PETA Global 2023 Issue 2

USA

AUSTRALIA

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!

INDIA

CANADA & USA

INDIA

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

GLOBAL

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.

GLOBAL

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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