PETA Global AU 2023 Issue 3

Vegan Yum, Everywhere Vegan food is mainstream, and PETA paved the way with provocative protests, celebrity ads, and behind the-scenes work to persuade businesses that they’re missing the boat if they fail to offer vegan options. Today, you can find vegan Butterbeer at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, vegan Reese’s peanut butter cups, vegan versions of Philadelphia cream cheese and The Laughing Cow wedges, and vegan “Easter lamb” from Aldi. Harrods sells vegan pastries, IKEA offers vegan meatballs and mousse, and UK restaurant VGN Boulevard concocted a 3D-printed vegan steak so convincing that some vegan customers won’t eat it! Be Part of It! If you’re waiting for a sign that you should go totally vegan, this is it! Visit PETA.org.au/VSK to order a free vegan starter kit to use and share.

Then: When a “luxury” car interior meant leather. Now: Hitting the road in leather-free cars from Honda, Mercedes-Benz, and more.

SAVED!

Then: Watching a distressed orca float listlessly at SeaWorld. Now: Swimming with an animatronic dolphin ( sea it to believe it at PETA.org.au/Dolphin ).

Anna, safe at last, is enjoying her spacious new surroundings.

Then: “What’s a vegan?!” Now:

April, Anna, Lucy, and Cash

From caviar to Hershey’s bars, oysters to pork rinds – what’s not vegan?

Then: The stench of formaldehyde on dissection day. Now: Saving real frogs with SynFrog.

Then: Trekking to the one health food store for cruelty-free shampoo. Now: Finding cruelty-free faves like Dove everywhere.

Pointing man: © Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock.com • Background: © iStock.com/Ivan Burchak

24 Chimpanzees and Counting

Then: Searching high and low for a leather-free belt. Now: Which leather will

They were held captive – some for years – at Union Ridge Wildlife Center in Ohio – a backyard menagerie operating as an Airbnb accommodation. Confined mostly indoors and deprived of fresh air and sunlight, the chimpanzees had no autonomy and a poor quality of life. But PETA pushed for their release, filing complaints with state and federal officials, and all four were rescued and moved to a lush sanctuary! Humans have long treated chimpanzees as subhuman, denying them agency and using them for everything from photo ops at seedy roadside zoos and pictures on corny greeting cards to experiments that are as irrelevant as they are cruel. Challenging this abuse, PETA has helped people see that great apes aren’t amusements, props, or test subjects but keenly intelligent social beings who deserve to live free from exploitation.

Then: Going fishing with Dad. Now: Going “trash-fishing” with Dad.

I choose – grape, cactus, or pineapple?

Happy woman: © iStock.com/Deagreez • Babybel cheese: © Babybel • Chik’n & Eggo: © MorningStar Farms • KitKat: © Nestlé • Volvo: © Volvo • Chimps: © Save the Chimps

These Are a Few of Our Favorite (Vegan) Things

Turning the Tables on What’s ‘Normal’ PETA Is K ing Charles banned foie gras and chose a vegan anointing oil for his coronation. The supermarket “dairy” aisle offers in tuberculin experiments and impoverished Black men in secret syphilis experiments. PETA is pushing people to see that all experiments on nonconsenting sentient beings should be off limits. people like Alec Baldwin and Alan Cumming , PETA has rescued dozens of bears, lions, tigers, chimpanzees, and other animals from decrepit roadside zoos, and we’ve dismantled the entire big-cat cub-petting

With major funding help from PETA, April, Anna, Lucy, and Cash are now relishing an expansive outdoor space to run, play, and climb; receiving quality veterinary care and nutritious meals; and making new friends. They are the latest among the two dozen chimpanzees whose rescue PETA has facilitated – and they won’t be the last.

plant milks and cheeses, and there is vegan everything, from shrimp to shoes. We have organs-on-chips for medical research and TraumaMan human simulators to replace animals in surgical training. Progress doesn’t just magically happen. For over 40 years, PETA has tackled the speciesist idea that other animals are there for the taking, existing not for their own sake but for human pleasure and profit. We are challenging society to stop the normalization of the unthinkable: caging and killing “others” because we fancy their flesh or want to use them as living test tubes.

industry. Broadway show Life of Pi won our first-ever Pony Award for creating a spectacular, lifelike Bengal tiger puppet, and CGI animals are getting star turns in blockbuster movies like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 . Fashion-Forward Buying a calfskin or snakeskin bag or shoes is as bizarre as buying a purse made of a dog’s skin – and PETA entities are helping people make that connection. After hearing from PETA UK, Helsinki Fashion Week banned leather. Stockholm Fashion Week banned fur and exotic skins. Pillow-Fight nabbed PETA’s Compassionate Business Award for its feather- and down-free bedding. Leading UK sofa maker DFS sells a “PETA-Approved Vegan” collection.

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We’ve gone from hanging a banner on the Eiffel Tower to protest corporate cruelty to persuading Bayer and Pfizer to ban forced swim tests on animals. PETA scientists developed the revolutionary Research Modernization Deal and have presented it to governments around the world. After PETA’s undercover investigation started the dominoes falling on the hideous Envigo beagle-breeding factory, Prince Harry and Meghan adopted one of the 4,000 rescued beagles instead of buying a pricey “purebred.” Artistry Over Abuse PETA entities are also hammering away at the archaic use of animals as props and playthings. With help from

rescues possible. Please go to PETA.org/Chimpanzees to help PETA continue this vital work. Visit

Turn the page to find out about the vegan fashion revolution!

PETA.org/Suncoast to speak up for primates living in misery at the (misnamed) Suncoast Primate Sanctuary. And please, never visit roadside zoos.

It was a joyous scene when the foursome was reunited after arriving at Florida’s Save the Chimps sanctuary, with hugs and hoots all around.

Stopping Unethical Experiments As shocking as it seems now, orphans were once used

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