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!
PETA staffers show solidarity with our fellow social-justice advocates following an attack on the NAACP in Colorado Springs.
Help protect your nose—and dogs—from winter’s chill with PETA’s Cold-Nose Cozy. Net proceeds support our winter-relief program for dogs.
One of the world’s strongest men shares his thoughts on true strength—and it has nothing to do with pumping iron.
After a University of Nebraska student allegedly bludgeons a raccoon to death, PETA urges the school to require empathy training for all its athletes.
Chained dogs never get a holiday, so PETA’s fieldworkers were out over Thanksgiving weekend delivering lifesaving doghouses, straw, and food.
From delivering doghouses to alleviating suffering to putting the brakes on animal births, it was a banner month for PETA’s fieldworkers and mobile clinics.
In a new mini-documentary from the producers of “Blackfish,” Pamela Anderson opens up about how her past abuse has made her a determined animal advocate today.
Holly Berry, a dog who was emaciated and chained before PETA rescued her, wins first place in her new family’s heart—and in a 5K race.
Following years of pressure from PETA and other animal rights supporters, NIH will no longer fund experiments on dogs from notorious “random source” dealers.
How little we know about animals! Discoveries reveal that shrimp can create ocean currents, giraffes’ circulatory systems are like antigravity suits, and more.
An animal experimenter is forced to resign after PETA exposes careless and cruel rabies experiments that he conducted at the CDC.
No one likes skunked beer—especially not this skunk, whose head became trapped inside a beer can that was carelessly discarded near a fraternity house at Miami University in Ohio last week. Thankfully, a police officer and an animal control officer were able to free the skunk, who was unharmed. (We sent them vegan cookies and … Read more »
PETA gets a spot next to some of the fashion world’s biggest influencers in a unique exhibit that explores how politics and fashion intersect.
A video of an elephant named Chuck who stands on two legs and dunks a basketball with his trunk is making the rounds. But what’s the story behind it?
From underwater turtle talk to equine sign language, animals have a voice and things to say. But are we listening?
