High-Stakes Gambling Gambling featured heavily in the operation of these races. In addition to admission fees up to $100, people brazenly wagered what appeared to be hundreds of thousands of dollars. TheRead More…
Think Twice Before Adding a ‘Teacup Pig’ to Your Family
We get it: The idea of snuggling a baby pig companion is heartwarming. Pigs are smart, sensitive, self-aware beings, and—just like puppies—they look adorable, especially when they’re young. Because of this, so-calledRead More…
Why Breeding and Buying Bulldogs and Pugs is Cruel
Dogs pay with their health, happiness, and lives for humans’ obsession with breeding and buying them based on their appearances. All “purebred” dogs suffer from genetic conditions that can cause pain, discomfort, and debilitation.Read More…
Good Neighbours: Eight Times the Iconic Soap and Its Stars Put Animal Rights in the Spotlight
After 37 glorious years, long-running TV soap Neighbours has come to an end! Erinsborough has been home to an inordinate amount of drama over the past four decades, from fatal fires and kidnappingsRead More…
Want a Future? Leave Meat in the Past
After all, it’s common sense, right? When you clear millions of hectares of trees – which sequester carbon and house native marsupials – to make room for millions of grazing animals, whoRead More…
Magpie Swooping: How to Avoid Getting Hit
In Australia, the arrival of spring means that magpies begin nesting – and in some cases, swooping. These intelligent native birds are just trying to raise their families in a challenging environmentRead More…
Baby, How You Feelin’? These Vegan Stars Are Feeling ‘Good as Hell’
Are you ready to feel “good as hell”? PETA collaborated with some of your favorite stars, including Edie Falco, John Salley, Joaquin Phoenix, Angela Means, and Nikki Glaser—along with our everyday heroes—toRead More…
What is Winter Lambing?
Lambing Losses There’s an old saying that goes, “Where there’s livestock, there’s dead stock,” and it’s never truer than in sheep farming. The Australian industry estimates that around a quarter of newborn lambsRead More…
PETA Asia Video Shows Nails Driven Into Heads of Live Snakes for Fashion Accessories
PETA Asia has released video footage showing how snakes are abused and killed in Indonesia so that their skins can be sold to fashion brands. In the slaughterhouse, employees hit pythons onRead More…
Intensive Winter Grazing in New Zealand Is a Welfare and Environmental Disaster
New Zealand is famous for its clean and green image, but behind the tourism ads showing luscious green forests and snowy mountain peaks is a farming practice that’s muddying the scenery –Read More…