PETA Global AU 2024 Issue 3

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A-Lister Steve Buscemi Gets an A+ From PETA

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A MESSAGE FROM Ingrid Newkirk PETA Australia’s Founder

Rather than using an animal supplied by a notorious Hollywood exhibitor – such as Atlanta Film Animals (AFA) – director Steve Buscemi cast Tessa Thompson ’s adopted dog, Coltrane, as her costar in The Listener , earning him PETA’s Compassion in Film

Following a vigorous PETA India campaign, elephant Malti – who was forced to give rides to tourists at Amber Fort in India and had been violently beaten and verbally abused – was released to a reputable sanctuary where she is safe and in the company of other rescued elephants. Frustrated captive elephants often lash out, and recently, Gouri , another elephant at Amber Fort (sometimes called “Amer Fort”), broke a tourist’s leg. That tourist, Kochetova Mariia, has joined PETA India in pleading for Gouri to be released to a sanctuary: “I do not wish for Gouri to be punished. Instead, I believe she has been punished enough by a lifetime of being trained with violence and forced to give rides, which clearly upsets her.” Please, never take animal rides. Visit PETA.org.au/AmberFort to urge authorities to end elephant rides at Amber Fort. BIG WIN! Abused Amber Fort Elephant Rescued

Miami Seaquarium Gets Eviction Notice

I am just back from India, and there is someone I’d like you to meet. His name is Roushya . Actually, we don’t know what his mother called him (all mothers name their little ones – remember Washoe, the chimpanzee who even had a sign language name for her baby?), but Roushya is the name humans gave him.

The world watched in horror as the Miami Seaquarium let the lone orca Lolita languish and die. Subsequent US government inspection reports described a dolphin with a 2-inch nail embedded in his throat and a sea lion who was in so much pain from an untreated eye condition that she refused food, among other neglect. But PETA’s

For years, he pulled a heavily laden cart through the streets of Old Delhi, day in and day out, steered by a rope

Award . Our undercover investigation into AFA ( PETA.org.au/AFA ) revealed that dogs, cats, and pigs were denied food and veterinary care and were warehoused in cold, barren kennels. Comment on the social media pages of your favorite networks and studios, telling them why they shouldn’t hire cruel animal exhibitors for their productions. And never buy a ticket to a movie that exploits animals.

unrelenting campaign, which included lawsuits, celebrity ads, letters to county officials, and protests, prevailed: The Miami Seaquarium was ordered to clear out. PETA is helping to fund the construction of spacious enclosures at a reputable sanctuary for the parrots moved from the Seaquarium – where they engaged in excessive self-plucking, a sign of psychological distress.

Roushya enjoying retirement

PETA’s Doughnut Giveaway: A Lifesaving Proposition Closed! Hemopet , a California facility that kenneled hundreds of greyhounds and sold their blood to veterinary clinics, shut down after we released our investigation into it and fought for a landmark law phasing out the state’s captive animal blood banks. Exposed (and going down)! Major US veterinary chains BluePearl Pet Hospital and VCA Animal Hospitals stopped buying blood products from The Veterinarians’ Blood Bank (TVBB) in Indiana after we revealed that at TVBB, more than 900 long-term captive dogs and cats (like Jane and Vivi, whom we rescued) were restrained and blood was drawn from their necks every three weeks. PETA Busts Blood Banks USA VICTORY!

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threaded through his nostrils, sometimes his flank stung by the whip, his back hit with a pole. The wooden yoke of the cart dug into his shoulders as cars and trucks honked and wove around him in the crowded streets, and the muscles in his legs must have hurt.

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Edie Falco: © Starmaxinc.com • Laughing Cow cheese: © Bel Brands • Ferret: © iStock.com/Candy_Vandy • Man flexing arm: © Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock.com All that is behind him now. He was “laid off” because of PETA India’s mechanization project – which recently rescued its 150 th animal – funded by PETA’s Global Compassion Fund . A shiny new e-vehicle is doing the hauling in Roushya’s place.

King Charles’ Pigeons Fly the Coop

As for his new life, I’m sure he could never have imagined that one day the painful nose rope would be pulled out, that he would be able to walk at his own pace on soft ground, graze and gaze, and enjoy retirement at a PETA-supported sanctuary. Every evening, he listens to Indian classical music. Every day, he is groomed with a brush. And he now has a friend to sit with him. When we say, “Every animal is someone,” we include this dear old man. Let no one tell you that bulls are fierce. Just like anyone else, if they’re taunted, tormented, tortured, or treated like a “thing,” they may fight back. But underneath it all, every one of them is someone who can suffer.

Ask your veterinary office where it gets its blood: Visit PETA.org/BloodSource for talking points.

SAVED!

Three birds who had been confined to King Charles ’ pigeon loft have been spared a life of misery in the racing industry, thanks to PETA UK. Stopping them from going to another racing outfit, PETA UK got them and sent them to a sanctuary in Wales and then urged King Charles to cut all ties with this archaic pastime that costs so many birds their very lives. PETA’s exposés have shown that hundreds of thousands of pigeons – wonderfully sweet birds who have their own culture, partner for life, and defend their young – face awful deaths during races in which they’re forced to fly back to Britain across the vast stretch of water, storms and all, that is the English Channel. Visit PETA.org/UKPigeons to help end these “graveyard” races.

PETA’S ‘JOLLY’ CARTOON WITH A HORRIFYING TWIST How to make someone choke on their bacon: Show them PETA UK’s cartoon, released during National Butchers’ Week, detailing the twisted tail of pig slaughter. A father and his daughters are tucking into a meaty breakfast when he launches into a tune about being a pig farmer. But his song takes a sinister turn as playful pigs are turned into sausages, bacon, and ham. See it and share it at PETA.org/TwistedTail .

Please, weigh in against bullfights (see page 6), for Roushya’s sake.

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