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Category: Empathy for Animals

Dolphin Reportedly Left to Die on Beach While Crowd Takes Photos

Human vanity may have killed yet another animal because of ritualistic “selfies.”

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Why Is PETA UK Asking Games Workshop to Make Warhammer Fur-Free?

Fur has no more place in 2017 than it does in the year 40,000.

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Watch Mother Dolphin Fight Hunters Trying to Steal Her Baby

It’s every mother’s worst nightmare. And for dolphins, it happens all the time.

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Child Throws ‘Ugly’ Dog off Balcony. Watch Her Amazing Recovery! (Video)

Even a shattered leg couldn’t keep this spunky little dog down.

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Bears in Hellhole Zoo Filmed Begging for Food, Eating Feces

Bandung Zoo in Indonesia has a long history of abusing animals, and those it imprisons are known to suffer from physical and mental health problems.

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Being Terrified on Set Is NOT ‘A Dog’s Purpose’

A shocking video released by TMZ reportedly taken on the set of the upcoming film ‘A Dog’s Purpose’ has people outraged.

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Maggie Q to Canada Goose: Murder Is Never In Fashion

Maggie Q led PETA supporters in a spirited “bloody” protest against Canada Goose’s fur-trimmed and feather-filled jackets outside the company’s Toronto headquarters.

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Watch This Woman Rescue Chickens Moments Before Slaughter—and Try Not to Cry

In a short video titled “The Machine,” a Danish woman shines a light on the scope of suffering in the egg industry.

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PETA Petitions Senior Center: Don’t Call Your Sweet Pig ‘Bacon’

PETA offers lunch if a senior center will recognize that pigs are friends, not food.

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Live Nativity Scene Closed After Man Punches Camel (VIDEO)

Live animals do not belong in bustling, crowded areas for Christmas displays.

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Airport Has a New Therapy Pig—so Why Is It Serving Pork?

PETA is asking the San Francisco International Airport why this little piggy is a therapy pig and this little piggy is a sandwich.

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Did This North Korean Zoo Hook a Chimpanzee on Cigarettes to Sell Tickets?

Around the world, shabby roadside tourist attractions like this zoo are failing—and harming—great apes. When will the animals’ suffering end?

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How PETA Is Using Emerging Technology to Cultivate Empathy for Animals

At a virtual reality conference, PETA discusses and demonstrates its high-tech, unique projects to help people become more empathetic.

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Video: More Evidence That Pit Bulls Are the Most Abused Dogs on Earth

Los Angeles County authorities are looking for a suspect who was caught on camera mercilessly throwing a dog over a hillside.

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Dozens of Pigs Killed in Crash as Pig Defender Goes on Trial

A truck carrying 160 pigs crashes in Ontario near the very spot where a woman gave water to thirsty pigs on a slaughterhouse-bound truck and ended up charged with a crime.

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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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