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A Return to D.C.’s ‘Dog Pound’ Days

When the citizens, wildlife and other animals of our city run into trouble and cannot help themselves, they count on government services. Don’t let them down.

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Video of People Eating Woodworms Will Sour Your Taste for ‘Seafood’

A video from overseas has people disgusted by the idea of eating woodworms, but revolting things are happening to mollusks here in the U.S.

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Today, the ‘Prospect Park Cow’ Ran Away With Our Hearts

You’ll cry when you hear what’s going to happen to a runaway cow who was captured on the streets of Brooklyn after escaping slaughter.

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This New Billboard Should Make Canadian Thanksgiving Interesting…

This Thanksgiving, PETA is calling on children and their parents to keep cruelty off the table.

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UPDATED: Serial Starvation Experimenter Stopped

Victory! More than 185,000 of you demanded that St. Mary’s University in San Antonio put an end to Marshall McCue’s twisted starvation experiments, and your voices were heard.

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(PHOTOS) These ‘Mutant’ Pigs Prove That ‘Okja’ Is Already Real

Like Belgian Blue cattle, pigs are now being bred by humans to develop heaping muscle mass and make them more valuable to the meat industry.

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Hanging PETA ‘Mermaid’ Makes Waves in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor

The day before Fish Amnesty Day, a “mermaid” was strung up in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor to spread the message that fish are friends, not food.

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VICTORY: California’s Foie Gras Ban Will Soon Be Back in Effect

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has held that California’s foie gras ban was not preempted by federal law, thereby reinstating the law.

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Baby Raccoon Phoenix Rose Was Set on Fire and Left for Dead

PETA is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction on cruelty charges of the person(s) responsible.

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Lesson in Love: Young Star of ‘Gifted’ Cuddles a Pig in Sweet PETA Ad

Actor and Texas native Mckenna Grace’s back-to-school billboard urges kids to keep pigs off their plates.

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Save 200 Animals Every Year by Going Vegan
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Guinea Pigs Will Not Cure Cancer, so Stop Rubbing Your Body With Them

It’s as baffling as it is horrible.

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Watch Ingrid Newkirk Address Israel’s Massive Animal Rights March

Some 30,000 activists took to the streets of Tel Aviv, Israel for the largest animal rights march in the country’s history.

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Seals Are the Dogs of the Sea, but at This Festival, People EAT Them

PETA’s “seal” proudly proclaimed, “I’m ME, Not MEAT.”

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Watch as Thousands Around the World March for Animal Rights

Across the globe, PETA supporters turned out in droves in support of the Animal Rights March.

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PETA’s News Roundup for August

Get ready to be inspired: See how, together, we helped get another sham sanctuary shut down as well as many other victories that we won for 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?”

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

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