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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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Tesla’s Removal of Leather Seats Will Give You Hope for a Sustainable Future

According to Elon Musk, two Tesla vehicles, including the anticipated Model Y, will boast leather-free interiors. Learn more about this exciting progress.

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Take Action! Cats Being Killed for Fur Coats

Did that fur coat have a collar? Every year, countless cats—some of them wearing collars—are abducted and hanged, bled, or strangled for fur.

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Personal Care & Fashion
Why Meghan Markle Is Vegan-Fashion Royalty

Prince Harry’s fiancée refuses to wear or promote fur on ethical grounds. We’d put a ring on that, too!

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Is Leonardo da Vinci the Forefather of the Animal Rights Movement?

Leonardo da Vinci was known just as much for his extraordinary artwork as for his scientific genius, but did you know he was also an animal rights pioneer?

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Consumers Are Redefining Leather—PETA Urges Dictionaries to Join Them

The “leather” industry now includes synthetic and plant-based materials. The term’s definition should reflect our evolving culture, too.

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PETA’s February Was Proof That Love (for Animals) Is a Battlefield

Valentine’s Day wasn’t all hearts and smiles. PETA spiced things up with some “tough love” for animal abusers around the world in February.

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Seriously? Tod’s Models Sport Dead Sheep and Live Puppies on the Runway

If the fashion company really wanted to honor the Year of the Dog, it’d nix the cruelty from its catwalk.

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The 15 Most Awesome Photos of People Standing Up for Animals This Week

From being chained up at the Detroit Auto Show to having their “skin” ripped off in Times Square, there’s little that PETA supporters won’t do.

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Photos: Across the U.S., Animal Rights Messages Light Up the Sky

Sometimes people just need a little help to see the light.

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Save 200 Animals Every Year by Going Vegan
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Dogs Slaughtered for Leather

You will never buy leather again after watching this video.

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Personal Care & Fashion
H&M Promptly Pulls Offensive ‘Dogfight’ Sweatshirt After PETA Plea

The hoodie glorified forcing dogs to tear each other apart. PETA commends H&M for quickly pulling the item and is encouraging the retailer to do the same with leather.

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Is That a Cow Under Your Arm? PETA’s Mall Displays Help People Get Real

PETA’s mall displays show holiday shoppers WHO they’re really buying.

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D∆WN’s ‘Graphic’ PETA Billboard Lands in Detroit

Singer D∆WN’s skin is “peeled off” for this anti-leather fall-fashion campaign in a billboard deemed “too graphic” for many U.S. cities.

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Stella McCartney Rules the Runway With Animal-Friendly Spring Collection

Rather than describing how fashion critics are reacting to the animal-friendly catwalk, we’ll let you hear it straight from them.

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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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