Seeing is believing for a team of researchers from the University of Nevada–Reno who are developing an app to help blind people navigate independently. Giving the visually impaired more mobility without bringing more dogs into the world to serve as guide dogs certainly qualifies as progress in our book, so PETA has given the team … Read more »
In the upcoming Disney flick LOL, Lina Esco plays Miley Cyrus‘ fearless BFF who always speaks her mind. The role wasn’t a stretch for Lina, who constantly looks for opportunities to talk about the cause that is closest to her heart: getting marine mammals out of captivity. Lina has helped create two stirring public service … Read more »
Fighting for truth, justice, and the cruelty-free way, PETA’s caped crusaders descended on the Ottawa Comiccon to ask fans to be superheroes for animals by going vegan. The meat and dairy industries are colder to animals than Mr. Freeze, but all people can fight for good every time they sit down to eat. Ready to … Read more »
PETA is seeking current or former Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents who are also vegan or vegetarian to volunteer as models for our new “Look Bomb in Your Underwear: Go Vegetarian!” poster, which will be released nationally. The models will be photographed in sexy skivvies while posing in front of an airport body scanner. As … Read more »
Why must every American president shoot the obligatory “and here I am chowing down on a burger” photograph? Best bet? To please the meat lobby and because of the old-fashioned idea of what “being American” is all about: no falafel; it’s red meat and guns for me. Mr. Obama is no exception, often deliberately choosing … Read more »
PETA protesters wearing monkey masks and holding signs reading, “Deplane Monkeys,” recently held demonstrations outside the Chicago headquarters of United Airlines and the U.S. headquarters of Air France in New York. PETA is urging the airlines to commit to a ban on shipping primates to laboratories, as almost every airline in the world already has, … Read more »
Little Tess and Amelia weren’t always sitting so pretty. They were rescued during PETA’s investigation of U.S. Global Exotics (USGE), a massive exotic-animal dealer that denied the animals it warehoused veterinary care, adequate space, ventilation, heat, and even adequate food and water. Tess’s and Amelia’s luck changed when they were seized from USGE, along with … Read more »
A cat was found in the back of someone’s garage, emaciated, anemic, and suffering in the final stages of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), which attacks cats’ immune systems much like HIV does in humans. Several people in the neighborhood had been feeding her and noticed that she was eating less and losing weight, but no … Read more »
A recent article on CNN’s website helps explain why many animal advocates—PETA included—support policies requiring in-depth assessment before placing companion animals into new homes: By screening properly, rescue workers and animal shelters can help make sure that animals who have often survived cruelty, neglect, or abandonment will find safe homes in which they will be … Read more »
With the discovery of mad cow disease in a cow from a California dairy farm and in potentially more cows as the U.S. Department of Agriculture searches for her former herdmates, PETA presents the top 10 reasons why cows are so darn mad: How Many Kids and Counting?Unless you’re Michelle Duggar, you probably have no … Read more »
The 20th-anniversary edition of PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk‘s book Free the Animals has been released—get yours from the PETA Catalog—and the brilliant host of HBO’s Real Time (and PETA honorary board member) Bill Maher has given it a rave review on the Huffington Post. Bill gives an overview of some of the amazing victories … Read more »
Who runs the world? Vegan girls! They certainly run the 11-day Marathon des Sables across the Sahara Desert. Forty-two-year-old vegan Briton Fiona Oakes ran 151 miles—more than a marathon every 24 hours—in the world’s toughest foot race. Official U.S. Navy Imagery | cc by 2.0 Oakes joins an elite club of vegan and vegetarian athletes, … Read more »
Her left thigh was split wide open, exposing a festering wound the size of a baseball. The stray cat had suffered for months while the infected wound worsened, before a PETA supporter spotted her and contacted us for help. Knowing that the cat was likely in immense pain, we quickly got local officials to set … Read more »
This sultry snake charmer looked bootiful enough to charm the snakeskin shoes and accessories right off folks outside a Washington, D.C., metro station and convince them to scale up their fashion sense with faux skins. Since the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority rejected our offer to wrap rubber snakes around subway car poles to convince people … Read more »
Animal advocates’ voices are being heard loud and clear today, as PETA and eight other animal protection organizations have joined forces to keep Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from taking “The Cruelest Show on Earth” abroad—including to Mexico, where animal protection laws are virtually never enforced. Ringling’s Ridiculous Request Ringling applied to export … Read more »
