People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals

A 20-foot-tall “crying elephant” surrounded by animal advocates rallied outside the Carden Circus to call for the release of Betty, an elephant who shuffles slowly on her stiff front legs that hurt to bend, drags her trunk on the ground due to apparent paralysis—likely due to being forced to stand on her head and put several tons of weight on her trunk for decades—and is suffering from painful cracks in her toenails.

PETA’s new billboard is showing the crowds of Times Square how monkeys live inside federally funded laboratories and calling for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to shut down the seven national primate research centers.

PETA’s Community Animal Project secured the relinquishment of three unattended kittens in a plastic tub. After a health check, they were transferred to a shelter partner for a chance of adoption.

A troop of PETA supporters with giant monkey masks descended upon the University of Washington’s New Student Convocation, after traveling over on Seattle’s Light Rail, to tell everyone in attendance about the school’s deadly underground primate center and call for its immediate closure.

Because Vermont has the lowest fertility rate in the U.S.—and the consumption of estrogen-loaded dairy cheese is linked with decreased semen quality—a PETA supporter dressed as a not-so-little swimmer planted a seed about going vegan by handing out hundreds of animal-friendly cheese snacks.

With egg profiteers bracing for a fall surge of bird flu, PETA’s “Tommy Tofu” mascot is on the case to remind everyone that it’s a shell of a good time to go vegan by dishing up 100 free vegan “egg” sandwiches in Phoenix.

Passersby were in for a sci-fi spectacle when Charli XC Cow asked leather-clad customers, “Are you wearing my mother?” The robot, which features a state-of-the-art 3D-printed head, describes how cows suffer mutilations and violent killings in the leather industry—and also breaks into a celebratory dance whenever someone proclaims they’re wearing shoes, clothing, or accessories made of vegan leather.

Nearly nude PETA supporters covered in ‘blood’ and lying on giant meat trays wrapped in cellophane—complete with spoof ‘humane’ labels—took aim at the bogus certification scheme used to market the flesh of animals and dupe kind consumers into paying more for the same old cruelty.

“Bull blessings, not bullfights!” That’s the message PETA supporters brought to St. Peter’s Catholic Church, along with a pair of massive inflatable bulls. The animal advocates urged parishioners in Pope Leo XIV’s hometown to pressure the pontiff to denounce violent and deadly bullfights.

Shoppers attending the grand opening of a new Urban Outfitters were met with a gruesome sight, as a PETA supporter descended upon the store and displayed a realistic, severed “cow’s head.” The action is part of PETA’s campaign calling on all Urban Outfitters Inc. brands to stop selling leather, wool, cashmere, mohair, down, and alpaca fleece–all of which represent extreme violence, cruelty, and fear.