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!
PETA has received complaints from HBO viewers, and with good reason. We’re calling on the network to do away with all animal exploitation.
History has shown time and again that this hell-on-Earth facility is a danger to the public and the animals it imprisons.
Our actions are vehicles for compassion. Here are nine super-easy ways you can be kind to animals for the other 51 weeks of the year.
The audiobooks company has donated a 2nd time to save Thoroughbreds from slaughter. PETA is asking all owners of the horses running in the Kentucky Derby to pony up.
Beyoncé couldn’t make it, but Poochella was still a tail-wagging good time that featured vendors, food, and dozens of awesome dogs from local shelters.
We timed the overhead orca offensive to coincide with San Antonio’s largest annual celebration, Fiesta, which more than 350,000 people attend.
PETA demos are full of head-turning hijinks that save animals. Check out some of the latest rallies that have stopped folks in their tracks.
We’ve shown that animals are hanged from their necks and beaten into performing, but this spectacle is just as creepy as it is cruel.
PETA and experts from Harvard University argue that injuring animals in order to practice human medical skills is fraught with cruelty, financial waste, and inferior outcomes.
PETA activists—human and dog alike—are challenging animal abusers who choose to breed, hurt, and kill dogs for cruel experiments.
Jack Daniels, Iditarod sponsor, take note: Another dog has just died, and the 2018 race is around the corner. When will this bloodbath end?
Ducks and geese have a new advocate in on-demand delivery service, thanks to a collaborative effort between Postmates and PETA
Leonardo da Vinci was known just as much for his extraordinary artwork as for his scientific genius, but did you know he was also an animal rights pioneer?
PETA is calling on all red-blooded Americans to do their civic duty by consuming more tofu, soy lattes, and other soy-based foods!
AMSUS journal Military Medicine has opened up a fierce debate on “live tissue training” by printing a first-of-its-kind critique.
