PETA Global 2023 Issue 2

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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

Mardi Gras frame: © iStock.com/nambitomo • Modern science: © iStock.com/Motortion • Blank booklet: © iStock.com/hh58000 • Booklet science image: © iStock.com/Jackie Niam

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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