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!
Sure, he was the “Great Emancipator” and a notable vampire slayer—but we should also celebrate Honest Abe for saving elephants.
PETA x Coalition LA presented a vegan fashion panel in partnership with WWDMAGIC, the largest womenswear trade show in the U.S.
Get ready to pamper your taste buds—luxury ice cream company Magnum has released two new vegan ice cream bars nationwide.
Nearly 1.33 billion wings—from about 300 million birds—were consumed during last year’s Super Bowl. PETA refused to sit on the sidelines.
Forcing stressed hamsters into deadly conflict is more than bad science—it’s a violation of federal law. Help PETA end tests like this now.
Countless vegans of color are choosing health and consciousness over animal exploitation and death—proving that going vegan is for everyone.
The choices we make at the supermarket are a matter of life and death. For animals, the planet, and ourselves, we must go vegan.
PETA has helped put an end to Kellogg’s horrific experiments, which included starving animals and mutilating their intestines.
A new report shows that grant funding is desperately needed for innovative, human-based research. Where are federal grants going, instead?
The meat and dairy industries understandably feared Canada’s new food guide: Dishonest claims that they’ve pushed for decades are crumbling.
Imagine having such a fragile sense of self that you’d torment, kill, and eat defenseless individuals just to look “manly.”
Did you know that after World War I, America was overwhelmed by unwanted cow’s milk? (Smell that? It’s the dank scent of foreshadowing.)
“Superbugs” are brewing on filthy farms. Experts warn that by 2050, more humans will die from antibiotic-resistant diseases than from cancer.
PETA urges everyone to contact restaurants in California that have foie gras on their menus and demand that they remove it immediately.
The suffering that NIH funds in laboratories across the country would give most people nightmares. We think that its neighbors should know this.
