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Exposés and Undercover Investigations

PETA entities’ undercover investigations expose animal abuse in laboratories, farms and slaughterhouses, the clothing industry, the pet trade, and more.

Exposed: Crocodiles and Alligators Factory-Farmed for Hermès ‘Luxury’ Goods

Thousands of crocodiles and alligators are crammed into concrete pits and filthy pools—all killed for their skin before even reaching adulthood.

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Eyewitness Exposé: Pain, Fear, and Death at Primate Products, Inc.

You’ve never seen anything like this before—and much of it is being paid for by U.S. taxpayers’ dollars!

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Exposed: Tyson Workers Torturing Birds, Urinating on Slaughter Line

Please write to KFC and Tyson Foods to stop this hideous abuse.

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Mother Pigs and Piglets Abused by Hormel Supplier

Undercover Investigation Reveals Hormel Supplier’s Abuse of Mother Pigs and Piglets

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Undercover Investigation Reveals Cows Suffer for Land O’Lakes

Demand that Land O’Lakes implement and enforce a 12-point animal welfare plan to govern all cooperative members’ dairy-farming operations, which will eliminate some of the worst abuses to cows raised for their milk.

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HELP NOW: Sheep Killed, Punched, Stomped on, and Cut for Wool

Investigators in Australia and the U.S. found that shearers killed, beat, kicked, and threw terrified sheep.

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Charges Filed After Investigation Reveals Torture of Pigs

Urge Smithfield Foods to demand that Murphy Family Ventures fire all the workers responsible for horrific cruelty to pigs.

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Psychological Torture Experiments at NIH Must Stop

Chilling photos and videos reveal traumatic psychological experiments on monkeys and their babies in taxpayer-funded NIH laboratories.

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Rescued! 420 Chinchillas Saved From Breeding, Fur Farm

After learning that a chinchilla breeder was planning on electrocuting hundreds of chinchillas if she couldn’t sell her business, PETA and Sam Simon stepped in to save them.

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Cows Forced to Live in Their Own Waste at Dairy Farm

After a disturbing tip, PETA visited a farm that supplies milk to supermarket chain Harris Teeter and found emaciated cows in pain trudging through deep manure.

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Undercover Exposé—Pigs Suffer and Die at Top Breeder

PETA’s exposé of a worldwide leader in pig breeding shows injured and lame pigs who were left to languish. Some died. Sign our pledge to go vegan!

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Investigation Reveals Horrific Cruelty to Turkeys

Watch our investigation video into a turkey farm and take action to stop the cruelty.

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A Look Inside the Angora Rabbit Wool Industry

Watch never-before-seen undercover footage into the cruel angora fur industry and pledge to leave angora rabbit wool out of your wardrobe.

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To Schools: Cut Ties With Slaughterhouse Cited by Feds!

In 2013, a whistleblower recorded terrified mother pigs’ final moments inside SQM, a Pontotoc, Mississippi, slaughterhouse.

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Ducks Crammed Inside Cages for Foie Gras

A PETA investigation found that ducks spend weeks in bleak metal cages not much bigger than their own bodies before Hot’s Kitchen serves their diseased livers.

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The first World Day for Laboratory Animals protest in the U.S., 1980
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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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