PETA AU Global 2021 Issue 2

BECAUSE THEY’RE WORTH IT! L’ORÉAL SPARES BADGERS L’Oréal – the largest cosmetics company in the world – has banned all animal hair after watching PETA Asia’s video that revealed workers beating

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After learning from PETA UK that birds used as lobby decorations are severely stressed by a barrage of loud noises, bright lights, and intrusive strangers, the Rosewood London hotel confirmed that it will no longer keep caged birds on display. PETA UK swooped in and transferred the finches and budgies to a spacious sanctuary. Victory! Caged Birds Finally Check Out of London Hotel

Bird: © iStock.com/Andrew Haysom • Rat: © iStock.com/olgagorovenko

Drives Exxon Away From the Iditarod

A MESSAGE FROM Ingrid Newkirk PETA’s President

ExxonMobil – the parent company of Esso and a top Iditarod supporter – stopped pumping money into Alaska’s deadly dog-sled race, following an intense PETA campaign. PETA supporters sent nearly 100,000 e-mails to the company and “closed” dozens of Exxon, Mobil, and Esso stations. PETA ran bus ads near Exxon’s headquarters, spoofed the company’s iconic “Tiger in Your Tank” campaign, ran billboards, and submitted a shareholder resolution, which appeared to be the last straw. The Iditarod is running on empty: Coca-Cola, Jack Daniel’s, Chrysler, Alaska Airlines, and others all dropped their sponsorships after PETA revealed that the Iditarod has killed more than 150 dogs and that dogs are chained in the bitter cold 24/7 between races. Take Action Now Dry up the Iditarod’s remaining fuel sources: Go to PETA.org/Millennium to tell Millennium Hotels and Resorts to stop supporting this deadly spectacle.

C leo was on a mission. She set off from her home in Kansas and headed toward the house she’d lived in two years earlier, 57 miles (92 kilometers) away in Missouri, crossing a rushing river via a heavily traveled bridge to get there. No one knows why she did it. Did she miss the child next door or her dog friend down the street? All we know is that something was on her mind. Since Cleo wasn’t wearing a collar or tag, the new homeowners had no idea who this strange dog on their porch was. Luckily, she had been microchipped, that lifeline for lost animals. She was scanned, and when her frantic guardians got the call that they’d been waiting for, they raced over to pick her up, exclaiming, “She’s everything to us!” In my book Animalkind , I devote a chapter to animals’ amazing navigational skills – from terns, whales, sharks, salmon, and sea turtles to caribou, wildebeests, and even tiny butterflies and dragonflies, all of whommigrate thousands of miles every year, using unerring methods that we only partly understand. Pigeons, for example, are thought to map their surroundings ultrasonically to “hear” their way home. Top that, Siri! Badger: © Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock.com • Wallis Day ad: © Photo – Steve Gripp

badgers over the head and slitting their throats just to make shaving, paint, and make-up brushes out of their hair. L’Oréal joins nearly 100 companies, including Procter & Gamble, that have banned badger hair after hearing from PETA or its affiliates.

Take Action Now Buy binoculars, not birds! Go bird-watching, or

make a garden oasis for feathered friends.

Take Action Now Visit PETAAU.vg/Badger to urge Blick Art Materials and others to drop badger-hair brushes.

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“I’m proud to be a part of the vegan revolution that’s taking place around the world,” says Krypton star Wallis Day, who urges a Wallis Day’s Juiciest Role

PETA SAVES ANIMALS FROM SAFETY TESTING IN TAIWAN!

Even my beloved old dog Ms. Bea (seen here protesting military tests on dogs) had untapped navigational skills, discovered only after she slipped out of a gate while

staying with a friend. Although old and frail, Ms. Bea managed to huff and puff her way through a maze of streets that she’d never seen before, going straight back to my house, some 3 miles (almost 5 kilometers) away. Years earlier, when my husband and I separated amicably, each of us taking “our” dog with us, I failed to realize that Ms. Bea probably worried about where her friend Bruno had gone – and vice versa. When they met up again later, their joy at seeing each other alive and well made me regret my oversight. Every animal is deeply sensitive, and each is on a journey of discovery – watching, listening, thinking, and just trying to get by. We must look out for them all.

PETA’s Sign(s) of the Times: Go Vegan PETA kicked off the new year in style, with a giant billboard in Times Square urging people to ditch meat and dairy like a bad habit. In the run-up to the US presidential inauguration, PETA placed ads all over Washington, D.C., declaring that animals are Americans, too. A PETA UK member pounced on the news of an alleged government leak by stalking Dublin’s streets dressed as a giant leek. To remind everyone that meat kills, PETA Australia supporters staged a meat industry “crime scene” in the middle of Sydney’s famous Pitt Street Mall. Take Action Now Ready to go vegan? Sign up to get one-on-one support from a personal vegan coach at PETA.org/Mentor . Already vegan? Help create a new vegan by “paying forward” your favorite vegan product for someone else to try.

Huge numbers of animals will no longer be force-fed, killed, and dissected in gruesome toxicity experiments because, at PETA’s urging, the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) has given groundbreaking approval to non-animal health food safety testing methods. PETA is now working to ensure that the final regulation for marketing foods and beverages using anti-fatigue health claims deletes all animal experiments including, drowning and electrocution tests.

“brighter future” (i.e., a vegan one) in a zesty PETA ad. Google search trends about veganism indicate that she’s onto something: Eating vegan is massively popular and shows no signs of slowing down. Take Action Now BOGO (Buy One, Give One): Buy a package of vegan chik’n tenders for someone you know who still eats birds, and tell PETA about your

Take Action Now Please visit PETA.org/TaiwanFDA to urge the TFDA to eliminate cruel arthritis tests on

experience by e-mailing PETAGlobal@PETA.org .

animals from another draft regulation.

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