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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Truman State University Approves PETA Campus Rep’s Club Following Uproar

Missouri’s Truman State University has changed its policy and no longer denies groups based on the subjective viewpoints of administrators.

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PETA Applauds Bayer’s Ban on Animal Near-Drowning Test

Bayer confirmed with PETA that the company is now committed to a ban on the forced swim test for all animals.

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Women Transforming STEM for Everyone’s Sakes

We See a Compassionate Future for These PETA Int’l Science Consortium Awardees

The skills that these winners develop by attending a prestigious workshop on non-animal methods will help them pioneer the use of these tests in their fields.

Here’s How Far SeaWorld Goes to Control Workers and Hide Animal Abuse

According to numerous scathing reports, every SeaWorld employee is forced to participate in the company’s conspiracy to keep its rampant abuse hidden from the public.

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Worldwide, PETA Activists Take Aim at Canada Goose on Fur-Free Friday

What better way to burn off all that carb-heavy, vegan Thanksgiving food than with a demonstration that tells Canada Goose it’s garbage?

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PETA Remembers Dr. Thomas Poulton: a Friend to Animals

PETA and countless animals have lost a dear friend in Dr. Thomas Poulton, who was a kind and gifted pediatric physician as well as an outspoken critic of cruel animal testing.

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RZA’s Compassionate Saga Continues With New PETA-Backed Jacket

The Flying Guillotine Puffer Jacket collab from 36 Chambers and Embassy of Bricks and Logs pays homage to a legendary kung fu flick while protecting animals.

PETA Adds Aussie Hair Care to Beauty Without Bunnies Cruelty-Free List

Be on the lookout for PETA’s cruelty-free Beauty Without Bunnies logo on Aussie’s iconic purple bottles in the very near future.

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Personal Care & Fashion

PETA Favorites: All-Vegan Online Shops to Replace Etsy

Etsy prides itself on selling an array of fashionable and artistic items, but there’s nothing becoming about selling dead animal parts.

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Matted Poodles, an Emaciated Horse, and Other Animals PETA Helped Last Month

Providing pups with new doghouses, aiding an underweight horse, and neutering a … vampire? Check out these and other actions PETA was taking last month to help animals.

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Coca-Cola Corn Syrup Supplier Bans Crude Animal Tests After PETA Talks

Previously, Ingredion Incorporated force-fed rats feces, broke the necks of mice, and injected animals with carcinogens—all of which has now ended.

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Reality TV Star Smacks Horse With a Hammer—PETA Wants an Investigation

On a recent episode of “River of No Return,” reality star Ron Ens shocked viewers when he struck a tethered horse with a hammer.

Experimenters at China’s Institute for Traffic Medicine used a device to crush the hind legs of sensitive live rats, inflicting horrific trauma on them

PETA Takes On China for Smashing Animals in Bloody Car-Crash Tests

These experimenters are fastening abused, frightened animals into car seats and crashing them into walls until their bodies are bloody and mangled.

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PETA’s True Halloween Horror Stories About Cats Allowed to Roam Outdoors

Do you allow you cat to roam outdoors unsupervised? These true, gruesome stories about “outdoor cats” will certainly scare you straight.

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Watch These Animals Shed Their Worries After Being Rescued by Animal Rahat

Do you have time to watch formerly abused animals roll around in dirt baths of pure joy, as well as sharing kisses and quality cuddle time? Of course you do.