PETA AU Global 2021 Issue 4

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Australian Model ł s Her Own Skin

Win! Hospital Stops Using Pigs to Train Docs

“When people think about the wool industry they don't think about cruelty,” says vegan model and

Stefania Ferrario ad: © Photo – Nick Kennedy | Leaves – iStock.com/rusm | Background – iStock.com/vencavolrab • Pigs: © iStock.com/taxzi • Mouse: © April Stevenson/Shutterstock.com • Daniel Suarez in uniform: © Grindstone Media Group/Shutterstock.com

A MESSAGE FROM Ingrid Newkirk PETA’s President

Instagram influencer

Stefania Ferrario. “The sheep can

PETA’s Billboards Target Caging, Buying of Birds

end up having horrific gashes, bleeding, and then they’ll sew the sheep up without any

Pigs weren’t the only winners when, following discussions with PETA, Wisconsin’s Aurora Sinai Medical Center switched to high-tech human uterus simulators to train obstetrics and gynecology residents instead of practicing surgical procedures on live animals. Studies show that doctors who learn on human simulators are more proficient than those who use animals. Take Action Now Visit PETA.org/DOJ to urge the US Department of Justice to end gruesome, archaic trauma training on animals.

I f you get to know birds, whether chickadees or chickens, you’ll discover that they’re profoundly intelligent, perceptive, emotional beings. I found out what a terrific sense of humor macaws have when PETA housed two of these large colorful parrots, who had been removed from a horrible pet store. Although they eyed us warily – and for good

As COVID-19 was giving humans a greater understanding of the distress that confinement can cause, PETA launched an international billboard campaign calling for an end to lockdowns for caged birds. The campaign – which ran in Singapore, then the Philippines, India, Germany, and the US – urges shoppers never to buy or cage birds. Deprived of avian company, a flock, free flight, and all hope, most captive birds become depressed and withdrawn and begin to tear out their own feathers out of stress.

anaesthetic.” She says once you learn the truth, “you have a moral duty to do better.” Ferrario has told her agency to stipulate in her contract that she won’t wear any animal-derived materials.

Cartoon: © Dan Piraro/Bizarro.com

Take Action Now Be an influencer like Stefania with a logo tee from PETA.org/Store . Visit PETA.org.au/AusWool to

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The race is already on to save dogs next summer: Trailblazing NASCAR driver Daniel Suárez appears in a PETA video that slams the brakes on a potentially deadly mistake – leaving a dog inside a car in warmweather. He points out that “your dog can die of a heatstroke in the time that it takes you to make a quick pit stop .” NASCAR’S DANIEL SUÁREZ KNOWS CARS AND DOGS

Take Action Now Never buy birds – and visit PETA.org/Lockdown to push Petco not to sell them.

urge Eddie Bauer and Eileen Fisher to ban wool.

reason, given what they had endured at human hands – they learned eight different laughs and greetings in their first afternoon in the office, simply by listening. Passing by their room, you could hear them practicing. At about 3:30 each afternoon, workers from the factory below our office walked up the hill to the bus stop. Every day at that time, the birds quietly moved to the window and waited. When they spotted someone ascending the hill, they would start their game. “Hello!” they would call out. The worker would glance around but see no one on the street. “Hello! Hello!” the birds would call out a little louder, using a different tone. The worker would look around, baffled. “Hello! Hello! Hello!” the birds would scream in unison. Finally, the person would look up, see the parrots, and, relieved to have solved the mystery, inevitably reply, “Oh, hello!” Then, the parrots would become as quiet as church mice. Whereas they had been completely intent on the game, now they were concentrating on grooming themselves or picking at a sunflower seed. “Hello, there! Hello!” people would call before finally giving up and moving on when the birds ignored them. Then the macaws would laugh one of the laughs they had adopted from PETA staff, drop the sham activity, and wait for their next victim.

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PETA has persuaded two of Taiwan’s largest health food companies – Standard Foods Group , a licensee of PepsiCo’s Quaker Oats Company, and Vitalon Foods Group , the maker of Taiwan’s best-selling sports drink – to ban starving, poisoning, and Win! PepsiCo’s Taiwanese Partner Bans Animal Tests

other tests on animals not required by law. PETA also persuaded Lian Hwa Foods Corp. , a major snack food supplier to 7-Eleven stores in Taiwan, to ban such animal tests.

Win! Nice to Mice: Stores and a State Scrap the Glue Trap

Stuck on kindness: Gap Inc. banned the use of cruel glue traps in its 2,500-plus stores – including Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic – after learning from PETA that rodents and other animals caught on the sticky boards can suffer for days. Walmart Canada earned a Certificate of Appreciation from PETA when it banned the sale of these torture devices. And at PETA India’s urging, the whole state of Telangana banned making, selling, or using glue traps, calling them “extremely cruel.” Take Action Now Keep your humane home rodent-free with tips at PETA.org.au/InHarmony , and urge other businesses to ban glue traps at PETA.org.au/BanGlueTraps .

Take Action Now Other food companies need

a push from you. Please visit PETA.org/Ajinomoto to urge MSG flavor giant Ajinomoto to stop funding and conducting deadly tests on dogs and other animals.

Captivity is heartbreaking for any bird. If you know someone with a bird, please send them our helpful tips at PETA.org.au/CaringForBirds .

Take Action Now See a dog in a hot car? Have the vehicle’s owner paged in nearby businesses and/or call 911. Be ready to save a life: Get your emergency window-breaking hammer at PETA.org/Store .

This story is adapted from The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights. Order your copy at PETA.org/Store .

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