PETA Global 2019 Issue 1

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Elephants: © iStock.com/Kyslynskyy • Noodle guy: © Kues/Shutterstock.com • Bunny/Dove: Courtesy of Dove

A MESSAGE FROM Ingrid Newkirk PETA’s President O nce upon a time, I loved animals, yes, but I also loved wearing my big Ginger Rogers–style fur coat. Looking back, how could I have been so blind to the fact that by wearing this monstrosity, made from the fur of about 100 little animals, I was supporting appalling cruelty? Today, seeing 20-somethings in their down-filled jackets, one can wonder the same.

Victory! PETA Halts Horrifying Experiments on Dogs

Imagine being locked in a cage and forced to eat pesticide-laced food or breathe pesticide fumes for a year – until you’re killed and your body is dissected. That’s exactly what dogs endure in a routinely required pesticide test. PETA scientists provided South Korea with documentation of extensive analyses conducted by experts, which demonstrate that data from these tests are not used to protect humans. As a result, that country ended the horrific experiments. PETA has also persuaded Canada, the European Union, Japan, and the United States to stop requiring this test and will keep working to end all testing on animals worldwide.

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Dove Shows PETA Bunny Some Love Visit Dove’s website and you’ll see its iconic bird logo kissing a bunny – the personal-care giant’s way of announcing that it is “delighted to say that our products will now carry PETA’s cruelty free logo.” In addition, Dove’s parent company, Unilever – the world’s largest consumer goods corporation – has been added to PETA’s “Working for Regulatory Change” list of brands that never test on animals unless explicitly required to do so by law and are actively working to promote non animal tests. This progress comes after lengthy discussions with PETA. Visit PETA.org/CrueltyFree to download PETA’s free app and to search the Beauty Without Bunnies database of more than 3,500 cruelty-free companies.

Cruel Elephant Polo Tournament Stopped PETA Asia’s shocking exposé showing elephants being viciously beaten on the grounds of the King’s Cup Elephant Polo Tournament, as well as messages from concerned people around the globe, prompted horrified sponsors to revoke their support. Now, the Thailand Elephant Polo Association has ended operations and will no longer seek permits for future tournaments – effectively relegating elephant polo in Thailand to the history books! Many thanks to all who took action through the alert and helped stop this cruel event.

There were no animal rights activists back then to question my choice. People smiled approvingly, perhaps even enviously.

So, after I wised up, I created PETA to raise

awareness of the suffering endured by animals when they’re raised and killed

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Take Action Now Visit PETA.org/Elephants to urge travel companies to stop offering elephant rides.

for clothing as well as for food, experimentation, and more.

Last year, Los Angeles and San Francisco banned the sale and manufacture of fur, the countries of Luxembourg and Norway banned fur farming entirely, and Jean Paul Gaultier – whose Paris boutique PETA invaded over a decade ago – finally stopped using fur, following Burberry, Gucci, John Galliano, Versace, Michael Kors, and Donna Karan.

‘Sons of Anarchy’ Star: You Can’t Buy Love Actor Theo Rossi plays intimidating characters, such as troubled biker “Juice” Ortiz on the globally popular series Sons of Anarchy.

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Victory! PETA Saves Pigs From Lethal Surgical Training

These decisions were about 35 years in the making, and I remember how it all began.

MAKES IT SAFE TO EAT RAMEN AGAIN! W hy do makers of instant ramen noodles need to conduct bizarre and cruel experiments on animals? Exactly – they don’t! After conversations with PETA, two of the world’s largest ramen brands, Japan’s Toyo Suisan Kaisha and Nissin Foods Holdings Co., used their noodle and ended experiments in which rats and mice were force-fed, starved, injected with antigens and dyes, and then killed.

In the ’50s, I did what little girls did: I dressed up in my mother’s “court shoes” and my grandmother’s fur stole. Plastic teddy bear eyes in the foxes’ eye sockets replaced the real ones that had once looked out at the forest. Those were the days when wealthy board members wore fur coats to attend humane society meetings. But when PETA formed, we knew about the extreme cruelty inherent in fur clothing and sent out graphic photographs by the thousands to challenge the idea of loving dogs and cats while still paying to have foxes butchered. Next came the first-ever anti-fur protests outside fur stores. People hurled harsh words and even objects at us. But as the saying goes, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Now, here we are in 2019, seeing the results of speaking up at every opportunity. Change happens if you work for what is right and don’t give up. Please use PETA’s resources to find ways to effect that change every single day!

Persistence has paid off, and pigs are now breathing easier. After nearly a year of discussions, PETA Germany, with advice from scientists at PETA US, has persuaded one of Germany’s major hospitals, St. Elisabeth & St. Barbara, to end deadly surgical training in which pigs’ chests were cut open, they were operated on, and then they were killed. By using superior non-animal training methods, the hospital will save the lives of countless pigs and improve its treatment of human patients. PETA US is also replacing the use of animals in advanced trauma life support training programs. To date, in collaboration with Simulab Corporation, it has donated 119 TraumaMan simulators to these programs in 22 countries, sparing dogs, pigs, sheep and goats from being cut apart and killed.

But in real life – and his new PETA ad campaign – Theo plays a different role: that of loving guardian to his 15-year-old rescued dog, Benito. “When you adopt an animal from a shelter instead of buying from a breeder or pet store, you save a life,” he says. “And who doesn’t love that?!”

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