Category: Activism
PETA Gives Away the Greenest Shopping Bags
PETA made sure that grocery shoppers didn’t wind up in a pickle when the eco-friendly ban on plastic bags went into effect in Oakland, California. A convivial carrot and personable pickle offered shoppers at one grocery store free tote bags that were greener than a cucumber salad. That’s because not only did the bags help shoppers… Read more »
Victory! United Airlines Stops All Shipments of Primates to Laboratories
We have very exciting news to share. Earlier this week, a representative from United Airlines phoned PETA to say that the airline will no longer transport primates for use in experiments anywhere in the world! In order to ensure that animal experimenters get the message loud and clear, United even posted the new policy on its… Read more »
13 Surprising Ways Your 2013 New Year’s Resolutions Help Animals, Too
Would you like to help animals more but your list of New Year’s resolutions is already stretching to War and Peace proportions? Not to worry—chances are good that your resolutions can already help animals every day. As PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk illustrates in her book Making Kind Choices, the simple decisions that we make… Read more »
Holiday Shoppers, Put Down That Boring Tie—and Read This!
Tired of giving your family and friends neckties, candles, and pairs of gloves every year? Most of us already have overstuffed closets, and really, how much cinnamon aroma can one take? This year, think outside the tie box and give a PETA Present. Make your friends and family all warm inside by letting them “deliver”… Read more »
Start 2013 Off on the Right Paw—Resolve to Ban Chaining
Want to have a New Year’s celebration that’s “off da chain”? Start by getting dogs off theirs. (Chains, that is.) Since it’s time to make resolutions, make one of yours a pledge to see an end to chaining in your community by year’s end—all it takes is persuading local officials to make (and then pass)… Read more »
Photo: PETA’s ‘Angels’ Ask Shoppers to Be Divine to Animals
If holiday shoppers needed divine intervention to persuade them to keep animal skins off their lists, that’s exactly what they got. A saintly duo of PETA “angels” has been crisscrossing Canada in cherubic attire to help people in the frozen north be angelic to animals this winter by eschewing fur, leather, wool, down, and exotic skins. … Read more »
PETA Celebrates the Launch of PETA Latino
In the giant melting pot that we call “home,” the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population is people of Latin-American descent. We’ve seen how strongly this demographic has influenced American culture—including politics, food, and entertainment—and now it’s time to unleash that power to benefit animals. There are more than 50 million Latinos in the United… Read more »
PETA Ensures Dead Animals Aren’t Forgotten at ‘The Hobbit’ Premiere
If director Peter Jackson were hoping people would forget about the controversy surrounding The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey at the film’s New York City premiere, he was in for a disappointment. Amidst the crowd that gathered to watch the cast and crew waltz into the Ziegfeld Theater were PETA members wearing horse masks and holding up… Read more »
Photos of the Day: Lingerie Football League Throws a Flag on Fur
The ladies of the Lingerie Football League are part of the NFL (No Fur League), and they want to make sure that everyone gets drafted. The BC Angels are the latest team to join PETA’s anti-fur campaign, asking Vancouver to “tackle cruelty: bench fur.” The gals had a ball tossing around the faux pigskin and talking to… Read more »
Goose Ruffles Feathers Outside Mall
An 8-foot-tall goose on a busy sidewalk is enough to make people do a double-take. But an 8-foot-tall goose who has had his feathers ripped out is enough to make people stop in their tracks. PETA’s goose made feathers fly in order to ask holiday shoppers to save geese’s skin. PETA’s goose is touring the… Read more »
Thanks for Naming PETA the No. 1 Nonprofit
Thanks to our supporters, PETA just brought home the trophy for Favorite Nonprofit Animal Organization in the 2012 Veggie Awards! The annual awards, presented by VegNews Magazine, celebrate “the very best of all things vegan.” What sets PETA supporters apart is that you are determined and committed in the quest for animal rights. When we… Read more »
Protesters Demand Action for Sunder
Many of you have joined PETA and PETA India (as well as Paul McCartney) in calling for the release of Sunder, the horribly abused baby elephant who was held captive in spiked chains in a dark shed at the Jyotiba Temple in Maharashtra, India. Despite assurances from the government that Sunder would be taken into… Read more »
PETA President Tied Up, Beaten, and Abused
PETA is always saying that we wish people would put themselves in the place of animals. But if they won’t, we’ll do it for them. The founder of PETA entities worldwide, Ingrid E. Newkirk, let herself be hitched with a bit in her mouth to a horse-drawn carriage in order to help PETA India show… Read more »
‘We Could Hear the Pigs Screaming’
When we planned a demonstration involving people lying on what appeared to be bloody meat trays outside a slaughterhouse, we knew that it would be a poignant display. But even we had no idea just how intense it would turn out to be. The smell of freshly butchered flesh that permeated the air around the… Read more »
San Diego Rallies Against SeaWorld Abuse
The grisly photos of Nakai, an orca imprisoned at SeaWorld who has a dinner plate–size gaping wound on his lower mandible that he likely sustained when another orca attacked him, have sparked nationwide outrage. As PETA alleged in its complaint to government regulators, SeaWorld confined Nakai to a small tank with other orcas with whom he… Read more »
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— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind