PETA’s Mission Statement
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal liberation organization in the world, and PETA entities have more than 10.4 million members and supporters globally.
PETA opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: in laboratories, the food industry, the clothing trade, and the entertainment business. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of rodents, birds, and other animals who are often considered “pests,” as well as cruelty to domesticated animals.
PETA works through public education, investigative newsgathering and reporting, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.
Since its inception in 1980, PETA has continually won groundbreaking victories on behalf of animals. Explore some of our most significant milestones and our latest victories.
PETA’s Current Campaigns for Animals
PETA is known around the world as a force to be reckoned with, thanks to our determined and creative campaigns. Explore our current campaigns and join one today to help us achieve more victories for animals.
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PETA’s news page is your source for information about PETA’s campaigns, breaking news about animals, and animal liberation information from around the globe.
How You Can Help Animals Today
Participating in PETA’s action alerts is one of the easiest and most effective online ways to help animals. It just takes a moment—get started now!
PETA brings together members of the scientific, corporate, and legislative communities to improve animals’ quality of life and prevent their deaths.
PETA’s uncompromising, unwavering views may be controversial, but they are always true to our driving mission: to stop animal abuse worldwide.
PETA is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) corporation funded almost exclusively by the contributions of our members.
Wherever animals are in need, PETA is there, giving a strong voice to those who can’t speak for themselves.
When an animal is in need, Community Animal Project fieldworkers do everything in their power to help. Learn more about their groundbreaking work near our Norfolk, Virginia, headquarters.
You Can Help Animals Too
PETA and the PETA Foundation are looking for smart, compassionate, hardworking people to join our teams, and you might be a great match!
PETA provides a variety of opportunities at headquarters for those in the Hampton Roads area who are interested in volunteering for animals.
Interning at PETA is an exciting and demanding opportunity – learn all you need to become an advocate for animal rights and apply today!
His Holiness spread the message of kindness to all, including those not lucky enough to have been born human.
Bird flu is spreading fast, and it’s deadly to cats. Here’s what you need to know to protect your cat from the H5N1 avian influenza virus.
He played many memorable characters throughout his career, but PETA will always remember and admire Gene Hackman for his role as a vocal animal defender.
Throughout her long career, Sen. Dianne Feinstein supported legislation to protect animals and spoke out against cruelty, including cub-petting operations and the carnage to horses who are forced to race.
The stench made investigators gag—but dogs had to breathe, eat, and sleep in this hoarding hell house 24/7. Make sure your local shelter isn’t dooming animals to similar fates.
These animals were bludgeoned, poisoned, strangled, and killed in other horrific ways—all because of “no-kill” shelter policies.
Hoarders who claim to “save” animals often cage them in criminally cruel conditions. When fires break out, animals have no chance to escape. (Warning: graphic images)
PETA wrote the playbook on courting controversy for a cause, with strategies that range from going nude to exposing the naked truth about cruel industries.
As communities experience the disastrous results of misguided “no-kill” policies, PETA urges shelters to make animals, not statistics, their priority.
The animal “rescue” industry is an unregulated Wild West. Animals are suffering and dying horrifically as a result.
Here’s another grim example of the results when animal shelters stop sheltering: Hundreds of cats suffered at the hands of cat hoarders claiming to “rescue” them.
Kirk Douglas’ remarkable life was an inspiration to us all to live compassionately and to speak out against injustice.
Doris Day recorded more than 650 songs and starred in nearly 40 films, but we will always remember her for her most important role: animal champion.
Think a fish, guinea pig, hamster, rabbit, or other small animal will be “easier” to care for than a dog or cat? Think again.
Does your dog’s “life” consist of staring out from behind bars, waiting for you to come home?
