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Feeding Your Body and Your Bank Account

Despite people’s differences, we are all born with the instinct to eat. We eat for reasons of hunger, tradition, celebration, comfort, enjoyment, and, let’s face it, sometimes even boredom. …

Pam Anderson Makes Heartfelt Plea to China Southern Airlines

VICTORY! A senior official from China Southern Airlines has announced that the airline will immediately “stop transporting live primates for laboratory experiments on all flights.” Sparked by her arrival …

Animal Testing: A Case of Philosophical Inconsistency

Currently, millions of animals are enduring painful and frightening procedures in the name of beauty and science. Animal experimentation is conducted by a number of industries, including the cosmetics …

My Part in a PETA Victory

This article was written by PETA U.S. Action Team Coordinator Tiffany Rose. My knees are bent and pulled tightly to my chest, and yet even with my back completely …

‘Snow Bunnies’ at the Sochi Winter Olympics: Champions Don’t Wear Fur!

The 2014 Winter Olympic Games are here, and while the eyes of the world are on the Russian city of Sochi, PETA U.K. seized the opportunity to highlight one …

Take the Time to Truly See Animals

For all of us who love animals, we like to think that we do our best for them. But have we become so accustomed to seeing animals around us …

15 Things You Need to Know Before Buying That Sweater

1. About 25 percent of the world’s wool comes from Australia. 2. Young lambs’ ears are hole-punched, their tails are chopped off, and the males are castrated, all often …

500 Dolphins Slaughtered in Taiji, Japan

Five hundred dolphins were driven into the infamous cove in Taiji, Japan, for the annual dolphin slaughter. In response to international outrage over the “hunt,” Japanese fishers placed tarps over …

Movie in Review: Blackfish

Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Blackfish is an emotionally riveting documentary that exposes the horrible truth about marine theme parks and aquariums. It introduces the audience to Tilikum, an orca who, after …

Animals Lose Friend and Defender

It is with a heavy heart that PETA begins this new year by saying goodbye to a huge advocate for animals, Dr. Henry Melvyn Richardson. Dr. Mel, as he …