Eli Lilly is clinging to cruel, archaic near-drowning tests in which experimenters watch as animals struggle to keep their heads above water. PETA doesn’t think the Cialis manufacturer can keep it up much longer.
“People going into PetSmart should know the company doesn’t view [companion animals] as animals,” one former, traumatized employee told VICE. “They view them as products.”
This heartlessness is how mushers treat dogs at the Iditarod starting line. Imagine the abuse and neglect the animals must endure when they’re on the trail—when no one’s watching.
This young man voluntarily risked injury and death by participating in the Bell County Rodeo. The bull he decided to torment—the one who was forced to protect himself—had no such choice.
PETA LAMBS is encouraging everyone to fight speciesism by valuing all animals for who they are as individuals, by choosing merciful vegan meals, and by making other lifesaving choices during Lent and beyond.
Painting a monkey is an appalling act of cruelty, and unless he was quickly found and treated, this animal may be dead. Find out how you can help vulnerable monkeys like this one.
It wasn’t your typical security camera footage: A woman awoke at 3 a.m. to an alert from her Ring doorbell—dozens of cows had risked everything by escaping from a nearby dairy farm.
Dogs deserve better than being run to death for mushers’ prize money, and Millennium Hotels and Resorts has agreed to stop supporting such cruelty. The hotel chain is dropping its Iditarod sponsorship after nearly 30 years.
Leon, a dog who was used by rookie musher Sébastien Dos Santos Borges and who went missing during this year’s Iditarod, has been found.
After four days of calls and round-the clock protests by PETA supporters, humane agencies rescued John D. Jones’ latest victims. The dogs will be getting the safety and warmth that they desperately need.
Lakshmi was abused with a bullhook and denied adequate food, water, and veterinary care—then PETA India intervened, successfully campaigning for her rescue and rehabilitation.
Leaving your dog with a stranger is a terrible idea under any circumstances—it’s confusing and scary for your dog, and it’s an invitation to disaster. Mugshot’s guardian learned this the hard way.
Lightweight tie-outs, warm straw bedding, a toy to brighten their day, a new life indoors with a loving family—for these 21 chained dogs and countless others, PETA kept on “breaking the chain” in 2021.
So 1981 called—it wants its McRib back.
PETA won big in 2021: We pushed Taiwan to stop drowning and shocking animals, Canada Goose to ditch fur, ExxonMobil to end its Iditarod sponsorship, and more!
