PETA Global 2020 Issue 1

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Horseracing Is Trouble

After taking a licking from PETA – including a shareholder resolution, months of protests, half a million e-mails, and returns of unwanted “Crapsticks” by PETA supporters – Pfizer, Chapstick’s parent company, banned cruel depression experiments in which mice, hamsters, rats, and guinea pigs are literally forced to sink or swim. Pfizer Bans ‘Forced SwimTests’

– Just Ask Taylor Swift After PETA Australia alerted Taylor Swift to the cruelty of horseracing and its link to horse slaughter, she canceled a performance

Badger: © iStock.com/DamianKuzdak

at Australia’s notoriously dangerous Melbourne Cup, where six horses have died in just five years. The industry took another PR hit when a public outcry over PETA’s documentation of former racehorses being beaten in the face at a South Korean slaughterhouse prompted police to file the first-ever cruelty charges against horse slaughterhouse workers.

Taylor Swift: © Starmaxinc.com • Clown fish: © iStock.com/marrio31 • Ostrich: © iStock.com/dangdumrong

PETA does not support or oppose any candidate or party for elective office.

PETA’s ecow-friendly “heifer” hoofed it all over the US, spreading the vegan message at climate change conferences, presidential debates, and the Democratic convention in New Hampshire. She rubbed shoulders with Cory Booker, Joe Biden, Marianne Williamson, and other presidential candidates; posed for photos; and got lots of hugs and high-fives from vegans and future vegans. PETA ‘Cow’ Hits the Campaign Trail

Animal acts are in hot water on both sides of the pond. In California, the most populous state in the US, legislators have passed a law cosponsored by PETA that bans the use of most animals in traveling acts. Illinois, New York, and New Jersey have already passed similar bans. And now, after years of PETA UK agitation, England has joined Scotland and Ireland in outlawing wild animal acts. “Travelling circuses are no place for wild animals in the 21 st century,” said Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who introduced the bill. “I am pleased that this legislation will put an end to this practice for good.” Circus Cages Barred FromL.A. to London

Victory! Walmart

Your e-mails won the day! Walmart no longer sells live fish, following complaints by PETA and tens of thousands of its supporters about animals kept in filthy water, cruelly tossed out with the Stops Selling Live Fish USA

Take Action Now Go to PETA.org/ForcedSwim to tell Bristol-Myers Squibb

and Eli Lilly that it’s time to pull the plug on these useless tests.

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trash, or flushed down the toilet. Will Petco be the next to do the right thing? Despite a PETA exposé revealing that listless, sick, and dead betta fish (commonly shipped from as far away as Thailand) were floating in tiny plastic containers at stores across the US, the company has yet to act.

Take Action Now Shrink your carbon hoofprint: Visit PETA.org/VSK to order a free vegan starter kit.

Like a splash of ice-cold Gatorade in the face, fans got a feel for chained dogs’ misery when NFL star Tyrann “Honey Badger” Mathieu Honey Badger Does Care About Chained Dogs

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Take Action Now Please visit PETA.org/PetcoBettas to tell Petco that you say NO to selling fish.

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PETA GERMANY HELPS SAVE ROMANIA’S STREET DOGS

PETA Wins! Retailers Give Ostriches a Reprieve

LOVE ALL! EVERYONE WINS WITH WIMBLEDON’S VEGAN CREAM After hearing from PETA, high-end cosmetics companies NARS and Morphe – known for their professional yet affordable makeup brushes – have stopped using badger hair. PETA Asia’s investigation revealed that badgers are confined to small wire cages, where they slowly go insane, before being beaten to death in order to make brushes for shaving, applying makeup, and painting. Victory! Morphe, NARS Ban Badger Hair

Australian fashion brand Bardot, whose ostrich feather dress got a resounding thumbs down from Facebook commenters, agreed to put an immediate end to the use of ostrich feathers after viewing PETA’s video exposé documenting cruelty at the world’s largest ostrich slaughterhouse and learning from PETA Australia about “live plucking,” in which ostriches are held down and their feathers are ripped out by hand or with pliers. After hearing from PETA, Italian luxury brand Jil Sander confirmed that it had banned exotic skins, including ostrich.

Get Tyrann’s cozy sweatshirt at PETA.org/Store .

Sheby is feeling much better now – thank you! The stray puppy (pictured), who was suffering from a broken leg, is one of thousands of Romanian dogs and cats sterilized, provided with emergency veterinary care, and/or placed in a loving home by PETA Germany and local partner Eduxanima in an effort to prevent animal suffering on the streets and in severely crowded, derelict “shelters.” The PETA affiliate was inspired to help because Romania has over 600,000 stray dogs and cats, perhaps more than any other European country.

locked himself inside a walk in freezer for a PETA video urging people to bring dogs indoors. Enduring the frigid temperatures for just 20 minutes, he said, “I can get out of this freezer,” but dogs who are chained outside are “not able to get warm.”

Take Action Now Please never buy animal-hair brushes: Choose cruelty-free synthetics instead.

Take Action Now Watch and share Mathieu’s video at PETA.org/HoneyBadger and sponsor a doghouse for a backyard dog at PETA.org/Doghouse .

Take Action Now Learn more and support this vital work at PETA.org/Romania .

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