PETA Global AU 2024 Issue 3

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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

Rattlesnake: © Robin Winkelman/Dreamstime.com • Ron Perlman ad: © Photo – Shayan Asgharnia | Creative director – Greg Garry | Grooming – Aaron Barry

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!

Fox: © iStock.com/Dgwildlife • Ricky Gervais: © Sam Aronov/Shutterstock.com • Babybel: © Babybel • Guinea pig: © iStock.com/GlobalP • Sarah Silverman ad: Sarah – © Robyn Von Swank | Turkey – © iStock.com/Rehlik

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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