PETA and animal shelters are issuing this plea: For the love of Peter Dinklage, stop buying huskies on a whim. In Riverside County, California, employees of the Department of Animal Services have noticed a startling uptick in the number of abandoned huskies at animal shelters, and they believe that the popularity of HBO’s sensational Game […]
Greyhounds used in the racing industry are treated like unfeeling machines and run until their bodies are broken and destroyed. But for many of those dogs, “retirement” means even more suffering. A PETA eyewitness investigation revealed that the canine blood bank Hemopet—which claims to be a “rescue” facility for discarded greyhounds—keeps around 200 dogs in […]
Could you say “no” to this face? Neither could Doris and Nile Gomez, who saw Buster’s photo, along with a story about his rescue by PETA, in their local Virginia newspaper. It was love at first sight of those big, brown eyes, and they knew at that moment that they just had to be the […]
In 1988, PETA conducted an eyewitness investigation into animal-testing laboratory Biosearch. The horrific video footage showed that animals suffered and died in places that few people ever saw during tests for cosmetics and household products. Outraged consumers demanded change. And now, just 30 years later, we can see the monumental progress that we’ve made. Cosmetics […]
Raising awareness of the meat industry’s violent abuse of animals and the environmental destruction that it causes takes work. But PETA’s 2018 Company of the Year, the New York–based shared-workspace giant WeWork, proves that any business can help save animals and the planet. Earlier this year, WeWork told its global staff that it will no […]
A viral video of a cat acting in a strange manner while under a car is making the rounds on the internet. But while folks debate what the unaccompanied feline is actually doing (sit-ups, really?), many may not realize that the animal is in imminent danger. While some call the video—which media outlets billed as […]
PETA has never before honored an Agency of the Year. But one agency made such a historic and positive impact for animals in 2018 that we wanted to recognize it. For ending the use of animals in abusive and deadly trauma training drills and rescuing hundreds of animals who found themselves abandoned during Hurricane Florence, […]
WWDMAGIC, the largest womenswear trade show in the U.S., recently gathered top influential bloggers and celebrities in the fashion community for a vegan holiday brunch. What was the occasion? Vegan fashion, of course—and a new PETA partnership was the centerpiece of the celebration. Hailley Howard Photography | WWDMAGIC The excitement at WWDMAGIC shows how far […]
Written by PETA | November 28, 2018 Update: Chalk up another epic fail for Alzheimer’s disease experiments on animals. At a recent scientific conference, not one but three pharmaceutical companies announced the stunning failures of experimental Alzheimer’s drugs that had tested successfully in mice—who must be genetically engineered to develop a pseudo-Alzheimer’s condition. The compounds—known […]
Greyhounds used in the racing industry are treated like unfeeling machines and run until their bodies are broken and destroyed. But for many of those dogs, “retirement” means even more suffering. A PETA eyewitness investigation revealed that the canine blood bank Hemopet—which claims to be a “rescue” facility for discarded greyhounds—keeps around 200 dogs in […]
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