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!
PETA is putting pressure on Newark, Ohio, prosecutor Douglas E. Sassen with a new full-page ad in the Newark Advocate calling for a criminal investigation into a local egg farm.
Huge news! L’Oréal Group—the world’s largest cosmetics and beauty company—has banned brushes made with hair taken from animals after a PETA push.
“Bucking Tradition,” a video by Action for Animals Oakland, is showing people everywhere why they should never go to a rodeo. Check it out now.
Nostalgic for Girl Scout cookies? Don’t worry; try these vegan recipes you can make at home.
Planning to celebrate a vegan Nochebuena? PETA Latino is encouraging folks in Phoenix to skip pork this year with a shocking pro-pig billboard. Check it out.
PETA challenges Mr. Vilsack to prove his many critics wrong by committing to enforcing animal protection laws as if lives depended on it—because they do.
This new regulation will save so many animals’ lives! Learn more about PETA’s work with foreign countries to end pointless experiments on animals.
The tragedy isn’t only that April the giraffe died—it’s that she never knew a life without gawping spectators or livestream cameras.
See Animal Rahat in action—providing thousands of animals with emergency medical treatment, food, water, and relief—in photos and video footage captured during the 2020 Chinchali Fair.
Victory! The notorious Ringling Bros. Center for Elephant Conservation is no more, and most of the elephants held there will be sent to an accredited facility where they can recover.
PETA neuroscientist Dr. Katherine Roe is speaking out against Elisabeth Murray’s cruel, deadly, and scientifically worthless experiments on monkeys. Check it out.
A shocking video from Durango, Mexico, shows a wild military macaw screaming in pain after being shot in the wing by a family who reportedly wanted to keep the bird as a “pet.”
This fall, PETA hopes students returning to the classroom will find one thing missing: animals. Here’s why we must reshape and rethink education.
How can we help horses who suffer and die in the racing industry? PETA is pushing racetracks across the country to adopt these twelve simple changes to save animals’ lives.
Going vegan is an intersectional move for justice. As COVID-19 disproportionately affects Black, Latinx, and Asian slaughterhouse workers, learn how you can help.
