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Almost 100 PETA supporters took part in at Marble Arch in London to demand the government not to adopt lower standards of protection for animals in laboratories.

Prominent barrister Michael Mansfield QC has sent a letter to Derbyshire County Council after learning from PETA that Midland Pig Producers wish to build a factory farm in Foston.

Barely a year after Animal Aid first released harrowing footage taken inside UK abattoirs, they have uncovered more abuse. Video footage secretly recorded at Elmkirk Ltd (Cheale Meats) makes for distressing viewing, but astonishingly, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs are refusing to prosecute those responsible because the abattoir staff were not consulted […]

I hope you’re as excited as I am to see Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which opens next Friday, 12 August. The movie’s message and CGI special effects are so animal-friendly that PETA US has given director Rupert Wyatt a Proggy Award for recognising that real great apes don’t belong on production sets. […]

Have Denmark’s legislators been reading Animal Writes? PETA has long maintained that a tax on meat would help offset its negative impact on our health and the environment, and now it seems that the Danish government agrees with us. Starting in October, the country will levy taxes on certain meat and dairy products, animal fats, […]

The government finally unveiled its grand plan to reduce the number of animals used for vivisection.

PETA US members converged on the Hollywood premiere of the new movie Zookeeper to remember Tweet, a giraffe who collapsed and died on set during the movie’s production.

The world’s largest animal testing programme – which has already killed an estimated 200,000 animals – is killing tens of thousands more animals than the law says it should.

At least 41 people suffered injuries during Pamplona’s San Fermin festival this year.

Within a few short hours of launching our Sexiest European Vegetarian 2011 competition, we had already received a plethora of great entries from all across Europe.