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A MESSAGE FROM Ingrid Newkirk PETA’s President

Mýa Over Matter

I f your house were on fire, what would you grab? When 13-year-old Troy of California and his family had to evacuate during a wildfire, he refused to leave until he’d transferred his fish to water-filled pots and got them into the car with the rest of his family. When his sister teased him, he said, “Fish have feelings!” PETA has been saying that for years and initially met with scorn. But, like Troy, we knew that sentient beings depend on us to raise awareness and take action to help them – like the eel whose terrible fear and pain I witnessed as he made eye contact with me at the very moment an angler yanked his whole throat out of his mouth while trying to remove embedded hooks. Thanks to PETA and people who speak up, fish are finally gaining some respect. At our request, GrandLife and Kimpton hotels stopped renting fish to guests for use as decorations. Walmart stopped selling them in its stores following PETA Asia’s exposé of cruelty to bettas, who are shipped all over the world and often die in transit. And acknowledging that lobsters feel pain, Switzerland outlawed boiling them alive. In a move also initially mocked, the town of Monza, Italy, banned keeping goldfish in bowls. Like Troy, Giampietro Mosca, the ordinance’s sponsor, refused to listen to critics, saying, “A fish kept in a bowl has a distorted view of reality ... and suffers because of this.” His proposal made the news, inspiring compassion and sparing many fish a miserable life.

Beatles Legend ‘Looking for Changes’

It is lunacy to pretend that watching small animals struggle to keep from drowning in beakers of water somehow sheds light on human depression. After hearing from PETA, Bayer and Bristol-Myers Squibb confirmed that they have banned the debunked “forced swim test,” joining Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and other Big Pharma players. In addition, King’s College London became the first university in the world to prohibit it, telling The Telegraph , “[W]e believe there are better behavioural tests available.” Pharma Giants Deep-Six ‘Forced SwimTest’

Grammy Award–winning singer Mýa was a longtime vegetarian before deciding to go vegan – and after experiencing the “wonders” that it has done for her skin, body, and overall health, she’s hooked. “If you want to see a huge difference in your life, give vegan a try!” she says. To hear more, watch the inspiring behind-the scenes video from her beautiful PETA ad shoot at PETA.org/Mya . Hoo roo ay! Aussie Hair Care and Suave Go Cruelty-Free GLOBAL

Coronavirus Mask:Woman: ©iStock.com/baona • Polar Bear: ©Riekus/Shutterstock.com • Mýa: Photo: ©Brian Bowen Smith | Stylist: Mia Gyzander

Sir Paul McCartney has always rooted for an end to experiments on animals. To help push for a shift to superior, non -animal tests, he donated his 1993 protest song “Looking for Changes” to PETA, which created an animated video with it that debuted on Billboard.com.

Many exciting changes have already taken place, thanks to PETA and its international affiliates – but the work won’t end until all animals are free.

Take Action Now Visit PETA.org/Changes to share Sir Paul’s video on social media and to urge US lawmakers to end wasteful spending on animal experiments by the US National Institutes of Health, which is the world’s largest funder of these archaic tests.

Take ActionNow Eli Lilly is still treading water on this issue. Please visit PETA.org.au/Despair and tell the drugmaker to stop

tormenting mice.

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PETA Face Masks Point to the Culprit Behind Coronavirus

So come on in – the water’s fine! Join

Find Ingrid’s PETA bunny necklace, these newly designed tees, and more animal rights apparel at PETA.org/Store .

Aussie hair care’s signature kangaroo will have some company on the product label: PETA’s “Beauty Without Bunnies” logo. Suave – which makes

an anti-fishing protest, post a

body wash, lotion, deodorant, and more – has also added the iconic cruelty-free bunny symbol. Working alongside PETA, both brands took steps to ensure that their products are never tested on animals anywhere, including in China, which is notorious for its draconian animal-testing requirements. “Our consumers care about animals and so do we! That is why we are proud to be certified cruelty-free by PETA,” Suave spokesperson Bérengère Loubatier said.

pro-fish PETA ad on social media, or share the parts about fish in my new book, Animalkind . You’ll be teaching humans something and also helping misunderstood underwater animals. Nothing changes if we let the fear of ridicule silence us.

As COVID-19, the disease caused by the deadly new strain of coronavirus, quickly spread around the world, PETA unveiled these eye-catching face masks to urge people to help prevent future outbreaks by avoiding meat like the plague. Coronavirus, as well as all strains of influenza, including the 1918–1919 pandemic that killed at least 50 million humans, is believed to have come from confining animals – primarily birds, pigs, and, in the case of influenza B, even seals (hunted and eaten) and ferrets (factory farmed for fur and bred to be “pets”). The source of COVID-19 was a Chinese live animal market. At slaughterhouses worldwide, waste from live animals who may carry transmissible viruses that can infect and kill humans sometimes spatters and sprays onto meat. Get your mask at PETA.org/Store to show that there has never been a saner time to go vegan and close all meat operations.

PETA boxed up more than 200 fur coats – donated by kind people who’d had a change of heart about who they were wearing – and sent them to Life for Relief and Development to be distributed to families with inadequate shelter facing freezing temperatures in Kabul, Afghanistan. Take Action Now Nothing can bring back animals who were caged and killed for their fur, but the clothing that they died for can at least be put toward a good cause. Please pledge to shop vegan from now on, and visit PETA.org/DonateFur to make a donation of any fur items you already own. PETA Gives Fur Coats to Freezing Children

Take Action Now Make sure your go-to brands aren’t tested on animals by searching PETA’s database at

PETA.org/Cruelty-Free .

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