PETA Global AU 2024 Issue 3

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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

Donkey: © Val_Yankin/Shutterstock.com

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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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