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!
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has pledged $1 billion for global COVID-19 crisis relief. PETA says, no animal-testing strings attached, please.
PETA sent letters to actor Kate McKinnon and Universal Content Productions, urging them not to use real tigers in “Joe vs. Carole.” They listened.
The coronavirus has created a unique opportunity for PETA to extend an olive branch of sorts to Petco and end our campaign against its sale of betta fish.
What can a snake do after falling into a well? Would passing humans put their speciesism aside and help this struggling living being in peril?
Vaccine trials for COVID-19 are already underway in humans, yet experimenters still want to perform tests on monkeys. Tell Air France not to play this game.
If spring breakers in Florida were somehow still looking for a sign that the coronavirus pandemic should be taken seriously, PETA just gave it to them.
Limping in pain, this scared mother cow didn’t know what to do to alleviate her agony. That’s when our friends at Animal Rahat answered a call for help.
Could you live outdoors in the winter, wet and muddy in near-freezing temperatures? Check out these photos of animals PETA aided in February.
This PETA-backed legislation ends dog tethering during extreme temperatures and severe weather. The minimum length of a tether will also increase.
Read a roundup of horrific incidents that occurred during the 2020 Iditarod, and find out how you can join PETA in taking action for dogs.
This 2-year-old sweetheart managed to survive living in a horrifically filthy hoarder’s home. If walks and cuddles are your jam, Delilah may be the girl for you.
NotCo’s first vegan meat product, fittingly called Not Meat, will soon pop up in over 100 Papa John’s locations across Chile.
In the footage, Juan Durán—who was recently fired from the show “Enamorándonos”—is seen slapping a baby leopard while another person laughs.
Other animals have a lot to teach us about love: Be inspired by prairie voles’ partnerships, seabirds’ self-sacrificial offerings, elephants’ tender touches, and more.
A federal judge stated, “Filth and feces dominate Tri-State.” Three big cats are free from an abysmal life of captivity and headed to an accredited sanctuary following PETA’s pressure.
