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.

© Jackson County Sheriff's Office
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.

RIGHT: © Corey Sipkin
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.

It’ll Take You Less Than 18 Seconds to Help These 18 Dogs Trapped at Texas A&M
It’ll Take You Less Than 18 Seconds to Help These 18 Dogs Trapped at Texas A&M

Misguided efforts, dried-up funding, zero insight gained—why is Texas A&M University STILL holding dogs from its notorious canine muscular dystrophy laboratory prisoner?

Did You Know Most Snakes Are Shy? Learn More With ‘Animalkind’
Did You Know Most Snakes Are Shy? Learn More With ‘Animalkind’

Did you know most of the 3,000 species of snakes are shy? You can discover the hidden lives of snakes and other animals in PETA President Ingrid Newkirk’s book “Animalkind.”

Pregnant Elephant’s Death Proves Elephants Need You Now
Pregnant Elephant’s Death Proves Elephants Need You Now

A pregnant elephant died after eating a pineapple filled with firecrackers. Imagine how scared she must have been when the fruit exploded.

Hold JBS Accountable for Trampled Piglets, Mutilated Conscious Cows
Hold JBS Accountable for Trampled Piglets, Mutilated Conscious Cows

How can we trust JBS to take safety measures to slow the COVID-19 pandemic when it’s apparently never cared about following the law?

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