Issue 3 Summer 2026
Dolly Parton once said, “We can’t just hope for a brighter day, we have to work for a brighter day.”
When I first met Janaki, she was about half an hour shy of becoming the main ingredient in butter chicken.
Take a spin around the globe with PETA and read about rescues, victories, and ways in which you can help animals.
Picture this: You’re walking down the street when a life-sized robotic chicken sidles up to you, cocks her head, and says in Jennifer Coolidge’s unmistakable voice, “I want you to go vegan real bad.”
Big change often starts with one small act, as these PETA supporters show.
Try to imagine his teeth-chattering terror: Torn from everything he had ever known, this monkey was shoved into a crate and loaded into a dark, deafening cargo hold with hundreds of other petrified monkeys.
He’s not a “dairy queen” – he’s the “vegan option”, and Alan Cumming is also a rebel against cruelly obtained animal skins.
Sexually abused as a child, this man wants the Catholic Church to act.
Months after Dora Ramírez went vegan for Lent – and beat a longstanding health problem in the process – she had an epiphany: Animals aren’t “ingredients”; they’re intelligent beings worthy of compassion.
Before you start shopping for this year’s cold-weather staples, please consider the ewe and her lamb in the picture.
As a senior writer for the PETA Foundation, Melissa crafts pieces that make people see how their choices – like buying honey or meat, wearing the skins that properly belong to those born in them, or drinking oat milk instead of dairy – can harm or help our fellow Earthlings.
Viola knew it was now or never. She had tried to escape at least three times before, each attempt ending in defeat, dragged back to the chains and bullhooks that defined her life.
PETA President Tracy Reiman answers your burning questions.
This is how we found Big Mama: desperate as the unrelenting North Carolina sun burned her skin, scorched the patch of dirt she was chained to, and turned her only shelter into a sweltering oven.
