Maryland Bans Drug for 2-Year-Old Horses Used to Boost Speeds
Maryland Bans Drug for 2-Year-Old Horses Used to Boost Speeds

Racing 2-year-old horses is controversial, especially when trainers inject these juvenile animals with performance-enhancing drugs like Lasix.

These 12 Simple Rules Could Help Save Horses at Racetracks
These 12 Simple Rules Could Help Save Horses at Racetracks

How can we help horses who suffer and die in the racing industry? PETA is pushing racetracks across the country to adopt these twelve simple changes to save animals’ lives.

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They Paved Tiger Truck Stop to Put Up a Parking Lot
They Paved Tiger Truck Stop to Put Up a Parking Lot

The infamous Tiger Truck Stop has stopped using animals as cheap novelties. Let’s work to make sure this kind of sideshow horror can never occur again.

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PETA Celebrates Court Victory Against Jeff Lowe of ‘Tiger King’
PETA Celebrates Court Victory Against Jeff Lowe of ‘Tiger King’

First, it was “Joe Exotic,” then Tim Stark. Now, Jeff Lowe’s days of exploiting big cats are officially over, too. The villains of “Tiger King” are falling like dominoes. Is “Doc” Antle next?

USDA Tried to Keep Its Failures Secret—PETA Helped Force Transparency
USDA Tried to Keep Its Failures Secret—PETA Helped Force Transparency

According to the statement that plaintiffs secured, it’s clear that the situation is dire for the millions of animals the USDA is supposed to protect.

Why Is PETA U.K. Filling the Streets of Pamplona With Color?
Why Is PETA U.K. Filling the Streets of Pamplona With Color?
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PETA U.K.’s ‘Pigeon’ Pleads With the Queen to Stop Sending Birds to Death Race
PETA U.K.’s ‘Pigeon’ Pleads With the Queen to Stop Sending Birds to Death Race

A giant beaten and bruised “pigeon” on crutches protested with PETA U.K. outside Windsor Castle—where the Queen has been isolating since the start of lockdown.

COVID-19 Is Helping People See That Animals Aren’t Ours to Use for Entertainment
COVID-19 Is Helping People See That Animals Aren’t Ours to Use for Entertainment

SeaWorld’s reopening means that staff are forcing animals to perform in shows again. With your help, PETA will take on animal abuse at entertainment venues across the country.

PETA Warned Grants Pass—Horse Dies After Racing in Deadly Heat
PETA Warned Grants Pass—Horse Dies After Racing in Deadly Heat

Horses are pushed to the limit every time they race, and the additional stress of skyrocketing temperatures can cause brain damage, heatstroke, and death.

WATCH: 7 Seconds Prove Big Cats Suffer at ‘Tiger King’ Roadside Zoo
WATCH: 7 Seconds Prove Big Cats Suffer at ‘Tiger King’ Roadside Zoo

New footage shows young lions’ ears covered with biting flies and likely maggots at Jeff Lowe–operated G.W. Zoo. Big cats deserve better—this roadside zoo must be shut down NOW.

PETA Exposes SeaWorld’s Sexual Abuse of Dolphins
PETA Exposes SeaWorld’s Sexual Abuse of Dolphins

Despite having ended its wretched orca-breeding program, SeaWorld still sexually assaults other dolphins and whales. Help PETA end this now.

A Robotic Dolphin to Replace Captive Ones? Sign SeaWorld Up
A Robotic Dolphin to Replace Captive Ones? Sign SeaWorld Up

Dolphins used in “swim with dolphins” encounters live in misery. But these visionary designers are throwing exploited dolphins a lifeline—in the form of a robotic counterpart.

If These ‘Nemeses’ Can Collab on Seaside Sanctuary, What’s SeaWorld’s Holdup?
If These ‘Nemeses’ Can Collab on Seaside Sanctuary, What’s SeaWorld’s Holdup?

If an Australian marine park can stop breeding dolphins and join forces with animal rights activists to build a seaside sanctuary, SeaWorld can, too. NO. MORE. EXCUSES.

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Bogotá Completely Restricts Bullfights
Bogotá Completely Restricts Bullfights

Bogotá’s City Council approved a logical measure stating that there will be no more bloodshed and death inside Bogotá’s bullring. Bullfights, with no public funding, have no future.

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Breaking Investigation: Queen’s Pigeons Die in Quarantine at Death Race
Breaking Investigation: Queen’s Pigeons Die in Quarantine at Death Race

PETA has gone undercover to expose the suffering and deaths of thousands of birds at a pigeon race patronized by Queen Elizabeth.

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