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!
Thanks to PETA and our supporters, Redfora replaced the cow-skin gloves in its popular Earthquake Bags with durable synthetic versions.
The companion animal overpopulation crisis is very real—so PETA’s mobile clinic teamed up with the Danville Area Humane Society to do something about it.
Rescuing dogs from filthy backyard pens, rushing injured hawks to a wildlife rehab—whatever it takes to help animals in need, PETA is ready to jump in.
The 33rd horse in under a year has died at the Santa Anita racetrack, but this is just one of numerous recent deaths that have fueled our call for a suspension of horseracing.
We can sleep better at night, knowing that a huge company like Airbnb bans direct-contact activities that abuse and exploit wild animals.
This decision could lead to a healthier, more compassionate generation of young people—all while sparing countless animals a terrifying death.
After Beulah the elephant’s death, The Big E fair heard PETA and more than 175,000 of our supporters. Help get Minnie the elephant into a real sanctuary!
SeaWorld laid off 100 workers, and now PETA is asking these former employees to contact us with any information about animal suffering.
National Mill Dog Rescue often works directly with commercial kennels. Find out why “HuffPost” called the group the T.J. Maxx of puppy mill rescue.
PETA calls for veterinarian to step down following amputation of mice’s toes without pain relief, rabbit deaths, and other instances of negligence.
Brazil is the world’s biggest exporter of soybeans. But only a small fraction of those crops actually ends up on the dinner table.
We found Franny wandering around in the sweltering heat and gave Draco a new doghouse! They’re just a couple of the animals PETA helped in August.
Doug Terranova risked public safety—under his watch, Leah the tiger escaped from a circus enclosure and Kamba the elephant was hit by a car.
After talks with PETA scientists, the country’s eighth-largest philanthropic charity, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, has soured on funding animal testing.
Upgrade your life from those basic sandwiches that kill animals. Here are vegan options that win the whole chicken sandwich debate.
