PETA Global 2018 Issue 2

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The resolution was picture-perfect: PETA appealed to Shutterstock – the world’s largest subscription-based stock-photo provider – and the company banned all images of captive ape and monkey “actors” from its collections and from those of its subsidiaries. Nonhuman VICTORY! Shutterstock Bans Exploitative Ape Images Victory! Scotland Bans Wild-Animal Circuses Scotland has become the first country in the UK to ban wild animals from traveling circuses. The move came after thousands of PETA UK supporters contacted the Scottish government demanding a

primates forced to pose for photos are usually juveniles who were traumatically separated from their mothers as babies, and images of them in unnatural settings harm conservation efforts as well as bolstering the illegal wildlife trade.

An exposé released by PETA UK in 2014 documented horrific conditions on fur farms in Norway – including animals suffering from starvation and untreated, bloody wounds – and featured footage recorded by Norwegian animal-protection groups. In 2016, PETA UK supporters joined Norwegian activists in Europe’s largest-ever anti fur protest, during whichmore than 13,000 people marched through the streets of Oslo and other cities – and they’ve kept the pressure on. Now, Norway has introduced a total ban on fur farming, joining Croatia, Germany, Japan, the UK, and other countries that have taken steps to shut down such farms. Let’s keep agitating until all these hellish facilities close. Victory! Norway Bans Fur Farms

Orangutan: © iStock.com/davidevison • Lioness: © iStock.com/NejroN • Girl with magnifying glass: © iStock.com/parinyabinsuk

UK

ban – and 98% of Scots who responded to an official consultation on the issue indicated that they wanted such a measure. Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham, who proposed the bill, said that it “demonstrate[s] to the wider world that we are one of the growing number of countries that no longer condones the use of wild animals in this way.” UK readers, please urge Whitehall to follow suit by visiting PETA.org.uk/CircusBan .

USA

USA

Basketball Stars’ Winning Secret? Veggies! Plant-Powered Athletes Break Bread in PETA Video Brooklyn Nets center Jahlil Okafor, who went vegan while recovering from a knee injury, says that his game has never been better: “I’m just a lot faster, quicker.” And four-time NBA champion John Salley, a longtime vegan, says that the benefits go far beyond health: “You are literally saving the planet, you’re saving water, animals from dying. … That’s pretty slick.” PETA’s video featuring these two basketball stars has been viewed more than 1.3 million times in China alone. Watch the video at PETA.org and order Okafor’s “Never Be Silent” T-shirt at PETACatalog.com .

80,000 Visitors Loved PETA’s TeachKind ‘Destination Empathy’

Working with child-development experts, TeachKind – PETA’s humane education division – created Destination Empathy, an interactive exhibit that allowed kids to explore empathy for animals and the human-animal connection in fun ways, using a 360-degree video to experience flight as a pigeon, translate animals’ body language, and step into an augmented-reality environment where they could see how bears, tigers, and elephants enjoy living with their families. Eighty thousand visitors to the award winning Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, where the exhibit debuted, learned that all beings deserve respect, whether they have hands, paws, feathers, or fins.

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