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!
FIFA host cities are bringing their A-game for vegan fans. Here’s how to eat your way through the 2026 World Cup.
DC transit crossed a constitutional line by blocking our non-graphic, pro-animal ads. Now, the agency is facing a federal lawsuit.
From vast ant supercolonies who garden to fish who farm and cranes who dance, former PETA staffer-turned-author Ryan Huling’s eye-opening new book uncovers the remarkable worlds of the individuals living all around us.
Another dolphin has died at SeaWorld. Dottie spent 39 years in miserable confinement—never touching the ocean and repeatedly torn from her calves.
She was crushed to death in front of her family. This incident and others around the world expose the sordid reality of exploiting animals for tourism.
After hearing from PETA that harmful dolphin encounters are stressful, unnatural, and cruel for the animals forced into them, two resorts confirmed that they are saying “Aloha” to positive change.
Prisoners scream behind plastic curtains, thrash inside cages, and endure painful “experiments” in PETA’s haunting new short film, “Bodies of Research.”
Drugs deemed “safe” in animal tests have caused devastating harm to humans. Here are just some examples.
It’s “Mother’s Day in Hollywood”! These celebrity moms are getting treated to a cozy, cruelty-free nighttime routine curated for the R&R they deserve. See what’s inside!
All in a day’s work! See what happened when PETA supporters took a bold stand against the soda giant for failing to investigate the abuse of bulls in its supply chain.
The Dolphin Research Center in Marathon, Florida, markets itself as a “sanctuary,” but that bogus claim doesn’t hold any water.
Florals for spring? Groundbreaking. Ditching leather, wool, and wildlife skins forever? That’s all.
As Sir David Attenborough turns 100, PETA UK is celebrating the legendary man who has awakened millions to the wonders of the animal kingdom and for his condemnation of the devastating efforts of the meat industry on our planet’s ecology – with a surprise gift of a wise old bull who shows people around a sanctuary in India, opening their eyes to nature.
A planned “slotharium” in Orlando in Florida has been shut down before it even opened after dozens of sloths died. Find out what official records obtained by PETA revealed.
On the latest episode of “The Rocky Mountain Vet Podcast,” PETA’s Daphna Nachminovitch exposes the truth about “no-kill” policies that some shelters use to boost their image. Behind the “sexy slogan,” animals are left to suffer in silence.
