PETA Global Issue 3

Your Messages Matter

PETA and its affiliates’ action alerts have helped save animals around the world, from elephants who were chained for years in temples in India to bulls who were being killed in bullfights in the Balearic Islands. PETAmembers have helped persuade the US National Institutes of Health to retire all government-owned chimpanzees from laboratories; major fashion brands Armani, Intermix, and The Kooples to stop selling fur; Israel and Paraguay to ban “shackle and hoist” slaughter of cows for kosher beef; and the Vancouver Park Board to ban cetacean captivity, ending the Vancouver Aquarium’s imprisonment of porpoises, beluga whales, and orcas and other dolphins. Action alerts are also helping to end air shipments of primates to US laboratories: When Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) was purchased by Amazon, PETA mobilized its members, and after just five days, ATSG joined the long list of airlines that have stopped these inhumane shipments. When PETA informed supporters that students at a Texas high school were filmed “jumping rope” with the intestines of a cat they had dissected, PETA members flooded the school district’s administration with e-mails until it stopped all cat dissections. Action alert participants also ended a sickening ritual in Peru in which a dog and bull were tied together before being viciously slaughtered, got the International Cherry Blossom Festival in Georgia

to agree not to allow shark touch tanks, helped get plans to build massive chicken factory farms in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire scrapped, and helped the Czech Republic ban fur farming, sparing the lives of nearly 20,000 minks and foxes every year.

“We ask that you please tell your followers that their voice has been heard and we ask that they stop inundating our … emails.”

Cow: © iStock.com/narvikk | Coyote: © Bruce Jodar/Wildeye Photography | Photo frame: © iStock.com/blackred

– Circus sponsor targeted by PETA

PETA and its affiliates’ action alerts have helped save animals around the world. Program participants send more than 2 million e-mails to animal-abusing targets every single month. Sometimes it takes hundreds of thousands of messages to persuade an individual or company to stop, but many targets are ready to listen after hearing from just a few thousand compassionate people. If recipients change their phone numbers or shut down their e-mail accounts, PETA finds the new ones so that animal rights supporters can keep doing what we do best: winning victories around the globe.

Those are just a few of PETA’s many recent victories. When thousands of kind people call and e-mail about the abuse of living, feeling beings, companies and government agencies realize that as long as animals are suffering, they’ll never hear the end of it. Save Animals on the Go! PETA’s mobile alerts program lets you take action for animals – anywhere, anytime . If you live in the US, sign up a t PETA.org/MobileAlerts to get a short text message when animals need your help. All you have to do is text in a single letter, and PETA will send a message to an animal abuser on your behalf.

SAVED

Your e-mails helped persuade ATSG to end air shipments of primates to US laboratories. SAVED

PETA members compelled a California city to cancel plans to use snares to trap and kill coyotes. SAVED

Action alerts helped persuade Israel and Paraguay to ban cruel "shackle and hoist" kosher slaughter.

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