Danny Prater

Danny spent the formative years of his life in rural Ohio, living among corn stalks and log cabins in the shadow of a ghost town that burned to the ground in the 1840s. Fittingly, you can often find him wearing plaid and sporting a burly beard. With a communications degree in hand from The Ohio State University, he moved to Los Angeles in 2012. In his free time, Danny likes to go for “long-ish” jogs, maintain his self-appointed title as the greatest Dr. Mario player on Earth, and dote upon his two feline companions and numerous succulents.

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Poll Shows 91% of New Yorkers Never Go to Race Tracks—Yet Horses Keep Dying

New York tracks rake in $250 million in state subsidies annually—even though 90% of the state’s residents never go to the races.

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Cleveland Clinic Cover-Up: PETA Reveals Violations of Federal Guidelines

Among other incidents, records obtained by PETA reveal that experimenters at the Cleveland Clinic caused mice skin lesions from hair-removal creams.

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Cosmetics Tests on Animals Sneak Back Into the European Union

No matter the law, companies always have the option to choose different ingredients or even decide not to develop products if it means sparing animals’ lives.

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PETA Scientist’s Published Paper Pokes Holes in Flimsy Pharma Defense of Forced Swim Test

In a new scientific paper published in the esteemed journal “Drug Discovery Today,” PETA neuroscientist Dr. Emily Trunnell takes on the cruel forced swim test.

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Feds Crack Down on Roadside Zoos After PETA Blows Whistle on Baby Exotic-Cat Abuse

Exotic-cat cubs are torn away from their mothers to be used for photo ops when they’re just hours, days, or weeks old. You can help these animals.

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Vanderbilt University’s Big Secret: Elite Institution Has an Obsession With Animal Testing

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center is a major hotbed of crude and pointless experimentation on animals. PETA’s pulling back the curtain on Vandy’s dark secret.

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PETA Applauds Progress in South Africa as Officials Move to Protect Lions

PETA, World Animal Protection, and other advocacy groups are recognizing the major progress being made for lions, who are used in South Africa’s trophy-hunting industry.

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PHOTOS: See PETA Supporters Make a Bold Splash for Orca Lolita in Miami

PETA protesters are making a splash in Miami to mark the 51 years that have passed since humans abducted the orca Lolita from her ocean home.

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Major Supplier to Taiwan’s 7-Eleven Stores Bans Animal Tests After PETA Push

After talks with PETA, Lian Hwa Foods Corp.—a popular snack food company based in Taiwan—banned animal tests not explicitly required by law.

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Following 30+ Years of PETA and Activist Pressure, Oscar de la Renta Ditches Fur

For more than 30 years, PETA, activists, and kind consumers like you urged Oscar de la Renta to ban fur. Look back on the decades of grassroots activism that just resulted in another big win for animals.

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Taiwan’s Third-Largest Health Food Company Bans Animal Tests After PETA Push

After talks with PETA, Vitalon Foods Group—maker of Taiwan’s best-selling brand of sports drink—banned animal tests not explicitly required by law.

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PETA Slams South Korean Officials for Erasure of Racehorse Slaughter Records

From October 2020 to June 2021, more than 900 horses were killed in South Korea. The Korea Racing Authority doesn’t want anyone to know their identities.

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Feds Bust ‘Walnut Prairie Wildside’ After Push From PETA

Following PETA complaints, the feds cited Walnut Prairie Wildside’s owner, Thomas Edmonds, for numerous animal welfare violations, leading to a 21-day license suspension.

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Newly Approved Approach to Skin Allergy Testing Embraces Non-Animal Methods

A newly approved method can replace skin allergy tests using animals—experiments in which their fur is shaved and a chemical is applied to their exposed skin.

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Eye on the Future: Early-Career Scientist Given Award by PETA Science Group for Cornea Work

PETA science group honors Peter Pôbiš for his presentation of a 3-D model of the human cornea—one that determines how chemicals might irritate the eye without using animals.