PETA Global AU 2024 Issue 2

GERMANY

INDIA

More than 200,000 people have signed PETA Germany’s petition calling on the government to put in place a binding plan to end tests on animals. As laid out in our paradigm-shifting Research Modernization Deal (RMD), cutting-edge, human-relevant tests save the lives of animals – some 3 million suffer and die in laboratories in Germany every year – and facilitate effective treatments for humans. Visit PETA.org.au/RMD to add your voice. End Animal Tests! 200,000+ People Sign PETA Germany Petition

BIB dog: © Veran36/Shutterstock.com

AUSTRALIA

PETA India:

Leather Is Not Vegetarian “ Who are you wearing?” That’s the question PETA India put to shoppers across the country with billboards reminding them that if they don’t eat beef – and most Indians don’t – they shouldn’t wear leather, either. Cows, sheep, goats, pigs, and other animals are tormented and killed for their skin – and just like the humans who wear leather, they can experience fear and feel pain and they all want to live. Look for vegan leather made from pineapple leaves, mushrooms, cork, and other animal- and eco-friendly materials.

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News that the lethal H5N1 strain of avian influenza has now reached the Antarctic prompted an immediate response from PETA Australia: a billboard spelling out how factory farms in our own countries spread and promote mutation of this and other pathogenic viruses. Australian law allows chickens to be confined so densely that they can’t ever stretch their wings. Visit PETA.org/VeganChicken for PETA’s chicken friendly favorites. PETA to Meat-Eaters: Make the Connection!

USA

USA

She fought zombies in The Walking Dead and protected Wakanda in Black Panther . Joined by her beloved canine companion Papi, Danai Gurira is now going to bat for dogs in a hard-hitting PETA campaign. Twice as many dogs reportedly died from heat-related causes in the US last year than in any other year on record – and those are just the ones that were reported. “Be a warrior for animals,” Gurira says. “If you see a dog alone in a [hot] car, do whatever it takes to save them.” Visit PETA.org/Store to order an emergency hammer. Danai Gurira: Hot Cars Kill

Chris P Carrot on Presidential Campaign Trail!

USA

Pugs, boxers, and other breathing-impaired breeds (BIB) suffer from an array of devastating disabilities because of their deliberately flattened snouts, and promoting them encourages breeders to churn out more. That’s why, after appeals from PETA, pharmacy giant Rite Aid is phasing out greeting cards depicting BIBs and the mega ad agency Hill Holliday committed to no longer Images of Flat-Faced Dogs Pulled After Appeals From PETA

WIN!

USA

VICTORY!

E-mails from tens of thousands of PETA supporters. Provocative demos. Eye-catching ads. Appeals from celebs including Judy Greer . Our campaign against Hallmark has paid off! The greeting card king has stopped producing HALLMARK DROPS ‘GRINNING’ CHIMPANZEE CARDS

Chris P Carrot, PETA’s nonpartisan mascot, hit the US presidential campaign trail to promote a platform that crosses party lines: Go vegan to save animals’ lives, bolster human health, and protect the environment. Our campaign calls out the meat, egg, and dairy industries, which pump out about a third of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations, and harm and kill billions of animals – all to produce artery-clogging foods. Throw your hat in the ring: Get a free vegan starter kit at PETA.org.au/VSK .

With X (formerly Twitter ) bleeding advertisers for extra fees, PETA offered – and the platform ran – an ad to add some paltry pennies to Elon Musk ’s lost revenue, pointing out that his “science” is simply a cruel and reckless circus. Experimenters at Musk’s Neuralink – where approximately 1,500 monkeys, pigs, and other animals have been killed already – drill holes in animals’ skulls and implant chips in their brains. Help end other such experiments on primates by urging the National Institutes of Health to close its national primate research centers at PETA.org/NPRC . PETA’s X Ad Calls Musk Out

Leather shoe ad: Man – © iStock.com/chaundthar v | Shoe – © iStock.com/Ljupco | Blood – © iStock.com/koo1980 • Chimpanzee: © iStock.com/guenterguni • Danai Gurira ad: © Photo – Matt Sayles | Creative Director – Greg Garry | Hair – Larry Sims | Makeup – Tym Buacharem | Styling – Wayman and Micah | Nails – Sreynin Peng | Glass – © iStock.com/zmeel

featuring them in its ads – joining a growing list of companies that have nixed harmful images of BIBs. Visit PETA.org/UGA to urge the University of Georgia to retire its bulldog mascot.

and selling cards featuring clownish images of chimpanzees – which stymie conservation efforts by misleading consumers to believe that the species is thriving and which may even drive the black-market demand for these animals as “pets.” Full house: Hallmark was the last major card manufacturer still selling cards with exploitative images of great apes.

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