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Tomorrow, PETA will take its campaign against the repulsive, reckless Cobra Gold military exercise—during which Marines skin and eat live geckos, chomp on live scorpions and tarantulas, and decapitate cobras and drink their blood in Thailand—to the next level with two protests: one outside the Thai Embassy and the other at the home of Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III.

When:    Thursday, June 3, 12 noon

Where:    Royal Thai Embassy, 1024 Wisconsin Ave. N.W., Washington

“A Girl Scout could figure out how to survive in a jungle without killing animals for practice, and our military’s best and brightest should be able to as well,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA urges officials to end the bloodlust killing of animals during Cobra Gold, which sullies Marines’ honor, risks a zoonotic disease pandemic, and endangers species vulnerable to extinction.”

Cobra Gold is purportedly about survival training, but officials have admitted that the actual intention is to build camaraderie among troops—which could easily be done in ways that don’t involve consuming live animals and putting public health at risk. The Department of Defense’s own policy requires the use of non-animal training methods whenever possible, and several U.S. military facilities have adopted animal-free food-procurement training after hearing from 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 or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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PETA is calling for cruelty charges to be filed against the person(s) responsible for the death of a female pit bull mix named Star, whom a PETA fieldworker found dead of heatstroke on Friday at a Roanoke Rapids residence. Photos of Star before and after her death are available here. (Warning: graphic images)

In Halifax County, unattended tethering is illegal and punishable by a fine, but even though PETA had made Halifax County Animal Control aware of tethering violations at this address, Star remained illegally tethered outdoors, which ultimately killed her. Halifax County Animal Control was called and responded to the scene of Star’s death on Friday but—despite recognizing that Star died as a result of being tethered and tangled in the full sun without a drop of water or any shade—did not take any enforcement action or steps to pursue a prosecution.

“Tethering and leaving a dog to endure an agonizing death by heatstroke is a crime, but what good are laws if law-enforcement officials can’t be bothered to enforce them?” says PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch. “PETA is urging the community not only to report cruelty but also to hold animal control officials accountable for enforcing animal protection laws, so that no other dogs suffer as Star did.”

PETA is rushing out its brand-new televised public service announcement throughout the state, urging people to call authorities if they see dogs chained up and/or without water and shade. In cases in which authorities are unresponsive, people should call 757-622-PETA.

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.

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Wearing capes and accompanied by a giant inflatable “orca,” young members of Animal Hero Kids are joining forces with PETA to kick off their summer vacation by leading a PETA protest outside the Miami Seaquarium on Tuesday. They’ll point out that the orca Lolita was even younger than they are when she was abducted from her ocean home over 50 years ago—and they’ll demand that she be released to a seaside sanctuary.

“Kids home for the summer holidays want to know when Lolita will be back home near her family pod,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is calling on the Miami Seaquarium to end this orca’s decades of loneliness by retiring her to a seaside sanctuary in her home waters, where she could communicate with her family members at last.”

Animal Hero Kids founder and longtime Florida wildlife rehabilitator Susan Hargreaves adds, “There is a sea-change in the public view of capturing and confining wildlife. It is unacceptable to capture marine mammals and tear them away from their family, like Lolita, and hold them captive.”

At the Seaquarium, Lolita is confined to the smallest orca tank in the world, where she can’t dive, swim more than a few body lengths in any direction, seek shelter from the blazing summer sun, or form social relationships with any others of her own species. The other orca once kept in the same tank, Hugo, died after repeatedly ramming his head into a wall in 1980.

Where:           Miami Seaquarium, 4400 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami

When:             Tuesday, June 1, 12 noon

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