People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals

Viola has attempted to escape from her abusers at least four times—but that hasn’t stopped the Sharon Shrine Circus from forcing her to perform. Do you want to help Viola in person? Join local PETA supporters to help free Viola the elephant at local demonstrations near you!

Lucky arrived at PETA severely matted with a fishing line wrapped around his leg. After we groomed him and provided medical care, we found him a permanent home where he’ll spend his golden years with a new dog friend.

Passersby saw a striking scene against the Arabian Sea in India: PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk, dressed as a fish sprawled across a blood-drenched slab of “ice,” was gasping and fighting for her life as a “fisherman” appeared to chop her into pieces.

In a bid to encourage empathy for animals who are mutilated and killed in university laboratories, PETA launched Abduction, a unique virtual reality experience soon landing on college campuses across the country—many of which house laboratories where animals are imprisoned and tormented. Watch the trailer here.

As major U.S. airports seek donations of essentials for Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers missing paychecks during the partial government shutdown, PETA supporters delivered suitcases packed with delicious and non-perishable vegan food and other supplies to TSA agents in airports across the U.S.

After the death of Chanchal, an elephant used for rides and painted pink for a commercial shoot, PETA India supporters made a statement with pink masks and chains, urging everyone to choose only animal-free transportation.

Anyone passing by a Raising Cane’s grand opening may be in for a shock. Recently in Memphis, PETA supporters gathered outside the chicken chain to show that chickens feel love, joy, pain, and fear, and don’t want to be killed.

A pair of PETA supporters dressed as wounded goats took over a Paul Smith store’s window display while bearing signs. The action comes after Paul Smith was implicated in a damning undercover investigation into mohair operations in South Africa and Lesotho, which documented workers violently striking goats with brooms and poles, dragging struggling goats by their horns and legs, and pinning goats to the ground as the panicked animals cried out.

Kisa’s elderly guardians were unable to give her the necessary haircut she desperately needed. PETA fieldworkers provided her with a personal groom at her own pace, for no charge.

A costumed “crying lobster”—joined by PETA supporters, along with members of Project Animal Freedom—descended on Red Lobster with banners and signs. Their plea points out that lobsters feel pain and terror just as humans do and urges everyone to leave them in peace by going vegan.