King’s Guard’s Bearskin Cap Orders More Than Quadruple Under Labour Party
The Ministry of Defence is under increasing pressure to switch to faux fur.
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Crocodile Factory Farming: What’s Really in a Hermès Birkin Bag?
Brands like Hermès and Louis Vuitton use crocodile skin for bags, purses, and shoes.
PETA Urges UK Universities to End Sepsis Experiments on Rodents
Universities are infecting rodents to cause sepsis in cruel experiments. Find out more about PETA…
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.
A Landmark Win for Animals: Europe Moves Closer to Ending Chemical Tests on Animals
PETA will keep pushing until tests on animals are a thing of the past.
Merlin to End Penguin Breeding at SEA LIFE After Years of Pressure
Merlin has finally committed to ending breeding programmes for the gentoo penguins.
The EU’s Dangerous Gift to the Leather Industry
We have until 1 June to stop the EU’s leather loophole.
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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.
