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First-of-Its-Kind PETA Video: Crabs Mutilated and Thrown Overboard to Die, Other Animals Beaten or Torn Apart
PETA’s undercover video reveals the cruel but standard way stone crab claws end up at Whole Foods and Winn-Dixie stores. Take action now!
Victory! Nestlé Partner AGV Products Ends Animal Tests, Thanks to PETA
In some excellent progress for animals, AGV Products Corp., a major Taiwanese company licensed by Nestlé, has ended animal tests following conversations with PETA.
Preorder the One Book Joaquin Phoenix Wants You to Read This Spring
A must-read book for the spring! Preorder Ingrid Newkirk’s expanded and revised 30th anniversary edition of “Free the Animals” and find out why activist and actor Joaquin Phoenix says it’s a “call to us all to take action.”
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Deaths Swept Under the Rug for Nuggets: PETA Exposes Fast-Food Supplier’s Massive Chick Hatchery
PETA’s investigator picked up a smashed egg with a tiny bird’s body inside it, and the head rolled out onto the table. Read the investigator’s harrowing firsthand account now.
Now in Ukraine: PETA Germany Moves Mountains for Animals Amid Bombings and Hazardous Treks
After discovering that more than 100 Ukrainian horses urgently needed food, PETA Germany sprang into action. Learn more about them and the more than 80,000 other animals the team has helped, plus how you can help, too.
Let Easter Be a Celebration of All Motherhood, PETA Pleads
Three new PETA ads are asking people to go vegan this Easter season to help keep baby cows, sheep, and pigs with their mothers.
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PETA Calls On Feds: Cut Funding to Monkey Laboratories Amid Chagas Disease Risk
In addition to being cesspools of suffering, monkey breeding and experimentation facilities have failed to address or even admit the potential public health threats that they pose.
PETA in Action
Urban Outfitters’ Leather Sales Elicit PETA Black Sludge Dump
PETA members in Philadelphia highlighted the environmental devastation caused by the leather industry, calling on Urban Outfitters to help save animals and the planet by selling only vegan materials. Take action at PETA.org/Urban.
Protest for Elephants Hits Close to Home for State Agency CEO
Christian Øverland, the director and CEO of the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS), got an earful when PETA supporters protested against the exploitation of two elderly elephants at the Circus World Museum, which is operated by the WHS.
PETA Slams Erectile Dysfunction Drug–Maker Eli Lilly
Protesters plastered flyers across Eli Lilly Vice President Janine Morris’ Annapolis, Maryland, neighborhood to urge the company to ban a discredited test that forces small animals to swim for their lives. Take action at PETA.org/SwimTest.
PETA ‘Fixes’ 381 Animals in One Week!
PETA’s Mobile Clinics Division was busy this week, giving animals like Lola (left) and Poddy (right) free rides to their spay/neuter appointments.
10,000 Free McDonald’s Burgers—From PETA?
In just 10 days, diners in Dallas and San Francisco devoured 10,000 free McPlant burgers—giving them a taste of just how easy and delicious it can be to grab a vegan meal on the go.
PETA Gives Gyp a Free Doghouse
PETA fieldworkers delivered custom-built doghouses to dogs like Gyp, who lives in North Carolina. They also replaced her heavy chain with a long, lightweight tether.
Going Bananas: ‘Chimpanzees’ Dump Giant Pile of Fruit at Hallmark
In Kansas City, Missouri, PETA members called on Hallmark to stop producing cards that exploit endangered great apes in demeaning costumes and unnatural poses.
‘Bloody’ PETA U.K. Supporters ‘Skinned’ Outside Louis Vuitton
In London, screaming “snakes” called for Louis Vuitton to join other designers in banning the sale of exotic skins. Learn more at PETA.org/LouisVuitton.
Students in California Push to End Human Supremacy
A group of Students Opposing Speciesism members mobilized in front of a busy Safeway store in Brentwood, California, to inspire their community to resist violence against animals.
Protesters Skewer University of Washington for Attempting to Hide Suffering
As staff from the University of Washington (UW) attended a security conference, PETA and Northwest Animal Rights Network supporters exposed the university’s threat to monkeys like Dorothy, who suffered and died in UW’s Washington National Primate Research Center. Take action at PETA.org/Seattle.
Unstack the Deck: Help Eliminate Monkey Tormentors From Federal Panel
Monkey tormentors and their supporters make up 60% of a federal panel determining the course of primate experimentation in this country. Demand better!
PETA Places Opening Bid on RBG’s Fur Coat—Here’s Why
PETA hopes that RBG’s fur coat can teach the next generation that ending speciesism—a human supremacist worldview—is crucial for social justice.
How to Have a Vegan Easter Celebration That’s Kind to ‘Everybunny’
Delicious deviled “eggs,” vegan frittata, and a basketful of other treats—here’s everything you need to host a compassionate Easter brunch.
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Addicted to Torment: When Will Texas A&M Release the Nine Healthy Dogs It No Longer Wants?
Pressure from PETA ended Texas A&M University’s canine MD breeding program in 2019. But then nine healthy dogs were sent to another lab instead of being released for adoption.
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PETA's Beauty Without Bunnies program is the ultimate resource for conscientious shoppers, making the quest for cruelty-free products as easy as pie.
Helen the Dolphin Dies at SeaWorld San Antonio—PETA’s Work to Empty the Tanks Continues
After spending most of her life confined to aquarium and marine park tanks, a dolphin has died at SeaWorld San Antonio. Here’s how you can take action.
PETA Fieldworkers Free Gandalf From Life on a Chain—Now That’s What We’re ‘Tolkien’ About!
Gandalf jumped for joy when PETA fieldworkers arrived to rescue him. Meet this sweet boy and some of the other hundreds of animals helped recently, and learn how you can support this vital work.
World Circus Day: Urge These Venues to Get Their Act Together
Circuses force elephants, tigers, and other animals to perform demeaning tricks and lock them in chains or cages when the show is over. Together, we can help them—here’s how to take action.
Win! PETA Sways Soy Sauce Giant to Stop Funding UW-Madison’s Tests on Animals
After a plea from PETA, the world’s top soy sauce maker will stop funding tests on animals conducted by the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Urge others to follow!
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PETA to Urban Outfitters and Its Shoppers: ‘We Want You to Change’
In some of the country’s highest-ranked college towns, PETA placed bold ads reminding Urban Outfitters shoppers to make kinder purchases.
Get Paid to Lead the Charge Against Speciesism—Become an SOS Campus Rep
Calling all college students: Want to make the world a better place for animals and get paid to do it? Apply to become a Students Opposing Speciesism campus rep today!
History in the Making! Animals to Be Recognized as Sentient Beings in the U.K.
Thanks to thousands of PETA U.K. supporters and others, the U.K. Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 will recognize what we’ve long known: Animals are complex, feeling beings.
How One Animal Experimenter’s ‘Aha Moment’ Changed Her Life and Saved the Lives of Others
Born in Taiwan, Dr. Frances Cheng moved to the U.S. to become a scientist, but her years at Case Western Reserve University still haunt her. Now the subject of a groundbreaking documentary, she shares her story.
Go Vegan for Earth Day! It’ll Mean the World to Animals
Living on Earth is one of the things humans and all other animals have in common, and animal agriculture is devastating our planet. So let’s do our part: Go vegan for Earth Day!
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Food Bowls Caked With Crud and Cats’ Skulls Cut Open at Wake Forest
Among other horrors PETA uncovered in laboratories at Wake Forest, one monkey was left dangling by his neck and underarms.
Have Compassionate Kids Who Want to Go Vegan? These Tips Can Help
Going vegan can be fun and delicious for young ones, too! Check out PETA Kids’ top tips to help your children make choices that save animals.
Beyond Animals for Better Science: PETA’s Plan to Update Laboratory Research
Our scientists have a plan to phase out animal tests and improve research for human health. See our Research Modernization Deal here.
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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?” READ MORE
— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind