PETA’s mouse mascot—bearing the message “Save Me and $22 Billion: End Animal Experiments!”—made a big squeak at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. PETA’s mouse supports ending wasteful spending by the National Institutes of Health. This agency squanders nearly half its annual budget on animal experiments—even though 90% of basic research, most of which involves animals, fails to lead to effective treatments for humans and 95% of new drugs that test safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials, sometimes causing serious side effects such as anaphylaxis or even death. The National Institutes of Health throws away public funds to prop up a broken system that wastes critical time and money harming animals in worthless experiments that benefit only the grantees. Experiments on animals have continued for decades with little oversight and no human-relevant results. We urge all candidates and officials to support redirecting taxpayer funds to cutting-edge, non-animal research that could actually yield treatments and cures for humans. https://lnkd.in/eJS982aG #mouse #MouseMascot #cruelty #StopAnimalTests #NotAnExperiment #NotOurs2Use #NeverBeSilent #EndSpeciesism #advocate #activist #AnimalRights
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Animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) entities have more than 9 million members and supporters globally, and PETA U.S. is the largest animal rights organization in the world. PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: in laboratories, in the food industry, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of rodents, birds, and other animals who are often considered “pests” as well as cruelty to domesticated animals. PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns. PETA Foundation was founded in 1993 as an organization that helps PETA run, and includes departments like IT, Development, and Interactive Media. PETA and the PETA Foundation are two separate organizations but work very closely together. Looking for a career in animal rights? See our open positions here: http://www.peta.org/jobs.
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Marmosets are arguably some of the most sensitive and social primates on the planet. They live high up in the canopies of South American rainforests, staying in cooperative groups of five to 12 individuals, called troops. They are intelligent, active, and curious animals who spend their time scampering along branches to forage for fruit, flowers, nectar, fungi, insects, and tree sap and hanging out with other troop members. Today, there are about 20 species of marmosets, the smallest of which is the pygmy marmoset—weighing just 3 to 5 ounces. Marmosets are complex, unique, social individuals with the capacity to experience a wide range of emotions. They deserve our respect, compassion, and protection. Humans do not have the right to treat other animals as disposable tools to be used and thrown out. Imprisoning vulnerable, sensitive animals and experimenting on them is wrong. Please urge NIA not to squander taxpayer dollars on cruel and worthless experiments on marmosets—and ask that it instead redirect funds into modern, superior, non-animal research methods. https://lnkd.in/excGdAcd #StopAnimalTests #NotAnExperiment #NotOurs2Use #Animal #AnimalRights #NoExcuse4AnimalAbuse #freedomforall #PETA #endspeciesism
The Hidden Lives of Marmosets | PETA Prime
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A publicly funded animal shelter in Indiana—Indianapolis Animal Care Services (IACS)—recently fired two employees because of their efforts to protect animals from being placed with violent individuals, including those with a history of cruelty to animals. The two were reportedly fired for doing some due diligence by screening potential adopters to help ensure that animals weren’t being released to individuals who had been criminally convicted of “domestic battery, neglect of a dependent, sexual violence, or murder convictions up to three years prior to the desired adoption date.” One of the employees said that she had become alarmed when she “learned a dog, named Champagne, was adopted out to a couple with five animal cruelty or abandonment violations on MyCase [a court case database]. The dogs had also been previously adopted by the same couple and later confiscated before the two came back in to Animal Care Services to re-adopt them.” After the firing, IACS reportedly released a statement saying that screening had been implemented after the facility gave another dog, named Deron, to an individual who tortured him to death. Just days after Deron was adopted in 2022, evidently free of charge, authorities were called and talked to witnesses who saw the dog being hanged by a leash on the adopter’s front porch and repeatedly stabbed. In an interview, one of the IACS former employees explained that Deron had been stabbed and mutilated and was being tossed into a trash bag when authorities arrived. Please contact Indianapolis’ elected officials today to demand that an investigation be undertaken into dereliction of duty, allegations of inhumane conditions for animals, and possible leadership misconduct and that the agency be required to reinstate and possibly strengthen its adoption screening processes immediately as well as rehiring the two employees who were fired for actually trying to save animals from being abused and neglected. https://lnkd.in/dHD6hJdz #EndSpeciesism #AnimalRights #AnimalSafety #AnimalWelfare #AnimalAdoption #AdoptDontShop #Adoption #AnimalRescue #Indianapolis
URGENT: ‘Save Them All’? Homeless Dogs and Cats Adopted to Animal Abusers—Take Action Today!
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The hot weather isn’t just hard for humans to deal with—dogs have an extra-tough time because they mainly cool themselves by panting. It’s our responsibility to keep our dogs safe during this sweltering season—which is easy to do when you have the right tips. Here are our top 12 ways to help your pup beat the heat. https://lnkd.in/eDC2fmP7 #summer #heat #hydrate #dogs #animal #animaljustice #letdogsliveindoors #BanChaining #Hero4Animals #adoptdontbuy #spayandneuter #StopAnimalHomelessness #PETA #vegantips #endspeciesism
How to Help Your Pup Beat the Heat | peta2
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No matter how much of a gamer you are, you’ll love this new game. Another Crab’s Treasure, released for PlayStation 5, Windows, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox Series X/S, is all about a hermit crab named Kril who goes on an epic adventure to buy back his shell and discovers dark secrets behind pollution in the ocean. This game does a good job of hyping hermit crabs, who are social, sensitive animals facing serious threats. The hermit crab industry snatches them from their ocean homes and ships them to malls and surf shops so that anyone can buy them on a whim. In nature, hermit crabs have large social groups and can live for more than 30 years, but in captivity, they’re usually caged alone and die within a few months. Help hermit crabs avoid this misery—never buy them. https://lnkd.in/eFEDmiHM #AnotherCrabsTreasure #OceanPollution #Awareness #vegangamer #videogame #sustainable #Animal #CaptivityKills #NotOurs2Use #animaljustice
Play ‘Another Crab’s Treasure’ on Switch | peta2
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Walmart’s new private-label food brand, bettergoods, is bringing more vegan options to the grocery chain’s shelves. The bettergoods line features affordable products—many of which are under $4—and includes several items that are vegan, which means they’re free from any ingredients stolen from animals. https://lnkd.in/eEiWx3Kq #Walmart #vegan #BetterGoods #VeganOptions #affordable #CrueltyFree #EatVegan #WhatVegansEat #AnimalRights #NotOurs2Eat #LiveVegan
What’s Vegan in Walmart’s New bettergoods Product Line? | PETA
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Did you know that regulatory agencies worldwide require tests to assess the effects of certain chemicals, drugs, and other substances on human lungs before these products can be marketed or sold? In these tests, rats are squeezed into narrow tubes and forced to inhale toxic substances for hours on end. Inhalation toxicity tests kill an estimated 1 million animals each year. But a new paper authored by PETA Science Consortium International, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and other collaborators will help change that. It shows how the respiratory tracts of humans and rats differ and how these differences impact the ability of toxicity tests on rats to reliably predict the effects in humans. To help ensure that researchers have the tools they need to replace animal testing with modern, animal-free methods, the Science Consortium awards researchers tissues and equipment and helped fund the development of a first-of-its-kind 3-D model of the lower respiratory tract, all of which can replace the use of animals in inhalation toxicity tests and better predict what happens when humans inhale chemicals. https://lnkd.in/dRMGJgDD #scienceandtechnology #science #animaltesting ##StopAnimalTests #animal #NotAnExperiment #NotOurs2Use #CrueltyFree #NoExcuse4AnimalAbuse #PETA #veganeducation
Paper on Human and Rat Respiratory Tracts Offers Insight | Blog
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Join the fight against animal testing as PETA’s Government Science Liaison! In this fully remote position, you’ll promote the funding and implementation of modern, animal-free research methods at the National Institutes of Health and other government agencies through drafting correspondence, attending and/or presenting at scientific conferences, and more. If you have previous related government agency experience and familiarity with scientific terminology, we want to hear from you! Apply today to join the world’s largest animal rights organization! https://lnkd.in/gY3Hr5ec #government #science #liaison #representative #nih #research #modernization #medical #publicpolicy #sciencepolicy #testing #experimentation #animaltesting #peta #nonprofit #charity #vegan #veganjobs #animalrights #saveanimals #hiring #applynow #fulltime #jobs #job #remote #remotejobs #fullyremote
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As dangerous summer heat baked the communities surrounding PETA’s Norfolk, Virginia, headquarters—the Sam Simon Center—and meteorologists urged residents to stay indoors, our fieldworkers spent long hours outdoors, knowing they were the only hope of relief for animals forced to live outside. In punishing temperatures and through pummeling thunderstorms, they delivered doghouses to chained dogs who had no protection, filled water bowls that were dry as a bone, alleviated debilitating parasite afflictions, and got animals out of harm’s way and into partner shelters and loving homes. Here’s just a glimpse of what our Community Animal Project and Mobile Clinics Division accomplished in April, May, and June. Interested in saving animals like it's your job? We want to hear from you! And everyone can help “fix” the crisis of companion animal homelessness by always adopting, spaying or neutering, and supporting low-cost sterilization programs. https://lnkd.in/eRxbUk4g #PETA #SaveAnimals #AnimalCare #Community #FieldWorker #Hero4Animals #AdoptDontBuy #SpayAndNeuter #BanChaining #StopAnimalHomelessness #Rescue
PETA Saves Animals From Scorching Heat and Pummeling Storms | PETA
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The leather industry subjects over a billion sensitive animals each year to horrific cruelty. Animals used for leather endure joyless, painful lives in cramped, filthy conditions, until they’re violently slaughtered—often while still conscious and in full view of one another. With the availability of animal-friendly materials, such as vegan leather derived from apples, mushrooms, tree bark, banana leaves, cactus, and grapes, it’s time for fashion companies to choose style, compassion, and conservation by selling only vegan leather. Aritzia, ASOS, Fossil, Mixology Clothing Company, and Talbots already sell faux leather and know how popular it is. It would be easy for them to make this compassionate change. Please use the form below to urge these companies to choose kindness—not cruelty and environmental devastation—by selling only vegan leather! https://lnkd.in/eNHN79qs #cruelty #WearVegan #TakeAction #compassion #NotOurs2Wear #LeatherFree #WearYourOwnSkin #VeganFashion #ChooseKindess
Urge ASOS, Talbots, Other Companies to Sell Only Vegan Leather
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