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New Haven, Conn. — Earlier today, two nearly nude PETA supporters bodypainted as macaques, wearing tails, and holding signs that read, “Harvard: End Monkey Tests!” to protest Harvard experimenter Margaret Livingstone’s terrifying maternal and sensory deprivation tests on monkeys interrupted the annual Harvard-Yale football game in the third quarter. Police took away their signs and detained the two bodypainted women as well as a third protester wearing a “Harvard: Shut Down the Monkey Lab” T-shirt. All three were arrested. Photos and video are available here.

“Livingstone’s twisted experiments inflict irreversible harm on lonely, terrified baby monkeys, and not a single treatment for humans has resulted from this torment,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA is urging Harvard to shut down Livingstone’s lab of horrors.”

During her experiments, Livingstone has ripped baby monkeys away from their mothers, sewn the infants’ eyes shut for up to a year, and then observed how abnormally their vision developed. In other tests, the motherless baby monkeys are reared by humans wearing welding masks so that the traumatized animals never see a monkey or human face. Then Livingstone immobilizes their heads using head posts, chin straps, and bite bars to test their facial-processing abilities or surgically implants electrodes in their brains to record how their deprived brain cells respond to visual stimuli. After years of torment, she kills many of the monkeys and dissects their brains. She has conducted these types of curiosity-driven experiments for 40 years without identifying a treatment or cure for humans.

In addition to disrupting the Harvard-Yale football game, PETA is running a 15-second TV spot in the Hartford metropolitan area now through Sunday, November 26, that shows a customer wanting to know how much a prescription costs—and a computer-generated monkey, tattooed with an ID number and wheezing through a breathing tube, has the answer: “Too much.” The spot calls on locals to urge lawmakers to support PETA’s Research Modernization Deal, the world’s first comprehensive plan for phasing out the use of animals in experimentation.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

 

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Ahead of Thanksgiving, a PETA “chick” wearing a turkey-themed outfit—complete with a festive faux-feather tutu—will be joined by a flock of supporters giving away turkey-free holiday roasts in front of Sprouts Farmers Market on Saturday to encourage people to enjoy a vegan holiday and give birds a break.

When:    Saturday, November 18, 1 p.m.

Where:    In front of Sprouts Farmers Market, 630 Crane Creek Dr., Augusta

PETA supporters at a previous vegan roast giveaway. Credit: PETA

“Turkeys feel pain and fear, experience joy, value their lives, and don’t deserve to be carved up and stuffed any more than we do,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA urges everyone to show a little mercy by tucking into savory, satisfying vegan roasts that give everyone something to be thankful for.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview—offers a “ThanksVegan” recipe guide.

For more information, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

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“They threw hens like they were basketballs. After failing to break their necks, they left the birds to convulse and die in agony,” Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix says as he narrates a new PETA video—released as Americans begin making their Thanksgiving plans—revealing shocking undercover footage of former workers violently abusing turkeys for Plainville Farms, a self-professed “humane” turkey supplier to Wegmans, Publix, Harris Teeter, and other top grocers.

“If you celebrate Thanksgiving, stop paying someone to hurt animals for your Thanksgiving centerpiece,” says Phoenix, who has been vegan since the age of 3. “Choose a vegan roast so that everyone can have something to be thankful for this holiday season.”

The video—which is far less graphic than the full version available at PETA.org—shows former workers kicking and throwing live turkeys and beating them with a metal rod, including birds who were sick, injured, and unable to walk. Following PETA’s investigation, Pennsylvania State Police charged 12 former Plainville Farms workers with a total of 141 counts of cruelty to animals, the largest number in any factory-farmed animal case in U.S. history.

Each year in the U.S., about 46 million turkeys—typically between 14 and 18 weeks old—are killed and sold for Thanksgiving alone. During their short lives, they are typically forced to stand in their own waste and are bred to grow so large so quickly that their legs give out. At slaughterhouses, workers hang the young birds upside down, drag them through an electrified bath, slit their throats, and dump them into scalding-hot defeathering tanks—often while they’re still conscious.

Despite this, Plainville Farms still claims to produce “humane” turkey from birds in a “stress-free environment.”

PETA’s “ThanksVegan” guide is packed with recipes, cooking tips, and everything else needed to enjoy a delicious, turkey-friendly holiday.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and offers a free vegan starter kit on its website. For more information, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

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A pointed message is on its way to H&M Group CEO Helena Helmersson over the company’s support of the down industry, which cuts the feet off live, struggling birds and hacks at their necks with axes before their feathers are stuffed into jackets. The package—containing a fake bloody duck foot and an “axe”—will include a letter from PETA reminding the H&M executive about the footage that shows cruelty and asking the company to ditch down and leave birds in peace.

Top: An injured, bleeding duck at a facility that sells RDS-certified down to suppliers. Bottom: PETA has mailed a “bloody duck foot” and an “axe” to H&M’s CEO.

Contrary to H&M’s claims that “no animals should be harmed” in the making of its products, PETA Asia’s 13-month investigation into duck farms and slaughterhouses across Vietnam—which provide so-called “responsible” down to suppliers, including one that listed H&M as a customer—revealed ducks suffering from gaping and bloody wounds inside dirty sheds and on lots strewn with feces and being stabbed in the neck. At another operation in Vietnam certified by the Responsible Down Standard (RDS), ducks’ feet were cut off while they were still conscious. PETA Asia also investigated “responsible” down farms in Russia, where a worker was seen stretching the necks of geese across a stump and repeatedly hacking at them with a dull axe while the birds shrieked and struggled. H&M has removed the “responsible” down label from its online offerings in the U.S.—indicating that it knows that the designation is a sham—but it continues to sell down jackets.

“H&M’s down sales help prop up an industry that exploits and slaughters terrified birds, who have every bit as much desire to live without fear and pain as any of its executives do,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “H&M already sells affordable and stylish vegan clothing, and PETA is urging the company to ditch all down in favor of these innovative options.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

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Watch as a PETA-supported team searches a destroyed village for abandoned animals in Ukraine, scoops them up, and whisks them away for a second chance at a more peaceful life.

Rescued in Ukraine: How We’ve Been Helping Animals

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, PETA Germany and its partners have been on the ground building a robust network of rescue workers, volunteers, and activists to help as many animals as they possibly can. You can support this work through PETA’s Global Compassion Fund.

PETA’s Global Compassion Fund is moving mountains for animals in Ukraine:

• Teams have rescued more than 13,000 animals—and counting!
• Cats, dogs, horses, and other animals are receiving more than 40 tons of food each month.
• A spay/neuter program is now providing free surgeries to 150 animals every month.
• Beautiful safe spaces—like this cat refuge—are being maintained for 800 animals in Kharkiv, where a PETA-supported clinic treats 80 to 100 seriously injured or sick animals every day.

Support the Global Compassion Fund

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