PETA Global 2023 Issue 2

Global ADVANCING THE ANIMAL RIGHTS REVOLUTION ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2023

18 PAGE Don’t Get Tourist-Trapped

25 ways to get active today Biologists know there’s lots to love about reptil s 14 PAGE Dairy-Free Del ciousness Lots of yum from ‘America’s mom’

Amanda Seales Flat-faced dogs can’t breathe! 23 PAGE

Humane holiday tips

Primate Importers Busted! PETABlows Up the Forest-to-LabMonkey Pipeline

I magine this: You’re driving behind a generic looking tractor-trailer, when suddenly it crashes, spilling crates marked “LIVE ANIMALS” all over the road. Heart pounding, you pull over and race to help. When you look inside the first crate, you can hardly believe it: Staring right back at you is a pair of terrified monkey eyes. The animal screams, sending saliva flying into your eye. There are dozens of monkeys in crates, perhaps a hundred, scattered about. Later, you learn that they may carry diseases that are transmissible – and even fatal – to humans. And you’ve been exposed. This is exactly what happened in 2022 in Pennsylvania. The media frenzy that followed offered a glimpse into the hideously cruel, deeply clandestine industry that kidnaps monkeys from their forest homes or breeds them in squalid “monkey factories” and ships them to laboratories to be used in experiments.

PETA’s senior primate advisor, Dr. Lisa Jones Engel, appeared on NBC News and in The Guardian to share damning information that PETA uncovered about the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's complicity in importing monkeys known to carry pathogens, including one classified as a bioterrorism agent. Years of relentless pressure from PETA international entities have pushed every commercial airline to stop sending monkeys on one-way flights to their deaths in laboratories. And then came the crushing blow: Following massive pressure from PETA, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has stopped all monkey imports to US laboratories! When it comes to feelings and fears, love and loneliness, monkeys are no different from humans. It is only prejudice – the same ugly biases once used to enslave

Food: © Matt Armendariz • Donkey: © DragoNika/Shutterstock.com • Amanda Seales: © Photo – Ricardo Nelson • Long-tailed macaque mother and baby: © iStock.com/fontoknak

The primate pipeline is long and twisted, but PETA is dismantling it piece by piece.

After obtaining evidence that hundreds of monkeys are illegally crisscrossing the US on highways without proper veterinary exams, PETA complained to the US Department of Agriculture, resulting in citations against experimentation-industry giants Charles River Laboratories, Labcorp Drug Development, and others.

Black humans, deny women the vote, and lock up people with disabilities – that allows this appalling pipeline

and other animal injustices to continue. PETA is dismantling those, too.

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Read on to find out how PETA is throwing a monkey wrench into the primate pipeline and to learn about the prejudice that keeps it flowing.

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Sheep will be spared the agony of cruel decompression tests funded by the US Navy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the wake of a PETA appeal to Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro. Similar tests subjected sheep to severe pain, cardiovascular collapse, spinal cord injuries, and paralysis. May they remain deep-sixed forever! PETA Sinks Diving Tests on Sheep

A MESSAGE FROM Ingrid Newkirk PETA’s President

Tourists flocked to New Orleans just as PETA launched its new TV spot narrated by David Miller, South Africa’s first male supermodel, asking Mardi Gras revelers to shun boas made from stolen ostrich feathers and instead choose festive, feather-free options. The video exposes cruelty that PETA investigators documented in South Africa, the ostrich-killing capital of the world, including that workers often violently tear out young ostriches’ feathers while they’re still alive. After a push from PETA, Macy’s gave ostriches reason to celebrate by banning all ostrich skin. It banned reptile skin, too! Macy’s Agrees: Ostriches Own Their Own Bodies!

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Shrine Ends Elephant Acts

W hen I was about 9 and stuck in a convent boarding school in India, the fear of war with neighboring China was on everyone’s mind. Chinese troops had fought their way into border territory, and an invasion seemed likely. We girls were instructed to knit socks for the Indian troops holed up in the snowy mountains.

Two weeks after Moolah Shriners were caught on video assaulting nonviolent protesters – and after receiving messages from over 60,000 PETA supporters and living through months of protests, including a holiday coal dump and a parade of inflatable crying elephants – the Moolah Shrine agreed to stop forcing elephants to perform in its circus! Shrine circuses are among the last holdouts keeping animals shackled and deprived of any joy or freedom and forcing them to perform in shows. In other good news, after hearing from PETA, DSM and PPG Industries cut ties with the Hadi Shrine Circus, and the Dukal Corporation – which was producing bandages featuring images of animals in circuses – agreed to discontinue the harmful imagery.

Take Action Now Visit PETA.org/Navy to urge the Navy and the

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Luckily, things quieted down and war did not break out. Ukraine has not been as lucky. Regardless of which side you take, there are those who are 100% blameless: the cats, like John, who jumped out of a fourth-floor apartment after it was bombed, shattering the roof of his mouth; dogs like Dmytro, who still trembles

Cat: © Animal Rescue Kharkiv • Sheep: © iStock.com/robas

US Department of Defense to ban all decompression tests on animals.

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Take Action Now Go to PETA.org/Prada to demand that Prada and Hermès ditch ostrich and other exotic skin.

Dinosaurs Take Over a London Bridge

Take Action Now Visit PETA.org/Shriners to urge all Shrines to stop using animals.

Hard work by PETA and a plethora of partners paid off when President Biden signed the FDA Modernization Act 2.0. The US Food and Drug US Pharmaceutical Testing Law Modernized VICTORY!

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After hearing frommore than 40,000 of PETA’s dog defenders, healthcare companies Capstone Clinic, Cue Health, and Greenbrook TMS Centers of Alaska ended their Iditarod sponsorships. Dogs in the Iditarod are forced to run about four marathons a day for up to two weeks through snow, ice, and wind – and more than 150 have died. Dogs Get Their Day! More Companies Drop Iditarod Death Race

although he is now in safe hands in a German refuge; and horses like Kabia and Argentina, whose food ran out and who had nothing at all to eat until people from our team and local animal rights activists risked their own safety to deliver hay. And what about the feral cats whose feeders suddenly vanished, carrying only a backpack of their belongings, or who were killed, and what of the wildlife who are petrified hearing the deafening explosions and whose habitat is burning? Knitted socks won’t help any of them, but thanks galore to everyone who has chipped in via PETA’s Global Compassion Fund to feed, shelter, and save as many animals as possible. As I write, we are up to 1,200 tons of food delivered to animals in Ukraine and more than 2,000 animal refugees who have found new homes. Please keep us strong at PETA.org/GCF.

Administration (FDA) is now able to consider superior, non -animal tests, dispensing with the animal testing requirement for pharmaceuticals. Hats off to Sens. Cory Booker and Rand Paul and to Rep. Vern Buchanan for introducing the bill. Take Action Now Wherever you live, urge your legislators to support PETA’s Research Modernization Deal, a detailed plan to

Pedestrians stopped to take photos, and boating parties blasted their horns and waved in support. The dinosaurs’ message: Eating meat, eggs, and dairy is a relic of a prehistoric era! A 21st century vegan way of eating saves animals’ lives, slashes greenhouse gas emissions, and boosts human health.

Take Action Now Visit PETA.org/VSK to order a free vegan starter kit loaded with helpful tips and tasty recipes.

Take Action Now Visit PETA.org/Iditarod to tell Liberty Media that dogs deserve better than being run to death for mushers’ prize money.

replace cruel, archaic animal tests with state-of-the-art non-animal ones. Visit their offices, write letters, and attend town halls. Need help? E-mail Info@peta.org .

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After the Los Angeles County Metro ran popcorn chicken ads from fast-food chain Jack in the Box but PETA Roars and Scores for Free Speech

WIN!

PETAAustralia Gets Kitten

FarmPlans Scratched

A proposal to open a kitten-breeding facility in Queensland, in which up to 50 cats would have been used as baby-making machines, was abandoned after PETA Australia delivered 6,000 petition signatures opposing the plan.

Take Action Now Adopt – never shop! Visit PETA.org/Adopt to learn more.

refused to run PETA’s pro-vegan ad on its buses, PETA filed a First Amendment lawsuit – and won. In a ruling that paves the way for PETA to resubmit our ads, the court called portions of Metro’s policy keeping out PETA’s ads “unreasonable” and “viewpoint-discriminatory.” Exactly!

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Small Animals, BigWins: PETA India Gets Glue Traps Banned!

Take Action Now Visit PETA.org/Billboard to learn how to place an animal rights billboard near you.

Chicken ad: © Photo – iStock.com/SolStock • Capuchin: © iStock.com/Charles Wollertz • Chris Brown: © DFree/Shutterstock.com

Alissa White-Gluz, lead vocalist of Arch Enemy, has a killer growl, but now she’s focused on a real killer: fishing. “Every time you think you want to eat fish, you can choose to eat something else,” she says. The fishing industry kills trillions of fish and countless turtles, dolphins, birds, seals, and other “unintended” victims annually. DEATH METAL ‘MERMAID’ GETS LOUD FOR FISH

Hop to It, Ajinomoto: Ban Cruel Animal Tests

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Mice, rats, squirrels, chipmunks, birds, reptiles, and frogs all get stuck on glue traps and then struggle frantically, tearing off their own skin, suffocating as their faces get mired in the glue, and dying of thirst or exposure when they’re tossed into the garbage. At PETA India’s insistence, eight states have prohibited these torture devices. Now for enforcement. Take Action Now Tell everyone why not to use glue traps. Complain to managers and online if you find a hardware shop carrying them. Visit PETA.org/Store

Hundreds of illegal spiked bits have been confiscated as a result of PETA India’s crackdown on the cruel, painful devices, which are used to control horses in weddings and other ceremonies. More than 500 of these torture devices were recently displayed by police in Armritsar as part of a joint effort to encourage brides and grooms not to use a horse at their nuptials. USA PETA INDIA, POLICE SEIZE SPIKED BITS I

It’s the Year of the Rabbit, and PETA Asia’s “rabbits” are hopping mad that MSG maker Ajinomoto is

Take Action Now Let fish live: Try Good Catch fish-free tuna or Gardein f'sh instead. See PETA.org/Fishing .

still torturing animals in tests, as it has done to rabbits, rats, dogs, and other animals for decades. Global food giants have ended animal tests in

Cat: © iStock.com/Olha Ivanchenko • Mouse: © Rudmer Zwerver/Shutterstock.com • Alissa White-Gluz ad: © Photo – Shayan Asgharnia | Art director – Greg Garry | Special effects makeup – Brittany Fontaine | Prop stylist – Charlotte Malmlöf

favor of superior, human-relevant methods, and PETA Asia is urging Ajinomoto to join them, with demos outside the company’s Malaysia branch as well as at its Tokyo headquarters and locations across the US and the UK.

to purchase a humane Smart Mousetrap.

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Take Action Now Make 2023 the Year of the Rabbit Rescue: Visit PETA.org/YOTR to take quick action and PETA.org/Ajinomoto to urge the

Wearing hyper-realistic “human leather,” PETA models held a fashion show outside Urban Outfitters in New York City. Outside the same store in London, a PETA supporter who was dressed as a bloodied lamb PETA: Let Animals Keep Their Skin and Hair!

company to end its tests on all animals.

Jimmy Wayne Hammonds, the Florida exotic-animal dealer who infamously sold a capuchin monkey to singer Chris Brown, can’t legally peddle primates for at least a year after PETA raised a red flag. PETA’s complaint about Brown’s unlawful possession of the capuchin prompted the feds to investigate Hammonds. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) terminated the license of the self-described “Monkey Whisperer” after he pleaded guilty to the illegal sale and transport of endangered monkeys. PETA Complaint Leads to Loss of License for Monkey Dealer

bellowed as she was “shorn.” It’s wrong to steal someone else’s skin or hair – which Urban Outfitters brands (including Anthropologie and Free People) do by selling leather, wool, cashmere, mohair, down, silk, and alpaca wool. After a PETA push, upscale retailer Vince dropped mohair, and Talbots and Deckers (which owns UGG) banned alpaca!

Chris Brown

Take Action Now If you see anyone exploiting animals on social media, forward the evidence to the authorities and to PETA.org/ReportCruelty .

Take Action Now Go to PETA.org/UrbanOutfitters to join the call for compassion in fashion.

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Now, a monumental victory! After PETA and thousands of our supporters urged the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to stop monkeys from being violently abducted from their forest homes and shipped to laboratories, the agency has done exactly that. The FWS now requires a DNA test to prove that any monkeys bound for US laboratories were not taken from nature. Since this test doesn’t exist and developing it will take years, the FWS has stopped all monkey imports to US laboratories . PETA is now pushing for laboratories that have already received illegally imported monkeys to transfer them to sanctuaries and pay for their lifetime care. Endangering Monkeys and Public Health The race to obtain government funding by experimenting on monkeys has pushed long-tailed macaques to the brink of extinction: They are now officially listed as endangered. The demand for monkeys is also fueling smuggling: Some top Cambodian government officials were recently indicted for conspiracy to supply US laboratories with macaques falsely identified as having been born in captivity, when, in reality, they had been abducted from their forest homes. Wild monkeys are known to carry pathogens transmissible to humans, including herpes B, dengue, simian hemorrhagic fever, and deadly Ebola-like viruses; salmonella, campylobacter, and

The final stop was a laboratory, where they may be cut open, electroshocked, irradiated, infected with diseases ...

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shigella bacteria; the bacteria that cause tuberculosis and leprosy; antimicrobial-resistant bacteria; and malaria-transmitting parasites.

How PETA Cut Off International Monkey Shipments

After the Pennsylvania truck crash (see cover story), the good Samaritan who stopped to help had to undergo rabies and antiviral treatments when a scared monkey spat into her eye. But monkeys who escaped

When Quebedeaux’s refused to undergo a safety audit, the Department of Transportation canceled its license. Within a year of PETA’s complaints, Quebedeaux’s was out of business. And after PETA’s vigorous challenge, Chinese company JOINN Biologics dropped plans to build a massive monkey quarantine facility in Florida. PETA asked thousands of Florida residents to call on Gov. Ron DeSantis, who spoke out against the facility, to stop it from being built. Modernizing to Save Monkeys Using monkeys as test subjects puts public health at extreme risk and doesn’t lead to the elusive breakthroughs that the industry promises: The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) admits that 95% of all new drugs that test safe and effective in animals end up being either unsafe or ineffective in humans . PETA is urging the experimentation industry to put the US on the vanguard of human-relevant research by using PETA scientists’ Research Modernization Deal, which shows state-of-the-art, non-animal replacements for animal use. Take Action Now US readers, please visit PETA.org/RMD to urge your members of Congress to mandate that NIH stop throwing away taxpayer money on cruel, useless animal experiments and instead focus on modern, non-animal research methods.

during the crash fared far worse: Authorities, recognizing the disease risk, shot them dead. PETA has obtained damning information revealing that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) knows – but isn’t telling the public – that many pathogens, including bacteria classified as a bioterrorism agent because they cause a respiratory disease that kills up to 50% of those infected, have entered the US in imported monkey shipments. Closing Primate Prisons Following the Pennsylvania truck crash, PETA learned that Quebedeaux’s Transport illegally moved hundreds of long-tailed macaques and violated the Animal Welfare Act. PETA’s formal complaints to federal agencies alerted officials to the owner’s plan to warehouse monkeys in a decrepit prison. Authorities yanked the licenses, and the project was nixed.

A bystander took this photo of a monkey who escaped from a crate that fell off a truck in Pennsylvania and was later presumed to be shot.

IMMENSE CRUELTY, BUT NO CURES

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Y ou can imagine how it happens. A mother is nursing her baby. She is surrounded by trees, listening to birdsong, feeling happy. But suddenly, a net drops over her, and before she can find a way to escape, a man has seized her by the neck and torn her baby out of her arms. She’s shoved into a rickety crate, and the door slams shut. All she can do is watch through the wooden slats, terrified, panicked, as her baby is thrown into a sack. It will be the last time she ever sees him. And her own suffering has just begun. This is how many long-tailed macaques went from climbing, playing, and swimming with their troops in the Cambodian forests to finding themselves trapped

in a cramped metal cage in a barren, white room, far from their families and homes. Others are bred in filthy, disease-ridden monkey factory farms. These sensitive beings were forced to sit in their own waste in travel crates during long journeys and endured temperature extremes, frightening noises, and inexplicable movement inside a cargo hold. Next, they were trucked, sometimes for hundreds of miles, to a quarantine site and held there, along with hundreds of other terrified monkeys. The final stop was a laboratory, where they would be cut open, electroshocked, irradiated, infected with diseases, addicted to drugs or alcohol, kept in solitary confinement, or subjected to other horrors.

This mother, holding her baby tight, was abducted from her home in Indonesia.

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animals from both “humane” and conventional brands often end up at the exact same place – an industrial slaughterhouse. After PETA Foundation attorneys filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of consumers who were duped into buying Nellie’s Free Range Eggs, a federal court judge established that a marketing campaign showing hens frolicking outdoors – when, as alleged, they’re actually housed in filthy, cramped conditions that prevent many from ever going outside – can be misleading to consumers. Shoppers who had bought Nellie’s eggs and then watched PETA’s damning footage said that they felt “betrayed.” Since then, additional lawsuits have been filed against the company on behalf of other consumers who feel betrayed – embracing the same theories pioneered by PETA Foundation lawyers. In another case, following PETA’s undercover investigation into Plainville Farms, authorities charged 12 former workers with 141 counts of cruelty to turkeys, the largest number of charges in any case involving factory-farmed animals in US history. PETA has submitted a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that Plainville is engaging in false advertising by claiming that turkeys are “humanely” raised in a “stress-free environment” even though workers have traumatized them by kicking and stomping on them. PETA submitted another FTC complaint alleging that American Humane falsely and misleadingly claims that it has “set the gold standard in animal welfare” even though its standards for certification are not meaningfully any better than standard industry practices. American Humane has also given approval to the notorious turkey-slaughter company Butterball, where a PETA investigation previously revealed that workers stomped on birds, slammed them into walls, and tore off their limbs, and to Culver Duck Farm, where, according to a whistleblower, ducks were suffocated, buried alive, and gang-raped as a result of intense crowding and live ducklings were ground up while fully conscious. “ As a mother myself, I can’t imagine a greater trauma than having my newborn taken from me.”

Desperate mother cows like this one have been filmed frantically chasing after the trucks that carry their babies away.

Cows: © SAFE for Animals

STAY OUT OF STARBUCKS!

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Contrary to the company’s “environmental policy,” Starbucks US still charges more for vegan milk, which, compared to the mother’s milk a cow makes for her calf, contributes far fewer greenhouse gases. Polite requests haven’t worked, so PETA supporters shut down busy Starbucks locations by encasing their feet in cement outside . Over 150,000 PETA supporters have contacted the chain to say, “Put your upcharge out to pasture!” PETA is also holding RISE Brewing Co. vegan latte giveaways to encourage

Legal eagle Asher Smith, PETA Foundation Director of Litigation, is taking on humanewashers – and winning!

Let’s End Humanewashing. PETA Foundation Lawyers File Trailblazing Case

Dairy companies must stop ‘calfnapping’

“with love.” Treating cows like milk machines and spinning it as “love” is truly shameless. Calves need to nurse. They also need the socialization that their mothers provide, like learning which foods are safe to eat and which herd members to avoid. But farmers remove the calves, who haven’t even been weaned, from their distraught mothers shortly after they’re born and take that milk for themselves so they can make money selling dairy products.

than having my newborn taken from me,” says the lawsuit’s plaintiff.

people to try vegan milk, then switch. Oregon’s Stumptown Coffee Roasters nabbed PETA’s Compassionate Coffee Chain Award for making oak milk its default option at no extra charge.

W e all know the phrase “mama bear,” but aren’t all mothers protective of their children? While working in his pasture, a New York farmer spotted a cow nursing a newborn calf hidden in the treeline. Since her previous babies had been taken away from her, she was trying to hide this one. Forcibly separating calves from their loving mothers is a constant occurrence on dairy farms. Desperate mother cows have been filmed frantically chasing after the trucks that carry their babies away and mournfully lowing for days in abject grief. That’s why the PETA Foundation’s innovative attorneys are seeking to upend such cruel practices. One part of that plan is a class-action lawsuit against US-based Organic Valley, which markets dairy around the world. The suit is on behalf of a California consumer who was duped into buying Organic Valley products because she believed the claims of the company (which, on some cartons, shows a silhouette of a mother cow and her calf) that it treats cows in a “humane” manner and

Shun ‘Farm Fresh’ and ‘Free-Range’ Shams Humanewashing includes claims like “cage-free,” “pasture-raised,” “humane,” and “ethical,” but these terms don’t mean what a reasonable consumer believes them to mean. The overwhelming majority of animal-derived foods marketed as “humane,” including those showing lush green fields on the packaging, come from farms in which huge numbers of animals are packed in as tightly as their meager standards allow to reduce costs, maximize output, and increase profits. Consumers who think they’re supporting small family farms would be in for a shock if they were to see what these places are really like. And

Civet Cats Still Suffering for Coffee PETA Asia’s new investigation into the cruel kopi luwak industry shows that – despite an international outcry – Asian palm civet cats are still being held in small, crude, filthy cages and forced to eat only coffee beans. The resulting excreted beans are then removed from the fecal matter and sold as a “delicacy.” Kopi luwak marketed as “wild sourced” is essentially a lie.

Take Action Now Call Starbucks at 206-447-1575 and ask that it dump the unjust upcharge. Never buy kopi luwak, and go to

PETA.org/Bacha to demand that Bacha Coffee stop selling it. PETA.org/NoUpcharge offers a list of coffee chains with no surcharge for vegan milk that you can patronize until Starbucks gets the message. Please share this with everyone you know.

“Pasture-raised,” “humane,” “ethical,” and other humanewashing terms sound good, but don’t buy it!

Take Action Now When you buy, they suffer and die. Replace milk and cheese with tasty vegan

options, including Miyoko’s Cultured Vegan Butter and Stokes artisanal vegan cheeses – and share them with your friends.

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Donkey Meat?! But No Animal Is Ours to Eat PETA INDIA SAVES DONKEYS FROM SLAUGHTER

traumatized. They were given emergency veterinary care and nourishing food and were treated gently, probably for the very first time. Life is now very different for Lina and the other rescued donkeys. They are safe and cherished at PETA supported Animal Rahat partner sanctuaries. Two of the donkeys who were also pregnant lost their foals, probably because of trauma. But Lina gave birth to her baby, Anita – a joyful, fearless foal who romps with the other resident donkeys but never strays far from her mom’s side. Together, they explore acres of lush, soft grass and rest beneath the shade canopies. They graze in the fields, and kind people groom them and give them treats like carrots and apples. There is always fresh water to drink. Best of all, Lina and Anita will be safe and together forever.

Donkey and foal: Photo by Koustubh Pol

Budweiser calls itself the “King of Beers,” but when it comes to its famous Clydesdales, a more accurate name would be “King of Tears.” TAILGATE: PETA Exposes Budweiser Secretly Severing Clydesdales’ Tailbones PETA quietly visited and filmed at the Anheuser-Busch Corporation’s Warm Springs Ranch, where most of the foals are bred, and Grant’s Farm, where the horses are trained, both in Missouri. We also talked to handlers who travel with teams of Clydesdales and obtained admissions that the company amputates the horses’ tailbones. Why do they do it? Primarily to create a certain look when they’re hitched to a wagon.

hasn’t stopped this illicit trade. During a three- month undercover investigation, PETA India found that donkeys are killed by the side of the road, under flyovers, and behind makeshift market stalls. They’re smuggled into Andhra Pradesh fromMaharashtra, Telangana, and other states late at night and

Collapsed! Alive, some crushed, this is how donkeys are trucked to their deaths.

Take Action Now If you are horrified by these donkeys’ ordeal, please consider the pain that goes into any

meat. Spare cows, chickens, and other animals by going vegan today. And help rescue and bring relief to donkeys in India and around the world by making a donation at PETA.org/GCF .

early in the morning to evade the police.

When the horses are just foals, their tails are completely or partially cut off. Either a scalpel is used to cut it off, or a tight band is put around the tail to stop the blood flow, causing it to atrophy and eventually die off. While both methods are painful, the bands are excruciating. According to equine veterinarian Dr. Sid Gustafson, “Tail amputation is a despicable, disgraceful procedure that inflicts irreparable, irreversible harm to the horse.” Like all horses, Clydesdales need their tails to brush off insects, and their tails are important for balance when they run, turn, and stop as well as to communicate their physical and emotional states.

Donkeys are sensitive, highly intelligent individuals who form deep bonds with their families. Their heart rates can even synchronize with those of their companions. Yet PETA India’s investigation showed that they’re not even stunned before slaughter – they’re fully aware when their throats are slit. Merchants sell donkey meat in broad daylight, flouting the law. PETA India found donkey meat sold at a busy traffic junction in Chirala. In Tadepalle, it was sold in a shop near a police station. In Ongole, children were forced to help with the slaughtering and skinning, exposing and desensitizing them to violence. Safe at Last Blowing the lid off illegal donkey slaughter throughout Andhra Pradesh, PETA India worked with the police and local animal welfare groups in a series of raids – including one in which a truck carrying over 20 donkeys was stopped and the donkeys seized. They also confiscated and destroyed over 1,100 pounds of donkey flesh and body parts. Some of the donkeys had serious injuries or multiple wounds – all were

L ina was exhausted. She had spent most of the night in a truck with more than a dozen other donkeys. It was hot and stifling as they careened down winding dirt roads riddled with potholes and were pitched this way and that. They were unloaded in a strange, confusing place. Men yelled at them and hit them. Lina watched the donkeys in front of her being yanked away. Their eyes were scared and pleading. Then she saw it: the glint of a knife. Right in front of her, a man slit a donkey’s throat. She knew he was coming for her next and that he didn’t care that she was pregnant and didn’t want to die! Suddenly, PETA India, local activists, and police officers burst onto the scene. They were busting black-market donkey-slaughter operations in Andhra Pradesh. They rescued more than 70 traumatized donkeys in the raids, and one of them was Lina.

One equine veterinarian calls tail amputations “surgical abuse.” Except for emergencies, it’s banned in 10 US states and several countries, is condemned by the American Association of Equine Practitioners, and violates the American Veterinary Medical Association’s principles of veterinary medical ethics.

PETA-supported Animal Rahat has saved more than 260 donkeys from abuse.

PETA is calling on Anheuser-Busch to stop this cruel mutilation.

Take Action Now Contact Anheuser-Busch at PETA.org/Budweiser and demand that the company stop tail amputations.

Smuggled and Slaughtered in Secret It’s illegal to kill and eat donkeys in India, but that

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Art That Turns Heads, Heads,

Changes Minds Chan inds Praxis Meet

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People: © SeventyFour/Shutterstock.com • Background: © iStock.com/Shanina • Spray: © iStock.com/Shanina

G reat artists have used their talents to make compelling social statements. “I want to use mine to promote animal liberation,” says street artist Praxis, who has used his activist art to boost PETA’s “Free Lolita,” Iditarod, anti-vivisection, and exotic skins campaigns. PETA spoke with him about the intersection of art and activism.

happy life somewhere safe now. It also represents grassroots efforts to help animals escape death and torture and the alliance between us and our animal friends. It honors those anonymous people risking their freedom to gain the animals’ freedom and encourages direct action. Do you think art is an effective educational tool? Art can talk to everybody. I catch people’s eye through the image and then draw them into the message. By the time you figure out the image, stencil, illustration, or mural, it has opened your mind. I’m communicating with you from a point of view that looks friendly or appealing to the eye but represents the violence I want you to think about. Any advice for people who want to help animals but feel shy? Rodolfo Walsh, an Argentinian journalist, said walls are the people’s press. They can be the animals’ press as well. We put the messages where

Your art is visually vibrant, truly stunning. What sort of reactions have you had?

When Canada Goose sent people to buff black my posters in New York City, you could call that a recognition that they thought the art really did the job. Today, because of various forms of protest that I’m happy to say included that poster, Canada Goose has stopped using fur.

How did “protest art” take hold with you? Protest art can be found during the Russian

Revolution, with Picasso painting against fascism during the Spanish Civil War, and in Mexico with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. More recently, artists and artists’ collectives have advocated for human rights or against climate change, like Pussy Riot, Indecline, OBEY, Sue Coe, and Banksy. For me, it didn’t begin with art, but I always protested cruelty. Growing up in Bogotá, I became a vegetarian at 15, pretty much because of bullfighting. We kids used to meet outside the plaza de toros to yell at people entering the arena. I was protesting against violence to bulls but still eating animals that had to be killed for me to eat them. That opened the door. I realized I didn’t want to be part of harming them. They didn’t deserve to suffer. My art’s a continuation of that protest. What’s your favorite piece? There’s a mural in Brooklyn that I painted in support of an anarchist group I admire and support through my art in Europe. It represents the liberation of seven calves from a slaughterhouse who I hope are living a

everyone can see them. Stenciling in public places can have legal consequences, but to anyone interested in doing street art, I say don’t be afraid, plan well, and do it purposefully. It can bring awareness to your block or neighborhood – the scale doesn’t matter. What matters is to communicate what you want to say. That applies beyond art, of course. Do you have a favorite PETA campaign you’ve worked on? I feel equally for all animals, so I put my heart into each campaign. I despise animal testing, and the national primate research centers campaign gave me the chance to communicate to others the horrors that universities, labs, and NIH inflict upon millions of animals, from mice to monkeys. I love PETA Latino campaigns, too,

because I believe in the importance of reaching Latin American and Spanish-speaking communities and helping grow awareness by encouraging my Latine folks to defend animals. But if I must choose, it’s Canada Goose. Everyone involved did an amazing job, with people protesting every week outside their Manhattan store and PETA’s many ways to pressure the company. I love that we worked relentlessly, spending freezing winter nights walking the city, stenciling and putting posters up. Take Action Now Find your voice. Grab leaflets at PETA.org/Literature to help enlighten others. And visit PETA.org/Action to join PETA’s Action Team.

Art can talk to everybody. I catch people’s eye through the image and then draw them into the message.

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Your Kitchen BFF: The Fabulous Tabitha Brown

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METHOD • Put the potatoes in a large pot and add water to cover. Bring to a boil over medium heat and add some salt and garlic powder. Gently boil until soft. Drain. • Place the potatoes in a large bowl. Use a spoon to break them up. • Add the vegan mayonnaise, mustard, onion, celery, and relish along with some garlic powder, a little bit of onion powder, a pinch of black salt, a pinch of sugar, a pinch of sea salt, and some pepper. Mix together until well combined. Taste and adjust the seasonings. Sprinkle with smoked paprika and let chill in the refrigerator.

She’s a PETA “Person of the Year,” a Food Network star, and the TikTok sensation of carrot “bacon” fame. Now, Tabitha Brown is sharing her “easy, delicious, and joyful plant-based inspirations” in Cooking From the Spirit . Kicking meat, eggs, and dairy cured her chronic pain and fatigue and changed her life, and she’s out to help others find healing and happiness. In this sneak peek, featuring adaptations of some of Tabitha’s dairy free favorites, you’ll notice that there are no measurements. “America’s mom” explains, “Well, honey, that’s because I don’t cook from a recipe, and I don’t measure anything. I just add what I like and I do it until my spirit tells me to stop. … Anyone can do it.”

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Flatbread Veggie Pizza with Pineapple YOU’LL NEED Vegan flatbread Vegan pasta sauce Vegan mozzarella cheese shreds Sliced black olives Sliced white mushrooms Chopped fresh or canned pineapple Chopped red bell pepper Sliced red onion Fresh baby spinach Garlic powder Everything bagel seasoning

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Philly Cheesefake Hoagie YOU’LL NEED Grapeseed oil Pecan meat (see recipe) Sliced red and green bell peppers

METHOD • In a large nonstick skillet with a tight-fitting lid, heat a little oil over medium heat. Add the pecan meat, bell peppers, mushrooms, and onion. Stir in some garlic powder, oregano, black pepper, and a few drops of liquid smoke. Cover and cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. • Remove the lid and cook, stirring, for another minute, until the vegetables are slightly browned. Add the vegan cheese and stir until melted. • Spread a little mayonnaise in the hoagie rolls. Fill with some pecan-and-veggie mixture and top with lettuce and tomato.

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METHOD • Preheat the oven to 450°F/230°C. Line a sheet pan with aluminum foil or parchment paper. • Put the flatbread on the lined sheet pan and spread some sauce over it. • Sprinkle a little vegan cheese on top. Add the olives, mushrooms, pineapple, bell pepper, onion, and spinach. Sprinkle some garlic powder and everything bagel seasoning on top. • Bake for about 10 minutes, then broil on high for about 2 minutes to brown the veggies.

Sliced mushrooms Sliced white onion Garlic powder Dried oregano Ground black pepper Liquid smoke Vegan cheese shreds Vegan mayonnaise Hoagie rolls Shredded lettuce Sliced tomato

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YOU’LL NEED White or yellow potatoes Sea salt Garlic powder Vegan mayonnaise Yellow mustard Chopped white onion Chopped celery Sweet pickle relish Onion powder Black salt (kala namak) Sugar Ground black pepper Smoked paprika

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Chopped cremini or other mushrooms Chopped red and green bell peppers Chopped red onion Chopped garlic Coconut aminos, liquid aminos, or soy sauce Liquid smoke

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METHOD • Cover the pecans with warm water and soak for 20 to 30 minutes. Drain. • Place the pecans in a food processor. Add the remaining ingredients. Process on high until well blended.

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My ‘Aha’ Moment One day, while collecting various samples from monkeys in Bangladesh, I had an encounter that changed everything. I saw a man with a monkey, so I pulled over. The monkey jumped right onto my lap and grabbed my cheeks. I gasped, thinking she might tear off my face. But she just sat there, her face so close to mine, for the longest time. It was as if she were trying to make me really see her. Even though taking samples from her would have caused her minimal discomfort, I couldn’t do it. And after two years of battle between UW’s IACUC and my own conscience, I couldn’t continue exploiting animals anymore. I quit and came to work for PETA.

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emotions like the monkey who grabbed my face and helped me see. I’m determined to help everyone see these monkeys are worthy individuals and recognize the cruelty and folly of using animals in experiments.

PETA has powerful friends in this fight, including Sen. Cory Booker, who called on the US Department of Health and Human Services to investigate why the National Institutes of Health pours millions of taxpayer dollars into such a “deeply troubled facility.” Disease, Dysfunction, and Death PETA keeps uncovering more dirt on UW, including that its “specific pathogen–free” facility in Arizona, where it breeds its victims, is a hotbed of diseases, including tuberculosis, Chagas disease, and cholera, and that it has used monkeys from there who were infected with Valley fever. There’s also horrific suffering caused by UW’s sloppiness: A monkey who hadn’t been properly fasted choked on his own vomit during surgery and died, another strangled to death on a chain attached to a cage, and another died of dehydration because a water line hadn’t been connected.

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Take Action Now Visit PETA.org/WaNPRC to demand the closure of the WaNPRC and the release of

the monkeys to sanctuaries to live in peace.

Today, my goal is to shut down all seven US national primate research centers, starting with the one at UW.

W hile my high school classmates were doing homework, I was wading through chest-deep swamp water in Indonesia. Primates were my passion, and that led me to anthropologist Biruté Galdikas’ jungle camp. Observing macaques in nature, I could see their intelligence, protectiveness, and skill at working out conflicts. I became a primate scientist, studying the transmission of diseases between monkeys and humans, which took me to the Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC) at the University of Washington (UW) for 17 years. Rubber-Stampers Meet a Troublemaker There, I saw dysfunction firsthand. I saw tuberculosis, staph infections, and chronic diarrhea ravaging the monkeys, and experimenters were chillingly callous about the suffering they inflicted. Believing that I could change the system from within, I accepted a seat on the institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) that is required by law to review all proposed animal experiments and ensure that animal protection laws are enforced. But UW’s IACUC was rubber-stamping experiments, no matter how poorly designed or cruel – giving experimenters the greenlight to, among other things, restrain monkeys in dark booths for up to 10 hours, separate mothers and babies, and implant devices in monkeys’ skulls, eyes, and limbs . Whenever I raised a concern, the IACUC shut me down. “ When I see monkeys in individual cages, I see you’ve taken away the thing that’s most important to a macaque. You’ve taken away their ability to have a relationship.” – Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel

Digging Up Dirty Secrets Now I lead PETA’s push to expose UW’s cruelty and incompetence, which it is desperate to keep hidden. When it refused to turn over public records, PETA sued and won: A judge ordered UW to pay PETA nearly $540,000. The court also found that UW had destroyed

PETA’s “Dorothy” regularly visits the campus to remind experimenters of the real Dorothy who was taken away and restrained in chairs like these.

Each one of them was an individual with a mind and

The Monkey Who Held My Face in Her Hands and Opened My Eyes

By Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel, from primate experimenter to protector

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to scavenge food from garbage. PETA entities are pressing for action, but until officials crack down, it’s up to tourists to reject all animal rides. Petra fied Horses, Camels, and Donkeys A PETA-supported on-site veterinary clinic at the “Lost City” of Petra, Jordan, is an oasis in the desert for some of the 1,300 ailing horses, camels, and donkeys toiling

there. Veterinarians treat the animals for colic, malnutrition, dehydration, saddle sores,

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lameness, and wounds caused by hobbles and metal chains cutting into their flesh – all free

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of charge. They tend to animals who’ve been cut with razor

Blue Domes and Blue Animals: Santorini

ads on the ferries to Santorini urging visitors to ride the cable cars instead of the animals, and has delivered 160,000 signatures to the Greek Embassy in Berlin, demanding a ban. In a recent victory, AIDA Cruises took a stand when it began informing passengers about the pervasive cruelty to the donkeys and mules. A Painful Pyramid Scheme A PETA Asia investigation uncovered jaw-dropping abuse of horses and camels compelled to carry visitors on their backs or in carriages at Egypt’s top destinations, including the pyramids of Giza, Luxor, and Saqqara. Starving, dehydrated horses are given no breaks from Egypt’s dangerously hot temperatures. Footage shows the animals’ knees buckling and their bodies giving out but people, sometimes groups of men, still viciously whipping and beating them. Camels scream as they’re hit with sticks, and many have blood gushing out of their noses. Seeing PETA Asia’s footage, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities promised to replace the animals at Giza with electric carts. But even though there are some mechanized vehicles there now, investigators still found suffering animals, including horses with broken legs who were trying

For the donkeys and mules trudging up the steep hills past the blue domes on the Greek island of Santorini, life is anything but a beach. PETA Germany’s video footage reveals that they’re deprived of water in the oppressive summer heat and outfitted with makeshift saddles and

Suffering for a Selfie From selfies with tiger cubs to elephant rides, animals are being treated like props and playthings. Alligators’ mouths are duct-taped shut, and birds’ wings are clipped for selfies. Dolphins are stuck in concrete pools and forced to swim with tourists. Elephants exploited for rides and other activities are kidnapped from their mothers as babies (hence the fake “orphanage” labels in Thailand) and tortured for weeks to teach them to be submissive. But years of campaigning by PETA India against elephant rides at Amber Fort are paying off: Thirteen were retired to a sanctuary, and a government committee recommended switching to electric vehicles.

blades, Tasered, or hit in the head with rocks when they don’t have the strength to carry yet another tourist up 900 crumbling steps to the monastery or on another sweltering 6-mile (10-km) trek across the rocky ground. Clinic staff work to educate owners, some of whom are children who should be in school, on humane animal care. PETA continues to push Jordanian authorities to take corrective action and is urging the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to push for the animals to be replaced with eco-friendly electric vehicles that can provide a living for Bedouin tribespeople and relief for the animals.

M ore than half a million animals to let visitors ride on them, handle them, swim with them, and pass them around in ways that are confusing, disturbing, frightening, and painful. Often they have undergone cruel training. PETA entities around the globe are working to liberate them, informing travelers that their help is essential, and asking them not to participate in any animal-based entertainment. worldwide are held captive and exploited in tourist attractions. They’re forced

sharp wire muzzles that cause bloody wounds and rub their skin raw. When they stumble or collapse from pain or exhaustion, they’re whipped or beaten until they stagger back to their feet. If they’re too weak or ill to carry on, they may simply be left to die. After PETA Germany exposed these abuses, Greece implemented minimal protections for the animals, but they aren’t even being enforced! PETA entities are keeping the pressure on. PETA Germany has filed criminal complaints against the animals’ owners and the government in order to instigate change, is running

Take Action Now None of these abusive operations can continue without tourist participation. Steer

clear of any animal attraction, and urge everyone you know to do the same. If you see abuse, post about it on TripAdvisor, and complain to tour groups!

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