Iams Cruelty: How Iams and Procter & Gamble Cause Animals to Suffer Needlessly   

Tell Iams and P&G that you won’t be buying Iams for your animal companions until they stop conducting nutritional experiments on cats and dogs. For nearly 10 months in 2002 and early 2003, a PETA investigator went undercover at an Iams contract testing laboratory and discovered a dark and sordid secret beneath the wholesome image of the dog- and cat-food manufacturer: dogs gone crazy from intense confinement to barren steel cages and cement cells, dogs left piled on a filthy paint-chipped floor after having chunks of muscle hacked from their thighs; dogs surgically debarked; horribly sick dogs and cats languishing in their cages, neglected and left to suffer with no veterinary care.

MeanGreenies.com   

It's the 21st Century: Do you know where your favorite environmental organization stands on animal testing?

Milk Sucks ... Dump Dairy   

Corporate-owned factories where cows are warehoused in huge sheds and treated like milk machines have replaced most small family farms. With genetic manipulation and intensive production technologies, it is common for modern dairy cows to produce 100 pounds of milk a day— 10 times more than they would produce in nature. To keep milk production as high as possible, farmers artificially inseminate cows every year. Growth hormones and unnatural milking schedules cause dairy cows' udders to become painful and so heavy that they sometimes drag on the ground, resulting in frequent infections and overuse of antibiotics. Cows -- like all mammals -- make milk to feed their own babies -- not humans.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)   

The Animal Rights Organization - As an activist, you can educate people in your community and positively affect their attitudes and lifestyles. Regardless of your level of experience with activism, PETA's International Grassroots Campaign Department can help you make a difference for animals. You just need the desire to generate positive change and to believe that your voice and actions matter. We're here to help you at every step of the way!

PETA Kids   

PETA Kids believes that all animals deserve the most basic rights—such as consideration of their own best interests—regardless of whether they are cute or useful to humans. Like you, they are capable of suffering and have an interest in leading their own lives. Therefore, they are not ours to use for food, clothing, entertainment, experimentation, or any other purpose.

PETA.org   

PETA 's animal rights campaigns include ending fur and leather use meat and dairy consumption fishing hunting trapping factory farming circuses bull fighting rodeos and animal experimentation.

PETCO: Where the Pets Go - To Die   

There isn't just an overpopulation crisis with dogs and cats. Ask any bird rescue society, and you'll discover the tragedy of discarded, lonely, neurotic, mistreated pet-shop birds - birds PETCO is still selling to anyone who comes along and still paying suppliers to churn out in warehouses full of distressed parrots and their babies.

PleatherYourself.com   

Celebrities everywhere are pleathering themselves for cow's sake. Pamela Anderson, Britney Spears, Courtney Cox, and Jacklyn Lick all push pleather. Harley Davidson created a line of Pleather Biker Gear. Eric Ward, the creator of VeganErotica.com, supports Pleather.

Save the Sheep!   

Most people have no idea that sheep raised for wool are often mutilated and castrated without painkillers, then disposed of by being shipped thousands of miles on open-deck, multitiered ships through all weather extremes, and eventually slaughtered while fully conscious.

TeachKind   

TeachKind's mission is to provide you, the educator, with free high-quality lesson plans and materials that will help your students develop critical-thinking skills, empathy, compassion, and civic responsibility while empowering them to take compassionate action for animals in their own communities. We also help educators and schools implement healthy and humane educational policies that benefit students, educators, and animals. Since its creation in 2002, TeachKind has grown to become a network of more than 10,000 educators working toward a kinder, more humane world. TeachKind is the education program of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that is funded primarily by the generous donations of members and supporters.

Torture in Thailand   

In Thailand, approximately 3,800 of the country’s estimated 5,000 endangered Asian elephants are in private hands. Most are used as tourist attractions in elephant camps where they are forced to perform circus tricks and give rides. PETA has uncovered the horrific torture that is routine in Thailand’s secret “training” camps. Still-nursing baby elephants are literally dragged from their mothers, kicking and screaming. They are immobilized, beaten mercilessly, and gouged with nails for days at a time. These ritualized “training” sessions leave the elephants badly injured, traumatized, or even dead.

Vegetarian and Vegan Information: GoVeg.com   

Your source for great-tasting vegan and vegetarian recipes, information on all aspects of vegan and vegetarian living, news about PETA's campaigns to stop factory farming, tips and free stuff to help you promote a vegetarian lifestyle.

Wicked Wild Life Fund   

The World Wildlife Fund (also known as the Worldwide Fund for Nature, or simply WWF) has been actively pressuring government agencies in the U.S., Europe, and Canada to increase the amount of testing that they require for pesticides and other chemicals. The result of the WWF’s lobbying has been the establishment of what threaten to be the largest animal-testing programs of all time. And that’s not all. As one would expect of an organization founded by trophy hunters, the WWF does not oppose killing animals for sport. The WWF believes that culling (read “killing”) elephants and seals is OK, it supports the slaughter of whales by native tribes, and it refuses to speak out against steel-jaw leghold traps. Surprised? visit us to learn more about why PETA thinks the WWF should change its name to the Wicked Wildlife Fund.

WildlifePimps.com   

There are hundreds of substandard wildlife attractions throughout the U.S., ranging from backyard menageries to so-called "sanctuaries" to drive-through parks. Masquerading as conservation, education, or rescue facilities, roadside and traveling zoos are among the worst abusers of captive wildlife and fuel the multibillion-dollar-a-year trade in exotic, rare, and endangered species. With zoological institutions accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) carelessly unloading surplus animals and with little regulation from authorities, the private zoo business has exploded over the last 30 years.

Animal Abuse Prevention Agency   

A publicly supported 501(c)3) nonprofit organization. A non-profit organization which takes a pro-active approach in preventing cruelty to animals. AAPA does pet adoptions, pet rescue and provides veterinarian services when needed. A publicly supported 501(c)3) nonprofit organization.

Animal-Friendly Travel Tips   

Planning ahead for your holiday, whether it’s at the beaches of Barcelona, hiking the Himalayas, visiting temples in India, or cruising Venetian waters in a gondola, is important and can be fun. Click on the appropriate questions to let PETA answer your travel concerns. Many animals, especially cats but including dogs, aren’t crazy about traveling. And traveling can even be risky for companion animals. So the best option, if your trip is a relatively quick one, might be to leave your companion animal safe at home.

Ask Carla   

Carla Bennett, PETA’s Kindness Consultant, is here to answer all your questions—whether you want to know about the rights and wrongs of the circus or simply where to buy nonleather shoes! Carla Bennett is a regular columnist for PETA's Animal Times and explains how to live peacefully with our wild neighbors, advises us on how to choose just the right furry friend, juxtaposes hunting myths with harsh reality, offers vegetarian recipes, explains why show business is no business for animals, and provides lists of organizations and resources to help people have a positive effect on the animals around them, plus much more.

AVMA Hurts Animals: Vets Without Hearts   

Would you take your cat to a veterinarian who had no objection to starving animals? Would you take your dog to a veterinarian who thought it perfectly fine to keep animals in small crates with cement floors for most of their lives? If your vet is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)—and most vets are—then your answer to these questions could be “yes,” because the AVMA is “the authorized voice for the profession in presenting its views to government, academia, agriculture, pet owners, the media, and other concerned publics.” The AVMA supports the hideously cruel factory-farming industry by allowing industry representatives to push through anti-animal endorsements for forced molting of chickens and gestation crates for pigs, steam-rolling over any objections from concerned AVMA veterinarians.

Buck the Rodeo!   

You can improve the lives of animals suffering from cruelty and neglect.

CaringConsumer.com   

Calling all compassion-fashion police and fur-free fashionistas! Do you know everything about cruelty-free couture—from what’s in the fashion mags to which celebs are fur hags? Pamela Wants YOU ... to be a Caring Consumer!

Circuses.com: The Circus is No Place for Animal Abuse   

The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whipcracking trainer is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them. In contrast to the glitter associated with circuses, performing animals' lives are pretty miserable. Because animals do not naturally ride bicycles, stand on their heads, or jump through rings of fire, whips, electric prods, and other tools are often used to force them to perform.

Dogs In Hot Cars   

Dogs can suffer and die when left inside parked cars, even on mildly warm days. On a 78-degree day, the temperature inside a shaded car is 90 degrees, while the inside of a car parked in the sun can reach 160 degrees in minutes. Animals can succumb to heatstroke in just 15 minutes. If you see a dog left alone in a car, take down the car's color, model, make, and license plate number and have the owner paged inside the store, or call local humane authorities or police. Do whatever is necessary to get the dog out of the car—his or her life may depend on it. PETA offers leaflets that can be placed on vehicles to remind people never to leave unattended animals inside. For information on ordering PETA's "Don't Let Your Dog Get Hot Under the Collar" leaflet, please visit us today.

HelpingAnimals101   

Helping Animals 101 is a two-day conference packed with information and advice for people who want to turn their compassion for animals into action. Whether you’re new to the animal protection movement or have been active for decades, this conference is for you! At the conference, you will join members from all over your community to hear presentations on topics such as how to improve your local animal shelter, speaking out for animals, and starting your own group. After the completion of the conference, you will be able to confidently write letters to the editor, stage a demonstration, and debate animal rights with your friends and the media alike. We will also show you how good vegan food can taste by preparing your favorite comfort foods, like faux fried chicken. And every attendee will also receive a goody bag full of our favorite cruelty-free products.