Kategorie: Animals

Just in time for Father’s Day, PETA has covered local buses and benches with an ad urging everyone to prevent fatherhood—that is, of dogs and cats. PETA chose Corpus Christi for the campaign after a recent survey named it a top “pet-friendly” city.

“Dogs can’t use condoms, so it’s up to us to stop them from fathering litter after litter of puppies,” says PETA Senior Vice President of Cruelty Investigations Daphna Nachminovitch. “PETA’s ads point out that for every dog who is neutered, countless others won’t be born into a world already bursting at the seams with homeless ones.”

PETA notes that an estimated 70 million dogs and cats are homeless in the U.S. at any given time. Only an estimated 10% of those are taken in by animal shelters, where many must eventually be euthanized for reasons including injury, illness, old age, emotional and psychological damage, and a lack of good homes. The solution is prevention through spaying and neutering—and always adopting from animal shelters and never buying animals from breeders or pet stores, which exacerbate the homelessness crisis.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

In addition to appearing on local buses, PETA’s ads are located on benches at the following locations:

• 5948-5868 Ayers St.
• 6363 Ayers St.
• 2628 Baldwin Blvd.
• 400 Coke St.
• 3111 Gollihar Rd.
• 3601 Morgan Ave.
• 1221 Santa Fe St.
• 501 State Spur 407
• 5315 Weber Rd.
• 5400 Williams Dr.

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Today, Minister of Environmental Protection Gila Gamliel signed into law a bill that makes Israel the first country in the world to ban the sale of fur. The historic ban follows years of efforts by local activists, PETA, and PETA Honorary Director Pamela Anderson, which included personally lobbying government officials in Tel Aviv and appeals to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to support a ban on fur. The proposal received overwhelming support from 86% of Israelis.

“Israel has just made history and put yet another nail in the cruel fur industry’s coffin,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA is popping the cork on the champagne in celebration of this huge step toward a day when no animals are suffocated or skinned alive for collars and cuffs.”

PETA has conducted numerous video investigations into the global fur industry, revealing that animals on fur farms spend their entire lives confined to cramped, filthy wire cages. Fur farmers use the cheapest killing methods available, including neck-breaking, suffocation, poisoning, and genital electrocution. Animals are sometimes still alive and struggling when workers hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them.

PETA (whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview) notes that California banned the sale of new fur statewide in 2019 and that numerous top designers and retailers—including Macy’s, Nordstrom, Burberry, Gucci, Versace, Michael Kors, Jimmy Choo, and Giorgio Armani—have banned fur.

For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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Please see PETA Vice President Shalin Gala’s statement regarding a recent animal experiment coauthored by Ajinomoto and Pennsylvania State University:

The world’s leading maker of MSG has harmed dogs and other animals for years—and now it’s using cows in experiments that are more like sexual abuse than science. In a recently published experiment at The Pennsylvania State University, sensitive cows were subjected to cruel tests to determine whether they could produce more milk if fed an Ajinomoto product. Specifically, experimenters fed cows feathers, blood, and the company’s test amino acid product; repeatedly milked them; repeatedly poked their anuses and vulvae; and repeatedly took their blood. There is no excuse for Ajinomoto to continue these misguided animal tests, which are curiosity-driven and not required by law. More than 144,000 people have called on Ajinomoto to join the ranks of the dozens of global food companies that have banned animal tests after discussions with PETA.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.

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Tomorrow, PETA will partner with child-safety nonprofit group KidsAndCars.org for a social media blitz: Every post on PETA’s Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram accounts (with more than 8 million followers in total!) will warn of the dangers of leaving kids and dogs in hot cars—and empower people to take action if they spot an individual trapped in a vehicle.

We’re asking our supporters to participate by sharing our posts with the hashtag #HotCarsKill. Our new infographics—which you can preview here— and social media posts touch on the following points:

• Since 1990, nearly 1,000 children have died in hot cars, including 25 in 2020. Since last year, at least 34 companion animals have died from heat-related causes. (Those are just the cases that were reported—most aren’t.)
• Temperatures can quickly soar in parked cars, and a dog trapped inside can die from heatstroke within minutes—even if the car is in the shade with the windows slightly open, which has little to no effect on lowering the temperature inside the car.
• Everyone should contact their U.S. House representatives and express support for the Hot Cars Act 2021, which would require automakers to install technology in vehicles to detect the presence of a child or an animal and alert drivers when someone is in the backseat.
• Anyone who sees an animal in a parked car should take down the car’s color, model, make, and license plate number. If the car is in a store’s parking lot, the owner should be paged over the store’s intercom—if they don’t respond quickly, local humane authorities or police should be contacted.
• If the authorities are unresponsive or too slow and the animal appears to be in imminent danger, the person who identified the situation should find a witness who will back up their assessment and then do what is necessary to remove the suffering animal from the car and wait for authorities to arrive. (PETA offers an emergency window-breaking hammer for help with intervening in life-or-death situations.)

“Temperatures inside a parked car soar to dangerous heights in just minutes, so even a ‘quick errand’ can turn deadly for a dog or a child locked inside,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “With the hottest days of summer on the way, PETA is ready with all the tips people need to step in and prevent these heartbreaking tragedies.”

“We truly value our partnership with PETA because no one should ever lose a loved one in a hot car. This new campaign is vital and much appreciated because we all need to work together to ensure children or pets are never be left alone in a vehicle,” stated Janette Fennell, president of KidsAndCars.org. “With this new campaign, #HotCarsKill, more people will be made aware of these dangers and learn how to get involved to save lives,” she continued.

More information about the dangers of hot cars is available here. As temperatures soar, it’s important that we continue to keep children and animals safe in cars.

For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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Please see PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna’s statement regarding federal documents that reveal three critical animal welfare violations at the University of Texas–Austin:

It appears that no animal is safe in the laboratories at the University of Texas–Austin—even beyond the cruel experiments conducted there. According to a just-posted federal inspection report obtained by PETA, experimenters failed to give adequate pain relief to a monkey who needed it, a marmoset escaped because a cage wasn’t properly secured—causing injury to another marmoset—and a vole was improperly euthanized and found alive, likely in a pile of dead bodies. Three serious issues with three species indicate that there are systemic problems woven into the fabric of UT-Austin’s laboratories. The university needs to suspend all animal experimentation and modernize its program to conduct research that helps humans without harming animals.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.

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