Category: Main Issues
VIDEO: Horse Crashes in NYC—Carriage and Street Left Splattered With Blood
Tourists surely don’t want to see bloodied animals on the streets, and this horse certainly didn’t sign up for such violence. Will New York City ban horse-drawn carriages at long last?
Victory! Following Decades-Long PETA Campaign, Kering Is Going Fur-Free!
After a decades-long PETA campaign, Kering—the parent company of Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, and other luxury brands—is going fur-free.
Running Out of Juice in the Bedroom? PETA’s Got You
Can’t put your finger on what’s not working in the bedroom? The time is ripe for going vegan!
PETA to Millennium Hotels: Drop Cruel Iditarod Sponsorship—Tout de Suite!
See photos from PETA protests around the world! Animal advocates are calling on Millennium Hotels to cut ties with the deadly Iditarod.
North America’s Top Chocolate Ingredient Supplier Bans Animal Tests After PETA Push
Learn more about PETA’s vital role as leader of the effort to end crude and lethal tests on animals in the global food and beverage industry.
PETA Files Groundbreaking Suit Against NIH, HHS Over Sepsis Experiments on Animals
PETA’s taking the National Institutes of Health to court over its continued funding of failed sepsis tests on animals.
Body Cam Video Exposes Pigs’ Torment Following Fatal Wreck: ‘That’s Probably … a Broke Pig … Laying There’
Body-cam video obtained by PETA shows what officers saw at the scene of a slaughterhouse-bound truck wreck: “That’s probably … a broke pig … laying there,” one observed.
PETA’s 76th Bear Rescue Is in the Books—Dolly and Fox Family Are Finally at a Real Sanctuary
The sun’s set on Sunrise Side, the now-defunct roadside zoo where an injured bear was neglected and a lion bit off part of a visitor’s finger. If Oswald’s Bear Ranch were clued in, it’d fold, too.
Victory! The European Parliament Votes YES to a Future Without Animal Experiments
History in the making: The European Parliament supports PETA’s call to end experiments on animals!
2021 Met Gala: Billie Eilish in Oscar de la Renta Makes Going Fur-Free the Star of the Red Carpet
Is this the most animal-friendly Met Gala of all time? Thanks to an all-vegan menu and Billie Eilish’s constant activism, PETA thinks so.
Casey Affleck and PETA Demand That UMass End Cruel Monkey Experiments
Casey Affleck was joined by his mother, Chris, when he spoke at a PETA news conference at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst, protesting cruel experiments on monkeys.
Imprisoned at Marineland, Lone Orca Appears to Bash Her Head Against Tank Over and Over (VIDEO)
The sight and sounds of Kiska the orca as she appears to bash her head against the glass of her small Marineland tank will haunt you, as will the rest of her heartbreaking story.
WATCH: PETA President Visits Site of Silver Spring Monkeys’ Case 40 Years Later
PETA President Ingrid Newkirk revisits the site of the historic case that put animal rights on the map.
9/11, 20 Years Later: PETA Remembers With the Rest of the World
Like many others, we here at PETA are filing through our memories of September 11, 2001: the chaos, the fear, the sorrow—and amid it all, people helping others, including animals.
PETA Honors Former Animal Experimenter Turned Animal Rights Advocate With a Trailblazing Advocacy Award
PETA is honoring former animal experimenter turned animal rights advocate Dr. John Gluck for his trailblazing efforts to end experiments on animals.
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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