As an organization that celebrates education, the Smithsonian Institution should have been smarter. To drum up donations for the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, the organization threw a fundraising party complete with wild animals whom partygoers were allowed to touch, hold, and take pictures with. The cheetah, wallaby, penguin, armadillo, and baby foxes were from the Columbus … Read more »
In the midst of World Week for Animals in Laboratories, we have exciting news to share. After more than three decades of PETA action, Harvard will be shutting down its deeply controversial primate-testing facility in 2015. This victory is 30 years in the making. In fact, some early-day PETA members took part in a headline-making demonstration … Read more »
Republican Jim Patterson introduced “ag-gag” Assembly Bill 343 to the California Assembly—if passed, the bill would have likely shut down undercover investigations on factory farms. As it turned out, the bill was what got shut down. There was so much opposition to Assembly Bill 343 that Patterson yanked it out of consideration himself after admitting … Read more »
With cruelty as blatant as that displayed at Piccadilly Circus (also known as Garden Bros. Circus), it is no surprise that the circus is the subject of a whistleblower’s report that provides the basis for a PETA complaint to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The complaint details allegation of the circus’s habitual physical abuse of … Read more »
Just days after the start of Canada’s annual seal slaughter, Anna Karenina star Jude Law appealed to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on PETA UK’s behalf, urging panelists to uphold the EU-wide ban on seal fur. The WTO’s final hearing on the issue will be held on April 29. © StarMaxInc.com I’m writing to urge … Read more »
When SeaWorld decided to offer up 20 million shares of common stock, no one expected PETA to be one of the first in line to buy.
Tennessee lawmakers passed the state’s proposed “ag-gag” bill, which would require video shot on factory farms in order to expose animal abuse to be turned over to law enforcement within 48 hours. The governor has 10 days to sign or veto the bill, and Tennessee resident Carrie Underwood is determined to stop the unconstitutional bill in … Read more »
Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) is the last facility in the country that still abuses cats for Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) training, in defiance of modern science and ethics. Now PETA has obtained alarming undercover video footage of cats being subjected to these cruel training exercises in a recent WUSTL PALS course conducted in conjunction … Read more »
We’ll never understand how some people can look at a cicada and think “food,” but here we are. Read and share these five reasons NOT to eat cicadas.
Great Britain has united against circuses that force wild animals to perform. With the vast majority of the British public behind them, the members of Parliament voted unanimously to ban wild-animal acts in circuses in England and Wales. iStockphoto.com/GlobalP Pressure has been mounting for the past few years for the government to make this historic move, … Read more »
President Barack Obama’s new $100 million BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) is intended to provide insight into human brain function and behavior to help find cures for diseases. But considering that the project’s leadership committee is dominated by animal experimenters who have little experience in human brain research, it’s doubtful that the … Read more »
Nickelodeon star Daniella Monet unveiled her new ad for peta2—in which she encourages young people to let fish off the hook by not eating them—at a star-studded reception at the wildly popular all-vegan Sublime restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Sunday. In an interview that can be viewed on peta2.com, Monet explains why she went vegetarian … Read more »
Buried deep in President Barack Obama’s 244-page budget proposal is this gem: a reprieve for America’s horses. The new budget plan includes a request for Congress to reinstitute a prohibition on the funding of U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors at horse slaughter plants, which would effectively put the kibosh on budding plans to resume slaughtering … Read more »
Paul McCartney once went to Kansas City to get his baby back, and now PETA is blazing the same trail to help teens get their baby faces back. A new study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics found that teenagers who drank more milk had more problems with acne. It confirmed similar … Read more »
Just what exactly is PETA doing to help combat the animal overpopulation crisis and provide vulnerable animals with assistance? This infographic breaks it down: What You Can Do Help animals in your neighborhood as well as low-income areas get spayed and neutered, promote adoption from animal shelters instead of buying from breeders or pet stores, and … Read more »
