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PETA Uncovers Charles River’s Secret Plans to Reopen Cambodian Monkey Trade

PETA Uncovers Charles River’s Secret Plans to Reopen Cambodian Monkey Trade

PETA has discovered possible influence peddling helping Charles River Laboratories to begin importing monkeys into the U.S. from Cambodia again, despite the documented illegality and danger.

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Why Every Woman’s Marathon Is Awful for Moms

Why Every Woman’s Marathon Is Awful for Moms

There’s no such thing as a pro–cow’s milk feminist. PETA urges Kathrine Switzer to drop her support for dairy-funded Every Woman’s Marathon.

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Tetiana Risked Everything to Save Animals in Ukraine—Here’s How to Honor Her

Tetiana Risked Everything to Save Animals in Ukraine—Here’s How to Honor Her

Tetiana, a lifeline for the more than 200 animals she helped rescue, was killed in Ukraine. Here’s how you can honor her legacy of compassionate action.

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A Dog Could Freeze This Winter—Rush Help!

Unloved “backyard dogs” are shivering in the cold—and they urgently need your help to make it through the freezing nights ahead. Send an emergency care package with shelter, food, and other essentials to help a dog survive the winter.

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PETA Is Suing This Massive, Misleading Humane-Washing Scam

PETA Is Suing This Massive, Misleading Humane-Washing Scam

This lawsuit also exposes how a Whole Foods–backed program has certified flesh *from factory farms where animals were beaten and left to suffer.*

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This Elephant Is Suffering—Find Out How You Can Help Her

This Elephant Is Suffering—Find Out How You Can Help Her

An expert report warns this “most depressed elephant in the world” is just steps away from a fatal collapse unless she’s rescued.

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Monkeys Gunned Down in Mississippi: Bodycam Footage Revealed

Monkeys Gunned Down in Mississippi: Bodycam Footage Revealed

These animals had only moments of freedom before being shot on sight.

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Create a ‘ThanksVegan’ Menu to Remember With These Recipes

Create a ‘ThanksVegan’ Menu to Remember With These Recipes

Let these delicious recipes inspire you to create a show-stopping “ThanksVegan” menu that’s comforting and compassionate.

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Turkey or Terrier for Thanksgiving?

Shoppers in New Mexico were met with a “roasted dog” as the centerpiece of a shocking spread. The display points out to potential turkey-eaters that Tom and Toto are the same in all the ways that matter—and neither wants to be carved up for a meal.

‘NIH, Close the Monkey Labs!’ Demands New Times Square Ad

PETA’s new billboard is showing the crowds of Times Square how monkeys live inside federally funded laboratories and calling for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to shut down the seven national primate research centers.

PETA’s Flesh-Eating Ad Meets a ‘Zombie’ Flash Mob

Our towering vegan appeal asking, “Is Your Body a Graveyard for Dead Animals?” went up in Chicago just in time to become the chilling backdrop to the Windy City’s bustling Haunted Halsted Halloween Parade, reminding nearly 400,000 viewers—and an entire “Thriller” flash mob—that eating flesh is for zombies.

Over 200 Animals Sterilized in Puerto Rico, Thanks to PETA’s Global Compassion Fund

To combat the high population of stray and homeless animals in Puerto Rico, PETA partnered with the Humane Society of Puerto Rico to sterilize more than **250** animals in just 2 days, setting a new record for the program. The event was free to the public thanks to PETA’s Global Compassion Fund.

Giant PETA ‘Bulls’ Crash St. Peter’s Over Catholic Church’s Ties to Bullfighting

“Bull blessings, not bullfights!” That’s the message PETA supporters brought to St. Peter’s Catholic Church, along with a pair of massive inflatable bulls. The animal advocates urged parishioners in Pope Leo XIV’s hometown to pressure the pontiff to denounce violent and deadly bullfights.

PETA’s ‘Hell on Wheels’ Turkey Truck Swerves Into Action

PETA’s hyperrealistic truck confronted shoppers across grocery stores in Alabama, urging them to consider more than just discounts. Check out where the truck is heading next!

PETA Protesters Descend on Carden Circus: Old, Disabled Elephant Must Be Retired ASAP

A 20-foot-tall “crying elephant” surrounded by animal advocates rallied outside the Carden Circus to call for the release of Betty, an elephant who shuffles slowly on her stiff front legs that hurt to bend, drags her trunk on the ground due to apparent paralysis—likely due to being forced to stand on her head and put several tons of weight on her trunk for decades—and is suffering from painful cracks in her toenails.

PETA Supporters in Giant Monkey Masks Protest UW Primate Center

A troop of PETA supporters with giant monkey masks descended upon the University of Washington’s New Student Convocation, after traveling over on Seattle’s Light Rail, to tell everyone in attendance about the school’s deadly underground primate center and call for its immediate closure.

Nude, Scorched ‘Mother Earth’ Blasts COP30 Over Meaty Menu

With her body painted to resemble a scorched Mother Earth, PETA supporter and Brazilian actor Luisa Mell lay naked on an oversized plate with a giant fork “piercing” her back to showcase the hypocrisy of serving meat, dairy, and other planet-killing foods at the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

‘Bloody’ Crocodile Calls Cruel Skin Sales at Hermès Grand Opening

Shoppers at the grand opening of the first Hermès store in Nashville were shocked to come face-to-face with a body-painted PETA supporter “dead” outside its doors to warn potential customers about the suffering of crocodiles and other animals whose skin is stolen for bags, watchbands, and more.

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The Courage to Free the Animals; Ingrid Newkirk Tells the Story of the Animal Liberation Front

The Courage to Free the Animals; Ingrid Newkirk Tells the Story of the Animal Liberation Front

For the milestone 30th anniversary of the book, “Free the Animals,” PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk talks about what the Animal Liberation Front was and all the great things done by ordinary people who had the courage to liberate animals from laboratories and research facilities.

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The Case for Animal Rights

The Case for Animal Rights

Start a <em>Domino’s</em> Effect: Request Vegan Cheese!

Start a *Domino’s* Effect: Request Vegan Cheese!

Any way you slice it, adding vegan cheese is a win for cows, the planet, and the growing number of people who want kind dining options.

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See How PETA and Animal Advocates Worldwide Are Uniting for Compassionate Consumerism

See How PETA and Animal Advocates Worldwide Are Uniting for Compassionate Consumerism

On the busiest shopping day of the year, PETA and grassroots animal advocates are inspiring consumers to choose compassion.

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This Is NOT Sweet: Bulls Abused for Pepsi Branded Drinks

This Is NOT Sweet: Bulls Abused for Pepsi Branded Drinks

Demand that Pepsi and its partners go bull-free.

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Urge Argentina to Free Kshamenk the Orca



Urge Argentina to Free Kshamenk the Orca

Join us in demanding his freedom.

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Don’t Let the FDA Demand More Tests on Animals to Keep Sunscreens on the Market—Speak Out!



Don’t Let the FDA Demand More Tests on Animals to Keep Sunscreens on the Market—Speak Out!

Please urge the FDA not to ask for animal tests and to instead collaborate on the development of a non-animal testing approach that protects human health without harming animals.

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Tell Chase, Lexus, and Verizon to Cut Ties With Camel Abuse



Tell Chase, Lexus, and Verizon to Cut Ties With Camel Abuse

Urge Chase, Lexus, and Verizon not to work with the Christmas Spectacular unless it stops using animals.

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Taiwan Could Ban Deadly Digestive Animal Tests—Show Your Support!



Taiwan Could Ban Deadly Digestive Animal Tests—Show Your Support!

PETA supporters like YOU have saved countless animals from pointless food experiments in Taiwan, and with one action today, you can help rats beheaded in digestion tests.

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Urge CU Boulder to Stop Exploiting Bison as Live Mascots



Urge CU Boulder to Stop Exploiting Bison as Live Mascots

Tell CU Boulder’s Chancellor to end the live mascot program and leave all bison in peace.

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Tell StubHub: Stop Promoting Bullfighting Bloodbaths



Tell StubHub: Stop Promoting Bullfighting Bloodbaths

Urge StubHub North America to end its sale of tickets to bullfights.

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Every animal is someone, who will you be?

## WHAT PETA STANDS FOR

### People

I am you, only different

Human beings create temporary and arbitrary boundaries to exclude beings who aren’t like them. Human beings have justified wars, slavery, sexual violence, and military conquests through the mistaken belief that those who are “different” do not experience suffering and are not worthy of moral consideration.

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### Ethical

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

We are taught the Golden Rule as young children, and all major religions teach principles of nonviolence and kindness. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Ethical treatment—the Golden Rule—must be extended to all living beings: reptiles, mammals, fish, insects, birds, amphibians, and crustaceans.

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### Treatment

Animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.

All beings desire freedom to live a natural life, according to their inherent desires and instincts. While the lives of all beings necessarily involve some amount of suffering, human beings must stop deliberately inflicting suffering on all beings for our own selfish desires. We lose nothing in replacing a cheeseburger with a veggie burger or a leather purse with a fabric one. But beings we exploit lose their lives just for our fleeting fancy.

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### Animals

We are all animals.

We believe all beings deserve liberty and respect not because they share the characteristics we admire in ourselves but because they are living beings. We share the same evolutionary origins, we inhabit the same Earth, and we are ruled by the same laws of nature. We are all the same.

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NIH Pays Swedish Experimenters to Do THIS to Rabbits?

NIH Pays Swedish Experimenters to Do THIS to Rabbits?

In another example of NIH’s worldwide animal torture network, PETA has found a “prestigious” Swedish institute mangling rabbits. Let’s stop this!

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Corky’s Captivity Clock Is Ticking—Will You Take Action for Her?

Corky’s Captivity Clock Is Ticking—Will You Take Action for Her?

Corky still has a chance as long as this clock is ticking—but time is running out. Urge SeaWorld to release her and other orcas to a seaside sanctuary now.

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We’re Hiring! Find Out How You Can Make a Career of Caring

We’re Hiring! Find Out How You Can Make a Career of Caring

Do you want to wake up each morning knowing your work is so meaningful that it will save lives? Work for animal rights and you’ll be up before your morning alarm sounds.

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Who Tormented This Monkey for 28 Years? PETA’s New Video Tells His Story

Who Tormented This Monkey for 28 Years? PETA’s New Video Tells His Story

Watch PETA’s new video to see what misery one monkey endured for nearly three decades in laboratories before his death at Washington National Primate Research Center.

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Hosting Book Club? Order this Animal Rights Classic

Hosting Book Club? Order this Animal Rights Classic

PETA’s Global Compassion Fund Heads to South Africa—See the Lives You’re Changing

PETA’s Global Compassion Fund Heads to South Africa—See the Lives You’re Changing

PETA’s Global Compassion Fund just reached a new corner of the world—see how your kindness is changing lives where help is needed most.

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Kindness Is Always in Season: Learn How to Celebrate ‘ThanksVegan’

Kindness Is Always in Season: Learn How to Celebrate ‘ThanksVegan’

Prep your vegan menu and learn how to buy all your holiday favorites with PETA’s ultimate guide to hosting “ThanksVegan.”

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There’s Something Rotten About Blueberry Marketing—And PETA’s Here to Stop It

There’s Something Rotten About Blueberry Marketing—And PETA’s Here to Stop It

Is your university killing animals to market blueberries? PETA is urging an end to all fruitless experiments funded by the Blueberry Council.

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Compassion Soars in Cities That Have Banned the Sale of Birds

Compassion Soars in Cities That Have Banned the Sale of Birds

For the 40 million birds kept in cages across the U.S., life is no song—but change is happening. THESE cities are letting compassion take flight!

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What Do YOU Think Happens to Sheep Used for Wool? New Poll Reveals You’ll Likely Be Surprised

What Do YOU Think Happens to Sheep Used for Wool? New Poll Reveals You’ll Likely Be Surprised

There’s an easy way to help sheep in your everyday life—and a new poll reveals 70% of U.S. adults are willing to do it.

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Help Urgently Needed: Start a Rewarding Career as an Animal Care Officer

Help Urgently Needed: Start a Rewarding Career as an Animal Care Officer

Put your skills where your heart is—PETA’s calling, and animals need you! Apply to be an animal care officer today.

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PETA’s Trucks Are Causing Meltdowns Across the Country

PETA’s Trucks Are Causing Meltdowns Across the Country

When people can hear their Thanksgiving dinner crying, there’s bound to be some ruffled feathers.

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New Study on Dolphin, Whale Imprisonment Proves What We’ve Known All Along

New Study on Dolphin, Whale Imprisonment Proves What We’ve Known All Along

Researchers just delivered a powerful scientific verdict on dolphin and whale captivity—and it’s not good news for marine parks.

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