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!
What’s the difference between a cow and a carrot? Only one of them can be used to make cruelty-free cheese. Here are some whole-food recipes for delicious “cheese”!
Confining and slaughtering animals gave us COVID-19. So, what are you waiting for—a giant sign that you should go vegan? Well, in that case …
Despite the obvious need to close live-animal markets to protect animals and human health, these filthy establishments in New York City are still open.
How can we trust JBS to take safety measures to slow the COVID-19 pandemic when it’s apparently never cared about following the law?
Instead of punishing faculty during the COVID-19 shutdown, the University of Delaware should stop severing the spines of day-old baby rats in painful, worthless experiments.
With hospitals overrun with COVID-19 patients desperate for treatment, there was no time to waste on animal trials in developing lifesaving ventilators.
The video of this crash is completely heartbreaking. Those cows never should have been on that truck in the first place.
J.Crew Group has filed for bankruptcy as malls across the country remain closed. PETA has a vital solution to help the retail giant revamp itself.
Animal exploiters are nonessential—the coronavirus pandemic proves that the world can keep on turning without the torture and killing of animals.
We need a COVID-19 vaccine, and we can’t waste time on ineffective animal testing. Lucky for us and the whole world, the U.S. government agrees.
Americans must start eating as if everyone’s life depends on their choices, because it does. Meat comes from filthy facilities rife with disease.
If everyone would recognize butter as processed fatty, stolen secretions, maybe we could move away from abusing cows and stealing their babies.
PETA encourages everyone who cares about animals to stay 600 feet away from shady roadside zoos trying to make a buck off a baby tiger.
In case dog tormenter Peter Nghiem didn’t get the message that it’s wrong to inflict pain on so many lives, all these people decided to tell him.
Food recalls have come to a screeching halt, as COVID-19 has completely disrupted the nation’s food-safety system.
