Bears are cruelly killed for their fur by being shot or ensnared, sometimes for days, in painful traps. During hunts, as many as one bear in seven doesn’t die immediately after being shot and escapes wounded only to die slowly from blood loss or starvation. It takes one of these To …
Imprisoning an animal in a cage is cruel. Leaving a dog in a cage all day is inflicting unnecessary suffering. Anyone who disagrees with that should spend some time isolated in a cage. Calling a cage, a crate, does not change anything, it is still imprisoning a dog in a cage. LINKS: Animal Rights …
UK Day of Action! Tell Thomas Cook to Stop Promoting SeaWorld The Thomas Cook Group continues to sell tickets to SeaWorld, despite being fully aware of the company’s cruel treatment of animals for profit. On Saturday, 9 September, PETA will coordinate a national day of action, with events held across the UK. Facebook Link
Dogs Born To Suffer At the Alfort National Veterinary School in France, in experiments funded by the charity AFM-Téléthon, golden retrievers and other breeds of dogs are deliberately bred to develop crippling muscular dystrophy, including severe Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Laboratory employees admit that the dogs suffer. Some animals are completely crippled before they are six …
Casey Affleck Exposes How Big Cats Are Dragged and Hit With Sticks in the Circus
Ringside Seats for a Spectacle of Cruelty Animals don’t want to ride bicycles, stand on their heads, balance on balls or jump through rings of fire. Elephants, big cats, monkeys and other animals used in circuses perform tricks because they have no choice. If circus audiences knew the truth about the violence and suffering that …
An email I received from PETA recently, had the above picture in it. I looked at the image, but I could not understand what I was seeing until I read the description. “A spiked ring was fastened to this calf’s nostrils to prevent nursing. Rings were sometimes screwed on so tightly and left on for …
Four old bears are happy now after decades of hell. Story Link
The traumatised monkey whose kidnapping from Varandha Ghat in Maharashtra was caught on video, which then went viral, was reunited with her family by forest officials and PETA representatives today. Continued here
David Cameron promised to ban wild-animal circuses by January 2015 but failed to bring any legislation to Parliament during the last government. I’ve just written to him and asked him to get it done now! Please join me in taking action: petauk.org/circusban
Angora Day of Action Less than 24 hours after PETA’s Angora Day of Action, United Colors of Benetton has confirmed that it will never use angora again. Click the link below for full story:
There is no kind way to rip the skin off an animal’s back Say NO to fur and fur trim. Ashley James’ Anti-Fur Photoshoot for PETA See also: FUR OUT THE CLOSET
Torture In A Tin In California, a federal judge has lifted a state-wide ban on the sale of foie gras, which is made from the engorged liver of ducks or geese that have been force-fed. PETA Protesters Foie gras is made by shoving hard metal pipes down the throats of geese and ducks and force …
This video, narrated by Paloma Faith, is a compilation of footage from fur farms in countries qualified to bear the “Origin-Assured” label, which was created by the fur industry. It shows shockingly cruel treatment of animals. Foxes, minks, raccoons and rabbits suffer from weeping open wounds, chew off their own limbs in desperation and go …
Animals respond to distress calls even when they come from another species. Written by Kimberly Walls Did you know that animals respond to distress calls even when they come from another species? Biologists at the University of Winnipeg noticed that many infant mammals have similar distress calls, so they decided to play the recorded cries …
Below is an image of a baby angora rabbit. It is in the space where there should have been a video. The video shows a rabbit having its fur ripped out and it finishes showing a skinned animal who is still alive and who musters the strength to lift her bloody face up to look …
Joan Jett supports PETA
Written by Michelle Kretzer Zoos have long tried to hide the cruelty of captivity behind a mask of “conservation education.” But a new study shows that learning is usually not the outcome. Sociologists in the United Kingdom gathered data from children between the ages of 7 and 15, both before and after they visited the London …
French Connection must have missed the memo: plucking angora rabbits of all their long, soft fur for mass-produced jumpers, scarves and hats causes untold suffering and trauma to the animals. That’s what we told clothing retailers like Asos, Zara, and Topshop when we made them halt production of angora products last year. French Connection also halted all …
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is known for its long history of abusing animals. Although there is a growing awareness of how animals are treated at circuses, there is an insufficient number of people who actually realise the hellish life that the animals have to endure. Well-meaning parents take their children to see …
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