PETA’s Mission Statement
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal liberation organization in the world, and PETA entities have more than 10.4 million members and supporters globally.
PETA opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: in laboratories, the food industry, the clothing trade, and the entertainment business. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of rodents, birds, and other animals who are often considered “pests,” as well as cruelty to domesticated animals.
PETA works through public education, investigative newsgathering and reporting, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.
Since its inception in 1980, PETA has continually won groundbreaking victories on behalf of animals. Explore some of our most significant milestones and our latest victories.
PETA’s Current Campaigns for Animals
PETA is known around the world as a force to be reckoned with, thanks to our determined and creative campaigns. Explore our current campaigns and join one today to help us achieve more victories for animals.
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PETA’s news page is your source for information about PETA’s campaigns, breaking news about animals, and animal liberation information from around the globe.
How You Can Help Animals Today
Participating in PETA’s action alerts is one of the easiest and most effective online ways to help animals. It just takes a moment—get started now!
PETA brings together members of the scientific, corporate, and legislative communities to improve animals’ quality of life and prevent their deaths.
PETA’s uncompromising, unwavering views may be controversial, but they are always true to our driving mission: to stop animal abuse worldwide.
PETA is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) corporation funded almost exclusively by the contributions of our members.
Wherever animals are in need, PETA is there, giving a strong voice to those who can’t speak for themselves.
When an animal is in need, Community Animal Project fieldworkers do everything in their power to help. Learn more about their groundbreaking work near our Norfolk, Virginia, headquarters.
You Can Help Animals Too
PETA and the PETA Foundation are looking for smart, compassionate, hardworking people to join our teams, and you might be a great match!
PETA provides a variety of opportunities at headquarters for those in the Hampton Roads area who are interested in volunteering for animals.
Interning at PETA is an exciting and demanding opportunity – learn all you need to become an advocate for animal rights and apply today!
Learn more about PETA’s vital role as leader of the effort to end crude and lethal tests on animals in the global food and beverage industry.
Casey Affleck was joined by his mother, Chris, when he spoke at a PETA news conference at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst, protesting cruel experiments on monkeys.
As part of an international campaign against the use of exotic skins by luxury brand Hermès, PETA and other animal rights groups got bloody loud. See the photos now.
PETA’s calling for this to be the first step toward releasing Lolita into a seaside sanctuary, before this long-suffering orca dies in the same cramped tank she’s been confined to for more than half a century.
New York tracks rake in $250 million in state subsidies annually—even though 90% of the state’s residents never go to the races.
Among other incidents, records obtained by PETA reveal that experimenters at the Cleveland Clinic caused mice skin lesions from hair-removal creams.
No matter the law, companies always have the option to choose different ingredients or even decide not to develop products if it means sparing animals’ lives.
In a new scientific paper published in the esteemed journal “Drug Discovery Today,” PETA neuroscientist Dr. Emily Trunnell takes on the cruel forced swim test.
Exotic-cat cubs are torn away from their mothers to be used for photo ops when they’re just hours, days, or weeks old. You can help these animals.
The Vanderbilt University Medical Center is a major hotbed of crude and pointless experimentation on animals. PETA’s pulling back the curtain on Vandy’s dark secret.
PETA, World Animal Protection, and other advocacy groups are recognizing the major progress being made for lions, who are used in South Africa’s trophy-hunting industry.
PETA protesters are making a splash in Miami to mark the 51 years that have passed since humans abducted the orca Lolita from her ocean home.
After talks with PETA, Lian Hwa Foods Corp.—a popular snack food company based in Taiwan—banned animal tests not explicitly required by law.
For more than 30 years, PETA, activists, and kind consumers like you urged Oscar de la Renta to ban fur. Look back on the decades of grassroots activism that just resulted in another big win for animals.
After talks with PETA, Vitalon Foods Group—maker of Taiwan’s best-selling brand of sports drink—banned animal tests not explicitly required by law.
