People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals

PETA’s “monkey,” based on a real primate named Beamish, who has been tormented in a laboratory, slipped behind this reporter to ensure his message—for all candidates to redirect taxpayer funds to animal-free research—would reach a wider audience.

Concerned animal protectors gathered outside the Blessing of the Animals service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston to call on the pope to stop blessing bullfighters and bullfights.

PETA caused a ruckus at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport over Ethiopian Airlines’ transport of endangered long-tailed macaques to U.S. labs. Take action at PETA.org/Ethiopia.

Ahead of Thanksgiving—and because Ontario is a top turkey producer in Canada—a flock of PETA supporters urged passersby not to have a hand in birds’ suffering and handed out free, delicious vegan roasts.

PETA fieldworkers delivered a sturdy, custom-made doghouse for Coco to replace her useless plastic “shelter” after her free spay surgery.

A protester took over a catwalk in New York City, calling on Armani to stop being complicit in cruelty and to shun the antiquated use of animal skins.

In New York City, PETA’s “pig” demanded that ASPCA leaders resign from the board of directors of Global Animal Partnership, which enables factory farmers to slap deceptive “animal welfare certified” labels on their products. Learn more at PETA.org/GAP.

PETA’s fieldworkers doubled as free taxi drivers for Cupcake, Shugga, and other dogs in North Carolina by giving them door-to-door rides to and from their spay or neuter procedures.

peta2—part of PETA’s youth division—brought Abduction, an award-winning virtual reality experience that encourages empathy for animals suffering in laboratories, including those at universities, to the Kentucky campus.

As part of a multicity tour, PETA members rallied at Shrine circus stops across Texas, pushing clubs to get with the times by taking animals out of their shows.