Zachary Toliver

Zachary spent most of his life bouncing around various rural Midwestern towns before finally settling down in the Pacific Northwest—largely because of the region’s phenomenal vegan food. If he’s not writing or playing banjo for a captive audience (aka “the two dogs who live with him”), you can assume he’s hiking in the Cascade mountains, rock climbing, or reading about the complex social lives of fish.

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PETA Calls for Shutdown of Louisiana Lab After Monkey’s Escape

The university lab has proved time and again that it’s incapable of doing the bare minimum required by federal law to protect animals there.

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Days After Bull Leads Cops on Chase, Another Truck Tips Killing 11 Cows

Every time we see animals on the news who’ve escaped from transport trucks, gone running, and dodged traffic, we root for them.

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Instagram Stories Receive Animal Rights Flair, Thanks to New PETA GIFs

Search “PETA” under the GIFs tab on your Instagram story to share your passion for animal liberation with all of your followers.

Tiger Collapses From Seizure Moments After Being Forced to Jump Through Fire

Moments after being forced to jump through fire, the animal collapsed and started convulsing— mere feet from the front row of the crowd.

PETA Co-Authors Medical Study, Ends Animal Use in 22 Surgical Programs

Twenty-two surgical programs around the world will no longer mutilate animals in trauma training, thanks to PETA’s donation of 119 simulators.

13 Grim Photos Reveal the Tragedy of Animals Abandoned in Hurricane Florence

Countless animals were left to fend for themselves, or worse, trapped inside barns and sheds with no chance of escaping rising floodwaters.

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Bob’s Big Boy May Look Like the 1950s, but Its Vegan Burger Is the Future

When one of the most iconic burger chains in the U.S. decides to serve up a vegan burger, you know animal liberation is winning like never before.

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Adidas Bans Mohair, 50 Million Students Could Learn Empathy, and Other PETA Wins for August

PETA kept the heat on animal abusers everywhere in the last month of summer. Check out these huge victories PETA won for animals in August.

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Video: Baby Whale’s Mutilated Tail Believed to Be Caused by ‘Ghost Nets’

Recent graphic footage of a whale calf swimming without a tail shows the devastating depths of our abandoned fishing net crisis.

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PETA’s Pro-Vegan Ad Says, ‘There Won’t Be Blood, but There May Be Tears’

PETA’s ad aims to encourage everyone to protect animals, the environment, and their own health by embracing bountiful vegan meals.

More Scientists Acknowledge That Animal Tests Fail Human Patients

“We can cure cancer in mice pretty effectively, but the agents don’t work in humans in most cases. … [E]volutionarily we are far apart.”

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Here’s Why Israel Is the Vegan Capital of the World

The push for complete animal liberation has skyrocketed in Israel—and in the global Jewish community in general—so what’s going on?

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Animals Scalded to Death Inside Cage Washers by Careless Experimenters

PETA renews our call to shut down the primate torture camp after two monkeys were killed when their cage was run through a high-temperature washer while they were trapped inside.

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3,000 Animals Die for 1 Pound of Silk—Reasons Not to Rock It

Imagine resting while completely vulnerable, awaiting a magnificent metamorphosis, only to be violently boiled or gassed alive.

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What Barnum’s Animals Crackers’ New Box Tells Us About Animal Liberation

Big victories can come in small packages. Nabisco’s change is in line with the public view that animals don’t belong in circuses.

Photographer: Trent Musho