The plight of New York City’s carriage horses is well documented. Fortunately, the New York Legislature has two bills pending that would put an end to this exploitive industry in the Big Apple. When passed, S.5013 and A.7748 will ban the use of horse-drawn carriages in New York City and require a humane disposition of [...]
Full Story »
Farm Sanctuary Makes Room at the “Inn” this Christmas for a Special Mother and Child Goat gives birth at slaughterhouse and gets second chance at life for her and her kid WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – December 19, 2011 – For a lucky mother and child, all is calm and all is bright this holiday season. [...]
Full Story »
If you have a general question for PETA and would like a response, please e-mail Info@peta.org. If you need to report cruelty to an animal, please click here. If you are reporting an animal in imminent danger and know where to find the animal and if the abuse is taking place right now, please call [...]
Full Story »
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) has illegally issued a permit to allow Clay Logan, owner of Clay’s Corner in Brasstown, North Carolina, to exploit a wild opossum on New Year’s Eve at his annual “Opossum Drop” by suspending the animal in a barren plexiglass box above a raucous New Year’s Eve crowd during [...]
Full Story »
The best show in Vegas last week wasn’t in a casino—it was on the sidewalk on Las Vegas Boulevard. Luck was a lady leopard (and a cow and a snake) when PETA’s “showgirls” stripped down on The Strip to reveal their animalistic bodypaint. Crowds flocked to the ladies like they were the hottest blackjack table, [...]
Full Story »
Every year, the fur industry heartlessly kills 50 million animals. Animals on fur farms spend their entire lives confined to cramped, filthy wire cages, where they have only enough room to take a few steps in any direction. Fur farmers use the cheapest and cruelest killing methods available—animals are bludgeoned, suffocated, electrocuted, gassed, poisoned, hanged, and often [...]
Full Story »
Jenny Varley | cc by 2.0 Last week, champagne corks were popping at PETA HQ following the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) announcement that it is suspending funding for new experiments on chimpanzees because most of these studies are as scientifically unjustifiable as they are morally bankrupt. Now we want to make certain that [...]
Full Story »
Gunner (photo below) is a beloved indoor cat who got spooked, ran outside, and is now stranded high atop a Juniper Avenue utility pole in Twentynine Palms, California. Gunner’s panicked owners asked various agencies for help, to no avail. They were then referred to the power company Southern California Edison, which has promised to help [...]
Full Story »
Domestication certainly hasn’t benefited horses, as they’ve long been abused as beasts of burden and in other ways—as shown by our current battle to stop their export and slaughter for meat. But the new movie War Horse makes a strong case that the bond between humans and horses transcends exploitation. Based on the book of [...]
Full Story »
The holidays can be anything but joyous for animals used to make leather jackets, fur-trimmed coats, or wool sweaters. Whether the clothes come from Chinese fur farms, Indian slaughterhouses, or the Australian Outback, millions of animals suffer and die every day in the name of fashion. You can help animals this holiday season by writing [...]
Full Story »
Loading ...
