Artist Depicts a Cow’s Face Using Rice, Making a Powerful Statement

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Can rice art depict a cow so effectively that it wins your heart? Watch this short time-lapse video to discover more reasons to love these gregarious grazers.

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Calling All Young People: peta2’s Brand-New Website Is the Best Place to Help Animals

Skincare routines, shopping guides, ways to help animals, the latest vegan trends—peta2’s new website is helping young people make a world of difference.

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No Mere ‘Fowl Play’ on the Internet: Video on the Putrid Search Results for ‘Chicken’

Going to google “chicken” and hoping for a happy experience learning about living birds? PETA’s video exposes what usually happens instead.

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Who’s the Most Influential Vegan in India? Watch PETA’s New Video to Find Out

Who was named PETA India’s “Most Influential Vegan” of 2022? PETA President Ingrid Newkirk chats with him in this video.

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10 Reasons Why There’s No Excuse Not to Go Vegan

If you haven’t gone vegan yet, stop with the excuses and make the compassionate switch today. Motivate yourself with a few tips from PETA!

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Bigotry begins when categories such as race, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or species are used to justify discrimination.

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PETA Urges Shenandoah Valley Organic to Take Action Following Truck Crash That Killed and Maimed Chickens

A truck hauling chickens to a slaughterhouse in Harrisonburg, Virginia, overturned, killing many and maiming others. Here’s what PETA is doing about it.

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Dugongs Declared Functionally Extinct in China, Partially Due to ‘Ghost Gear’

Don’t like being “ghosted”? Neither did China’s now functionally extinct dugongs. Read how one of the causes was discarded fishing equipment called “ghost gear.”

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PETA to COP15: Solve the Biodiversity Crisis, Stop the Monkey Importation Pipeline

As COP15 gets underway, PETA urges participants to consider ending the importation of monkeys to laboratories to help stem the biodiversity crisis unfolding worldwide.

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PETA President’s Public Shower Highlights Meat, Eggs, and Dairy’s Devastating Roles in Drought

Are your meals drying up the planet? Ingrid Newkirk pulls back the curtain on the harm wrought by animal agriculture by lathering up in the middle of a busy street.

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(PHOTOS) COP27’s Meaty Menu Prompts Vegan Push From ‘Lettuce Ladies’

Double standards are on full display at COP27, and PETA is calling on the UN to go vegan or go home.

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Amid COP27, PETA Asks Pope to Excommunicate Meat-Eating Catholics

What if the pope announced that any Catholic eating animals would be excommunicated? PETA has urged him to do just that—and more—to combat the climate catastrophe.

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PETA Entities to Mayors at C40: Put Out the Fire by Going Vegan

There’s a massive, hamburger-shaped hole in the C40 World Mayors Summit’s climate agenda, and it’s eating at PETA entities. See how they’re calling for real change for animals’ sake.

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PETA Calls For a Strike on Sex With Meat-Eating Men

PETA is proposing a strike on sex with meat-eating men. Men’s diets cause 41% more greenhouse gases than women’s diets.

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How Muslims Can Help Animals in the New Year

This Islamic new year, we’re asking Muslims to consider how they can help make the world a more compassionate place for animals.

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Why the World’s First Octopus Farm Must Not Open

Octopuses are not currently “farmed” animals, but there are plans for an octopus farm to open in Spain in 2023. Take action to help PETA stop this atrocity.

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Save 200 Animals Every Year by Going Vegan

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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?” READ MORE

— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind