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A Look Inside the Angora Fur Industry
As shoppers and retailers gear up for the busiest shopping time of the year, PETA Asia is unveiling never-before-seen investigative footage of angora fur farms. The video footage reveals routine cruelty to angora rabbits, whose long, soft fur is in high demand for sweaters and accessories. The investigator filmed workers violently ripping the fur from…
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PETA Roadside Memorial Reminds People to Consider Animals
Following the deaths of a number of sheep in a traffic incident in South Australia on 17 July, PETA has placed a roadside memorial at the crash site. PETA hopes the memorial will remind livestock haulers that they are carrying living, feeling beings and also give consumers food for thought about the horrific industry that…
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Contest Closed: Win Tickets to the Powerful New Documentary ‘Blackfish’!
This competition is now closed! Thanks to all who entered. The lucky winners will receive their double passes soon! Blackfish is the story of Tilikum, an orca who was torn from his family in the wild and imprisoned in a concrete bathtub at SeaWorld, where he made headlines after killing a trainer in 2010. After…
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Queensland Rail and Sydney Ferries Reject New Live Export Ad
Sydney Ferries and Queensland Rail have both refused PETA’s request for paid placement of a new ad that blasts the live export of sheep and cattle to foreign countries for slaughter. The ad shows sheep jam-packed in filthy stalls aboard a ship and has the caption “Their Commute Is a Real Killer. Ban Live-Animal Export!“…
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Civets Suffer for Vile Coffee
An investigation partially funded by PETA Australia has exposed the appalling treatment of civets who are used in the production of kopi luwak coffee, which is made from the beans of coffee berries that have been eaten and excreted – yes, you read that right! – by the Asian palm civet. To make this vile…