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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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Diane von Furstenberg Bans Mohair; Help PETA Urge Others to Ban Wool

The company joins a large list of retailers that, thanks to a PETA exposé, are now against workers mutilating and killing goats for mohair.

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UPDATE: Game-Changing Woocoa Earns PETA’s 2018 Animal-Free Wool Prize

The innovative team’s hemp-, coconut-, and mushroom-derived material is helping to stop sheep from being shorn bloody for their wool.

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Sheep, Dead, Wool, Bleeding, Mailing Forever 21 Their Hair
Twitter Sides With PETA, Re-Uploads Canada Goose Parody Video

PETA’s parody video urges shoppers not to be swayed by Canada Goose’s deceptive storytelling and to remember who wool comes from.

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Live Exporter Suspended After Cruelty Exposed

Australia’s biggest sheep exporter is currently banned from loading any sheep on to ships.

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Personal Care & Fashion
So Many Brands Have Banned Mohair—ASOS Is Taking Things a Step Further

Following a PETA video exposé of the mohair industry, the online retailer announced that it will strengthen its overall animal-welfare policy.

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PETA’s Kitten Squad Is the First Advocacy Game on Nintendo Switch

Assemble your squad and send animal-abusing robots into oblivion. Nintendo Switch has released Kitten Squad with a new co-op mode—and it’s all free!

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Personal Care & Fashion
MUST-SEE: 9 Reasons Why All Your Favorite Brands Are Banning Mohair

To understand why so many brands—including Anthropologie and Vince—are nixing mohair, you have to watch this footage.

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Charges Filed Against Those Who Threw, Cut, Killed Goats for Mohair

An eyewitness in South Africa—the world’s top mohair producer—found that workers struck, mutilated, and decapitated terrified goats. Help these gentle animals today!

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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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Joaquin Phoenix Ad Set to Make a Bang at New York Fashion Week

PETA has placed a massive billboard featuring Joaquin Phoenix in Greenwich Village, just around the corner from where the shows will take place.

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PETA Protesters Captivate Countless Passersby Around the World (Photos)

December’s demonstrations pulled out all the stops. See why most onlookers couldn’t help but stop and stare.

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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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PETA’s SEVENTH Wool Exposé: Sheep Still Hit, Kicked, Cut, Thrown

PETA’s latest exposé reveals that Australian shearers are still punching sheep, cutting them up, and shoving them into chutes like garbage.

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#TBT Video: Joe Rogan Talks PETA Wool Investigations

Never one to hold back, Joe Rogan thrills us all with his conversation with “Cowspiracy” filmmakers. See what he had to say about a PETA video.

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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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