Category: Programs
We Did It! European ‘End Animal Testing’ Initiative Validated With 1.2 Million Signatures
Signed, sealed, and delivered! A total of 1.2 million people banded together to protect rabbits, rats, and others. Find out what’s next for the European citizens’ initiative to end tests on animals.
Down With Down and Feathers: French Fashion Group SMCP’s Ban
Cruelty is never in fashion! SMCP Group told PETA France it will stop using birds for their down and feathers by the fall–winter 2023 season.
Will Lewis Hamilton Help End Formula 1 Owner’s Iditarod Sponsorship?
A word from Hamilton could prevent more dogs from dying—at least 150 have died so far—in the treacherous 1,000-mile Iditarod race, so what’s keeping the seven-time world champion from jumping in and responding to PETA U.K.’s appeal for help?
Companies Scramble After PETA Asia Exposes Down Industry Cruelty
After PETA Asia exposed cruelty behind “responsible down,” companies have scrambled to do damage control.
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.
Deck Your Family’s Tree With a Message to Help Animals
PETA Kids’ free printable craft will enable you to help your children share the ways they want to change animals’ lives in 2023.
Parents: Count Down to Christmas With These 12 Ways to Help Animals
Looking for fun activities to fill winter break? Grab the glue stick and some construction paper and show your kids how to help animals have a holly jolly Christmas.
PETA Latino Hosts Weekend Spay/Neuter Event in Cancún
PETA Latino’s Cancún event may have prevented the birth of more than 2,000 animals in the next 12 months alone!
It’s Easy to Shop Vegan on Black Friday—PETA Kids Tells You How
Shop ’til you drop and make your kids’ closets a winter wonderland this Black Friday with PETA Kids’ guide.
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.
Meet Bua Noi and Kat—Two Great Apes Languishing in Barren Concrete Cages at a Thai Department Store Zoo
Located in a Bangkok department store, Pata Zoo is “one of the worst zoos in the world.” Watch PETA’s video to see the way animals suffer at this crummy hellhole.
PETA U.K. ‘Zombies’ Raise Hell Over Near-Drowning Test on Animals
A mob of PETA U.K. supporters swarmed a popular campus building to urge University of Bristol experimenters to use their brains and embrace modern, non-animal research. Learn more.
Looking for Craft Projects This ‘ThanksVegan’? PETA Kids Is Lending a Hand
Help your kids encourage kindness to turkeys by making a traditional Thanksgiving craft with an animal rights twist.
Animal-Friendly Costume Ideas for Kids to Get Their Ghostly Glamour On
This Halloween, create a SCAREtacular vegan costume for your kids with help from brands that don’t make their cosmetics or accessories with monstrous methods that harm animals.
Free Printable: Help Kids Unmask Speciesism This Halloween
These animals have beating hearts and families, too! Here’s a way to help your children show some love to often misunderstood animals like owls, bats, snakes, and spiders this Halloween.
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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