PETA Global AU 2024 Issue 3

Global ADVANCING THE ANIMAL RIGHTS REVOLUTION ISSUE 1 | SUMMER 2024

25 ways to get active today Biologists know there’s lots to love about reptiles 4 PAGE Ricky Gervais Protect children from hunting violence

Yum All Year Vegan recipes for 2024 14 PAGE

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Experiments secretly spreading disease Contagion!

On the Front Lines: PETA Rescuers Run Toward Danger to Save Animals

“Portero” means “gatekeeper” – a name this little dog earned because he sat at the gate of a Puerto Rican animal shelter day after day, perhaps wishing for a kind person to take him home. His wish did come true, but not before Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, devastating the island. A PETA rescue team reached the scene and managed to pull traumatized and injured animals from abandoned homes and flooded neighborhoods, deliver food and supplies to animals in danger of starving, and assist animal shelters reeling from the influx of animal refugees, including the one Portero had sat and waited at. One of PETA’s rescue team members decided to adopt Portero, who then traded days at the gate for hiking with his new guardian in the mountains, zooming up and down the beach, and snuggling, his favorite activity of all. Since their beginning, PETA entities around the world have rescued many animals like Portero from seemingly hopeless situations, often in areas where few other humans dared go. They wade through chest-deep floodwaters, sift through earthquake rubble (and ride out aftershocks), descend into deep wells, and even enter war zones to rescue animals facing horrors

galore and in danger of perishing. Thanks to contributors to PETA’s Global Compassion Fund , our teams deliver relief to animals in the worst of places and situations.

traders, and convincing countless people to go vegan, PETA has prevented millions of animals from suffering – each one of them an individual, each one a someone .

PORTERO SAVED!

When Taal Volcano erupted in the Philippines, PETA Asia’s rescue teams were the first to set foot on the remote island, refusing to heed warnings to stay away, bringing boatloads of food and medical supplies. With another eruption imminent, they ferried hundreds of ash-covered and terrified dogs, cats, horses, and chickens and even an injured heron across the lake to safety. After a deadly explosion rocked Beirut, a PETA UK rescuer combed the ruins, rescuing a chicken with fractured hips and a severely neglected dog named Arrow, who now enjoys the good life with his canine “siblings” in a beautiful home far above the city.

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UniverSoul Circus Goes Animal-Free

A MESSAGE FROM Ingrid Newkirk PETA Australia’s Founder

After a PETA investigation, dozens of protests, a nationwide ad campaign, and e-mails from 121,000 concerned consumers, Budweiser stopped amputating Clydesdales’ tailbones. PETA’s investigation revealed that Budweiser had been painfully severing young horses’ tailbones using scalpels or by putting tight bands around their tails to stop blood flow – causing them to fall off. Visit PETA.org/Horses to learn how you can help horses today. Budweiser Stops Mutilating Horses

PETA’s persistence has paid off again. UniverSoul Circus has stopped exploiting elephants, zebras, camels, horses, and other animals. Our campaign included protests at shows across the US, more than 100,000 supporters’ e-mails, and calls to

Skins Smackdown: PETA UK Exposes the Horrors Behind Birkin Bags Tash Peterson , PETA Australia’s 2022 Activist of the Year, teamed up with PETA UK for an impossible to-miss protest outside Hermès’ flagship London store, seeking to push the company to take reptiles’ stolen skins off its shelves. An investigation filmed on farms owned by Hermès revealed that crocodiles are kept in cramped, barren conditions and then mutilated and stabbed with a screwdriver – often while still conscious. It can take three crocodiles to make just one Hermès Birkin bag. Visit PETA.org.au/Hermes to urge the company to have the guts to drop exotic skins.

The most beautiful flowers are blooming along my walk to work, making it hard to think of the terrible experience of war. But, of course, wars are being waged, and they inflict horrors on not only humans but also

those who happen not to have been born human – those whose guardians, if they had any, vanish, leaving them to starve, freeze, or die from injuries. Witness the overloaded donkeys carrying panicked families fleeing the conflict in the Middle East, their heads bowed in depression, their muscles strained to the point of tearing and sometimes beyond. Long ago, I addressed a conference on nonviolence in Bethlehem, Palestine, attended by President Jimmy Carter’s peace envoy and a host of advocates for negotiation in the Middle East. Many speakers told tales of imprisonment, injustice, loss of family members and freedom, and being treated with hatred and discrimination. Almost every speaker ended with a plea for understanding and words to the effect of “for are we not human beings?” I ended my appeal for nonviolence by saying that compassion should start at the breakfast table, pointing to the open-air slaughterhouse we all passed on our way to the hall each morning, asking that we humans sweep aside our prejudice toward others who feel as much pain and fear as any human does and decide to think of ourselves as being part of a larger community – to say, “for are we not sentient beings?”

desist from celebs like TLC’s Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas , who said, “ These beautiful wild animals belong in the wild, not for our entertainment. ” Tell everyone you know never to buy tickets to circuses that use animals.

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Chilli ad: © Photo – Shawn Dowdell | Makeup – Alicia Cabrera • Ava Dash ad: © Photo – Stewart Shining | Art director – Greg Garry | Makeup – Daphne Chantell | Hair – Sharif Poston | Stylist – Nola Singer • Coffee: © iStock.com/TShum

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Vegan Coffee Creamer Now on Flights Delta Air Lines snagged PETA’s Compassion on Board Award for being the first airline to add vegan coffee creamer on all its flights departing the US. Delta’s decision followed PETA’s request. Alaska Airlines is also helping to make the skies kinder to mother cows – whose beloved calves are stolen from them in the dairy industry – by adding oat milk creamer on all its flights. Visit PETA.org/VeganCreamer to urge Southwest and American airlines to follow suit.

More than 800 parakeets, munias, and silverbills are now living as they should – free in their natural forest homes. They were found suffering in horribly crowded cages at a market in Lucknow. Acting on a tip, PETA India went to the police, who raided the market and booked the perpetrators. Never buy or cage birds. Buy binoculars and watch them in the wild instead. HUNDREDS OF BIRDS FLY FREE, THANKS TO PETA INDIA

There may be little we can do as individuals to end wars (although teams supported by PETA’s Global Compassion Fund help animals

in wars and other disasters around the world). But we can definitely bring peace to others through our acts of kindness, by respecting

Model Ava Dash made quite a fashion statement when she appeared in this new PETA ad exposing the cruelty of the exotic-skins industry. PETA exposés show alligators’ brains being scrambled with metal rods and nails driven into snakes’ heads so their skin can be stripped from them and made into hideous accessories. Visit PETA.org/ExoticSkins to scream bloody murder at Louis Vuitton , Gucci , and Prada until they ditch exotic skins. Ava Dash Goes Wild at LA Fashion Week

animals and looking out for them always.

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Gervais, Rylance, Twiggy, Others: END HUNTING!

Sports reporter and Miss Universe judge Emily Austin has taken a shot at monkey laboratories. In her PETA video ( PETA.org/EmilyAustin ), she pleads from the perspective of a monkey torn away from her mother, thrown into a shipping container, and sent to a laboratory, where she’s experimented on and forcibly impregnated and where she “howls in despair” when her own babies are pried from her arms. Join Emily and help shut down the remaining

After the United Nations’ Committee on the Rights of the Child issued a landmark new directive that children be protected from “exposure to violence, such as … violence inflicted on animals,” staunch animal protectionists Ricky Gervais , Sir Mark Rylance , and Dame Lesley Lawson (aka “ Twiggy ”) joined many other well-known figures in signing PETA UK’s letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak urging him to introduce legislation that would prohibit young people from participating in or witnessing hunting activities – which are always violent and often psychologically scarring.

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PETA Ends Cruel Rattlesnake Photos Vendors at the Apache Rattlesnake Festival in Oklahoma used to sew the mouths of rattlesnakes shut – leaving them unable to eat or drink – so people could pose with them for “scary” photos. That ended when PETA got involved. After the festival heard from thousands of our members and supporters, the vendors got the boot. Get in on the action! Help PETA achieve more victories like this one by joining the Action Team at PETA.org.au/ActionTeam .

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PETA India Equips Educators With Lifesaving Teaching Tool INDIA

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US national primate research centers at PETA.org/NPRC .

PETA India joined forces with Simcology to offer the company’s virtual animal simulation software free to educators – enabling pharmacology students to learn without harming animals. The interactive software will help replace archaic experiments in which mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, and other animals are forced to inhale or consume chemicals or are deliberately infected with diseases before being killed. US readers, visit PETA.org/SynFrog to find out how your local schools can replace frog cadavers with hyperrealistic synthetic models.

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PETA’s giant inflatable babies handed out super-tasty vegan Babybel cheese snacks this summer to remind tourists that milk Starbucks: Stop Milking Customers, for Cows’ and Polar Bears’ Sake!

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is for babies – and that cow’s milk is for calves, not us. In Ohio, a pack of PETA “polar bears” surrounded a Starbucks to protest its planet-warming, pro-dairy policy of gouging people for requesting vegan milk. Stay away from Starbucks until it ends the upcharge! Visit PETA. org/Starbucks to tell the company to stop charging extra for vegan milks.

Sarah Silverman is all about doing right for animals, her health, and the environment. That’s why the popular comedian, actor, and author – who’s been a vegetarian since she was 7 – starred in PETA’s ThanksVegan ad urging people to feast on all the Thanksgiving staples without contributing to the suffering that comes with raising and killing animals for food. Celebrate the spirit of ThanksVegan all year long: Visit PETA.org/HowToGoVegan for recipes and tips. SARAH SILVERMAN DISHES IT OUT IN ‘THANKSVEGAN’ AD USA

Why did a PETA UK “kittenmonger” set up shop next to the fishmongers at Folkestone’s Fish Market in Kent ? To expose speciesism and challenge everyone to see fish for who they are: playful, inquisitive individuals who feel fear and pain – just like the cats who share our homes. Find delicious vegan options at PETA.org.au/VeganSeafood . Sea Things Differently

In a new ad campaign dedicated to his late elderly dog Sassypants, Ron Perlman – from Sons of Anarchy and

Hellboy – says, “If you can rescue a senior animal, do it, because what you’re going to give them is the best years of their lives.” Check out Ron’s video at PETA.org/Perlman , and remind your friends to adopt, not buy, animal companions.

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area in which to give birth, buffaloes had to deliver their calves in a small, filthy pen and even in a gutter, where calves suffocated in feces, according to the whistleblower. Other expectant mothers reportedly delivered their Broken Bonds, Stolen Milk Water buffaloes are highly social, and mothers are fiercely protective of their babies. In their natural homes, female water buffaloes live together in maternal herds consisting of adults and their offspring. calves in mud, piles of manure, or even ponds.

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Animal Rahat, a PETA-supported animal rescue group in India, received a call about a frightened male buffalo calf who was all alone and shivering in the cold – likely abandoned by a dairy farmer. Rescuers whisked Mahesh off to their sanctuary, where he bonded with Lalu, another rescued buffalo calf.

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Some calves were reportedly born in this gutter and suffocated in feces.

Are You Being Milked by ‘Natural’ Marketing Claims? MOZZARELLA EXPOSÉ

Males stay with their mothers for about three years.

Be Part of It! Help stop animals from suffering in the meat and dairy industries: Go vegan. Avoid all animal-derived foods, even

But on dairy factory farms like this one, these bonds are shattered, as mothers and babies are torn apart so that humans can steal the mothers’ milk. A PETA investigator saw that buffalo calves were taken from their mothers soon after birth and penned within their view, causing distressed mother buffaloes to call out to their precious calves. PETA’s investigation confirmed the whistleblower’s claim that buffaloes suffered from uterine prolapses – a painful condition in which the animals’ internal reproductive tissue protrudes from their bodies. Many of these buffaloes were allegedly bred and milked after their uteruses were stitched back into their bodies. Painfully Overgrown Hooves and Horns The whistleblower never saw a farrier visit the farm and reported that the buffaloes’ hooves had become overgrown, which PETA’s investigation confirmed, and that the animals struggled to walk. Some buffaloes’ horns grew downward, the whistleblower told PETA, with one buffalo’s face abraded by a horn growing into it – a horn that a manager cut off, causing profuse bleeding. Following PETA’s investigation, Quality Cheese – which produces Bella Casara cheese sold at Canadian grocers Loblaws and Longo’s – will no longer source milk from Ontario Water Buffalo Company. Loblaws contacted Quality Cheese after hearing from PETA and confirmed the cheesemaker’s decision. PETA submitted our findings and the whistleblower’s allegations to Ontario’s Animal Welfare Services (AWS). A subsequent eyewitness visit revealed that the filth and neglect persist. The investigator found that the animals – including a calf with an open wound on her head caused by a recent dehorning procedure – were confined in a filthy slop of feces and swarmed by flies. A concrete pit, intended for the buffaloes to bathe in, reeked of feces, and several buffaloes had overgrown hooves. PETA alerted AWS to the most recent findings and requested that the animals be removed and that appropriate cruelty charges be filed.

“natural” meat and dairy items, misleadingly labeled to make the consumer, not the animals, feel comfortable. Go to PETA.org/Buffalo to watch the investigative footage and share it with everyone you know.

I n Ontario, Canada, mother water buffaloes were forced to deliver their calves in wet manure slop, which accumulated to a height of several feet, according to a whistleblower who contacted

the tip, PETA investigators took a scheduled tour of the facility and found systemic animal suffering.

Animals Denied Adequate Veterinary Care The whistleblower reported that buffaloes were confined to crowded, filthy pens for months on end. They said that one animal fell, couldn’t regain her footing in the excessive feces, and was dragged out by ropes to be milked. Also according to the whistleblower, buffaloes were denied adequate veterinary care for various ailments and injuries, including open wounds, abscesses, and sores. A blind calf who couldn’t stand reportedly lingered for two weeks before he died. Weaned calves were denied adequate hay or were given moldy or wet hay and became thin and “hobble[d] around,” the whistleblower told PETA, reporting that calves suffered from parasites and that diarrhea was rampant. Many animals allegedly The whistleblower reports that calves suffered from open wounds and sores.

Mother buffaloes are treated as milk machines.

PETA. Water buffaloes are native to the tropical and subtropical climates of South and Southeast Asia and haven’t adapted to tolerate harsh Canadian winters, causing them to lose parts of their ears from frostbite during subfreezing temperatures. Some had even lost teats due to the severe cold, the whistleblower said. Astonishingly, the Ontario Water Buffalo Company – which sells buffalo mozzarella, gelato, and other products made from the water buffaloes’ milk – claims that the animals it exploits are “raised how nature intended.”

became so weak that they couldn’t stand.

Mothers Forced to Give Birth in Muck Rather than being provided with a bedded

Manure was piled up several feet high in this enclosure.

But the whistleblower told PETA another story: that buffaloes languished from painful ailments in filthy conditions. After receiving

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Born in Romania, Dumped by the Roadside An ambulance worker in Romania stumbled upon a litter of kittens abandoned right next to a busy hospital. Three had already been killed in traffic, and PETA Germany’s team wasn’t about to let that happen to the others. Nicknamed “The Three

Musketeers” by their rescuers, Aramis , Athos , and Porto are representative of the more than 600,000 dogs and cats who struggle to survive on Romanian streets. In the past five years, PETA Germany’s “PETA Helps Romania” team has provided more than 50,000 animals with veterinary care, doghouses, food, and more.

Dog in flood and Victory dog: © Animal Rescue Kharkiv

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Hoarded in North Carolina PETA’s fieldworkers in the southern US have seen it all: dogs chained without shelter in all weather – even during flooding caused by tropical storms and hurricanes – animals penned for life amid their own waste, others who are yelled at or just forgotten. We improve their living conditions however we can and show people how to care for animals in basic ways. In just one example, PETA’s fieldworkers assisted with the relinquishment of dozens of animals from a hoarder who had kept them in hideously cramped, filthy conditions. Joy the piglet, two gregarious goats, and 57 ducks and chickens are now in loving, responsible homes.

PETA India Helps a Camel Run Away From

the Circus PETA India rescued handsome Bahadhur – along with a

VICTORY – One Animal at a Time PETA to the Rescue in Disasters and Danger

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pony , three dogs , a goat , and a baby bonnet macaque – when the group and local police raided the Karur Latha Circus, which was illegally forcing animals to perform. They transferred all the rescued animals to one of PETA-supported Animal Rahat’s spacious sanctuaries, where veterinarians removed Bahadhur’s painful nose pegs – wooden plugs threaded through his nostrils – and removed maggots from his festering wounds. He has adjusted beautifully to his new home and has a new best friend, another rescued camel, named Samarth. Be Part of It! These are just a handful of the animals PETA entities have rescued. Please support this work by donating to PETA’s Global

Help for an Island Horse and Chickens Thrown From a Truck PETA’s Cruelty Investigations Department receives hundreds of requests for help every week regarding cases of animal abuse and neglect. Thanks to our efforts, law enforcement in Turks and Caicos seized an emaciated horse who was being worked to death for tours and she received care and rehabilitation. And after a truck carrying thousands of chickens overturned in Oregon , PETA and Direct Action Everywhere staff rushed to the scene and plucked Milagros from the wreckage. Milagros was

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Compassion Fund at PETA.org.au/GCF .

R escuers were searching for animals in an

But today, thanks to intensive, round-the-clock care at Animal Rescue Kharkiv ’s (ARK) PETA-funded clinic, Victory ’s coat is thick and shiny and her once-inflamed skin is healthy. Fear and loneliness are no longer a part of her daily life. Since the war in Ukraine began, PETA Germany and partner organizations, including ARK, have rescued more than 15,000 animals . When the Kakhovka Dam was destroyed, these brave rescuers navigated the floodwaters, broken power lines, and even hidden mines to reach animals in danger of drowning. And PETA Germany has collected and delivered more than 3 million pounds (1.4 million kilograms) of food for animals in the country. Whether it’s human-caused calamities, natural disasters, or abuse, PETA’s first responders do whatever is humanly possible to get animals out. Meet these recently rescued individuals:

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abandoned village in Ukraine when they found this little dog. It had been months since villagers – fleeing to escape falling bombs – had left her behind. Her hair coming out in clumps, she made her way through this ghost town, desperate for help. Her raw skin burned like fire: Spider-like mites bore into her pores, and the red mange left her in agony. AFTER

initially in such bad shape that he could barely take even three steps, but he has since lost his excess “slaughter weight” and has settled into sanctuary life. Saving Mega in Manila PETA Asia staff found Mega abandoned and chained up near a condo complex in the Philippines . After treating him for heartworm disease and other ailments, they found a wonderful family to adopt him. Homeless and neglected cats and dogs are a common sight in the poor neighborhoods of Manila, but PETA Asia is working to curb the crisis with a vigorous spay/neuter program.

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PETA Crashes Fashion Weeks Worldwide THE TALK OF THE CATWALK to Save Animals’ Skins

Goat: © MC MEDIASTUDIO/Shutterstock.com • Alligator: © iStock.com/Alatom

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour got an eyeful at the Coach show.

Hermès and Louis Vuitton: Animals Aren’t Belts or Bags Reporting on the runway takeovers, GQ mused, “Just about everybody in

Paris has been wondering which brand is next.” They didn’t have to wonder long: At Hermès’ Paris show, a PETA campaigner sprung from tall grass beside the catwalk to demand that the brand stop making bags, belts, and other accessories using crocodiles – who are stabbed, skinned alive, and gutted. And outside the Louis Vuitton show, French influencer Jeremstar surprised everyone by popping out of his car dressed as a partly skinned, bloodied snake. With cameras rolling, he railed against the exotic skins industry. The protests dominated French media, and The New York Times linked to PETA Asia’s investigations.

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A leather-clad Coach model had just started down the runway at New York Fashion Week when two PETA supporters leapt up and stole the show in spectacular fashion: Sasha threw off her trench coat, revealing bodypainted muscles and tendons resembling a skinned animal, and Jamie hoisted high a sign proclaiming that leather is fatal. Videos of the protest went viral, and news of the event made headlines worldwide. Putting Fashion’s Victims in the Spotlight Designers who stole animals’ skin found PETA entities stealing their thunder – crashing catwalks and commandeering camera shots at fashion weeks not only in New York but also in London, Milan, and Paris. These bold takeovers gave the fashion world a series of wake-up calls covered by CNN , The Guardian , People , Parade , Glamour , Teen Vogue , and other outlets worldwide. Calls from the media poured in, seeking the scoop on how PETA’s protesters outsmarted tight security. That will stay a secret, but the cruelty of the skins industry is now out.

“ Every fashion season has a surprise appearance or two. … At the September shows, it was PETA representatives.” — Vogue , “The 18 Moments That Made Fashion in 2023” I

Days later in London, a PETA UK supporter stormed the Burberry runway to challenge the fashion house’s brazen lie that it doesn’t knowingly use materials that “may inflict any harm to animal welfare.” PETA Asia investigations have exposed terrified goats screaming as workers pull out their hair for

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Even Vogue – infamous for promoting real fur – covered PETA entities’ actions: “The group’s anti-fur protests, which stem back to the 1980s, are widely credited with shifting public sentiment about fur,” it acknowledged. “Given growing concerns about leather’s role in the climate crisis and about the demand for exotic skins contributing to biodiversity loss and illicit wildlife trafficking – and ongoing accusations about the cruelty to animals involved in both – the pressure on fashion to face up to its use of leather may be only just beginning.”

cashmere and workers hacking at ducks’ and geese’s necks with a blunt ax for down on a “responsible” farm – just like the kinds that Burberry touts.

Getting Under Gucci’s Skin About Lizards and Snakes At a packed Gucci show

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Michael Kors and Burberry Get a Lesson About Animal Rights At a post-runway VIP meet-and-greet in New York, a PETA supporter confronted designer Michael Kors with a sign reading, “Michael Kors: Angora Is Torture!” Kors and guests including Nina Garcia and Olivia Wilde looked on as security carried PETA’s protester away, still making sure everyone could hear her plea to show mercy to rabbits, whose hair is painfully ripped out for nothing more important than a wrap.

Drop Exotic Skins.” At an Indonesian slaughterhouse that supplies Gucci, a PETA Asia investigation revealed workers hacking at conscious lizards’ necks with machetes . PETA Asia has also exposed live snakes being pumped full of water before their skin is peeled off.

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Be Part of It! You don’t have to take over a runway to save animals’

skin. Visit PETA.org/Skins to help end cruelty in the clothing industry. Tell everyone.

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Bundle Up Visit PETA.org/Store and Save (Animals!) Choose a free bumper sticker with every order!

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Barker: HE PUT ANIMAL RIGHTS ON THE MAP

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Save rabbits and resources with PETA’s recycled aluminum necklace.

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Get your head in the game.

Longtime PETA supporter Bob Barker cared about a lot of things, but what meant the most to him – and what he spent most of his life making sure his vast TV audience heard about – was animal rights. Bob’s game show sign-off reminding people to have their animal companions spayed or neutered turned into an iconic catchphrase. His storied career was full of memorable moments: Bob had the integrity and conviction to quit a two-decade gig with the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants because the shows’ producers refused to drop fur coats from the prize packages. And when people were only just beginning to understand what was wrong with fur, he stood his ground and insisted (successfully) that the upholstery in the cars given away on The Price Is Right be leather-free. Bob’s collaborations with PETA included urging families to stay away from SeaWorld , demanding the closure of cruel bear pits masquerading as tourist attractions, imploring Hollywood to take action to protect animals used in films and television , saving deer who were about to be shot for daring to eat flowers planted in what had been their ancestral home, and, as a Navy veteran, calling for the end of military medical drills on live animals. Bob fought for all of them – with heart, with soul, and with his wallet.

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When PETA held the grand opening of our office in Los Angeles, the Bob Barker Building, he not only cut the ribbon but also footed the bill for the down payment. When asked how he would like to be remembered, Bob said, “I think I would like to be remembered as a man who loved living things and did everything he could do to make it better for animals. And when he had time, he did a lot of television shows, too.” For PETA and our mission, Bob will always be special.

A Betsy Baytos throw makes a blanket statement.

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After horse deaths on a film set, Bob called for the protection of animals in movies and TV.

PETA featured Bob in our limited-edition postage stamps of influential vegetarians.

Be Part of It! Carry on with Bob’s work by putting good intentions into action. This issue is filled with

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MAKE Veganuary’ ‘

Backed by PETA supporters Paul McCartney, Alicia Silverstone, and Joaquin Phoenix, our friends at UK based Veganuary have been providing people around the world with incentives to help them go vegan. So what better way to celebrate than with the launch of The Official Veganuary Cookbook ? It features 100 recipes, making it a great gift for any cook, including those holdouts who still haven’t given up meat, eggs, and dairy. Enjoy these adapted selections, then pick up a copy of the cookbook at your favorite bookstore.

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• Add the mushrooms, stock, miso, and soy sauce, and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook, covered, for 15 minutes. • Strain the liquid and return it to the pot, retaining the mushrooms but discarding the onions, garlic, and ginger pulp. Slice the mushrooms. • Add the mushrooms, noodles, tofu, pak choi, and carrots to the pot, bring back to

sauté until golden, about 8 to 10 minutes. • Add the aubergine and green pepper. Season with a little salt and cook for 10 minutes. • Add the tomato sauce, the mustard, and 100 ml water. Mix well and bring to the boil. Simmer for 3 to 4 minutes.

1 Tbsp. sesame oil Beansprouts, crumbled nori, cilantro, spring onions, and/or chilli flakes (optional) METHOD • In a large pot over medium heat, sauté the onion in the oil until softened. Add the garlic and ginger and cook for another 2 to 3 minutes.

the boil, and simmer for 5 to 7 minutes. Stir in the sesame oil. • Serve topped

with beansprouts, nori, cilantro, spring onions, and/or chilli flakes (optional).

Let sit for 10 minutes then peel off and discard the skins. • Put the peppers, walnuts, garlic, and remaining ingredients into a food processor. Blend until smooth.

Roasted Red Pepper and Walnut Dip Makes 4 servings YOU’LL NEED 125 g. shelled walnuts 2 red peppers, halved and deseeded 1 clove garlic, minced 2 Tbsp. olive oil 2 Tbsp. tomato purée 2 Tbsp. pomegranate molasses (optional) 75 g. breadcrumbs 1 tsp. ground cayenne 1 / 2 tsp. ground cumin 1 tsp. salt METHOD • Heat the oven to 400°F/180°C. • Put the walnuts on a baking tray and toast for 7 to 8 minutes. Allow to cool. • Increase the oven temperature to 450°F/210°C. Roast the red peppers, cut side down, for 25 minutes, then turn them over and roast for another 10 minutes, until slightly charred. • Place the peppers in a bowl and cover.

Brazilian Aubergine Stroganoff Makes 4 servings YOU’LL NEED 2 medium aubergines, cut into bite-size pieces 2 tsp. apple cider vinegar 1 Tbsp. olive oil 3 cloves garlic, minced

• Add the oat milk and adjust the salt. Simmer until thickened, about 5 to 10 minutes.

Tofu and Shiitake Ramen Makes 4 servings YOU’LL NEED 1 large onion, peeled and diced 1 Tbsp. sunflower oil 2 cloves garlic, minced 4-cm. piece of fresh ginger, grated 25 g. dried shiitake mushrooms 1 litre vegetable stock 2 Tbsp. miso paste 3 Tbsp. soy sauce 200 g. dried ramen or rice noodles 250 g. diced smoked or marinated tofu 1 head pak choi, quartered 2 carrots, julienned

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1 medium onion, chopped 1 green pepper, chopped Salt, to taste 400 g. vegan tomato sauce 2 Tbsp. Dijon mustard 200 ml. oat milk Cookbook text and images: Extracted from The Official Veganuary Cookbook by Veganuary (HarperNonFiction, Hardback) | Text © Veganuary Trading Limited | Photography © Lizzie Mayson • Produce: © iStock.com/pidjoe METHOD • Put the aubergine pieces in a bowl and cover with water. Add the vinegar and soak for 10 minutes, then drain. • Heat the oil in a large pan over medium high heat. Add the garlic and onion, and

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GAME PLAN: Jim Irsay Steps Up for Animals

“ No one asked for suffering, but it gives you great compassion and understanding. … That’s where we can’t get overwhelmed in trying to help change the world.” – Jim Irsay

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Hope for Corky

When Lolita died, PETA held a vigil outside the Miami Seaquarium. We’re determined to get other captive orcas out of their concrete prisons. The next day in San Diego, PETA supporters descended on another marine abuse ment park – SeaWorld – to demand the release of Corky, who’d been violently captured the year before Lolita. Used as a breeding machine, Corky has

Jim Irsay with Drake and Colts plane interior: © Photo courtesy of Indianapolis Colts

Lolita was headed for a seaside sanctuary, thanks to Irsay’s generosity.

J im Irsay , the owner of the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts , is a man of action and compassion. Inspired by Drake, his beloved mixed-breed “holy dog” who is always by his side, including at Colts training camps and games, Irsay donated $1 million to develop Drake’s House , an Indianapolis shelter dedicated to providing animals in need with care and love. He’s also given millions to Kicking the Stigma , an initiative that he, his daughters, and the Colts launched in 2020 to raise awareness for mental health and destigmatize mental illness. Irsay’s Seaside Sanctuary When he learned about the plight of the orca Lolita (also known as Tokitae), who was kept in a small concrete tank at the Miami Seaquarium for over 50 years, Irsay pledged $20 million to build a seaside sanctuary in her home waters off Washington state, where she had been abducted from her family, and to transport her there. The Miami Seaquarium agreed to Lolita’s transfer following a massive PETA campaign that included dozens of protests; support from the late Bob Barker , PETA Honorary Director Kate del Castillo , and other celebrities; hundreds of thousands of actions from PETA supporters; multiple lawsuits; and many behind-the-scenes negotiations.

grieved the deaths of all seven of her babies and has spent 54 years in captivity, longer than any other orca in the world. Her siblings still swim free, and PETA is urging SeaWorld to give her a chance to be near them, by sending her to a seaside sanctuary.

Be Part of It! Visit PETA.org/Corky to urge SeaWorld to free Corky.

Get these tees at PETA.org/Store .

The dog who started it all: Drake inspires Irsay’s actions for animals.

Rest in Peace, Lolita Tragically, Lolita never

got to return to her home waters. After spending her life in the smallest, bleakest orca tank in the world, she died as she had lived – deprived of any semblance of a natural life. “I am heartbroken that Lolita has left us,” Irsay said in a statement. “Her story

Changing the Game, From the Stadium to the Sky Under Jim Irsay’s watch, Lucas Oil Stadium , home of the Colts, has revolutionized the culinary landscape by adding an array of animal- and Earth-friendly options to its menu. And Irsay has taken vegan design to new heights by giving his private plane a vegan makeover

A Dog and a Dolphin Captured the Indianapolis Colts Owner’s Heart

with the help of his partner, PETA Vanguard member Michelle Paul . Together they used animal-free materials to replace leather and wool in the carpets, seat covers, headliners, and sidewalls – all featuring the Colts logo. He renamed the plane the Blue Vegan .

captured my heart, just as it did millions of others.”

PETA named Lucas Oil Stadium a top five vegan-friendly NFL venue for options like its Indiana Burger. I

Irsay’s generosity not only marked a milestone in the push for animal liberation but also sparked a broader awakening, shedding light on the plight of captive orcas worldwide.

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Disappearing Act

High school senior Jazmin made a thought provoking TikTok video imploring people to consider how chickens suffer for eggs. Singer songwriter Jessie Murph ’s TikTok video urging people to adopt animals from shelters and never buy from breeders or pet shops reached more than 6,000 viewers! Tik Off Animal Exploiters

PETA Australia Founder Ingrid Newkirk says, “Animals don’t need teary eyed tissue-wetters. They need change-making go-getters!” Let these go-getters and the changes they’ve made encourage and empower you. Then tell us about your achievements at PETAGlobal@peta.org.au and you may be featured in PETA Global . Here’s a great way to start: After you’ve read this magazine, pass it on to a security guard, an information desk volunteer, a toll booth operator, or a salon receptionist or leave it in a little library.

When Carla and Brian visit the mall, they leave up PETA Infor mall Activism

When Michelle sees promotional tickets for animal circuses at local

businesses, she informs management about circus cruelty. The tickets often magically

websites on all the Apple store computers. And they ordered a doormat with a mysterious QR code – which sends scanners to PETA!

Playdates With Purpose

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Hop to It

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Her Message Registered

Kareem , an educator and a member of the CBS Board of Education , was so impressed with a SynFrog demonstration by TeachKind – PETA’s humane education division – that she shared it on Instagram, informing her science

Be an Uber Advocate

Costume party? Fun run? Be a copycat and take inspiration from actor Jenna Fischer – and use every opportunity to make an animal rights statement.

When Cecilia ’s friend registered for a down comforter, she explained that gentle birds are restrained while their feathers are torn out. Out went the feathers; in went a stylish vegan throw.

Laura says, “I tell taxi drivers that I’m headed to a meeting and need to practice my talk, then read aloud about industries that hurt animals. They often respond, ‘I never knew that!’”

Dani and Alicia incorporate empathy lessons into their

daughters’ playdates. Find books and other freebies at PETA.org/KidsStickers .

Making Balloon Releases Float Away

FedEx cellent Opportunity

department about humane dissection options.

Brooke ordered PETA leaflets about deadly experiments on marmosets at UMass and opened the box at the FedEx store “to make sure everything is right.” Employees were intrigued and took leaflets to learn more. Order leaflets on any animal rights issue at PETALiterature.com .

Teenager Christian started the Desert Balloon Project to protect tortoises and other animals in the Mojave Desert from balloon waste. He has collected more than 3,000 used balloons and is working on legislation that would help prevent balloons from ending up in the desert.

Let’s Make a Deal

Instead of accepting

Emily commented about the cruelty of using animal skins on a BearPaw boots TikTok video. Enlightened people chimed in, and the company responded that it was working on vegan options. Her Swipe Was Right

payment for a month of cat-sitting, Daniella asked her neighbor to arrange four weeks of vegan meals for her company’s lunch order program. The office then voted for vegan Fridays!

Engaging with companies on social media – whether complaining about cruel products, requesting vegan options, or praising humane policies – drives change. Inspiring True Stories From Animal Advocates TO BE BOLD THEY’RE

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COUNTING ON YOU

A Dosa Compassion

Seeing a gap in the marketplace, Arti started a company

offering healthy vegan Indian meals by mail. Customers rave about First Seed Foods .

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LiBEARated!

“ She’s probably going to be dying soon.” – A Bear Country staff member referring to Mama, a 17-year-old fox wracked with cancer but denied veterinary care

Captive bears like this one (not at Bear Country U.S.A.) suffer behind bars.

Bear biting bars: © iStock.com/beemore

Staff Used Firecrackers to Grab Wolf Pups Bears aren’t the only animals suffering at Bear Country U.S.A. Staff also used firecrackers to separate 4-week-old wolf pups from their mothers so that they, too – denied their mothers’ love and teaching – could become profitable toys for the public to gawk at. Many animals were deprived of adequate veterinary care, including a 17-year-old fox named Mama who was thin, appeared to be in pain, and was missing much of her fur. PETA’s investigator alerted a supervisor to Mama’s condition, but the fox was left to languish for nearly 11 weeks. When the supervisor finally sought care for her, a veterinarian euthanized her and found that she had been suffering from widespread cancer. A bored and lonely pine marten named Pablo – held in a tiny, barren enclosure – tossed his head and paced. A worker dismissed these distressing stereotypic behaviors. Locals gave ailing horses to Bear Country U.S.A., and staff killed and butchered them and then fed their remains to other animals. PETA’s investigator saw a worker shoot one horse three times. After PETA alerted the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to several suspected violations of federal animal welfare law, the agency cited Bear Country U.S.A. for causing “trauma, behavioral stress, physical harm, or unnecessary discomfort” to bears. Based on our evidence, the agency has also cited Bear Country U.S.A. for allowing lynx to repeatedly escape from an enclosure. PETA is urging the USDA to prevent this abusive facility from prematurely separating cubs and pups from their mothers.

PETA Exposes Tourist Trap Atrocities WITH BOTTLE ROCKETS BLASTED BEAR FAMILIES

DILLAN BEFORE

PETA has rescued 80 bears from sleazy roadside zoos, backyard menageries, and traveling acts. Dillan – who was kept for years in a small, concrete floored pen – suffered from painfully diseased teeth and morbid obesity and spent his days rocking obsessively. He was rescued following intense

DILLAN AFTER

pressure from PETA. Today, he’s thriving at The Wild Animal Sanctuary , a lush refuge in Colorado.

Be Part of It! Share this information with everyone you know – and never visit any roadside zoo. Every ticket to one of these facilities tears families apart. Visit PETA.org/BearCountryUSA for more ways to help.

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PETA undercover investigator at Bear Country U.S.A. , a South Dakota drive-through tourist trap, collected evidence – including damning video – showing what the roadside zoo never tells the public: In a disgusting display of violence, it tore still nursing bear cubs away from their mothers by using bottle rockets and chainsaws to scare the mothers into backing away so that staff could snatch their offspring! Mother bears will fight to the death to protect their little ones, so Bear Country U.S.A. staff tossed explosive bottle rockets – and jammed a huge fiberglass pole – into the dens to scare them out. They grabbed the cubs in the chaos and then revved chainsaws so the mothers couldn’t hear their kidnapped newborns screaming in terror. Other staffers stood at the ready with shotguns as the traumatized cubs were stuffed into a van. Their fate? To become living props to entice paying customers through the roadside zoo’s doors. ‘Pinch Their Nose as Hard as You F***ing Can’ One Bear Country U.S.A. staffer casually described what was being done to the bears as “stealing children” and “a little bit bad on the morals.” Employees were warned not to discuss any of this with customers, as shown in this e-mail from a supervisor:

kept cubs in cardboard boxes for weeks. Multiple cubs were reluctant to eat – and they cried, bit, scratched, and struggled when they were held.

Staff had no respect for the animals, who instinctively responded defensively when they were frightened and couldn’t flee. A supervisor instructed PETA’s investigator to “kick [the cubs] down” and to “pinch their nose as hard as you f***ing can” if they bit.

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Not only do the cubs experience emotional and psychological harm when they’re taken from their mothers, constant exposure to and handling by humans also puts

Wolf pups separated from their mothers

Bear cubs kicked away

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their physical health at risk. Their immune systems aren’t developed and they’re susceptible to illnesses like the common cold or the flu.

In nature, bear cubs and their mothers play, nest, sleep, eat, and climb together for nearly two years. Mothers teach their little ones how to be bears and how to develop confidence and eventually become self sufficient. But none of that occurs at Bear Country U.S.A., where workers

A worker called Bella, who is blind in one eye, a “bitch” for biting her shoe.

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Experiments on Monkeys Are Breeding a Silent Killer EXPOSÉ Is TB Coming to a Lab Near You? P E T A E X P E X P O S É •

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The CDC’s own records in recent years reveal an increase in the number of animals arriving carrying pathogens for diseases transmissible to humans. Primates carry and transmit not only TB but also herpes B virus, antimicrobial-resistant microbes, Ebola-like viruses, simian hemorrhagic fever virus, shigellosis, salmonella, campylobacter, malaria, dengue, and leprosy. PETA is calling on state veterinarians and health officials to prohibit the entry of monkeys and initiate a TB quarantine in all facilities that have received monkeys over the past 18 months. We’re urging federal authorities to shut down the cruel and dangerous monkey-importation pipeline before it sickens more people or starts the next pandemic. And we’re pushing hard to end the deadly business of experimenting on monkeys and other animals altogether.

But for monkeys swallowed up into the primate pipeline, the extreme stress of being torn away from everything they’ve known, shoved into cramped boxes where they’re forced to sit in their own filth for up to a week straight, and shipped around the world can cause latent TB to turn into active TB. It’s highly contagious to other monkeys, and any humans who come into contact with them – from airline passengers to laboratory employees – are at risk. TB Hitches a Ride Around the World When PETA learned of a TB outbreak on a monkey farm in Mauritius, we sounded the alarm, warning that monkeys who had been shipped internationally could be carrying the disease. We urged the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to ban monkey imports from the country. No one listened – but they should have.

Mauritius map: © iStock.com/Rainer Lesniewski • RMD booklet: Booklet – © iStock.com/hh58000 | Cover image – © iStock.com/Jackie Niam

Captured mother and baby macaque: © We Animals Media • Kathy Guillermo: © Dashing Photos • Macaque family in nature: © javarman/Shutterstock.com

words what TB has taken from my family.

Now here’s a revelation: Experimenting on animals is not only failing miserably at curing human diseases but also spreading human diseases by sending deadly pathogens around the globe, perhaps even into your community. PETA has uncovered damning evidence that the international primate pipeline, which ships monkeys to laboratories around the world, is fast-tracking potentially fatal

Be Part of It! Help PETA stop the spread of this global health risk: US readers, visit PETA.org/TB to insist that the CDC shut

Barely a month later, PETA exposed documents confirming our concerns: Monkeys arriving in the US from overseas had brought the deadly disease along for the ride. The stressed-out monkeys were flown to Florida and then underwent a 31-day quarantine as mandated by the CDC. When the TB test (which is notoriously unreliable) failed to detect infection during quarantine,

down the monkey-abduction pipeline. And please visit PETA.org.au/RMD to ask your legislators to support PETA’s Research Modernization Deal.

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the primates were cleared and trucked to Northern Biomedical, a Michigan laboratory. There, at least three monkeys tested positive for TB. Two laboratory employees were exposed and were referred for treatment. And it didn’t stop there. We later uncovered documents showing that laboratories in nine other

tuberculosis (TB) into human populations. And things could get much worse. Here’s what we found – and what we’re doing.

Coming to You From an Indian Ocean Honeymoon Island

Mauritius is a tropical paradise. It’s also home to one of the largest suppliers of monkeys to laboratories in North America and Europe. Thousands of long-tailed macaques in Mauritius are snatched from their families and forest homes or bred on squalid farms where diseases flourish.

states also received shipments of monkeys who either had outdated test results or no proof of any TB test whatsoever. And since monkeys from Mauritius are shipped worldwide, the disease is undoubtedly being imported into every country that receives them.

PETA Honorary Director James Cromwell spoke at a US congressional briefing on the deadly and deceptive monkey-importation industry and urged lawmakers to implement PETA scientists’ Research Modernization Deal.

Disregard for Monkeys and Public Health Why aren’t health regulators preventing this? Even in the wake of the TB outbreak in Mauritius, the CDC has allowed suppliers to keep right on importing monkeys from that region.

A large percentage of the monkey population appears to harbor a latent form of TB. For most monkeys in their natural homes, TB causes no symptoms because their immune systems keep it in check.

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