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!
A camera captured the beautiful moment when the animals, after briefly hesitating and sticking close to their rescuers, took to the sky and soared once again.
There’s no way for Toronto International Film Festival to continue accepting Canada Goose’s blood money and still be ethical.
This video of a fist-bumping chimpanzee has made the rounds all over Twitter. PETA wants everyone to know this primate’s story.
This is another example of the dangers that unwanted animals face when shelters make it difficult for people to do the right thing and bring them in.
Experts say that the Brazilian Amazon fires are the work of humans, either deliberately or by accident. Who profits from the utter destruction?
Reps. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.), Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), and six of their congressional colleagues are calling for a federal agency to end four bogus tests on animals.
Mizzou’s approval of these tests indicates a shocking disregard for the lives of the rats who were used in the experiments.
It’s never easy to see suffering animals, neglected and unloved. But every day, PETA is out in the field, working to help ones like these.
When it comes to climate change, we may be royally “forked.” But will you “go gentle into that good night”—or will you fight for the health of our planet?
As these viral photos reveal, elephants are suffering in the tourism industry. Help PETA end elephant rides and other forced interactions around the world.
The brand has changed some of its language (pertaining to “ethical” sourcing)—but not much has changed for the coyotes and geese being killed for its garments.
For those of us who have ever been touched in an annoying way by someone, with one solid kick, this beautiful horse just became our hero.
If Sun Asia Ocean World’s history of abusing beluga whales tells us anything, it’s that this park has no idea how to care for animals.
NIMH’s head just admitted how useless forced swim tests truly are. So why on Earth is it still funding them?
An elephant peacefully protesting the secretive Allen & Company conference at Sun Valley Resort wanted to deliver a message to attendee Mark Zuckerberg.
