This is what Olivia looked like when she was found:

The little piglet, who had sustained a fractured pelvis, cuts, and scrapes, was found on the side of the road after apparently falling off a transport truck. The Good Samaritan who found her called PETA for help, and PETA's Emergency Response Team called a wonderful activist to take Olivia to the Animal Rescue League of Iowa (ARL), where she is safe and sound! ARL is working with a doctor to treat the porcine princess, who will never find out what a gestation crate is.

Olivia is well on the road to recovery and even going through physical therapy using an underwater treadmill (you have to watch the video). As one news story about Olivia's stroke of luck put it, "How nice that some people see her as more than sausage and bacon."

Ready to give meat the heave-ho—for Olivia's sake? Order PETA's free vegan/vegetarian starter kit today.

Tonight, Los Angeles will see PETA friend Gulshan Grover on the big screen, opening the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles with I Am Kalam, in which he plays a prince who befriends a poor young boy and helps him get an education. Grover usually plays the villain onscreen, but off camera, he is a prince for animals, going after the real bad guys through his work with PETA India.

This PETA India ad starring Grover refers to the barbaric animal transport methods used in India's leather trade. Cows are crammed into tiny trucks so tightly that they suffer injuries or are forced to walk through the heat and dust for days without food or water. Many of them collapse. To keep sick and injured cows moving, handlers twist the animals' tails until they break or rub chili peppers into their eyes. All this occurs before they are skinned and dismembered, sometimes while still conscious.

To be a star for animals, join Gulshan Grover in saying "No" to animal abuse in the leather industry. Beautiful nonleather options abound at every price range for camera-ready compassion.

 
Written by Michelle Sherrow