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More Than 100 Veterans Are Up in Arms About the Navy’s Secret ‘Recruits’

Did you know the U.S. Navy funds cruel decompression tests on animals? Learn how PETA collaborated with Navy veterans in a move to sink these experiments.

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April 9, 2024

Urgent Alerts

Change the World for Animals—Take Action Now

Ask Starbucks to Stop Charging Extra for Vegan Milk!

Join PETA and other kind consumers in telling Starbucks that it’s time to brew change for animals and the environment—before it’s too late.

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Urge Oceania Cruises to Sink Its Forced Monkey Labor Excursions

Please help end monkey abuse by urging Oceania Cruises to stop tour excursions to see exploited monkeys forced to work in Thailand’s coconut-picking industry.

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Urge Ontario Authorities to Assist Donkey With Severely Overgrown Hooves

Please contact Provincial Animal Welfare Services (PAWS) and ask it to intervene swiftly for the donkey with overgrown hooves on Settlers Road in Lindsay.

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Is a Loophole Letting NIH-Funded Experimenters Withhold Pain Relief From Animals?

With the “Column E” loophole, experimenters infected 6,272 guinea pigs with anthrax and not given anything to help ease their pain.

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Urge Resorts to End Cruel ‘Swim With Dolphins’ Encounters

Tell Hawks Cay Resort, The Kahala Hotel & Resort, and Hilton Waikoloa Village to end their cruel “swim with dolphins” encounters and not to permit the breeding or acquisition of more animals on their premises.

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Forests Emptied to Fill Laboratories With Endangered Monkeys—Act Now to Stop This!

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WHAT PETA STANDS FOR

People

I am you, only different

Ethical

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Treatment

Animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.

Animals

We are all animals.

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Urge SeaWorld to Free Corky, the Longest-Held Captive Orca in the World

Corky is the longest-held captive orca in history, and time is running out. Will you take action?

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Martin Wippel

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Better Late Than Leather: How Your Wardrobe Can Help Curb the Climate Catastrophe

If Earth Day has inspired you to take action to save the planet, this material should be at the top of your list of things to avoid.

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Top Racehorse Auction Official Arrested After Robbing PETA Investigator

An Ocala Breeders’ Sales exec hoped to hide video footage of the last moments of a young horse’s life from the public, but PETA won’t let the company cover its tracks.

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April 10, 2024

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Calling All Young People: Helping Animals Can Get You Some Major Perks

Taking action for animals is its own reward, but if you’re between the ages of 13 and 24, you can also earn exclusive perks with peta2. Here’s how to join for free today.

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April 15, 2024

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You’ll Duck Out of H&M When You See What It’s Hiding

Will H&M finally ditch down after PETA’s latest “bloody” stunt? Keep reading to see what we sent the company’s CEO.

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although not at a Johns Hopkins lab, this beagle kept behind bars for experimentation shows how nearly 65,000 dogs are imprisoned in U.S. laboratories each year

Is NIH the Worst Detective of All Time? What Its Recent Murder Investigation Reveals

Heard about the horrific history of animal testing in Johns Hopkins labs? PETA reveals how the university is getting away with murder—and who its accomplice is.

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April 11, 2024

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Here’s How Your Favorite Teacher Could Win Big This Year

Are you a world-class compassionate teacher, or do you know someone who is? Here’s how to nominate educators for TeachKind’s annual contest. Plus, get a glimpse of this year’s prizes!

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Why Did Eastern Virginia Medical School Deny Four Mother Baboons Sanctuary?

For 44 years, a Virginia school has been tormenting pregnant baboons and violating laws left and right. But it gets even worse—listen in.

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Massive Success! Guess How Many Animals We Spayed in Just One Day

PETA’s Mobile Clinics Division has helped spay or neuter more than 227,700 companion animals since it was established. See the latest lifesaving event!

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April 18, 2024

She Was Still Alive—What You Need to Know if You See a Turtle Near a Road

Many turtles are severely injured or killed on roads every year. They can survive for weeks after their shell is crushed. If you see a turtle—injured or not—on or near a road, here’s what to do!

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Can Compassion and Science Go Hand in Hand? Yes! Find Out How

Our scientists have a plan to phase out animal tests and improve research for human health. See our Research Modernization Deal here.

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Put Your Veterinary Skills for Tigers, Snakes, and Others to Work

We’ve rescued big cats from Tiger King hellholes, stopped circuses from exporting endangered animals for their shows, and more. Will you be a part of our next big victory?

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