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Blog Post: Yes, These Turtles Are Still Alive

PETA — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:50:00 GMT

Update: Because summer is approaching, we're reposting this blog piece in order to help turtles.

PETA rescue workers discovered these two turtles beside local roads. Although they were mortally wounded, both turtles were still alive and suffering immensely when we found them. They were quickly and mercifully put out of their misery.

As the weather warms up, turtles are becoming increasingly mobile. If you see a turtle attempting to cross a road, lend a hand. Small turtles can be carried across the road by holding both sides of the shell and body, in front of the back legs. Large or snapping turtles can be gently coaxed into an animal carrier or onto a sturdy, flat surface so that they can be safely moved a short distance, or you can simply walk behind the animal until the turtle is safely across.

Always carry turtles in the direction they were heading. These determined animals have a destination in mind, and they will simply head back into the road if you try to change their course. Healthy, uninjured turtles shouldn't be moved from the general area where they were found, so once they've made it safely across, it's best to leave them be.

If you see a turtle who has been hit by a car, take the animal to a veterinarian or an animal shelter to be assessed and, if necessary, euthanized. Turtles have an extremely slow metabolism and can take days or weeks to die, even when they are severely injured.

For more tips, visit PETA's "Wildlife Emergencies" page.

PETA Ad in 'L.A. Times': Horses on Film Sets End up 'Shot' on Location

Jinnine-P — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:31:00 GMT

Manchester Fire Dept. Receives PETA Award for Saving Dog Swept Away in River

Jinnine-P — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:27:00 GMT

PETA to Shake Up KFC Annual Meeting Over Cruel Slaughter Method for Chickens

Jinnine-P — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:17:00 GMT

PETA 'Animals' to Albany Shoppers: Don't Steal Our Skin

Jinnine-P — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:11:00 GMT

PETA 'Elephant' on Crutches Confronts Potential Circusgoers in Trenton

Jinnine-P — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:06:00 GMT

Michael Clarke Duncan: Proud Vegetarian

Vanessa-C — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:15:00 GMT

Blog Post: Covance Closes Arizona Animal Lab

Jeff Mackey — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:45:00 GMT

Just three years after it opened following a long battle with PETA and local citizens, a laboratory owned by a notorious animal testing company, Covance, in Chandler, Arizona, is closing because of lack of demand for its cruel and deadly services.

Shutting Down Cruelty …

When plans to build the Chandler facility were uncovered in 2005, PETA worked with outraged local residents to try to stop it and managed to delay its construction. The world's largest contract testing laboratory, Covance subjects animals to painful and deadly tests of cosmetics ingredients, personal and household products, food additives, industrial chemicals, and drugs. Covance is also the world's largest breeder of dogs and the largest U.S. importer of primates to be tormented and killed in experiments.

Despite media censorship, word clearly got around about the horrendous cruelty found inside Covance's laboratories, including physical and psychological abuse of primates and lack of veterinary care for sick and injured animals.

The shutdown of the Arizona facility follows the 2010 closure of a Covance lab in Virginia, where shocking abuse of animals was exposed by a PETA undercover investigation. Around that same time, Covance scrapped plans to build a massive facility elsewhere in Virginia that PETA had urged officials to reject.

… But Keeping Up the Pressure

These closures will save countless monkeys, dogs, rabbits, mice, rats, and other animals from suffering, but Covance is still in business, so PETA's work goes on, including a recent protest at the company's annual meeting, where PETA also presented a resolution calling on the company to make animal welfare improvements.

Ready to help animals in laboratories? Learn how—and be sure to follow PETA on Twitter to learn about more opportunities to get active.

Pasta With Vegan Pesto Sauce

Ashley-P — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:22:00 GMT

Shot on Location

Megan-B — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:19:00 GMT

Blog Post: Victory! Angel's Gate Founder Charged

Michelle Sherrow — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Update: On May 15, 2012, officials filed 17 additional charges of cruelty to animals against Susan Marino, based on evidence gathered as a result of PETA's undercover investigation. Animals like Tuxie—the cat whose gaping neck and head wound Marino picked at and who, PETA learned, died last fall after suffering terribly for many months—will finally be granted a chance at justice. Marino now faces a total of 22 cruelty charges as well as a drug-related charge.

The Delaware County, New York, District Attorney's Office has filed charges of cruelty to animals as well as a drug-related charge against Susan Marino, the woman responsible for the horrific suffering of hundreds of animals at Angel's Gate, Inc., which she founded, operates, and dares to call "a hospice and rehabilitation center."

PETA's investigation of this hellhole exposed the daily neglect and terrible suffering of disabled, elderly, and ailing animals, many of whom had been shipped to Marino by well-meaning but severely uninformed individuals and agencies, including the New York Center for Animal Care and Control (NYCACC), which doomed Malcolm the Chihuahua and hundreds of other animals to die slowly at Angel's Gate through its "New Hope" program.

PETA had provided the District Attorney with the evidence that our investigator gathered while volunteering at Angel's Gate. Our investigator saw Marino allow animals to suffer, sometimes for weeks, from treatable conditions as well as terminal illnesses without providing veterinary care, medication, or pain relief. Paralyzed animals dragged themselves until they developed bloody ulcers. Animals developed urine scald after being left in soaked diapers for up to two days. Dehydrated animals were denied water, and others were forced to stay outside in freezing temperatures. The bodies of dead animals were left among those of the living for days.

While Marino has been charged, the nightmare is not over for the animals at Angel's Gate, as they have not yet been seized. Please help us ensure their welfare and the safety of future victims by joining us in urging the New York State Attorney General to revoke Angel's Gate's nonprofit status and ensure that the animals are removed from Marino's custody. Please click here to send a letter to the Attorney General, and please, when your animal companions become elderly or ill, let them live out their final days with dignity in the comfort of their own homes, surrounded by their families, not at the mercy of a conniving stranger.

Blog Post: 'LOL' Star Is Serious About Saving Dolphins

Michelle Sherrow — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:20:00 GMT

In the upcoming Disney flick LOL, Lina Esco plays Miley Cyrus' fearless BFF who always speaks her mind. The role wasn't a stretch for Lina, who constantly looks for opportunities to talk about the cause that is closest to her heart: getting marine mammals out of captivity.

Lina has helped create two stirring public service announcements about how marine parks such as SeaWorld abuse animals and how the parks are responsible for Japan's dolphin slaughter. One of the ads features a talented group of kids, and the other boasts a who's who of Hollywood elite. Now it's Lina who is in front of the camera, starring in a video for PETA in which she asks her fans not to patronize marine-mammal shows:

Lina makes a difference because she is never silent. Whether the cause you are most passionate about is ending the abuse of animals in marine parks, preventing animals from being killed for fur, or getting great apes out of laboratories, learn how you can "never be silent."

Anti-Flag: Never Be Silent

Megan-B — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:54:00 GMT

Anti-Flag: Never Be Silent

Megan-B — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:52:00 GMT

Michael Clarke Duncan: I Am a Vegetarian

Megan-B — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:47:00 GMT

Blog Post: Photo of the Day: Holy Vegans, Batman!

Michelle Sherrow — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:45:00 GMT

Fighting for truth, justice, and the cruelty-free way, PETA's caped crusaders descended on the Ottawa Comiccon to ask fans to be superheroes for animals by going vegan.

The meat and dairy industries are colder to animals than Mr. Freeze, but all people can fight for good every time they sit down to eat.

Ready to fly faster than a speeding bullet, be more powerful than a locomotive, and leap tall buildings in a single bound? Just get rid of the kryptonite, er, animal products.

Michael Clarke Duncan: I Am a Vegetarian

Megan-B — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:45:00 GMT

Michael Clarke Duncan: I Am a Vegetarian

Megan-B — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:41:00 GMT

Win a Copy of 'The Sexy Vegan Cookbook'!

Ashley-P — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:42:00 GMT

UNR Science Team Nets PETA Award for Building a 'Seeing Eye' App for the Blind

Jinnine-P — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:35:00 GMT