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As COVID-19 continues to exact a high human cost, PETA India and PETA honorary board member Alicia Silverstone joined forces Alicia Silverstone, PETA India Give Out 1,000 VeganMeals

Bipartisan Group Backs PETA’s Push to End Animal Experiments

to provide 1,000 meals to waiting relatives at a Mumbai hospital. “A vegan diet is a kind diet, and I’m happy to get these healthy, immune-boosting vegan meals

Citing the US National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) own statistic that 95% of new drugs found to be safe and effective in animal tests fail in human trials, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) sent a letter to NIH signed by eight members of the US Congress calling on the agency to end ineffective animal experiments and implement the strategy of PETA’s Research Modernization Deal.

Following over two decades of pressure from PETA entities – including protests at its stores and e-mails from hundreds of thousands of supporters – fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana has banned fur and angora from its collections. Three more nails were hammered in the fur industry’s coffin when Elle banned fur from its pages and Moncler and RUDSAK vowed to stop using fur in their designs. Persistence Pays! Dolce & Gabbana Goes Fur-Free

Confirmed : This is the last year that one of the Iditarod’s last major sponsors, Millennium Hotels and Resorts, will help prop up this death race for dogs. This victory follows a tenacious PETA campaign that included ads and protests from Alaska to New Zealand and appeals from nearly 500,000 of our supporters. PETA has also already persuaded Coca-Cola, ExxonMobil, Jack Daniel’s, and others to end their Iditarod sponsorships, but Liberty Media, which owns Formula 1, still has ties to the deadly race. PETA UK upped the pressure by delivering a “dead dog” prop to F1’s CEO. WE DID IT! MILLENNIUM HOTELS DROPS THE IDITAROD

to patients’ families during this awful pandemic,” said Silverstone, who will appear in the highly anticipated Netflix crime thriller Reptile .

“We saw the European Parliament take action to modernize scientific innovation,” Lieu said. “It’s time for us to do the same.”

Take Action Now Read about PETA’s Research Modernization Deal, which was reviewed by members of the

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European Parliament, on page 10. If you live in the US, urge your lawmakers to act at PETA.org/Congress .

There’s more: Italy became the sixteenth country in Europe to ban fur farming following a years-long blitz by PETA UK and tens of thousands of supporters.

lifesaving vegan foods to your local food pantry, surprising the customer in the fast-food lane behind you with a vegan burger or burrito, or supporting efforts like these at PETA.org.au/Donate .

Take Action Now Visit PETA.org.au/LibertyMedia to tell the company that dogs deserve better than being run to death for mushers’ prize money.

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Take Action Now Visit PETA.org/Shopbop to urge Shopbop and other holdouts to ban fur.

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USA PETA Duck Sculpture Makes a Big Splash

Asian Online Grocer Dumps Cruel Chaokoh Coconut Milk!

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SAVED! Chloe and Luna

When a public art project was launched in a Chicago suburb to support businesses hurt by COVID-19, PETA set up a whimsical duck sculpture decorated with facts and quotes celebrating the splendor of ducks. But its “migration” didn’t end there: PETA then

Illusionist Jay Owenhouse wanted to confine three tigers to a parking lot near the Las Vegas Strip for a year-long show, that is, until he ran into opposition from PETA and local residents. Right before the board of commissioners was scheduled to vote on his application – poof! – Owenhouse withdrew it

Victory! PETA Push Ends Cruel Tests Feds Yank Chinchilla Dealer’s License After PETA Investigation Dan Moulton – operator of Minnesota’s Moulton Chinchilla Ranch – is out of business after a federal judge fined him $18,000 and revoked his US Department of Agriculture license. The remaining chinchillas have been freed from this hellhole’s filthy wire cages and will soon have a chance to find the homes that they have always deserved. These actions came after a PETA investigation revealed that Moulton denied chinchillas veterinary care for swollen and infected eyes and exposed bones, left a chinchilla to suffer for weeks from a bloody wound, and killed chinchillas by violently snapping their necks.

NYC-based Umamicart became the first Asian food company to drop Chaokoh coconut milk after PETA Asia blew the lid off the Thai coconut industry’s use of forced monkey labor. The investigation revealed that terrified young monkeys are kept chained, abusively trained, and forced to climb trees to pick coconuts that are used to make Chaokoh. More than 33,000 other stores – including chains Publix, Wegmans, Walgreens, Food Lion, and Stop & Shop – have banned coconut milk brands that hurt monkeys.

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donated the colorful quacker to a children’s museum, where it now educates visitors in the water exhibit. PETA also outfitted the iconic “Make Way for Ducklings” statues that roost in Boston’s Public Garden with signs encouraging people to cherish all ducks and never eat or wear them. Take Action Now Ditch down, and go to PETA.org.au/UrbanOutfitters to urge the company to commit to offering only vegan fashion in all its brands.

And at PETA’s repeated urging, the US Department of Agriculture inspected notorious animal exhibitor Adam Burck’s Oklahoma operation and yanked his license after he ignored a warning against distressing tigers by keeping them in cramped transport cages inside a stiflingly hot, maggot-infested barn. Take Action Now Don’t buy tickets to animal acts. Burck isn’t permitted to exhibit tigers anymore, but it’s likely he’s still warehousing them and trying to get his license back. Visit PETA.org/Tigers to push him to transfer them to accredited sanctuaries.

Take Action Now Visit PETA.org.au/Coconuts to urge Walmart, Tony’s Fresh Market, and others to follow suit.

Take Action Now Demand that Moulton be prosecuted for cruelty at PETA.org.au/Chinchillas .

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