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peta

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), with more than 2 million members and supporters, is the largest animal rights organization in the world.

PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of beavers, birds and other “pests,” and the abuse of backyard dogs.

PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.

The Cove

The Secret is Out. Spread the Word.

The Cove exposes the slaughter of more than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises in Taiji, Japan every year, and how their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan and other parts of Asia, often labeled as whale meat. The majority of the world is not aware this is happening as the Taiji cove is blocked off from the public. The focus of the Social Action Campaign for The Cove is to create worldwide awareness of this annual practice as well as the dangers of eating seafood contaminated with mercury and to pressure those in power to put an end to the slaughter.

Egypt street slaughter – Eid Al Adha

This photo is the outcome of an Eid Al Adha street slaughter, and the appalling final minutes of this terrified young bull were documented. The treatment this animal received was one of the worst abuses of an animal investigators had documented. The bull was transported on a ute with its front legs tied together with rope. With no unloading ramp the bull was forced backwards from the ute falling on its side on the road. The terrorized animal then struggled against the slaughtermen trying to pull it to the slaughter area (outside the shopping centre). When the animal wouldn’t comply, one slaughterman slashed the rear left leg tendon of the bull. Slaughtermen then dragged the crippled bull with front legs tied and rear leg tendon slashed to a footpath continually twisting and bending its tail using the pain as leverage to get the animal to move. In front of a crowd of onlookers this poor animal which by this time had collapsed on the ground, was held down by four men whilst its head was twisted for the throat cut.

Little Piggies go to Market

Most Australians are still unaware that around 95% of the pigs raised in Australia are factory-farmed—and that they are unwittingly financially supporting animal cruelty by buying factory-farmed ham, bacon and pork.
In 2004 Animals Australia launched the Save Babe campaign to highlight the suffering of factory farmed pigs in Australia, which coincided with the rescue of 45 ‘Wilburs’ from the Paramount motion picture Charlotte’s Web, who would otherwise have had to endure a life of misery in a factory farm.

Imprisoned mother pigs
More than 90% of Australian pigs are bred and kept in intensive conditions, enduring a factory-like existence, with around 5.7 million pigs slaughtered for their meat each year. These animals are severely confined for their entire lives and are denied the protection of animal cruelty laws for economic reasons.

The end of the road
A day eventually comes when for the first time in her life she experiences sun on her back and fresh air to breathe. What she doesn’t know as she is loaded on that truck, so lame, ill or ‘unproductive’ that she is no longer capable of creating profit, is that it is also to be the last day of her life…

Life Behind Bars
Sow stalls severely restrict normal movement for mother pigs – for some larger sows, it is even difficult to stand up and lie down comfortably.

Death of a Piglet
Many piglets do not survive – the ‘runts’ of the litter often cannot get any milk as the mother is too far away for them to reach.