International Women’s Day: Why You Can’t Be a Cheese-Eating Feminist
International Women’s Day: Why You Can’t Be a Cheese-Eating Feminist

Whether horse or human, cow or chicken, all females deserve respect. Here’s how to take a stand against abuse on International Women’s Day and every day.

How Dogs in the Sledding Industry Are ‘Factory-Farmed and Warehoused’
How Dogs in the Sledding Industry Are ‘Factory-Farmed and Warehoused’

Why should you stop using the term “sled dog”? PETA explains why this is speciesist and how dogs are “factory-farmed” for deadly races like the Iditarod.

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Derogatory Definitions, Speciesist Slurs—Dictionaries Should Nix Them All
Derogatory Definitions, Speciesist Slurs—Dictionaries Should Nix Them All

Everyone knows that the words we use have the power to create a more inclusive world or to perpetuate oppression, so PETA is asking everyone to think before they speak—or type.

Orangutan Father Swings Into Action to Look After His Daughters
Orangutan Father Swings Into Action to Look After His Daughters

Single parenting can be tough, but this widowed orangutan is nurturing and caring for his daughters.

Arsonist Gets 11 Years Behind Bars for Animal Abuse, Other Crimes
Arsonist Gets 11 Years Behind Bars for Animal Abuse, Other Crimes

Arsonist Michael Jarrod Bakkela was sentenced to 11 years in prison after pleading no contest to animal abuse and other charges.

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Challenging Assumptions: A Social Justice Curriculum
Challenging Assumptions: A Social Justice Curriculum

TeachKind’s free “Challenging Assumptions” curriculum empowers students to question societal norms and inspires empathy for all regardless of race, gender, sexual identity, age, ability, or species.

A Day in the Life of a PETA Animal Rescue Team Fieldworker
Animal Companions
A Day in the Life of a PETA Animal Rescue Team Fieldworker

A PETA fieldworker tells all: One of those featured in the documentary “Breaking the Chain” takes you behind the scenes to show her work for animals in just 24 hours.

Animals Need You to Watch ‘Breaking the Chain’—Now FREE on YouTube
Animal Companions
Animals Need You to Watch ‘Breaking the Chain’—Now FREE on YouTube

For the first time ever, a documentary is sounding the alarm on a national crisis affecting dogs and other companion animals. Watch “Breaking the Chain” for free now.

How Language Can Influence Kids’ Attitudes Toward Animals
How Language Can Influence Kids’ Attitudes Toward Animals

As you well know, your children are listening and picking up on things you say—for better or for worse. This may be one of the most important times in history to raise kids who care.

‘Our Jenny’: PETA Honors Late Animal Advocate With Action for Animals
‘Our Jenny’: PETA Honors Late Animal Advocate With Action for Animals

More than all the candles, flowers, tears, and words in the world, Jenny would have wanted anyone honoring her memory to do so by showing kindness to animals.

How His Mother’s Schizophrenia Taught Him to Have Empathy for All Animals
How His Mother’s Schizophrenia Taught Him to Have Empathy for All Animals

PETA’s Dan Mathews shares how being raised by a mother with schizophrenia led him to develop creative and effective ways to help animals and humans.

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Monkey Experimenters Describe People With Cognitive Disabilities as ‘Idiots’
Monkey Experimenters Describe People With Cognitive Disabilities as ‘Idiots’

People with cognitive disabilities are “human morons,” and animals are merely “subhuman,” according to notorious monkey tormenters Melinda Novak and Harry Harlow.

Think Spiders and Snakes Are Scary? Try Having Your Brain Sucked Out
Think Spiders and Snakes Are Scary? Try Having Your Brain Sucked Out

If she wants to elicit maximum fear, Elisabeth Murray’s evil plan is working. Before using fake spiders and snakes, she saws open her victims’ skulls and injects them with toxins.

12 Reasons Why Sheep Hate the Wool Industry (and Why You Should, Too)
12 Reasons Why Sheep Hate the Wool Industry (and Why You Should, Too)

Did you know that sheep leap with excitement when they see their friends? These sheep facts will have you loathing the wool industry and saying #Never21.

BREAKING: Pigs Rescued From Slaughter in Activist Regan Russell’s Honor
BREAKING: Pigs Rescued From Slaughter in Activist Regan Russell’s Honor

Regan Russell spent her last moments outside a slaughterhouse, showing kindness to doomed pigs. See how PETA is honoring her life and how you, too, can turn pain into action.

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