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5 Things You Can Do to Help the Amazon Rainforest Right Now

You don’t have to donate millions like Leo, and you don’t have to feel helpless watching the Amazon rainforest burn.

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PETA’s Dan Mathews Urges Fashion Professors to Teach Sustainability, Ethics

PETA Senior Vice President Dan Mathews addressed more than 100 fashion professors at this year’s CFDA Fashion Education Summit. Find out what he had to say.

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Elon Musk to PETA: Two Tesla Models Will Be Leather-Free

PETA is calling on Tesla to help steer the world toward a more sustainable future by making vehicles with all-vegan interiors.

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PETA Asia Takes a Horrifying Look Inside a Thai Slaughterhouse

Video footage reveals workers using sledgehammers to bash cows in the head and then slitting their throats.

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PETA India’s Message This Mother’s Day: Everybody Is Somebody’s Baby

A woman in a coat made of “baby” parts urges people to give leather the boot.

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Reebok Makes New Shoes Made of Corn 100% Vegan After Hearing From PETA

Reebok’s new Cotton + Corn shoe project is eco-conscious, animal-friendly “sole” food.

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Victory! Alexandre Birman Steps Away from Exotic Skins After PETA Talks

After talks with PETA, Alexandre Birman has confirmed that it will stop sourcing exotic skins, marking another major victory for animals used for fashion.

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PETA Pressures Levi’s to Investigate Slaughter Methods of Its Leather Suppliers

PETA has submitted a new shareholder resolution pushing Levi’s to commission a report on the slaughter methods that its suppliers use to obtain leather.

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PETA x Coalition LA Talk ‘Conscious Fashion’ at WWDMAGIC Trade Show

PETA x Coalition LA presented a vegan fashion panel in partnership with WWDMAGIC, the largest womenswear trade show in the U.S.

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YES! WWE Star Daniel Bryan Debuts New Vegan Championship Belt

The professional wrestler’s diet isn’t the only thing that’s vegan—his new WWE SmackDown championship belt is, too. Find out more about the way he’s changing the world.

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Animals Appear Across the U.S. to Say, ‘Wear Something Vegan’

PETA is taking outspoken sheep, cows, foxes, and geese across the country to tell shoppers how they feel about wool, leather, fur, and down.

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Breaking: Cows Bludgeoned With Sledgehammers for Meat and Leather

No matter which country it was produced in, every hamburger or pair of leather shoes represents an animal who was sentenced to a terrifying trip to the slaughterhouse.

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Dying to Help Animals? PETA Releases New Decals for Coffins and Urns

Whether you’re setting up a cheeky Halloween display or preparing for your own demise, PETA’s coffin and urn stickers are to die for.

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PETA and Coalition LA Debut Vegan Leather Jacket at Los Angeles Launch Event

Fashion enthusiasts, bloggers, influencers, and animal advocates came together to celebrate this new sustainable and ethical piece.

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Personal Care & Fashion
Burberry Is Setting Fire to Items That Cost Animals Their Lives

Perhaps if Burberry eliminated cruelly obtained animal skins from its designs, there wouldn’t be 90 million pounds of unsold merchandise to burn.

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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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