Animal Defenders Cradle ‘Dead Lamb’ Outside H&M’s London Flagship Store
PETA is calling for H&M to drop wool.
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Victory! No More Rabbits Suffer Spine-Crushing Experiments in Swedish Laboratory!
A huge victory for rabbits!
Sex Life Suffering From ‘Sausage Flop’? Go Vegan For Better Erections
New PETA ads urge lads to go vegan for sexual stamina.
Action Needed! Stop This Cruel ‘Parrot Experience’ in Blackpool
A new “parrot experience” attraction would confine intelligent birds for public interaction. Urge…
Reasons Not to Eat Bone Broth
Bone broth isn’t healthy; it’s cruel and disgusting.
PETA Urges Pope Leo XIV to End Catholic Church’s Support for Bloody Bullfights
We’re urging the Catholic Church to cut its shameful ties with sadistic bullfighting.
RNLI and Coastguard Named PETA Heroes After Rescuing Sparkle the Dog
PETA is recognising the rescue to highlight the importance of fast, coordinated action when anima…
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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.
