PETA Global 2019 Issue 3

USA Rat Torturer Gets Wake-Up

UK

British Footballer Gets a Kick out of Eating Vegan Since going vegan about a year ago, Manchester United center back Chris Smalling has become a defender off the field, too. The star of a dynamic new PETA UK ad, he realized how cruel animal agriculture “is to animals, how unnecessary it is to us, and how damaging it is to the environment,” facts he says are impossible to ignore “once your eyes are open to what is going on.” Curious to know how PETA UK captured that impressive action shot? Visit PETA.org.uk/Smalling for a peek behind the scenes.

A MESSAGE FROM Ingrid Newkirk PETA’s President W hen I ran the District of Columbia animal shelter, my dog, Ms. Bea, came to work with me every day. She was a shepherd mix who acted a little like the imposing grand dame in the old Marx Brothers movies. She “worked” long hours and loved every second of it. She ate what we ate – Indian takeout was her favorite – and she rode in the van to the most troubled neighborhoods (once sleeping right through an attempted mugging).

Call From Edie Falco

PETA called, and Edie Falco answered: The award-winning actor recorded a phone message on the organization’s behalf that went to thousands of University of Delaware (UD) staffers. She urged them to help end vivisector Tania Roth’s cruel “child abuse” experiments, in which rats are forced to swim for their lives in beakers of water, electro-shocked, stuffed into tubes, and blasted with strobe lights.

Fox: © Erica Ruch Photography • Goose: © iStock.com/578foot • Edie Falco:© Starmaxinc.com

Take Action Now Tell UD to end Tania Roth’s cruel rat experiments – visit PETA.org/UD .

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BUSTED! LSU LAB CAUGHT USING SHELTER PUPS

Chris Smalling: © Tony Craig • Pig: © iStock.com/FooTToo • Chicken: © iStock.com/DebbiSmirnoff • Cow: © iStock.com/legna69 • Stadium: © iStock.com/efks • Dog: © iStock.com/DanBrandenburg • Joe Exotic: © Santa Rosa County Jail • Whale: © iStock.com/Atlantagreg • Cat: © iStock.com/Lightspruch

Wildlife Pimp Joe Exotic Jailed! Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka “Joe Exotic” – a sleazy character who ran a tiger-breeding mill and roadside zoo that PETA has been tenaciously pursuing for years – is now in jail and will likely be staying there for a long time. He was found guilty of two counts of murder-for-hire (for attempting to have an animal protectionist killed) and 17 US federal wildlife charges, including killing five endangered tigers for convenience’ sake. Before his conviction, PETA succeeded in getting 39 tigers, three bears, two baboons, and two chimpanzees out of his hands and into reputable sanctuaries like The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado, where they are now thriving.

Ms. Bea was 17 years old when she died. She had lived a full life and brought much joy to the world. She is my litmus test when it comes to conduct toward animals. She had individuality, life, and love inside her. No one could ever persuade me that it would have been OK to burn her, shock her, or sink electrodes into her head. If “might does not make right,” as we teach our children, then we cannot possibly justify exploiting other living beings in pursuit of our own gain. We cannot suddenly suspend our belief in such a fundamental tenet simply because we find it difficult to relate to the victims or because we feel superior to them.

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When the executive director of a Louisiana animal shelter found out that live dogs from her facility were being sent to Louisiana State University (LSU) for use in deadly veterinary school anatomy exercises, she refused to allow the practice to continue and was subsequently terminated. So she contacted the group that she was sure would do something about it: PETA. Knowing that such a shady arrangement violates the federal Animal Welfare Act, PETA submitted a complaint to the US Department of Agriculture, which launched an investigation. The shelter immediately suspended the practice. LSU is also in hot water and under pressure for hiring notorious bird experimenter Christine Lattin. Take Action Now Visit PETA.org/LSU to urge the university to stop using dogs in deadly training exercises and to end Lattin’s

“Fan art” of Ms. Bea

More formerly exhausted and dispirited bullocks are now living the good life, thanks to PETA India’s Delhi Mechanisation Project – which gets overworked bullocks, donkeys, ponies, and horses off hideously congested streets by replacing them with battery operated e-rickshaws. Families credit the vehicles with improving their livelihoods. SAVED! BULLOCKS OUT, E-RICKSHAWS IN

Because might does not make right, we have condemned experimenters for using poor Irish women to practice gynecological surgeries, for giving LSD to enlisted men without their knowledge, for secretly exposing Asian women to chemical warfare agents, and for feeding disabled schoolboys cereal laced with radioactive isotopes. But if might truly doesn’t make right, that principle must also include our fellow animals. The only obstacle standing between an end to cruel animal experiments and the beginning of humane research is the continued acceptance of the unacceptable. PETA’s job is to say, “You have no right to experiment on anyone without consent. An animal is someone, not something.” Please join PETA in helping to ensure that every animal is treated with respect, just like Ms. Bea.

Victory! Russia Agrees to Free Captive Orcas andWhales An outcry from animal rights supporters around the world – including PETA honorary director Pamela Anderson, Jean Michel Cousteau, and Dr. Jane Goodall – paid off: Russia signed an agreement with international scientists to release back into the sea the 10 orcas and more than 80 beluga whales it captured last year. It had been holding them in severely crowded enclosures, seemingly in preparation to send them to marine parks in China. Please urge SeaWorld to follow suit – visit PETA.org/SeaWorld . GLOBAL

From the slopes to the streets, fashion just got more animal-friendly: At PETA France’s urging, winter sports ‘Non’ to Fur and Feathers clothing giant Rossignol will stop selling fur, and French fashion house Zadig & Voltaire went fur-free. In addition, after some “PETA persuasion,” Spanish retailer Ecoalf is dropping down feathers from all its designs by 2020 and has also debuted a line of “PETA-Approved Vegan” environmentally friendly jackets! French Retail Giants Say

cruel bird experiments.

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After talks with PETA Netherlands, Amsterdam Fashion Week has agreed to go 100% fur-free. The anti-fur movement is strong in the Netherlands, once the world’s fourth largest fur producer. The country passed a ban on mink farming that takes effect in 2024, and Amsterdam refuses to subsidize the fur industry. Helsinki, Melbourne, Oslo, and Perth fashion weeks have also banned fur, and the last one in London was fur-free as well. VICTORY! AMSTERDAM FASHIONWEEK GOES FUR-FREE

Victory! Cats Saved From Cruel Medical Training For approximately 20 years, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center used hundreds of live cats in cruel pediatric intubation training, during which bronchoscope cables were forced down their throats and into their lungs – putting them in danger of respiratory distress, collapsed lungs, and cardiac arrest. A cat named Biscuit died after suffering from a reaction to the anesthetics. Less than three weeks after PETA contacted the hospital, it stopped using animals for this procedure, joining the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association, and other organizations that use superior human simulators in medical training of this kind.

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