PETA Global 2018 Issue 3

ISSUE 3 | SUMMER 2018

ADVANCING THE ANIMAL RIGHTS REVOLUTION

8 PAGE Edie’s Aha Moment “Why do we pet one and eat the other?”

13 ‘Crabcake’ Cookout Your family will flip over these tasty vegan recipes PAGE

18 PAGE Urgent Travel Alert! Help animals in peril

PETA Is Saving Horses, From Racetracks to Dinner Plates

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PETA’s work for horses goes way back. In 1984, PETA investigated a massive horse slaughter operation in Texas, which trucked in tens of thousands of animals from all over the country. They arrived in cramped double-decker cattle haulers that forced them to stand with their heads lowered – and were dumped onto fields in frigid conditions with no shelter and little to eat. When the horse-meat market collapsed, the remaining animals were left to die. Law enforcement refused to act – at least one sheriff was actually involved in the scheme. So PETA went on national TV and appealed to Congress, ultimately rescuing many horses and getting the shameful operation shut down. or Mexico to be killed. It’s a grueling, miserable days-long journey that PETA has ridden along on, from auction house to kill floor. Thanks in part to the awareness raised by PETA exposés, legislation has been introduced that would make it illegal to export and then butcher US horses cast off by the carriage, racing, and other industries. Thousands of Thoroughbreds are slaughtered every year – even champions like Ferdinand, the winner of the 1986 Kentucky Derby, whose life came to a horrifying end at a Japanese slaughterhouse investigated by PETA. Today, it is illegal to slaughter horses in the US, but no law prevents them from being shipped to Canada

Thousands more die during races, shattering bones after being forced to race when they’re nursing injuries masked by drugs. Horses die during Britain’s grueling Grand National steeplechase race and in Australia’s Melbourne Cup, and it’s estimated that 1,000 horses die on US racetracks every year, an average of three per day. “What if all professional sports had this fatality rate?” asks James Cromwell in a PETA video. “Imagine if three NFL players were killed every Sunday.” PETA is protecting horses by investigating abuse, resulting in fines, sweeping new doping regulations, and the introduction of federal legislation to reform medication use in racing. Its protests and negotiations prompted the first-ever industry-supported Thoroughbred retirement program, stricter whipping regulations, the release of medication records before major races, cameras

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in barns to catch illegal drug use, increased drug testing, and more. PETA has also rescued former race horses and changed public attitudes about racing.

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PETA is galloping to the rescue of horses around the world – see inside for more details.

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PETA Asia Video Persuades Sponsors

A MESSAGE FROM Ingrid Newkirk PETA’s President

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to Drop Cruel Elephant Polo

After PETA Asia released footage of trainers viciously beating elephants on the head with bullhooks for the “prestigious” 2018 King’s Cup Elephant Polo Tournament at the Anantara Riverside Bangkok Resort in Thailand, IBM, Johnnie Walker, PwC, Vespa, Ecolab, Securitas, Leading Quality Assurance, and other sponsors ended their support of the event. According to organizers of the

L ike other choices in my early life, from fishing to fur-wearing (’fraid so), I made some that caused my relationship with horses to get off to a bad start. As a girl, I was required to take riding lessons. Once, I went straight over a horse’s neck when he lowered his head unexpectedly to nibble some tempting weeds (there went a tooth). Later, I was thrown again, at a roadside stable, when the horse “smelled the barn” and bolted, leaving me nursing a sore jaw. I forgave them both, but the question is this: Would they forgive me for their involuntary servitude?

After hearing from PETA scientists since 2015, the Japanese government eliminated its requirement that companies conduct year-long pesticide poisoning tests on dogs, who will no longer be forced to eat pesticide-laced food or inhale pesticide fumes daily for a year before being killed and dissected. The move came after PETA scientists repeatedly provided Japanese authorities with detailed analyses demonstrating that data from these cruel tests aren’t used to protect humans. The US, Canada, and the European Union had already stopped mandating the test after discussions with PETA, sparing thousands of dogs annually. PETA is urging other countries to follow suit. VICTORY! PETA Prompts Japan to Say ‘Sayonara’ to Dog Poisoning Tests

Beau Bridges Says, ‘Don’t Eat Sea Animals’

From lobsters to fish and oysters to octopuses, more aquatic animals are killed – including in prolonged and painful ways – for food each year than all other species combined. To help stop this slaughter, celebrated actor – and vegan – Beau Bridges stars in a new PETA video on sea life. “Humans have only one heart, compared to an octopus’s three, but surely, we can show sea animals compassion by leaving them in the ocean and off our plates,” he says.

tournament, the last of its kind, the six trainers PETA Asia caught abusing elephants were expelled – but all elephant trainers use domination, all captive elephants are being kept in involuntary servitude, and all elephant abuse needs to go. Take Action Now Please call one of the few remaining sponsors, INVNT, and urge it to stop supporting elephant abuse: +1 212-334-3415.

On a family trek in Kashmir, India, my mother says that I ruined the trip by fussing because I was concerned about a horse named Sampson, who had to climb up rocky terrain with my father – a man of considerable size – on his back. Nevertheless, I gadded about Delhi in a horse cart, or tonga, only later realizing how poorly shod the ponies were and how thin.

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Victory! Jack Daniel’s Cuts Ties With Iditarod USA

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Recently in Delhi, PETA India confiscated two lame horses – one of whomwas partially blind, as I discovered when I pulled back his blinders. Staffers also persuaded five horse cart owners to surrender their elderly equines, who are now retired, in exchange for mechanized carts. In 2018, why isn’t it considered insane – or at least bizarre – to sit on horses’ backs and kick them to get them going, as if you were kick-starting a motorbike? If giraffes were as plentiful as horses, would we ride them? Is riding horses any less silly? If we “love” horses, why don’t we recognize that they are herd animals who want to live their own lives, unencumbered by human beings? They are not ours to breed, race, eat, isolate from each other, keep in stalls, pull this way and that, or use as “beasts of burden,” a telling term. Please pass this issue of PETA Global on to anyone who cares about horses. Also, if your employer has charity fund drives, visit PETA.org/WorkplaceGiving to find out how your workplace donation can benefit PETA’s campaigns to stop horse abuse. Thank you.

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For World Water Day, a PETA volunteer stripped, jumped into the shower on a public street, and suggested that people in drought-stricken cities save water and animals by scrubbing meat, milk, and eggs from their diets. Passersby learned that growing crops to feed animals raised for food sucks up more than half the water in the US. In the UK, the “water footprint” of animals raised for food is about 40% of the country’s total water use. In Australia, 43% of agricultural water is guzzled to grow food for animals used for meat and dairy “products,” while growing fruit and vegetables for humans uses only 10%. PETA Pulls Back the (Shower) Curtain on Water Waste

Victory! PETA Australia Gets University Petting Zoo Nixed After a PETA campaign that included protests outside Jack Daniel’s headquarters and e-mails from more than 186,000 PETA supporters, the whiskey maker’s parent company, Brown-Forman, confirmed that it has now ended its 15-year sponsorship of the barbaric Iditarod dog sled race. PETA first contacted Jack Daniel’s about ending its Iditarod sponsorship after five dogs died during the 2017 race (memorialized by PETA in a protest at the 2018 race, above). More than 150 dogs have died since the race began, and those are just the reported deaths – that numb r oesn’t include those who died immediately after the race, during training, or while chained up at mushers’ compounds in the snow and ice amid their own waste. Reportedly, some dogs are denied veterinary care when they fall ill, and some are beaten. Take Action Now Visit PETA.org/Iditarod to urge the race’s remaining sponsors to stop supporting cruelty to dogs.

PETA released its free Kitten Squad video game on Nintendo Switch, and players are taking to it like tabbies to catnip. The first advocacy game on the popular gaming console, it allows you to play as a kitten, rescuing captive baby elephants, cows imprisoned on dairy farms, and orcas enslaved at a marine park – all by using yarn-ball guns and carrot rocket launchers. Kitten Squad has been downloaded well over 1 million times. PETA’s ‘Kitten Squad’ Video Game a Hit on Nintendo Switch

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VICTORY! Fur Out at Versace, Michael Kors, and More – Is the UK Next?

VICTORY! Victoria to Ban Platypus Drowning Traps After pressure from PETA Australia and the Victorian Alliance for Platypus Safe Yabby Traps, Australia’s Victorian government agreed to ban all use of

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underwater yabby traps by 2019. Not only do these devices catch yabbies (crayfish), they also drown platypuses, rakali (water rats), turtles, aquatic birds, and other victims – as PETA Australia made clear.

Queen guitarist Brian May delivered more than 400,000 petition signatures to 10 Downing Street, calling on UK Prime Minister Theresa May to introduce a fur import ban. The signatures were collected as part of the Fur Free Britain campaign, which includes PETA UK and other animal charities. Fur’s demise is occurring at breakneck speed. San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors has voted unanimously to ban the sale of fur, InStyle magazine neither photographs fur nor accepts fur advertising, and John Galliano, Versace, Michael Kors, Donna Karan, and other major designer holdouts have recently dropped fur from their collections. PETA is keeping the pressure on by sharing eyewitness footage that shows minks crammed into small cages on Canadian fur factory farms. Pools of waste crawling with maggots decay below them, and the severe crowding leads to fighting, injuries, and even death. Take Action Now Go to PETA.org/BanFur today to tell Dolce & Gabbana – which sells mink bags and coats – to ditch fur.

“Treat your dog how you’d like to be treated,” says T-Pain, a two-time Grammy winner, in a video that he and Sixx Mann made for PETA. “They need love, too. …Make ’em feel special,” adds Sixx Mann, who records on T-Pain’s label, Nappy Boy Entertainment. T-Pain’s roomies include dog Rollo and cat Stewie, so take his good-natured advice to heart: “[B]e prepared. It’s pretty much like having a baby.” Remember that being a good animal guardian is a lifelong commitment. And please, save a life and adopt – don’t shop. Visit PETA.org/Loyalty to watch the video and sign a pledge to help end animal homelessness today. Rappers Strike a Chord in PETA Video

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PETA India members delivered that powerful message on International Women’s Day by cramming themselves into cages to make the point that hens spend their entire Egg-Eating Is a Feminist Issue

VICTORY! Food and Vitamin Giants Ban Cruel Tests Following talks with PETA, Fortune 500 food industry leader General Mills banned all experiments on animals that are conducted for the purpose of making health claims about its foods. This decision will prevent countless sentient beings from enduring cruel experiments, such as one in which mice were fed a diet enriched with either prebiotics or probiotics and then their necks were broken and their heads cut off. PETA also persuaded international vitamin and food-ingredient company Riken Vitamin to ban health tests on animals. Previously, the company had commissioned experiments in which mice were force-fed seaweed and saffron extracts and then injected with chemicals or else the blood supply to their retinas was cut off while they were kept in complete darkness. These companies join a growing list of brands that have eliminated experiments on animals after pressure from PETA, including Yakult Honsha, House Foods, Kikkoman, Barilla, ITO EN, Coca-Cola, Lipton, POM Wonderful, Welch’s, and Ocean Spray.

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McDonald’s Gets Sandwiched From Washington, D.C., to Little Rock, Arkansas, PETA’s bus shelter ads – strategically placed outside (and in one case on both sides of) fast-food restaurants and in other busy locations – helped commuters pause beneath the golden arches and realize that there’s a being inside that bun. Fast food chains seem to be getting the message: KFC is planning to test-market vegan fried chicken in the UK later this year, and McDonald’s has debuted a new vegan burger in Sweden and Finland.

lives in such cramped conditions that they can’t even spread a wing – all because they have a reproductive system that humans can exploit. Just as you can’t be a meat-eating environmentalist, you can’t be an egg-eating feminist.

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Chinese Artists Take On Bear Abuse Eighty-two artists and celebrities participated in PETA Asia’s traveling exhibit to draw attention to the suffering of bears in circuses in China by drawing their own designs on bear-shaped cards. Famed artist Xie Yong also created three stunning “bears in cages” out of needles. Contributors included Zhou Song, whose work (shown opposite) is also featured in the Grand Palais in Paris; Cui Zimo, who created calligraphic works for the Vatican at Pope Francis’ invitation; and Xiao Yong, whose company is one of the most influential design firms in China. Visitors watched PETA Asia’s circus video and learned about the harrowing lives of bears who are forced to perform.

Chinese trendsetters are spreading the word about the cruelty behind donkey gelatin or ejiao – which is made by bludgeoning donkeys, slitting their throats, and extracting the gel from their hides. They’re sporting PETA Asia’s temporary donkey tattoos that say, “Cute Donkey ≠ Ejiao.” Some are even getting permanently inked: Celebrity tattoo artist Wang Ke tattooed animal rights activist Leonard Qi with the pro-donkey message. PETA Asia filmed the process and is using the footage to raise awareness. Also, more companies, including Beijing Tong Ren Tang Ming Qi Clinic and Wabbo, have now agreed to stop selling ejiao. Please keep an eye out for this cruelly produced ingredient, and alert PETA if you spot it in any Chinese face creams, sports drinks, teas, or supplements. Young People Get Edgy, Not Ejiao

PETA UK Shames Thomas Cook: SeaWorld Promotions Cut SeaWorld is in hot water with one of Britain’s largest travel agencies following months of campaigning by PETA UK, including protests outside agency offices and 22,000 e-mails from PETA UK supporters. Thomas Cook suspended its online promotions of SeaWorld and began a review of its position on selling tickets to SeaWorld Orlando after the park failed an animal-welfare audit.

Take Action Now Urge Thomas Cook to sever all ties with SeaWorld at PETA.org.uk/ThomasCook .

Media ran glowing reviews about the installation, and it is now in high demand by major Chinese cities.

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In the Shadowof theVolcano PETAAsia Brings Urgent Vet Care to Horses Forced up aMountain By Ashley Fruno Director of Animal Assistance Programs, PETA Asia

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The $31,000 Injection: PETA Teams Up With a Bettor to Expose Horse-Racing’s Addiction to Drugs

I n a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, a violated state and federal racketeering laws and engaged in fraud by illegally doping a horse used for harness racing. professional bettor, backed by PETA, is alleging that a horse trainer and owner The suit seeks to recoup more than $31,000 in winnings that bettor Jeffrey Tretter believes he was cheated out of when a doped horse, named Tag Up and Go, won a race in New Jersey in 2016. The winner had been a longshot. While final placing of horses in a race can be changed and winning purses redistributed if a horse is shown to have been illegally drugged, bettors are not compensated for their losses. Tretter approached PETA with his concerns about the effect of an illegal substance on a winner’s performance, and the organization immediately saw the importance of the issue. substances. If the industry won’t voluntarily take decisive steps to stop horses from being drugged, perhaps the threat of costly lawsuits will compel it to. Is the ‘Fix’ In? Not only is drugging horses harmful to their health, it can also change the outcome of a race. The horses Tretter correctly picked to place first through fourth instead finished behind Tag Up and Go. He alleges that trainer Robert Bresnahan Jr. and owner JL Sadowsky LLC illegally influenced the outcome of This innovative case opens the door for thousands of horse-racing bettors to sue over the illegal use of medication and prohibited

the race because the winner tested positive for erythropoietin (aka “EPO”), a banned substance that increases the production of red blood cells. Drugged horses are at risk of breaking bones as well as dying, as performance-enhancing drugs often mask their pain, allowing them to race and train with injuries that would otherwise be disabling. In 2014, PETA released an exposé documenting that medication was misused by the horse racing industry. As a result, trainer Steve Asmussen was fined $10,000, New York State introduced sweeping newmedication regulations, and members of Congress sponsored a bill that would put the US Anti-Doping Agency in charge of overseeing medication use and drug violations in horse racing.

T he villager rushed over to me, carrying his dog Mika in his arms. “Look, ma’am. Gumaling na siya! (He’s healed already!),” he announced excitedly. Mika, who had been suffering from severe mange, was one of hundreds of animals – mostly working horses but also dozens of village dogs – who were treated by a PETA Asia–funded team on the picturesque volcanic island of Luzon in the Philippines. Tourists come in droves to see the Taal volcano, and villagers rent out horses to carry them to the summit. But in contrast to the lush, tropical landscape and breathtaking views that draw vacationers, the locals and their horses eke out a meager existence. The animals’ diet is inadequate, and they never receive veterinary care. Day after day, they’re forced to climb the steep, rocky path up the volcano, with no water and little rest before slipping and sliding back down. When not working, they’re tied to trees or posts in muddy lots, often restrained so tightly that they can’t even lower their heads. Villagers FromMiles Around Seek Help for Horses PETA Asia’s team was joined by volunteer veterinarians, a farrier from International Veterinary Outreach, and veterinary students from a local university. The group traveled by boat and set up a veterinary clinic on Luzon, in an expedition that was the first of its kind to the island. Then we went back, again and again. The team treated horses with severe injuries, including “Number 361,” who couldn’t walk as a result of a large laceration on her leg. You could spot Katrina by the huge, fly-covered lump that had grown on her leg because of an untreated wound. Another horse, known only as “Horse 64,” had collapsed from a severe case of colic – a painful stomach condition. A 5-day old foal was leaking urine through his navel.

Most horses needed fundamental care such as vaccinations (especially for tetanus, which is common on the island), parasite control, hoof trimming, tooth filing, and treatment for hematomas, eye worm, saddle sores, and thrush, among other conditions. It was exhilarating to see more than 800 horses feeling so much better – some even saved from the brink of death. We posted notices around the island and worked to earn the trust of the horse owners, as taking the time to get an animal treated can mean a day without pay. The clinics took on a festive atmosphere, drawing crowds of onlookers, including fascinated children, who were given coloring books illustrating proper animal care. Animal guardians were offered inexpensive juice drinks – a surprisingly strong inducement – as an incentive to bring animals back for needed booster vaccines. As people like Mika’s grateful guardian, who was initially skeptical, helped spread the word about the efficacy of the treatments, some villagers walked for hours to get to the clinics. There were lots of exhausting days in muggy conditions and long treks to visit villagers in remote barangays who couldn’t make it to the clinic, but it was exhilarating to see more than 800 horses feeling so much better – some even saved from the brink of death – and the happy smiles on the faces of their caretakers. I can’t wait to go back!

If the trainer in Tretter’s case is found liable under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, he could be required to pay up to three times the amount of the bettor’s losses.

Drugged horses are at risk of breaking bones as well as dying.

Take Action Now Get drugs out of horse racing. US readers, please go to PETA.org/IntegrityAct and urge your congressional representatives to support the Horseracing Integrity Act, which would impose stricter regulations on drug use in racing and help protect horses from abuse.

Show our video at PETA.org/HorseRacing to everyone you know who might be tempted to bet on a horse.

Take Action Now Be a horse’s hero: Donate to PETA’s Global Compassion Fund at PETA.org/GCF .

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Edie Falco

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PETA: How did your awareness of animal rights issues come about? Edie: I started rescuing little animals when I was a kid. A guy I knew from the neighborhood was petting his cat, and he realized that the cat’s leg felt just like a chicken leg, and he had this awakening: The “why do we pet one and eat the other one?” idea hit him. He started this awakening for me about animal welfare, which had always been on my radar, but he put a fine point on it. PETA: You’ve been to the US Capitol on PETA’s behalf several times to meet with members of Congress about stabbing, shooting, and cutting the limbs off goats in military trauma training. What has that been like? Edie: Talking to people who agreed with me about the issues was heartening, but hearing the perspective of those who didn’t was impactful. As far as making change, I want to know what’s standing in the way of that change, how to get to the change, what we have to do, how … we have to approach the problem. PETA: Do you see animal rights as being on a par with other social justice movements? Edie: I do. It may well be our downfall that we do not take care of the most vulnerable around us: animals, people in war-torn regions, [the] poverty-stricken, women with the #MeToo movement. It’s time to face the fact that we are a part of a large, living, global society, and we all deserve respect and must care about each other. PETA’s 2015 Humanitarian Award winner, Edie Falco, is no shrinking violet. From her award-winning roles on The Sopranos and Nurse Jackie to her defense of animal rights, she speaks her mind on screen and off. She has spoken passionately against the way baby elephants are separated from their mothers in circuses and trained using force as well as the miserable lives of orcas kept for decades in SeaWorld tanks. She also urges everyone to steer clear of horse-drawn carriages because of the way the horses are exploited – in New York City or anywhere else. ‘It’s Our Job to Try to Take Care of Those Who Can’t Take Care of Themselves’

‘A HORRIBLE PLACE FOR ANIMALS’ PETA Busts Managers Who Prize Bonuses Over Sick Animals

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T o “keep costs down” and ensure that they got their bonuses, managers at pet-supply giant PetSmart denied veterinary care to sick, injured, and dying animals. At a store in Nashville, Tennessee, PETA discovered that employees opted not to seek help for severely ill animals, including a guinea pig named Faron, who suffered from an abscessed wound on his back, dehydration, and gastrointestinal stasis. PETA rescued him – as well as Townes, another guinea pig, who had an abscessed knee joint that had infected his heart and brain. When the managers refused to have the second animal treated, PETA’s eyewitness rushed him to a veterinarian. Left Alone in a Hurricane In Brandon, Florida, animals were left in containers on the shelves as Hurricane Irma pummeled the area: When workers returned four days later, some animals had escaped from cages, more than two dozen had no water, and some had died. Workers there also failed to seek veterinary care for Valencia, a critically ill parakeet, for at least five days – and he slowly died of starvation and dehydration. A hamster named Sybil apparently tried to chew off her own leg after it got caught in a water-bottle holder. Secrets and Lives At a PetSmart in Peoria, Arizona, which is minutes from company headquarters, a supervisor brushed aside

concerns about hamsters who were fighting as a result of extreme crowding with a joke about squeezing the animals “as hard as you can.” Most hamster species are solitary, but PetSmart often houses them together. A mouse named Ninetails wasn’t taken to a veterinarian for a pus-filled growth the size of a blueberry. He, too, was rescued by PETA’s eyewitness and now lives in a loving home. “I’m not going to take it to an emergency vet to get put down. … There’s no point in me paying that for a $15 animal.” – PetSmart store manager Management instructed PETA’s eyewitness not to tell customers that the store was selling fish from tanks in which the populations were found to be harboring a highly contagious disease. The company also stocked animals with diseases that are transmissible to humans, such as ringworm and coccidiosis. Managers Convicted of Cruelty Acting on evidence provided by PETA, Nashville’s Metro Animal Care & Control, assisted by police, raided

the store and seized six gravely ill mice and guinea pigs. Three managers pleaded guilty to cruelty to animals and were ordered to pay the animals’ medical bills. After being treated by a veterinarian for infections and skin problems, the animals reportedly showed improvement within just one week. Marketing Gimmicks With Whiskers These cases aren’t unusual. PETA has investigated other PetSmart stores and suppliers, each time revealing neglect and abuse. At one supplier, rats were thrown into plastic tubs, mice were crammed into filthy bins, and hamsters deemed unsaleable were put in a plastic bag and slammed against a table to kill them. PetSmart, which rakes in $7 billion a year, still supports this cruelty by selling small, inexpensive animals because it uses them as incentives to get customers to spend money on cages, tanks, and other “hard goods.”

PETA: We know that you attended the march against gun violence … Edie: I went with Lisa [Lange] and others from PETA. My favorite slogan was on my shirt. It said, “Vegans Against All Violence.” I love that slogan, because violence begets violence. Violent people are going to be violent against anyone weaker, and animals fall into that category. Sometimes angry people who can’t get back at their abuser will take it out on an animal. You raise a kid with violence in the house, chances are he’s going to be a violent kid – it’s just the way it is. It’s our job to try to take care of those who can’t take care of themselves. PETA: How do you reach people with animal rights issues? Edie: One thing I do is try to lead by example. I’m vegan. Of course, I’ve never worn fur, and my fantastic, very fashionable coat is from a vegan company called Vaute Couture. What’s done to geese to get down is abominable, and this is a down alternative. It’s the warmest coat I’ve ever had in my life. Animals need our buying power and our voices!

One store supervisor summed it up: PetSmart is “a horrible place for animals.” That’s the truth.

Take Action Now PetSmart’s harmful business model is standard practice among big-box pet stores,

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including Petco. Never buy anything, not even cat litter, from any store that sells animals. Instead buy supplies from businesses that don’t sell animals, such as Target or PetFlow.com. Watch and share PETA’s video exposé at PETA.org/PetSmart . Global 9

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PETA’s Corporate Commandos How They’re Taking Down the Mohair Industry

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N o one was talking about mohair. While retailers weighed decisions about the use of fur, leather, exotic skins, angora, and even wool following PETA Asia’s exposés, mohair producers quietly shipped goats’ hair to clothiers and home furnishing companies around the world. Gentle angora goats, whose soft inner coats are used for sweaters, hats, blankets, and more, were forgotten victims— until PETA Asia exposed rampant abuse in the mohair business and changed everything. A PETA Asia eyewitness visited 12 farms in South Africa, where most of the world’s mohair originates, and documented pervasive cruelty to animals on every single one. Farm workers threw goats to the floor, cut off swaths of their skin, and slit their throats while they were still conscious. Workers picked them up by their tails, likely breaking them. One farmer dumped bucks into tanks of cleaning solution and shoved their heads underwater, which he admitted would poison them if they swallowed it. Using tattoo pliers, workers punched holes in the ears of goats, who screamed in agony, which sounds like the screams of human children. Another farmer said that the goats “shout and roll around” when they’re castrated without painkillers because “it’s bloody painful.” But before The Washington Post broke the investigation, before the video hit PETA’s website and was streamed all over the world, and before the farmers even knew that their cruel acts had been caught on camera, the mohair industry had already taken a massive hit. How? PETA’s Corporate Affairs Department had rushed the footage to its allies within major international retailers and encouraged them to ban mohair before the case broke. Soon, the largest clothing companies in the world had agreed, including Inditex, Zara, Forever 21, Topshop, Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Athleta, and H&M. Many people may not realize it, but a significant part of PETA’s success in becoming the largest and most effective animal rights organization in the world has

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been the work that its corporate liaisons carry out behind the scenes.

This team has developed relationships with many of the world’s largest companies. By showing businesses exactly how their supply chains affect animals and persuading them to make compassionate changes, corporate liaisons cut off abusers’ revenue stream and help companies make the transition to vegan goods and services. These collaborations have resulted in big victories, including the banning of glue traps – which cause mice and other small animals a prolonged death by dehydration or suffocation – in 101 US airports, pledges from more than 40 top global advertising agencies not to use great apes in commercials, and the decimation of the angora rabbit fur industry. Frequently, companies seek out PETA’s help in becoming more animal-friendly. TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel site, asked the organization to author a series on humane travel, and PETA was instrumental in the company’s decision to stop offering tickets to numerous animal exhibitions, including elephant rides, tiger photo ops, and swim with-dolphins encounters. If a company is reluctant to improve animal welfare, PETA rallies millions of supporters to contact it, showing that consumers do care about these issues and that they vote with their dollars. As we go to press, 210 companies have banned mohair as a result of PETA Asia’s investigation and PETA’s action alerts to members.

Additionally, PETA often purchases the smallest amount of stock necessary to participate in annual meetings and presents resolutions to advocate for change. After PETA’s efforts at Tesla’s annual meeting, the carmaker announced an end to its use of leather seats in all cars.

Over 200 companies have banned mohair.

Take Action Now Own stock? You can help PETA’s Corporate Affairs Department win more victories for

animals by visiting PETA.org/Stock .

And don’t forget to check labels when you’re out shopping. If an item says “mohair,” don’t buy it. Visit PETA.org/Mohair and ask companies to drop the cruelly produced fiber today.

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Tip: Top this burger with the “World’s Best Roasted Salsa,” which can be found on page 132 of Sophia DeSantis’ cookbook, Vegan Burgers and Burritos available at PETACatalog.com .

PETA Action Saves Performing Bears Goodbye, Chains. Hello, Hammocks! F or Andy, Cindi, Bucky, Brock, and Barney, “The Great Bear Show” was anything but. The five American black bears were carted all across the US and forced to perform stupid tricks and tipping off authorities to violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act and contacting venues that were slated to host the show to alert them to the abuses – the bears’ ordeal was over. The Great Bear Show was shut down, and the bears were transported to the Keepers of the Wild sanctuary in Arizona, where they left their tiny cages behind forever.

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YOU’LL NEED • 1 1 /4 cups cooked brown rice • 3 /4 cup chopped red, yellow, and green peppers • 1 /3 cup chopped red onion • 4 tsp. chili powder • 2 tsp. paprika • 2 tsp. garlic powder • 1 tsp. cumin • 2 tsp. sea salt • 1 /3 cup chopped cooked red potatoes • 1 cup cooked or canned black beans, rinsed and drained • 4 1 /2 Tbsp. cornmeal • 3 Tbsp. salsa • 4 buns

METHOD • Place the rice, peppers, onion, chili powder, paprika, garlic powder, cumin, and salt in a food processor. Pulse until finely chopped. Add the potato and pulse a few more times. Then add the beans, cornmeal, and salsa, and pulse again to incorporate. Refrigerate for 20 minutes.

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• Preheat the oven to 375°F/191°C.

YOU’LL NEED • 1 /2 cup chopped green onion • 1 /2 cup chopped celery • 1 14-oz. can artichoke hearts • 3 /4 cup cooked or canned white beans, drained and rinsed • 1 Tbsp. chopped fresh parsley • 3 /4 tsp. sea salt • 1 /4 tsp. black pepper • 3 /4 cup bread crumbs • 2 Tbsp. Tartar Sauce Extreme, plus more for garnish (recipe opposite) • 1 tsp. hot sauce, optional • 4 buns METHOD • Place the green onions, celery, artichoke hearts, beans, parsley, salt, and pepper in a food processor. Pulse until well combined. Transfer to a bowl. • Using a spatula, fold in the bread crumbs, Tartar Sauce Extreme, and hot sauce, if using. Mix well. Refrigerate for at least 20 minutes.

• Shape the mixture into 4 patties. Bake on a parchment-lined cookie sheet for 20 to 25 minutes on each side. Remove from the oven and let cool for 5 to 7 minutes. Serve on buns with desired toppings.

pose for photos, often being yanked by a chain around the neck. One video that PETA included in a formal complaint to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows Cindi being wrenched up by the neck and the trainer hitting her with a stick in order to force her into position for a photo. Cindi cries out, but no one pays any attention to her. Cindi showed many signs of severe psychological distress. She paced and pawed at her barren, makeshift cage. She was clearly desperate to swim, explore, dig, or do anything else that bears do in nature. condition for most of his life. Prompted by PETA, the USDA repeatedly cited his owner for failing to treat it adequately yet took no other action. Like most young bears, Barney wanted to play. But he was considered a commodity, so his interests didn’t matter. He was almost always isolated from the other bears, and his life consisted of being forced to learn confusing and difficult tricks, such as balancing on a rolling barrel. He was kept locked inside a tiny transport cage for six weeks straight. At last, after years of “PETA persuasion” – including Barney, a Cub Robbed of His Childhood Barney, the youngest bear, suffered from a skin

Recipe images: © Sophia DeSantis • Book cover: Reprinted by permission from Vegan Burgers & Burritos by Sophia DeSantis, Page Street Publishing Co., 2017

YOU’LL NEED • 1 1 /2 cups raw cashews, soaked overnight, then drained • 1 cup water • 2 tsp. distilled white vinegar • 2 tsp. fresh lemon juice

Tartar Sauce Extreme ( Makes 2 cups )

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Bears’ Paradise Thanks to donations from PETA members, the bears’ new home has been furnished with tall wooden structures for them to climb and sit atop, bear-sized hammocks, and even a huge swimming pool. After years of longing to do the things that bears do in the wild, Cindi dove in and went for a swim. Barney now has plenty of room to run and other bears to socialize with. His first act of freedom was to frolic around with joy and play with the other bears. In the last five years, PETA has helped rescue 72 bears from rusty cages, abusive traveling acts, and filthy, cramped concrete pits. Every rescue is just as moving as the first because bears who had been locked up for years – never experiencing any fun or happiness – now get to enjoy their lives.

• 1 clove garlic • 1 tsp. sea salt • 1 /8 tsp. ground mustard • 1 /8 tsp. black pepper • 1 /2 cup chopped dill pickles • 1 /4 cup capers • 2 Tbsp. chopped parsley • Hot sauce, to taste, optional

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SAVED Barney&Bucky

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METHOD • Place the cashews, water, vinegar, lemon juice, garlic, salt, mustard, and black pepper in a blender and purée until smooth.

• Preheat the oven to 375°F/191°C.

• Shape the mixture into 4 patties. Bake on a parchment-lined cookie sheet for 20 to 25 minutes on each side. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 5 to 7 minutes. Serve on buns with additional Tartar Sauce Extreme or other desired toppings.

• Add the remaining ingredients, and pulse until incorporated but still chunky.

To all the PETA supporters who helped liberate these bears, thank you. You did it!

• Refrigerate until thick.

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THE BEAR NECESSITIES

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PETA India Sets Out to Stop Nightmares for White Mares

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W ho would ever suspect that horses used in Hindu and Sikh marriage ceremonies are in pain? You might well wonder why they don’t buck during the baraat – a procession in which the groom rides a white mare – as they must be driven insane by the blasting trumpets, pounding drums, and exploding firecrackers. There’s a sinister reason. During her recent visit to India, PETA President Ingrid Newkirk helped an animal charity supported by PETA India spot blood trickling from the corners of the mouth of a mare rented for weddings. Veterinarians approached and found the cause: a barbaric spiked bit in her mouth, which was keeping her still by the threat of pain. The team confiscated the bit, loosened a decorative wrap that was causing her leg to swell, and had a word with the groom. Although banned, such torture devices are still widely used, including while cruelly training mares to “dance” to a drumbeat. This summer, PETA India, with the help of the Delhi Police, conducted an enforcement drive during which they confiscated more than 50 spiked bits. The team also seized four malnourished, injured horses, who were sent to a sanctuary. PETA India is urging authorities to protect horses by banning the manufacture, import, and sale of the bits – and by charging anyone caught using them. AWedding March of Misery During India’s wedding season, rented horses work nearly nonstop, from early morning until late at night, going from one ceremony to the next without a break. At other times, they’re kept tied up tightly in filthy, fly infested stalls, standing in their own waste and often tethered by a back leg as well. They have no opportunity to exercise, and many suffer from painful foot problems – including canker (unwanted tissue growth), thrush (an infection), and painful inflammation of the hoof – as a result of being forced to stand on hard concrete. When wedding season resumes, the sudden increase in activity causes many to succumb to exercise-induced rhabdomyolysis, which can cause a breakdown of

muscles, lameness, and even death. Some horses are kept so dehydrated and exhausted that they collapse.

Kind Couples Say I Don’t to Cruelty The custom of having the groom ride a white horse may have originated hundreds of years ago, when women were often abducted from their weddings by armed bandits who stormed the event on horseback. As India’s Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi observed, “This is not a prince that is coming to claim his princess – this is a young man overdressed in silks and jewels with a lampshade on his head and garland of money around his neck, pretending he is a kidnapper about to do the unspeakable act of taking a young girl against her will and holding her to ransom.” Couples who are part of the trend of rejecting this inhumane tradition and the suffering that it causes include Bollywood actor Anushka Sharma and cricket team captain Virat Kohli, actor Shahid Kapoor and wife Mira Rajput, Grand Slam–winning tennis player Sania Mirza and cricket player Shoaib Malik, style icons Sonam Kapoor and Anand Ahuja, and many others. PETA India is determined to continue cracking down on spiked bits until all horses can live happily ever after.

The team confiscates a cruel spiked bit.

These torture devices are widely used.

I SAVED! Raja’s Dancing Days Are Over Raja was being taken to “dance” at a wedding when he fell from a transport truck, badly injuring his back. A PETA-sponsored charity ensured his rescue and rehabilitation. Now, he spends his days peacefully grazing in the company of his horse friends.

Take Action Now If you know anyone planning a baraat, urge them to watch PETA India’s video at PETAIndia.com/Nightmare and choose horsepower over horses with a fancy convertible or other vehicle.

Raja enjoys a snack at the sanctuary.

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E very year, millions of frogs, piglets, sheep, fish, cats, and other animals are cut up and disemboweled in crude classroom exercises. But how did they go from alive and kicking to being specimens on the dissection tray? A PETA eyewitness investigation of Bio Corporation – a Minnesota company that sells animals to schools across the US – revealed that animals are killed specifically for dissection and often in prolonged and excruciatingly painful ways. PETA is out to end this archaic, cruel practice by pushing schools to use only modern, non animal teaching methods.

Live Birds Lowered Into Vats of Water Workers at Bio Corporation submerged crates full of live pigeons in tubs of water to drown them, a killing method that the American Veterinary Medical Association calls “inhumane” and “unacceptable.” A veterinarian who watched PETA’s video footage wrote that their deaths could have taken up to 10 agonizing minutes while panicked birds hyperventilated, struggled to keep their heads above water, and endured painful airway spasms before finally losing consciousness and going into cardiac arrest.

Crayfish Injected With Latex Live crayfish were injected with liquid latex while they were fully conscious – which, according to veterinarian Dr. Ingrid Taylor, would likely have caused them prolonged pain and suffering as their tissues were deprived of oxygen and they slowly suffocated. Turtles Frozen and Refrozen Turtles were shipped frozen to Bio Corporation, but staffers reported that they would sometimes “come back to life” and were then frozen a second time while fully conscious. According to Clifford Warwick, one of the world’s leading authorities on herpetology, “[F]reezing as a method of killing reptiles (including turtles) without prior complete desensitization and unconsciousness (e.g. anaesthesia) has been specifically declared inhumane and unacceptable.”

Who Are Pigeons?

Cat: © iStock.com/Peeter Viisimaa

Frog: © iStock.com/Antagain • Pigeon: © iStock.com/suriya silsaksom

Pigeons aren’t just “biological specimens.” Keenly intelligent, they can identify humans by appearance and behavior. They can also quickly learn to recognize each of the 26 letters of the English alphabet and are able to distinguish among dozens of words. In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , researchers found that pigeons can even determine whether a word is real or made-up. These physics phenoms navigate by sensing the Earth’s magnetic field as well as low-frequency radio waves, giving them their own internal GPS system. They’ve also been shown to understand the concept of probability, the first nonprimate to do so. Pigeons are also models of fidelity. They mate for life, and both parents take turns devotedly caring for their young. On top of all that, they’re war heroes. Tens of thousands of pigeons were maimed or killed during World War I as they crossed battle lines delivering vital messages. They were the first recipients of the UK’s Dickin Medal for animals, because they contributed to the rescue of thousands of soldiers. . I

Based on PETA’s evidence and an investigation by local police, 25 counts of cruelty to animals were filed against Bio Corporation. But the charges were dropped after Dr. Carol Cardona, a veterinarian at the University of Minnesota, made statements defending the cruel practice of drowning birds. PETA has filed a complaint asking the University of Minnesota to investigate Cardona for her false and profoundly irresponsible statements and has also filed complaints against her with the Minnesota Board of Veterinary Medicine and the American College of Poultry Veterinarians. Pigeons were drowned, an “unacceptable” killing method, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.

Studies show that advanced, non-animal methods – such as interactive software programs and anatomical models – teach students biomedical concepts as well as or better than cutting up dead animals. They allow students to practice material to the point of proficiency, and they’re more cost-effective. They’ve been used by top medical schools, including Yale and Harvard, for years. TeachKind, PETA’s humane education division, is attending and speaking at school board meetings in Bio Corporation’s customers’ districts, urging the boards to replace all animal dissection with these advanced methods. George Fox University and the Council Rock School District in Pennsylvania have already cut ties with Bio Corporation. And PETA UK has created a teachers’ guide detailing the numerous benefits of switching to superior, animal-free tools and listing many free resources available to educators.

WHAT PETA FOUND INSIDE A DISSECTION SUPPLY COMPANY Pigeons Drowned, Live Crayfish Injected With Latex, Turtles Frozen to Death

Take Action Now Parents , speak out against using animals as teaching “tools,” and urge your local school

board to ban dissection. Teachers , pledge not to use animals in your classroom, and urge your school to switch to modern teaching methods. Students , visit peta2.com/DissectionKills to learn how to say no to dissection.

Bytes Not Blades The deaths that animals are subjected to at Bio Corporation are not only torturous but also pointless.

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PETAWarns: Beware of These Tourist Traps E Q U I N E E Q U A L I T Y E Q U I N E E Q U A L I T Y

From tigers in Thailand to horse carriages in Cartagena, animals at tourist destinations all over the world are treated like living props, denied a real life, and forced into servitude: Baby monkeys and parrots are taken from their mothers to be used as photo props, dolphins are stuck in tiny pools and forced to swimwith tourists, and elephants live in chains when not giving rides. Such cruel enterprises stay in business only because tourists pour money into them. PETA Asia Exposes Petra’s Camel and Donkey Beatings PETA Asia’s exposé of Jordan’s ancient city of Petra reveals the poor treatment of the 1,300 horses, donkeys, and camels who carry tourists around the Lost City. They are hit with pipes, ropes, chains, and whips, and they work all day, without water or shade. Animals are forced to haul tourists on 6-mile (10-km) treks in the sweltering heat. Donkeys are whipped as they haul tourists up and down the treacherously steep 900 steps to the monastery. If the animals resist or falter, they’re beaten. PETA Asia photographed camels with open, fly-infested wounds and donkeys with blood-stained neck chains – all forced to work. The Jordan Ministry of Tourism pledged to help end the cruelty, but the abuse continues. PETA Asia has filed complaints with UNESCO and government officials, calling for the animals to be replaced with mechanized transport. TB-Infected Elephants at India’s Amber Fort Nearly all the 102 elephants forced to give rides at India’s Amber Fort are ailing. Many are blind or otherwise visually impaired, and some are suffering from highly contagious tuberculosis. PETA India found elephants carrying loads heavier than 200 kg (440 pounds), the legal limit, and is taking this issue to the Supreme Court, asking that elephant rides be replaced with golf carts.

commonly withheld from captive parrots to make them obedient, and their wings are clipped, a mutilation that Dr. Lindner describes as “like cutting a leg off [a] dog to make sure s/he would never escape.”

PETA and SAVE Havasupai Horses moved in when a tourist captured shocking photos of a horse being kicked in the face after collapsing under a heavy pack in the Grand Canyon. Thanks to a quarter-million e-mails from PETA supporters, the ill, emaciated animal, named Teardrop, was confiscated and received much needed veterinary care. The man who kicked him was identified, and the Havasupai tribe has promised to prosecute him. Your E-mails Saved Him Grand Canyon Horse Kicked in the Face

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Take Action Now Never patronize any animal attraction. Beware of facilities that tack the word

“sanctuary” or “rescue” onto their names – most are scams (you can check PETA.org/VacationTips for legitimate ones). When you see an animal used or abused, don’t assume that someone else will intervene – be that someone! Complain to the travel agency or, in cruelty cases, to a local SPCA or the police – and stick around to make sure that someone follows through. You may be that animal’s only hope. At a resort, on a cruise, or in a tour group? Inform your travel companions about the problems with animal displays. Complain to management about elephant-ride or “swim with dolphins” excursions. Unless kind tourists say something, nothing will change!

Horses, donkeys, and mules forced to transport tourist gear in the Havasupai region of the Grand Canyon carry huge packs and are commonly denied water, food, and rest. It’s not rare for an entire string of animals to fall off the steep trails, where reportedly, they are left to die. Go to PETA.org/SaveHorses to urge Wildland Trekking to stop booking tours that use horses, and never patronize such rides anywhere in the world. Pass it on.

No water, no shade

Bleeding wounds

Cruelty Knows No Borders: Avoid Tourist “Notspots”

Lonely and chained

Beaten and exhausted

PETA’s president offers parrots water before they’re rescued from a gas station in Mexico.

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MONKEY PERFORMERS

“SWIM WITH DOLPHINS”

ELEPHANT RIDES

CAMEL RIDES

EQUINE TREKKING

TIGER PHOTOS

CAMEL AND DONKEY RIDES

PARROT PHOTOS

HORSE CARRIAGES

CROCODILE FARMS

All stickers available at PETA.org/Stickers .

Grounded Parrots Used as Props In tropical destinations, street merchants want money to put colorful parrots on tourists’ shoulders for photos. These flock birds, denied the freedom to fly, suffer greatly. Ornithologist Dr. Lorin Lindner says that food is

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