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Giant Babies and Burning Bottles: PETA’s December to Remember

PETA activists campaign for animals all year round. See photos from recent eye-catching PETA protests that grabbed headlines around the country.

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After Escaped Tiger Shot Dead, Paris Reconsiders Circus Acts With Animals

Mevy was a young tiger who spent her life confined to a cage, forced to perform confusing tricks, but she didn’t die in vain.

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‘The Greatest Showman’: Cruel, Racist History Goes Unmentioned in Flick

If a story glorifying a man responsible for over a century’s worth of tortured and deprived animals weren’t distasteful enough, the film leaves out glaring character flaws.

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Turner Field Developer Has Broken a Promise, Putting Animals in Danger

Take action to help keep cruel UniverSoul Circus acts away from Atlanta’s Turner Field.

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Video: Elephant Beaten Until His Leg Breaks During ‘Training’

This is the side of elephant rides, performances, paintings, and close contact with humans that tourists never see.

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PETA Announces Intent to Sue Over Chaining, Harm of Elephant Nosey

Animal advocates are prepared to take the notorious Hugo Liebel to court in order to keep Nosey out of his abusive hands.

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The Suffering Is Over at the Hawthorn Corporation!

No more animals will live and die in misery at the Hawthorn Corporation.

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PETA Strips to Save Animals, Urges U.N. to Go Vegan, and Much More

On any given day, all around the globe, PETA’s often provocative actions turn people’s heads on the street, stop pedestrians in their tracks, and expose cruelty wherever it occurs.

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Victory! Ireland Bans Wild-Animal Circuses

The new regulations will help spare animals a life of misery.

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New York Says ‘No’ to Cruel Elephant Circus Acts by Adopting Ban

New Yorkers have proved that they don’t want to see sensitive and complex elephants chained and beaten for circus shows.

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Watch: Bear Snaps at Handler Mid-Show, Beaten Back Into Submission

Every time that animals used for entertainment defend themselves, they’re sending a message loud and clear: “I don’t belong here.”

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Graphic Photos Show Tiger From Ringling Bros. Shot Dead

The feds must begin enforcing the law as intended, not bending over backwards to facilitate animal exploitation.

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Video: Here’s the Giraffe Cam Most People Didn’t See

This is what is so sad about keeping giraffes in captivity.

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Animal Circuses Are Archaic and Dying Out, and This Venue Just Proved It

More than 620 venues across the country have prohibited archaic animal exhibits.

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Animal-Abusing Circuses, Count Your Days—Another City Passes Ban

When a ban on wild-animal acts came to a vote in Portland, Maine, every single city council member did right by animals.

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The first World Day for Laboratory Animals protest in the U.S., 1980
PETA’s Milestones for Animals: 1980 to Now
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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?” READ MORE

— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind

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