PETA AU Global 2020 Issue 2

USA/AUSTRALIA

GERMANY

KENYA

EUROPE

PETA Wins for Badgers One of Europe’s largest suppliers of shaving products, The Executive Shaving Company, will now sell only brushes made without animal hair after a PETA investigation into China’s badger-brush industry revealed that “protected” badgers are illegally hunted with snares or violently killed on factory farms. PETA’s graphic footage has prompted nearly 100 brush manufacturers around

Victory! DISCOUNT CHAIN, AIRPORTS DROP GLUE TRAPS

Big news for small animals: All three airports in Phoenix, Arizona, stopped using glue traps at PETA’s urging, and Australia’s premier discount variety store, Cheap as Chips, removed them from its shelves after a concerned customer prompted PETA Australia to get involved. “We take the ethical treatment of animals seriously,” the chain’s CEO said. Recognizing the suffering inflicted by these traps, the Australian Capital Territory, Tasmania, and Victoria have also banned them.

PETA Germany made history when it filed a complaint on behalf of the country’s male piglets, challenging the constitutionality of the painful castration that they routinely endure. The filing – the first in Germany involving animals as the legal plaintiffs before a constitutional court – argues that castration without pain relief violates German law. The case received prominent backing from Berlin’s newspaper Tagesspiegel , which wrote, “In the Roman Empire, there were free humans and slaves – today, animals are our slaves.” Abused Piglets Set Judicial Precedent

the world, including high end cosmetics retailer Cult Beauty, to ban badger hair.

Joe Exotic: ©Santa Rosa County Jail • Mouse: © iStock.com/SvetlanaPazhiltseva • Pigs: ©Mark Peters Photography

Donkey: © Aneesh Sankarankutty • Ozzy Photo: © Martyn Goodacre | Blood: © iStock.com/redhumv • Badger: © iStock.com/DamianKuzdak

USA

Just deserts never tasted so sweet. After a long running campaign targeting JosephMaldonado Tiger Torturer Caged for 22 Years

Victory! Kenya Shuts Down the Donkey Skin Trade Some 1,000 donkeys were being slaughtered every day in Kenya so that their skins could be used for ejiao , a traditional Chinese medicine. But after a PETA Asia investigation revealed that the donkeys were packed onto trucks, forced to endure long and grueling journeys, denied food and water, and violently beaten before finally being killed in state-sanctioned slaughterhouses, more than 200,000 PETA supporters sent letters demanding a halt to the killing. The government responded by shutting down the slaughterhouses. Take Action Now The Northern Territory allows the export of donkey hides and live donkeys to China, where they’re bludgeoned and slaughtered to make ejiao. Please go to PETA.org.au/Donkeys to urge Prime Minister Scott Morrison to ban live exports immediately.

Take Action Now Want to help pigs? Don’t eat them. Go to PETA.org.au/VSK to get a free vegan starter kit for yourself or a friend.

‘Prince of Darkness’ Declares: Declawing Is Evil

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Passage – aka “Joe Exotic” – PETA bid him a not-so-fond farewell. He will be sent upriver for 22 years after being convicted of murder for hire as well as crimes against wildlife, including trafficking in endangered animals and killing tigers at his decrepit roadside zoo. PETAworked tenaciously to shut him down, conducting undercover investigations, taking legal action, and getting 45 animals at his facility into reputable sanctuaries.

AUSTRALIA

Take Action Now US readers: Please visit PETA.org/SignOn to urge your representative to cosponsor the Animal Welfare Enforcement Improvement Act, which will

After nearly losing some of his fingers to an infection, Ozzy Osbourne gave fans a feel for declawing. His riveting PETA ad shows what the cruel practice really entails: 10 separate

hold animal exploiters accountable when they break the law.

amputations – removing the last joint of each toe – which can cause nerve damage, chronic pain, and difficulty walking and using the litterbox. “Amputating a cat’s toes is twisted and wrong,” the heavy metal icon says. “If your couch is more important to you than your cat’s health and happiness, you don’t deserve to have an animal! Get cats a scratching post – don’t mutilate them for life.”

USA

THE PETA-EPA PARTNERSHIP: ONE MORE WIN FOR ANIMALS

PETA Australia supporters held an eye-popping protest just days ahead of the Sydney FishMarket’s 36-Hour Seafood Marathon, netting media coverage around the world. Some 700 tons of sea animals are killed and sold during the “festive frenzy” holiday sale. More fish are killed for food each year than all other animals combined – as many as 2.7 trillion individuals – and each one can feel pain. Biologist Culum Brown, who studies fish sentience, says that “it would be impossible for fish to survive as the cognitively and behaviorally complex animals they are without a capacity to feel pain.” Fish Protest Makes Global Splash

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What’s the “secret ingredient” in the treatment for diphtheria? Cruelty to horses! But that’s changing thanks to the PETA Science Consortium International. For more than 100 years, horses have been repeatedly injected with diphtheria toxin and subjected to blood withdrawals in order to collect their antibodies. Inspections of facilities that bleed horses to make drugs found disregard for animal welfare regulations, including keeping horses – many suffering from anemia, diseased hooves, infections, parasites, and malnutrition – in filthy, severely crowded enclosures. Some die in agony. But fortunately, the Science Consortium funded a project that has created human derived diphtheria antibodies, which will spare horses, prevent allergic reactions caused by equine antibodies, and address the global diphtheria antibody shortage. Breakthrough! PETADevelops Cruelty-Free Diphtheria Treatment

Can you feel the paradigm shifting? Last September, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that – after 20 years of pressure from PETA – it will phase out toxicity tests on mammals. Now, it’s partnering with PETA and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine on a series of public webinars about replacing animal experiments. The US Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health may want to watch out for falling dominos.

Take Action Now Your donations help end tests on animals. Please visit PETA.org.au/Donate .

Take Action Now Visit PETA.org/Antibodies to sign PETA’s petition to end the use of all animals in antibody production.

Take Action Now Stop floundering : Go vegan. Visit PETA.org.au/Recipes to get started.

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