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PETA Celebrates 25 Years of Victories!
This year marks 25 years of PETA's special brand of colorful, innovative, and influential activism. Back in 1980, the year that PETA was founded, our "office" consisted of a phone and a typewriter in a basement apartment. PETA's first case was against a chicken slaughterhouse. Then came the groundbreaking and successful prosecution of Silver Spring monkeys experimenter Edward Taub.
Two and a half decades and more than 1,100,000 members and supporters later, the name "PETA" is synonymous with "animal rights." PETA's street-theater style demonstrations, bold ads, and hard-hitting undercover investigations have grabbed the public's attention and started people thinking about the cruelty that animals endure on factory farms and fur farms, in laboratories and circuses. We are revolutionizing the way that the world views and treats animals. Read more. >
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Meet PETA's Animal Champions: Diane Weinstein and Michelle Harris
Do you think it's hard to become an animal champion? It's not. Just ask Diane Weinstein, who simply explained to a restaurant manager that force-feeding ducks is cruel. |
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 Fatal Frat Contest Results in Cruelty Charges
Thanks to pressure from PETA, two members of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity at the University of Missouri-Columbia were charged with abusing 40 opossums who were rounded up and stuffed-living and dead-into a barrel as part of a contest. Twenty opossums and two raccoons died.
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 Join PETA's online community to learn about and respond to urgent alerts and to keep abreast of important issues facing animals locally and around the world. Our automated e-mail and fax system will allow you to quickly respond to cases of cruelty, legislation, and more. See below for other ways to get involved. |
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 Vegetarianism Saves Sarandon
"Eating vegetarian and jogging regularly have taken me far."
(Spoken by: Susan Sarandon "Sarandon Says Aging, Not Activism, Threatens a Film Career," MediaCorp News) |
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