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!
Tiny tanks are no place for orcas, who go insane and kill trainers because of them. What would happen if you lived in a bathtub?
The giant global flavor and fragrance company has agreed to stop starving and mutilating animals in its cruel product tests.
It’s heartbreaking that these pigs died, but in death, they’ve escaped a horrid reality filled only with filth and pain.
The wait is over: The highly anticipated documentary “Dominion” is set for three U.S. screenings, and PETA is in on the momentous events.
A reward of up to $5,000 has been offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the culprit(s).
A concerned parent told WKMG that when the animals struggled for air, they were held down with rods and hoses were used to spray water in their faces.
The feds allow a primate facility notorious for neglect and repeated monkey escapes to experiment with this deadly disease. Brilliant.
PETA’s legal counsel demands an explanation for the longtime refusal to display ads that urge commuters to ditch meat and Canada Goose.
Poland upheld its ban on live tissue training. Now, PETA is urging the nation to build on its progress and become a global animal-welfare leader.
An up-and-coming star bull abuser rode in his last rodeo this past Mother’s Day when a 1-ton bull stomped the cowboy’s chest in.
Edamama is 4 pounds of delicious love and bold personality, but she’s had to fight quite the uphill battle just to survive.
Impressionable moviegoers are notorious for buying animals they see on the silver screen, only to abandon them after the novelty wears off.
A roadside zoo in Canada faces charges after unlawfully taking a bear on an ice cream outing. It wasn’t fun; it wasn’t cute. It was abuse.
Assemble your squad and send animal-abusing robots into oblivion. Nintendo Switch has released Kitten Squad with a new co-op mode—and it’s all free!
PETA activists are the best when it comes to pushing for complete animal liberation. Check out just a few of our victories from April.
