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!
Many other animals besides tigers are torn away from their mothers, kept in squalid conditions, and used for public encounters so that roadside zoos can make money.
Horses in Chicago will no longer be forced to pound the pavement through extreme heat, thunderstorms, and bone-chilling blizzards.
According to the USDA inspection report, such a large amount of blood was not supposed to have been drawn from the goat—a lethal error.
If you think PETA’s honking and general hullabaloo sounded crazy, wait until you hear how NIH has tortured frightened monkeys for decades.
COVID-19 and other deadly diseases have a major impact on the pig- and bird-flesh supply. What better time to overhaul this filthy industry?
Lines for food banks currently stretch almost to the horizon. Help facilities keep up with demand with PETA’s Vegans for the Vulnerable initiative.
We can only imagine what cruelty monkeys must have endured for Oregon Health & Science University to try this hard to bury footage of its experiments.
The 1995 film “Outbreak” isn’t supposed to be a “how to” guide. We must suspend all experiments on monkeys right now to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Raising and killing exotic animals for “luxury” fashion items may be setting the stage for the next viral pandemic.
In a grasping attempt to stay relevant, Jeff Lowe of “Tiger King” recently appeared on Reddit to do an “Ask Me Anything”—and wow, did people ask him anything.
With its pandemic-fueling potential, LVMH’s sale of fur and exotic skins shows a total disregard for everyone’s life.
PETA has been calling for a ban on live-animal markets from the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak. Every government body should be doing the same.
‘Tiger King’ just released a follow-up eighth episode. Even if this show were 37 episodes long, it couldn’t possibly cover all the cruel things Joe Exotic has done to animals.
“I’m choosing to be uncomfortable for this fundraiser, but dogs who are forced to live chained outside in the extreme heat or cold don’t get to choose.”
Do you think your children can handle knowing where their meat comes from? We want kids to know who they’re eating.
