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Donkeys are hit with a sledgehammer and their throats are slit so that their skins can be boiled down to make gelatin. Others are forced to carry tourists in the heat, denied access to water, and have painful wounds from ill-fitting saddles that continually irritate the wounds. And still others are forced to carry teenagers and adults in noisy basketball fundraisers that are extremely stressful for them.
Sweet Max was chained up outdoors with nothing but a plastic barrel to protect him from the elements. PETA built him a brand-new custom doghouse to make his life a little more comfortable.
The link between animal abuse and cruelty to other humans is well documented. Learn how you can help hundreds of children grow into kind individuals through PETA's innovative Compassionate Library Project.
A kitten and her mother were both killed at Boys Town National Research Hospital in useless experiments. 💔 PETA helped end these tests on kittens, but other animals are being tormented and killed in laboratories funded by tax dollars. Text the word MENTAL to 73822 to tell the National Institute of Mental Health to stop tormenting vulnerable animals.*
Six horses died in one week at the Calgary Stampede, including three in a scene so gruesome that a tarp was used to hide it from public view. Horses will continue to pay with their lives until this barbaric race is stopped.
More people than ever are ditching dairy and going vegan to help animals, save the environment, and improve their own health. Yet Starbucks is still charging customers extra for choosing dairy-free milk.
PETA is looking for dedicated volunteers like you to help animals in emergency situations across the country. If you can help animals in need in your area, please sign up for our Field Response Team text program. Once you've enrolled, you may receive texts at any time, day or night, if an animal in your area needs urgent help.*
PETA is putting the University of Missouri on blast after experimenters removed parts of rats' skulls, injected their brains with an inflammatory compound, then forced them to climb a ladder with weights taped to their tails and subjected them to a battery of fear-motivated memory tests before they were ultimately killed. PETA has filed a complaint with the school, but we still need your help to stop experiments on rats in other laboratories.
TeachKind's free "Share the World" kit is perfect for teaching elementary school students the Golden Rule and the importance of compassion for all animals—and it can be used to meet Common Core standards. Share it with a teacher you know.
Many birds are live-plucked and violently killed in the down industry. PETA is urging six companies to ditch the cruelly obtained material—join us in speaking out today.
The idea that dogs and cats are welcome in our homes but pigs and cows should be killed and eaten is speciesist.
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