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Animalkind and Goose
Do Animals Grieve? Hear Heartwarming Stories From PETA’s President

Do animals grieve? Do they feel love? Hear heartwarming stories of dogs, birds, elephants, and more with Ingrid Newkirk, author of “AnimalKind.”

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Truck Crash Killing Cows
Video of Dying Cows in Semi-Truck Wreckage Is Your Vegan Wake-up Call

The video of this crash is completely heartbreaking. Those cows never should have been on that truck in the first place.

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Animal Companions
PETA Fieldworkers in Action: Dogs and Cats and Hamsters, Oh My!

For stoic pup Yeehaw Wayne and miniature horse Bea, there’s (now) no place like home. Meet them and the other animals PETA’s essential fieldworkers helped in April.

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There Are Only a Few Hours Left to Vote for PETA in These Webby Categories

Show everyone that the largest animal rights group is also number one in social media. Vote for PETA in the “Social: Weird” and “Social: Best Overall Social Presence – Brand” categories.

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Pandemic pig at Smithfield slaughterhouse
Shareholder Activism: PETA Takes a Seat at These Meatpackers’ Tables

What do Tyson, Smithfield, Hormel, and Maple Leaf Foods all have in common? Aside from facing closures related to COVID-19, they all have a new shareholder: PETA.

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With a PETA Present, you can send a beautiful e-card and help animals.
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Slaughterhouse worker stands in front of pig corpses
Tyson Managers Profiting From Workers’ Getting COVID-19?

As if slaughterhouses weren’t already inherently evil, Tyson just responded after management was caught betting money on how many workers would get COVID-19.

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Food Safety Inspections Have Nosedived—We Must Keep Slaughterhouses Closed

Food recalls have come to a screeching halt, as COVID-19 has completely disrupted the nation’s food-safety system.

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COVID-19 Stole Your Job? Well, PETA Is Hiring

Want to earn a living making videos about animals? What about conducting undercover investigations? Or helping us end animal testing? PETA is hiring for all of the above!

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Animals You Didn’t Realize Suffer at Roadside Zoos Just Like Tigers

Many other animals besides tigers are torn away from their mothers, kept in squalid conditions, and used for public encounters so that roadside zoos can make money.

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Ellie Elephant virtual learning
VIDEO: Ellie the Elephant’s Empathy-Building Presentation Goes Virtual!

Ellie, PETA’s robotic elephant, has visited hundreds of schools with a message of compassion. Now she’s available to every parent and teacher for distance learning.

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Save 200 Animals Every Year by Going Vegan
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PETA’s ‘Vegans for the Vulnerable’—Help Food Banks Keep Up With Demand

Lines for food banks currently stretch almost to the horizon. Help facilities keep up with demand with PETA’s Vegans for the Vulnerable initiative.

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PETA and Animal Rights Take TikTok by Storm!

PETA never stops. Follow us on TikTok today and you’ll discover ways to help animals and fight speciesism from your phone any time of day.

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kids slaughter
Did PETA UK Really Just Show Kids Slaughter Footage?

Do you think your children can handle knowing where their meat comes from? We want kids to know who they’re eating.

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Ingrid Newkirk Animalkind Book
COVID-19 Won’t Stop PETA President’s ‘Animalkind’ World Tour

PETA President Ingrid Newkirk’s world tour was grounded due to the COVID-19 outbreak, so she’s taking her “Animalkind” book tour online.

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chicken at slaughterhouse
20% of Workers Test Positive for COVID-19 at Trident Seafoods

Massive COVID-19 outbreaks are occurring at animal-killing facilities everywhere—most recently, nearly 20% of workers at Trident Seafoods tested positive.

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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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