Show ‘Dancing’ Bears That You Really Care Created by an award-winning advertising agency, this frightful flick is a spine-tingling tale of terror and torture.
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Want to know the scariest thing of all? “Dancing” bears in Pakistan and India are mercilessly mutilated just like this when they are barely a year old. No animal should have to [...]

Cruel Training
For animals in circuses, there is no such thing as “positive reinforcement”—only varying degrees of punishment and deprivation. Animals do not voluntarily ride bicycles, stand on their heads, or jump through rings of fire. They don’t perform these and other difficult tricks because they want to; they perform because they’re afraid not to. For [...]

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), a nonprofit interest group whose goal is to end all animal exploitation, is the largest animal rights organization in the world. Founded in 1980, PETA has more than a million members and an annual budget of $25 million.

As calls continue to come in from distraught and angry animal guardians who believe that their animals died after eating dry foods that have not yet been recalled, PETA is calling for criminal investigations into Iams, Menu Foods, and other companies to determine if there were delays that may have caused more suffering and deaths [...]

Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. Many of us bought our beloved “pets” at pet shops, had guinea pigs, and kept beautiful birds in cages. We wore wool and silk, ate McDonald’s burgers, and fished. We never considered the impact of these actions on the [...]

PETA has contacted hundreds of companion-animal food companies, asking if they conduct laboratory tests on animals. Numerous companies responded to let us know that they do not. We have compiled a list of those companies below. View the first letter, follow-up letter, and survey sent to companion-animal food companies.
Companies that are not on this list [...]

Cartier, the company best-known for its high-end jewelry, sponsored an absurd event in which elephants were made to play polo in Jaipur, India, on Saturday, November 18. Elephants who are forced to participate in such events are captured from the wild and taken away from their families and homes. In order to force them to [...]