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.
Follow Along With PETA News
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!
An entangled sea turtle was saved by the Coast Guard after being found caught in cords securing a bundle of cocaine that was floating in the ocean.
Do you know what to do if you find an animal stuck in a glue trap? Your actions could mean the difference between an animal’s life and death.
Want to kick-start your New Year’s Resolution to eat better? Bookmark this list of PETA’s most popular vegan recipes in 2017 for inspiration.
An FDA announcement that bone treats can be dangerous—or even deadly—for dogs has animal guardians concerned. Here’s what you should know.
Animals used for food are usually killed in slaughterhouses, out of humans’ sight. When transport trucks carrying them crash on highways, their suffering is harder to ignore.
This is the cruelty that animals are up against. Authorities are searching for a group of men filmed pushing a wild boar off a cliff in Spain.
These cute videos show that turkeys are too awesome to eat. If you fall in love with Cornelius, it’s time to consider having a vegan Thanksgiving.
Get your bucket list ready, because you just have to try the vegan-friendly restaurants featured on BuzzFeed’s “Bring Me” channel.
You’ll cry when you hear what’s going to happen to a runaway cow who was captured on the streets of Brooklyn after escaping slaughter.
Like Belgian Blue cattle, pigs are now being bred by humans to develop heaping muscle mass and make them more valuable to the meat industry.
According to reports, an unlicensed “veterinarian” was performing crude debarking procedures on as many as 10 dogs per hour in a busy Chinese market.
Most brands of candy corn contain some grisly animal-derived ingredients. If you’re searching for vegan candy corn, look no further!
The Beyond Burger tastes like meat, but no animal had to die for it. Check out all TGI Fridays’ vegan offerings!
PETA is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction on cruelty charges of the person(s) responsible.
Feld Entertainment should never have been given a permit to export these big cats. One has already died after escaping and being shot.
