Once upon a time, Jen O’Connor’s friend left town and asked Jen to care for her rescued chickens. Some were bold and bossy, some shy – and one, Hailey, never stopped pecking at Jen’s polka dot socks.
In 1998, Natascha Maria Kampusch was thrown into a van on her way to school. Her abductor locked her in a soundproof cell. He molested her and hit her if she annoyed him. Such cases are men’s obsession with possession.
Take a spin around the globe with PETA and read about rescues, victories, and ways in which you can help animals.
At the last Victoria’s Secret fashion show, every one of the elaborate feathered “angel wings” was crafted from vegan materials.
‘Stringfoot’ pigeons are suffering from painful, disfigured feet because of litter being dropped by humans onto our streets – the pigeons’ home!
Watching his loved ones die from preventable health issues and struggling with his own inspired John Lewis to reject a food system that exploits people who live in low-income areas, keeps people sick, destroys the planet, and torments and kills billions of animals a year.
It was a scene the bookies and trainers will never forget, as the thud of helicopter blades, the blare of bullhorns, and incoming military-style vehicles marked law enforcement agencies’ raid.
“She lay in the hot sun, crying out. She tried to crawl to a shaded area, managing to drag herself 13 to 14 yards, but never reached it. The stockyard employees wouldn’t give her any drinking water.”
Hundreds were imprisoned in dingy, filthy cages. Others were stuffed into cloth bags. And many were dead when the Delhi Forest Department, acting on a complaint from PETA India, swept into the Kabutar Market outside Delhi and rescued 1,000 Alexandrine parakeets, finches, and other birds from its shops.
Corbu – fixed in several ways! Corbu was found paralyzed and trapped in a ditch in Romania. PETA Germany staff brought him to safety and gave Corbu all he needed to make a remarkable recovery.
Is it a shock that sentient beings destined for pet stores are casually denied water, denied veterinary care when injured, and kept in plastic bins like nuts and bolts in a hardware store?
I’ll never forget the day in 2014 when my world turned upside down. I’d felt strangely sick at work, and once home, I collapsed on the couch and faded in and out of consciousness.
Help! My neighbor complains about my cats going onto her property, but I’ve told her to back off. Cats don’t know where the border is, and roaming is their right! You are in the doghouse on this one, I promise. If you love those cats, or even like them slightly, you would cough up a … Read more »
Timidity never got us anywhere. Nor did sitting around lamenting the state of the world, or worrying what people think of us. Action is all that counts, and all that ever has.
