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Was Your Cat, Dog, or Other Animal Killed or Injured in the California or Oregon Wildfires? Let Us Know.

If your cat, dog, or other animal companion was killed or injured and required veterinary treatment, we want to hear from you.

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Animal Companions
A Day in the Life of a PETA Animal Rescue Team Fieldworker

A PETA fieldworker tells all: One of those featured in the documentary “Breaking the Chain” takes you behind the scenes to show her work for animals in just 24 hours.

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face masks on beach
Don’t Let Your Masks Harm Animals! How to Dispose of Them Responsibly

Masks aren’t going away anytime soon. The good news? We can all take a little extra care to make sure they don’t hurt fellow animals.

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PETA fieldworker delivering a doghouse to a vulnerable dog
Animal Companions
Animals Need You to Watch ‘Breaking the Chain’—Now on Prime Video

For the first time ever, a documentary is sounding the alarm on a national crisis affecting dogs and other companion animals. Watch “Breaking the Chain” on demand now.

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PETA Delivers 4 Tons of Vegan Food to Hunger Relief Program

PETA partnered with Plant Based Foods, Inc., to donate hearty vegan frozen meals and other items to communities in need. You can help, too!

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Share Compassion With a PETA Present
With a PETA Present, you can send a beautiful e-card and help animals.
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Child learning alphabet with animal pictures
How Language Can Influence Kids’ Attitudes Toward Animals

As you well know, your children are listening and picking up on things you say—for better or for worse. This may be one of the most important times in history to raise kids who care.

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PETA staffer and animal advocate Jenny Woods
‘Our Jenny’: PETA Honors Late Animal Advocate With Action for Animals

More than all the candles, flowers, tears, and words in the world, Jenny would have wanted anyone honoring her memory to do so by showing kindness to animals.

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Simon the bull and celebrity
Simon Cowell’s Back Injury Prompts Get-Well Gift From PETA India

Meet Simon the rescued bull—also recovering from a back injury after a motorbike accident—who has been named after the animal-loving music mogul.

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Suffering at Excelsior Hog Farm
Victory! Pig-Protecting Defendants Will NOT Serve Time in Jail for Exposing a Cruel Canadian Hog Farm

Victory! The pig defenders who exposed a cruel hog farm in British Columbia, Canada, will NOT serve time behind bars.

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Don’t Miss PETA President’s LIVE Virtual Talk on Her New Book, ‘Animalkind’

PETA President Ingrid Newkirk is doing her first-ever “in store” Zoom book talk for YOU! Find out how to join us for this interactive event that will explore the lives and intelligence of animals.

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Sheep and PETA's Dan Mathews
How His Mother’s Schizophrenia Taught Him to Have Empathy for All Animals

PETA’s Dan Mathews shares how being raised by a mother with schizophrenia led him to develop creative and effective ways to help animals and humans.

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Cows on transport truck to slaughter
Just Released: Cows Suffer on JBS Trucks for Hours Before Slaughter

The appalling treatment of cows killed for their flesh begins long before workers hang them upside down, slit their throats, and bleed them out on a kill floor.

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Sympathy at Slaughter
A sick kitten at a "pet" market in China
This Kitten at a ‘Pet’ Market in China Can Barely Keep Their Eyes Open

A dehydrated pug, seemingly ill cats, dogs kept in feces-encrusted wire cages—these are just some of the horrors a PETA Asia investigator found at an open “pet” market in China.

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melinda novak and harry harlow, monkey experimenters
Monkey Experimenters Describe People With Cognitive Disabilities as ‘Idiots’

People with cognitive disabilities are “human morons,” and animals are merely “subhuman,” according to notorious monkey tormenters Melinda Novak and Harry Harlow.

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USDA Tried to Keep Its Failures Secret—PETA Helped Force Transparency

According to the statement that plaintiffs secured, it’s clear that the situation is dire for the millions of animals the USDA is supposed to protect.

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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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