Health Charities and Animal Experiments: Setting Us Back, Wasting Funds While Animals Suffer

When you donate to a charity, do you know where the money actually goes?

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Why Should Animals Have Rights?

When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

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Beyond Meat's Sausage Just Landed at Vegan Chain

The Beyond Sausage is now served at all locations of 100% vegan fast-casual phenom Veggie Grill. Find the "missing link" in your diet today!

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If You Think Your PETA-Acronym Joke Is Original, You’re Badly Mistaken

Why did the chicken cross the road? Obviously, it was to escape the fool telling the “People Eating Tasty Animals” joke.

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8 Things You Need to Know About Canada’s Seal Slaughter

The Canadian sealing community is trying desperately to discredit the animal advocates who are speaking out against it. But the facts don’t lie.

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2018: The Time for Animal Rights Is Now

Until every cage is empty, every chain is broken, and every animal is treated with dignity, PETA will not stop. Will you join us?

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What Do Nat Geo, a Vegan Saudi Prince, and ‘Game of Thrones’ Have in Common?

Places like SeaWorld better watch their backs—people are obsessed with Ocean Odyssey animated aquariums, and they haven’t even opened yet.

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A Big Win for Animals in Laboratories

In a groundbreaking move, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it will accept non-animal test methods to determine whether certain chemicals cause skin allergies in humans.

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UPDATE: SeaWorld Will Likely Face Civil Charges for Allegedly Violating Securities Laws

It’s not acceptable to mistreat animals, and it’s not acceptable to lie to investors, either.

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Safe Passage: Baby Geese and Ducks Are Coming Soon to a Road Near You

With duckling and gosling season in full swing, we can help see to it that people and animals all get where they’re going safe and sound.

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'The PETA Podcast' Tackles Animal Testing

PETA's Jeremy Beckham discusses why using animals in tests is wasteful, bad science, and cruel.

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Why PETA Wanted to Love ‘Rampage’—but Just Couldn’t

A film about a man’s unwavering bond with a gorilla sounds like one PETA would love, right? Here’s why we’re giving it little to no praise.

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    PETA Gives 'Isle of Dogs' Two Thumbs Up

    Dogs take on leading roles in Wes Anderson’s new heartwarming film. Instead of using real dogs, they’re brought to life through stop motion.

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    If Only the Animals Imprisoned at SeaWorld Lived Freely as Those in the Company’s ‘From Park to Planet’ Ad Do

    Rather than tout SeaWorld’s contrived and meager conservation efforts, the company should devote resources to building seaside sanctuaries.

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    PHOTOS: Cute ‘Chick’ Cheers On Lewis Hamilton at the Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix

    A cute PETA “chick” greeted Formula 1 fans in honor of champion racecar driver Lewis Hamilton, who recently attributed, in part, his top-level fitness to being vegan.

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    What PETA REALLY Stands For

    Do you know what PETA stands for? Learn the truth about what’s at the core of the world’s largest animal rights organization.

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    Pup With Adorable Underbite Will Chew on Your Heartstrings

    From a severely crowded rural shelter to PETA’s headquarters, Bernadette steals hearts wherever she goes.

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    Here's Why Leonardo da Vinci Would Have Supported PETA

    Leonardo da Vinci was known just as much for his extraordinary artwork as for his scientific genius, but did you know he was also an animal rights pioneer?

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    See Artist Daniel Mazzone’s Custom Piece for PETA: ‘Love Me I’m Sweet’

    Renowned artist Daniel Mazzone has always had a soft spot for animals. See the work that the man dubbed “the next Andy Warhol” donated to PETA.

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    Massachusetts: Urge Chester Officials to Stop Beaver Massacre!

    Officials have confirmed that trapping is underway and will continue until April 15, so your help is urgently needed!

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    7 Times PETA Protests Changed Minds in March

    Here are just some of the many places where PETA was demanding change for animals in March—and how you can help us win.

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    5 Easy Vegan Ways to Cook Without Butter

    Want less saturated fat in your diet? Here are five vegan hacks for cooking without butter.

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    PETA’s SEVENTH Wool Exposé: Sheep Still Hit, Kicked, Cut, Thrown

    PETA’s latest exposé reveals that Australian shearers are still punching sheep, cutting them up, and shoving them into chutes like garbage.

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    Science Consortium Advances Non-Animal Testing – One Scientist at a Time

    The PETA International Science Consortium has launched an award for one early-career scientist to attend the 20th International Congress on In Vitro Toxicology.

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    PETA’s Vegan Clothing Shopping Guide

    The time has come for vegan fashion. This handy guide reveals how simple it is to wear vegan clothing—and where to find it.

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    New York Racetracks Get PETA-Proposed Technology to Help Horses!

    While at the track, winning bettors at all Thoroughbred racetracks in the state can now donate to the care of retired horses.

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    PETA Slams Trauma Training on Animals in Top Military Journal

    AMSUS journal Military Medicine has opened up a fierce debate on “live tissue training” by printing a first-of-its-kind critique.

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    Canada's Seal Slaughter Has Begun—Help Us Fight Back

    Thousands of baby seals will be barbarically killed before the end of spring. Please help us stop the violence.

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    Suffering in Every Sip: Abuse on an Australian Dairy Farm

    PETA’s exposé of an Australian dairy farm reveals the terrible suffering in every sip of milk, slice of cheese, and scoop of ice cream.

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    9 Ways PETA Took Down Animal Abusers and Saved Lives in March

    General Mills banned tests on animals, SeaWorld continued to “tank,” and more companies decided to ditch fur. But we didn’t stop there!

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    PETA in Action

    • PETA Custom-Builds House for Pig in North Carolina
      PETA Custom-Builds House for Pig in North Carolina
      We custom-built a sturdy new house for Yogurt, a friendly adult pig in North Carolina, and her family was very appreciative.
    • At College Basketball Playoffs, PETA Calls On TAMU to Shut Down Its Dog Lab
      At College Basketball Playoffs, PETA Calls On TAMU to Shut Down Its Dog Lab
      PETA supporters protested outside Texas A&M; University's Sweet 16 game at L.A.'s Staples Center to demand that the school shut down its cruel lab where dogs are bred to have canine muscular dystrophy. For more information, visit PETA.org/TAMU.
    • Vole Rescued From Torture Device
      Vole Rescued From Torture Device
      In Florida, we arranged careful removal, and vetting for this vole, found by our caller in her parent’s house stuck to a glue trap—a device designed to ensnare and starve animals on sticky adhesive. Our caller removed the glue traps and convinced her parents to try nonlethal options. For more information visit PETA.org/Gluetrap
    • Activists to Passersby in Houston: Circus Cruelty Is Not Entertainment
      Activists to Passersby in Houston: Circus Cruelty Is Not Entertainment
      During three Carson & Barnes Circus performances, activists in Houston held signs supplied by PETA to tell passersby that animals exploited in circuses are trained to perform through fear and violence.
    • Beauty Receives Clean, Dry Place to Live, Thanks to PETA
      Beauty Receives Clean, Dry Place to Live, Thanks to PETA
      Beauty was inches deep in water when we first spotted her, but we moved her to dry land and gave her a free PETA doghouse. We'll keep checking on her and monitoring her living conditions. For more information, visit PETA.org/Doghouse.
    • Activists Speak Out to Keep Pressure on SeaWorld
      Activists Speak Out to Keep Pressure on SeaWorld
      PETA promoted and supplied signs for this demo outside SeaWorld Orlando, where activists kept the pressure on the abusement park to free its animals from tiny concrete tanks and send them to sea sanctuaries.
    • PETA Aids Protests for Farmed Animals
      PETA Aids Protests for Farmed Animals
      PETA supplied signs for and promoted vigils outside slaughterhouses across the U.S., where protesters provided animals headed to slaughter with water and reminded passersby of the cruelty that animals endure in the meat and dairy industries.
    • Otis and Marshall Are Adopted Into Loving Homes
      Otis and Marshall Are Adopted Into Loving Homes
      Otis the guinea pig was rescued from a cruelty case, and Marshall the cat was surviving a rough life at a gas station in rural Virginia, thankfully, they were adopted by two kind PETA staff members.
    • A Big 'Pup' Celebrates Chinese New Year by Urging People to Adopt, Not Shop
      A Big 'Pup' Celebrates Chinese New Year by Urging People to Adopt, Not Shop
      With a sign in English and Mandarin and a 6-foot-tall "dog," PETA Asia held a demo in Manila's busy Chinatown in the Philippines for the Year of the Dog to encourage people to adopt, not buy, companion animals.
    • California Elementary School Students Pledge to Be Kind to Animals
      California Elementary School Students Pledge to Be Kind to Animals
      We visited a Los Angeles elementary school to speak about the importance of being kind to all living beings. Our presentation included multiple video clips that focused on the complexity and uniqueness of animals.
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