Zachary Toliver

Zachary Toliver

Zachary spent most of his life bouncing around various rural Midwestern towns before finally settling down in the Pacific Northwest—largely because of the region’s phenomenal vegan food. If he’s not writing or playing banjo for a captive audience (aka “the two dogs who live with him”), you can assume he’s hiking in the Cascade mountains, rock climbing, or reading about the complex social lives of fish.

Worldwide, PETA Activists Take Aim at Canada Goose on Fur-Free Friday
Worldwide, PETA Activists Take Aim at Canada Goose on Fur-Free Friday

What better way to burn off all that carb-heavy, vegan Thanksgiving food than with a demonstration that tells Canada Goose it’s garbage?

PETA Remembers Dr. Thomas Poulton: a Friend to Animals
PETA Remembers Dr. Thomas Poulton: a Friend to Animals

PETA and countless animals have lost a dear friend in Dr. Thomas Poulton, who was a kind and gifted pediatric physician as well as an outspoken critic of cruel animal testing.

RZA’s Compassionate Saga Continues With New PETA-Backed Jacket
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RZA’s Compassionate Saga Continues With New PETA-Backed Jacket

The Flying Guillotine Puffer Jacket collab from 36 Chambers and Embassy of Bricks and Logs pays homage to a legendary kung fu flick while protecting animals.

PETA Adds Aussie Hair Care to Cruelty-Free List
PETA Adds Aussie Hair Care to Cruelty-Free List

Be on the lookout for PETA’s cruelty-free logo on Aussie’s iconic purple bottles in the very near future.

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PETA Favorites: All-Vegan Online Shops to Replace Etsy
Personal Care & Fashion
PETA Favorites: All-Vegan Online Shops to Replace Etsy

Etsy prides itself on selling an array of fashionable and artistic items, but there’s nothing becoming about selling dead animal parts.

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Matted Poodles, an Emaciated Horse, and Other Animals PETA Helped Last Month
Matted Poodles, an Emaciated Horse, and Other Animals PETA Helped Last Month

Providing pups with new doghouses, aiding an underweight horse, and neutering a … vampire? Check out these and other actions PETA was taking last month to help animals.

Coca-Cola Corn Syrup Supplier Bans Crude Animal Tests After PETA Talks
Coca-Cola Corn Syrup Supplier Bans Crude Animal Tests After PETA Talks

Previously, Ingredion Incorporated force-fed rats feces, broke the necks of mice, and injected animals with carcinogens—all of which has now ended.

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Reality TV Star Smacks Horse With a Hammer—PETA Wants an Investigation
Reality TV Star Smacks Horse With a Hammer—PETA Wants an Investigation

On a recent episode of “River of No Return,” reality star Ron Ens shocked viewers when he struck a tethered horse with a hammer.

PETA Takes On China for Smashing Animals in Bloody Car-Crash Tests
PETA Takes On China for Smashing Animals in Bloody Car-Crash Tests

These experimenters are fastening abused, frightened animals into car seats and crashing them into walls until their bodies are bloody and mangled.

PETA’s True Halloween Horror Stories About Cats Allowed to Roam Outdoors
PETA’s True Halloween Horror Stories About Cats Allowed to Roam Outdoors

Do you allow you cat to roam outdoors unsupervised? These true, gruesome stories about “outdoor cats” will certainly scare you straight.

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Watch These Animals Shed Their Worries After Being Rescued by Animal Rahat
Watch These Animals Shed Their Worries After Being Rescued by Animal Rahat

Do you have time to watch formerly abused animals roll around in dirt baths of pure joy, as well as sharing kisses and quality cuddle time? Of course you do.

PETA to NIMH: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is—End Animal Tests
PETA to NIMH: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is—End Animal Tests

The National Institute of Mental Health has called various animal tests all but worthless while spending millions in taxpayer dollars on these senselessly cruel experiments.

Will Dictionary.com Join PETA in Dismantling Speciesism?
Will Dictionary.com Join PETA in Dismantling Speciesism?

Dictionary.com has a responsibility to provide accurate and comprehensive definitions that serve people and don’t mislead them.

PETA Does it Again! Macy’s Finally Ends All Fur Sales
PETA Does it Again! Macy’s Finally Ends All Fur Sales

No one can outlast PETA and our activists. After decades of protests, eye-catching demos, and hundreds of thousands of other actions, Macy’s has gone fur-free.

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PETA Praises School That Once Sewed Monkey’s Eyes Shut for Using Stem Cells
PETA Praises School That Once Sewed Monkey’s Eyes Shut for Using Stem Cells

PETA exposed how UC-Riverside experimenters sewed a monkey’s eyes shut. Now, the school is helping to develop groundbreaking non-animal tests.

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