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 Germany—with support from PETA U.S.—has persuaded a major German hospital to stop cutting pigs apart in deadly training exercises for surgeons.
Sales are declining for the dairy industry, but farmers refuse to slow production. The U.S. is up to its eyeballs in dairy “products” no one wants.
The new study reiterates what PETA has said for years—it’s irrational to mutilate and kill animals to train trauma medics.
Whether you’re setting up a cheeky Halloween display or preparing for your own demise, PETA’s coffin and urn stickers are to die for.
The takeaway from the overwhelmingly negative backlash against The Big E fair is this: Inhumane spectacles face more opposition than ever before.
These animals felt their skin boil and their lungs burn just like humans would. Don’t let their deaths be in vain. Go vegan now.
PETA will continue to defend our right to speak out, using creative and lawful means, until Texas A&M’s cruel experiments on dogs end.
No tests on animals for Dove, and parent Unilever bans all tests not specifically required by law across all other brands.
The university lab has proved time and again that it’s incapable of doing the bare minimum required by federal law to protect animals there.
Search “PETA” under the GIFs tab on your Instagram story to share your passion for animal liberation with all of your followers.
Moments after being forced to jump through fire, the animal collapsed and started convulsing— mere feet from the front row of the crowd.
Twenty-two surgical programs around the world will no longer mutilate animals in trauma training, thanks to PETA’s donation of 119 simulators.
Countless animals were left to fend for themselves, or worse, trapped inside barns and sheds with no chance of escaping rising floodwaters.
When one of the most iconic burger chains in the U.S. decides to serve up a vegan burger, you know animal liberation is winning like never before.
PETA kept the heat on animal abusers everywhere in the last month of summer. Check out these huge victories PETA won for animals in August.
