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.
Follow Along With PETA News
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!
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The country voted to close fur farms by 2022, but animals didn’t have to wait that long. The last farm is empty, and the industry is done.
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Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard asked NIH why it’s spending nearly half its budget on animal experiments that fail 90 percent of the time.
The 1,000th business just signed up to sport the “PETA-Approved Vegan” logo. That means there are at least 1,000 ways to swap out any nonvegan fashion!
There’s nothing greener than going vegan. If we want a planet that’s healthy enough to sustain life, we must stop eating animals.
Tabitha is one savvy turkey, but after a month, she was finally captured by a small group of kind volunteers that included a PETA supporter.
February may be the shortest month, but there was plenty of time for PETA to achieve some major victories that saved countless animals.
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Following PETA’s call for a ban on trainers with multiple violations, New York kicks out Hall of Fame trainer.
These animal abusers’ childish complaints show that the industries and PETA agree on one thing: The vegan revolution is here.
PETA welcomes Herbal Essences to our list of brands that don’t test on animals!
Disturbing acts like this are exactly why PETA worked so hard to set a legal precedent against these pointless mutilations in the U.S.
For the first time, a species of fish has passed the mirror self-recognition test. How long will people ignore the complex lives of fish?
This isn’t the first time an accident involving a horse-drawn carriage in Savannah has resulted in injury—but let’s help make it the last.
