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!
We’re now closer to a day when no animal is maimed, force-fed, or killed in attempts to make bogus human health claims for marketing food and drinks.
With the feds and PETA on its case, Texas A&M University should do itself and the dogs it holds captive a favor and put all of them up for adoption.
PETA congratulates Expedia for officially rejecting cruel “swim with dolphins” encounters and SeaWorld prisons.
The best way to help prevent animals from suffering in slaughterhouses is to leave them off your plate and go vegan. These reports show why.
PETA’s zingy, animal-friendly term “arm barn” isn’t just shaking up the baseball world after going viral—it’s also making its way onto fans’ shirts and hats now that baseball season is in full swing.
To talk about such procedures as though they were anything other than cruel—to animals and to humans waiting for organs—is hogwash.
The matter is as black and white as a zebra’s stripes: Zebras don’t want to be held in roadside zoos or used in traveling acts, nor should they be.
Just how bad is Animal Haven Zoo in Wisconsin? The feds have cited it for a number of troubling animal welfare concerns.
Whether the facility is named “SeaQuest” or “One World Interactive Aquarium,” animals don’t belong trapped inside the Boulevard Mall.
PETA called on the Ohio State Racing Commission to conduct a thorough investigation of Mox Nix’s death and disclose the full results to the public—and it listened.
See how PETA Australia lawyers are helping horses on a small island and how it may lead to earth-shattering effects around the world.
PETA has proof that Ford paid for cruel and useless crash tests on animals—a practice that the company had pledged to ban more than a decade ago.
As reported in a series of scathing articles written by Rob O’Dell in The Arizona Republic, PETA uncovered a toxic, disease-ridden mess at the University of Washington’s breeding facility.
Honor Earth Day 2022 by streaming “Eating Our Way to Extinction,” available globally on Amazon Prime Video today! Read more to find out how to watch it.
Dogs deserve better than being run to death for mushers’ prize money, and Millennium Hotels and Resorts has acknowledged this truth. The hotel chain won’t renew its Iditarod sponsorship after nearly 30 years.
