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be_ixf; php_sdk; php_sdk_1.4.18 47 ms iy_2020; im_04; id_18; ih_08; imh_54; i_epoch:1587225288891 ixf-compiler; ixf-compiler_1.0.0.0 py_2020; pm_04; pd_06; ph_15; pmh_30; p_epoch:1586212250056 link-block-publisher; link-block-publisher_link-block-publisher; bodystr pn_tstr:Mon Apr 06 15:30:50 PST 2020; pn_epoch:1586212250056 0 ms be_ixf; php_sdk; php_sdk_1.4.18 https://www.peta.org/ https://www.peta.org/ × Donate Now Features Videos Action News Issues Living Students Shop Investigations Media About Donate Now Programs PETA Prime PETA Kids TeachKind Students Opposing Speciesism (SOS) Support PETA Become a Member Make a Monthly Gift Make a Memorial Gift Your Legacy For Animals What Is the Vanguard Society? Membership Services Gift Memberships More Ways Report Cruelty to Animals Skip to Main Content Donate Now Share Tweet Donate People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Programs PETA Prime PETA Kids TeachKind Students Opposing Speciesism (SOS) Support PETA Become a Member Make a Monthly Gift Make a Memorial Gift Your Legacy For Animals What Is the Vanguard Society? Membership Services Gift Memberships More Ways Report Cruelty to Animals Animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way. Features Videos Action News Issues Living Students Shop Investigations Media About Donate Now See Inside 'Wet Markets' (Where Diseases Like COVID-19 Originate) Operating NOW New investigative footage reveals blood, dogs’ rotting flesh, terrified cats and frogs, and other deplorable sights at Asian “wet markets,” which are STILL open. 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Share Tweet Pin Make a Donation $25 $35 $50 $ Make your gift a monthly one and we'll receive $75 from a generous foundation! Sign me up for the following e-mail: Membership Updates PETA E-News Current subscribers: You will continue to receive e-mail unless you explicitly opt out by clicking here . By submitting this form, you are agreeing to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal info in accordance with our privacy policy as well as to receiving e-mails from us. Want Some Good News? Take a Look at PETA’s Victories So Far in 2020 PETA is going full steam ahead to make the world a brighter place. See all the ways we’ve helped animals in just the first three months of the year. © iStock.com/sad444 Share Tweet Pin Labs Kill Animals Deemed Not ‘Essential’ in Response to COVID-19 PETA is urging universities to account for which animals they deemed noncritical and killed as labs institute their COVID-19 response—and to rethink animal tests entirely. Share Tweet Pin WATCH: PETA President Hosts Virtual Book Tour Amid COVID-19 Outbreak PETA President Ingrid Newkirk’s world tour was grounded due to the COVID-19 outbreak, so she’s taking her “Animalkind” book tour online. Share Tweet Pin Order Your Free Vegan Starter Kit Need some help starting your vegan journey? We’ve got you covered. Send Me a Vegan Starter Kit Urgent Alerts Monkeys Get COVID-19, Too: Demand Answers on Primates Now! Take Action Share Tweet Pin Experimenter Painfully Cut Spines of Newborns on the Taxpayers’ Dime Take Action Share Tweet Pin PETA Reveals Monkeys Trapped, Suffering in Johns Hopkins Labs Take Action Share Tweet Pin Elephant Death and Dangerous Direct Contact at Monterey Zoo Take Action Share Tweet Pin Tell CBS Sports That the Iditarod Is Cruel and Not a Sport! Take Action Share Tweet Pin Lonely Elephant and Animals Denied Veterinary Care Need Your Help Now! Take Action Share Tweet Pin See All Alerts What PETA Stands For People I am you, only different. Human beings create temporary and arbitrary boundaries to exclude beings who aren’t like them. Human beings have justified wars, slavery, sexual violence, and military conquests through the mistaken belief that those who are “different” do not experience suffering and are not worthy of moral consideration. Ethical Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. We are taught the Golden Rule as young children, and all major religions teach principles of nonviolence and kindness. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Ethical treatment—the Golden Rule—must be extended to all living beings: reptiles, mammals, fish, insects, birds, amphibians, and crustaceans. Treatment Animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way. All beings desire freedom to live a natural life, according to their inherent desires and instincts. While the lives of all beings necessarily involve some amount of suffering, human beings must stop deliberately inflicting suffering on all beings for our own selfish desires. We lose nothing in replacing a cheeseburger with a veggie burger or a leather purse with a fabric one. But beings we exploit lose their lives just for our fleeting fancy. Animals We are all animals. We believe all beings deserve liberty and respect not because they share the characteristics we admire in ourselves but because they are living beings. We share the same evolutionary origins, we inhabit the same Earth, and we are ruled by the same laws of nature. We are all the same. © Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Learn More PETA VIDEO: NIH Pandemic Plan? Vacuum Out Monkeys' Brains Then Scare Them With Snakes While Americans wait for cures for deadly diseases, the National Institutes of Health is sucking out parts of monkeys’ brains and then scaring them with fake snakes and spiders. Share Tweet Pin PETA in the Field: Kya, Others Can’t Wait for COVID-19 Pandemic to End The COVID-19 pandemic is leaving families struggling to feed their beloved dogs and cats. But with your help, our fieldworkers are making sure animals don’t go hungry. Share Tweet Pin PETA Warns Wearing Exotic Skins Could Spark the Next Viral Pandemic Raising and killing exotic animals for “luxury” fashion items may be setting the stage for the next viral pandemic. Share Tweet Pin PETA's Pitching a Big Plan to End Animal Tests—You Can Help PETA scientists propose the “Research Modernization Deal,” an important new strategy for optimizing investment in biomedical research by eliminating animal experimentation. © iStock.com/olgagorovenko Share Tweet Pin Join Students Opposing Speciesism to Dismantle Human Supremacy Attention, Parents! 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