The RSPCA Is Supporting Factory Farming – It’s Time to Drop RSPCA Assured
Let’s make RSPCA Assured a thing of the past.
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Sheep Are Beaten and Kicked: Tell H&M to Stop Selling Wool!
Tell H&M to take wool off the shelves!
Don’t Let Puy du Fou Bring Circus-Style Shows to Oxfordshire
Ask Cherwell to reject Puy du Fou’s plans for circus-style animal exhibits and performances.
“Hell on Wheels” Pig Truck Hits the Road for First UK Tour – Urges Everyone to Leave Pigs in Peace
PETA is getting behind the wheel with a guerilla marketing campaign to raise hell for pigs.
Tell the RSPCA to End Support for Factory Farming!
Sign the petition calling on the RSPCA to end its support for factory farming.
Tell Travel Companies: Drop Camel Rides Worldwide
Camels used for tourist rides are beaten, restrained, and discarded when no longer deemed profita…
Stella McCartney’s Paris Show Delivers a Powerful Message for Animals
The designer used her Paris show to challenge animal exploitation in fashion and celebrate marine…
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What PETA Stands For
PEOPLE
I am you, only different.Human beings create temporary and arbitrary boundaries to exclude beings who aren’t like them. Human beings have justified wars, slavery, sexual violence, and military conquests through the mistaken belief that those who are “different” do not experience suffering and are not worthy of moral consideration.
ETHICAL
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.We are taught the Golden Rule as young children, and all major religions teach principles of nonviolence and kindness. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Ethical treatment—the Golden Rule—must be extended to all living beings: reptiles, mammals, fish, insects, birds, amphibians, and crustaceans.
TREATMENT
Animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.All beings desire freedom to live a natural life, according to their inherent desires and instincts. While the lives of all beings necessarily involve some amount of suffering, human beings must stop deliberately inflicting suffering on all beings for our own selfish desires. We lose nothing in replacing a cheeseburger with a veggie burger or a leather purse with a fabric one. But beings we exploit lose their lives just for our fleeting fancy.
ANIMALS
We are all animals.We believe all beings deserve liberty and respect not because they share the characteristics we admire in ourselves but because they are living beings. We share the same evolutionary origins, we inhabit the same Earth, and we are ruled by the same laws of nature. We are all the same.
