Past Features

An Invitation From Rue McClanahan to Be an Ele-Friend
Please join PETA’s efforts to protect elephants--and receive a free Ele-Friend Kit--by declaring yourself an Ele-Friend.

Anheuser-Busch, DDB Follow Cruel Trend of Exploiting Chimpanzees
A commercial for Bud Light, created by ad agency DDB Chicago, mimics the tired line of advertising featuring live chimpanzees.

Animal Abuse on the Big Screen
In Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar’s new film, Hable con Ella (Talk to Her), at least six bulls were tortured and killed for a bullfighting scene, making it a real-life snuff film.

Ask Carnival to Drop Big-Cat Display
Big-cat exhibitor Marcus Cook of ZooCats and Zoo Dynamics is traveling the country with Thomas Carnival, which operates at local and state fairs. Cook charges a fee for visitors to have their photos taken with tiger cubs.

Ask Carnival to Drop Big-Cat Display
Big-cat exhibitor Marcus Cook of ZooCats and Zoo Dynamics is traveling the country with Thomas Carnival, which operates at local and state fairs.

Ask Kraft to Pull the Plug on Pizza Ads Featuring a Chimpanzee
Captive great apes like chimpanzees and orangutans are in ads to promote everything from soft drinks to credit cards. By using captive primates, these corporations are also promoting a cruel industry that rips baby animals away from their mothers and trains them to perform.

Ask NBC to Stop Hiding the Truth About Roy Horn's Attack
On September 15, NBC featured a fluff interview with Siegfried & Roy. PETA provided NBC with information on cruelty to animals used for entertainment and the facts about the tiger attack on Roy Horn at Las Vegas’ Mirage Hotel in October 2003, but NBC failed to include any such information in the interview.

Ask the Portman Group to Shelve "Drunken Monkey" Ads
This U.K.-based consortium of alcohol producers featured two chimpanzees in its "Drunken Monkey" advertising campaign. The ads show chimpanzees drinking beer and displaying "drunken" behavior.

Baboon Lagoon
Baboon Lagoon is a ridiculous traveling act featuring six female hamadryas baboons. Reduced to clowns, these intelligent primates with a documented capacity for abstract thought are dressed in frilly tutus and forced to entertain gawking audiences with foolish antics. Baboon Lagoon regularly makes the rounds of state and county fairs as well as other venues around the world, not only causing tremendous animal suffering, but also desensitizing audiences, including impressionable children, to the cruelty inherent in captive animal acts.

Baby Killers
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus often boasts that its Center for Elephant Conservation (CEC) is having a baby boom.