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!
Following a push from PETA, the USDA terminated the federal Animal Welfare Act license of exotic-animal dealer Jimmy Wayne Hammonds, aka “The Monkey Whisperer.”
James Cromwell is PETA’s 2022 Person of the Year after he—at the age of 82—superglued his hand to the café counter at a Starbucks store and took other actions for animals.
As circuses with animals disappear so should the exploitative imagery. PETA praises Dukal Corporation for no longer using artwork of animals in circuses on its bandages.
Prior to the bill’s passage, PETA lawsuits had nearly annihilated the extremely cruel big-cat cub-petting industry by taking down the biggest players.
2022 was an outstanding year for PETA. But until speciesism itself is a thing of the past, we will keep working, pushing, and innovating—into 2023 and beyond.
A new cartoon shows Santa drinking milk from a cow’s udder: It’s PETA’s way of encouraging kids to embrace kinder holiday traditions, like leaving oat milk out with vegan cookies.
PETA is glad to hear that the new owner of the Miami Seaquarium is still committed to releasing the orca Lolita to a seaside sanctuary. If she is healthy enough, we look forward to seeing it happen.
On an average day, PETA’s Cruelty Investigations Department receives dozens of phone calls reporting cases of animal abuse. Here’s what happens next.
PETA is celebrating this compassionate move and encourages every shopper to leave mohair items, all of which are products of cruelty, on the rack.
American Greetings, the second-largest greeting card company in the world, has confirmed that it no longer sells greeting cards with demeaning images of chimpanzees.
SeaWorld confines approximately 140 of these highly intelligent marine mammals to just seven small tanks and then feigns surprise when they lash out.
We got wind of this company’s plan to build a dangerous facility to house imported lab-bound monkeys—and we jumped into action.
The rest of this weekend’s protests in Austin, Texas, against F1’s ties to the deadly Iditarod will go full steam ahead at Circuit of the Americas.
PETA Science Consortium International is celebrating 10 years of saving animals! Look back at its 10 biggest accomplishments to date.
For more than a century, the public has relied on undercover investigations to expose illegal and cruel practices on factory farms and in slaughterhouses.
