PETA Global Issue 2

SPAIN

CUBA

Cuban Lettuce Ladies: © Instagram: vegan_eh

Nearly 100 PETA and AnimaNaturalis supporters gathered in Pamplona and simultaneously broke banderil as containing red powdered paint over their heads to protest the Running of the Bulls.

Olympic Medalist Backs Freedom for Orcas CHINA

When a US airline flew to Havana for the first time in more than 50 years, PETA’s “Lettuce Ladies” were on board – wearing little more than strategically placed lettuce leaves and toting green suitcases that proclaimed, “Vegan Ambassador to Cuba.” They were greeted by crowds on Havana’s popular Obispo Street, where they posed for photos and handed out Spanish-language vegan starter kits. (Get your free vegan starter kit in Spanish or English at PETA.org/ VSK .) The ladies also took much-needed veterinary supplies to local animal-rescue groups and delivered Spanish-language Share the World humane education kits to Havana-area elementary schools. ‘Lettuce Ladies’ Go to Cuba

Chinese athlete Fu Yuanhui, who won a bronze medal in the 100-meter backstroke at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, is using her star power in a new ad for PETA Asia. She’s calling on her fans to protest orca captivity by refusing to buy tickets to aquariums and marine parks. “Confining orcas to aquarium tanks is like keeping a swimmer like me in a kids’ pool,” Fu says. “PETA Asia and I encourage everyone to let orcas and other animals swim free in the ocean, where they belong.”

USA

PETA: Stop Lab Abuse at U. of Pittsburgh Rabbits’ limbs surgically bent into unnatural positions. A wounded monkey left to suffer with exposed tendons. Mice’s intestines punctured so that bacteria would leak into their abdomens and cause septic shock. This cruelty inside University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) laboratories was a deep dark secret – until PETA exposed it. PETA filed a complaint with the US Department of Agriculture, rallied students for an on-campus demonstration, reached out to Pitt alumni, and placed an ad in the university’s student newspaper. The paper responded, tweeting, “Animal abuse doesn’t belong on campus!”

USA

As North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s ballistic missile tests set world leaders on edge, PETA responded with an edgy banner outside its Washington, D.C., office and at the United Nations in New York City, pleading with the saber-rattling dictator to nix the nukes and stick with cukes. PETA Urges Kim Jong-un to Give Peas a Chance

The federal Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare confirmed a number of PETA’s findings, including that mice were found dead in their cages, that cages were flooded, that live mice were sealed inside a plastic bag, and that improperly housed mice were so severely injured from fighting that they had to be euthanized. Take Action Now Please call University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Patrick D. Gallagher at 412-624-4200 and urge him to redirect Pitt away from cruel, archaic experiments on animals and toward modern, animal-free research.

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