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• Inside Vietnam’s Frog Meat Trade: Unseen Horrors

  19-12-2024 15:52 via peta.org.au
  
  Inside Vietnam’s Frog Meat Trade: Unseen HorrorsNews20 December 2024
  In a recent undercover investigation, PETA Asia revealed the conditions endured by frogs in Vietnam’s frog meat industry. From crowded sacks to ineffective and agonising “ice baths,” these animals suffer immensely before being cruelly slaughtered. PETA Asia investigators documented shocking acts of brutality at multiple facilities, where frogs were mutilated and skinned alive.A Grim Reality for Frogs in
  
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• PETA Names Dr Jane Goodall the 2025 Person of the Year

  05-12-2025 18:03 via peta.org.au
  For devoting her life to reshaping how humans perceive our fellow animals, world-renowned primate expert, vegan, and trailblazing animal advocate Dr Jane Goodall has been posthumously named PETA’s 2025 Person of the Year.Dr Goodall exemplified the compassion and determination necessary to drive positive change for the other animals with whom we share this planet. From her groundbreaking research that reframed animals as “someone, not something,” to her outspoken
  
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• Global Compassion Fund Fireside Chat

  05-12-2025 17:22 via secure.peta.org.au
  The post Global Compassion Fund Fireside Chat appeared first on PETA Australia.
  
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• Watch: Workers Caught Cutting Angora From Rabbits’ Bloody Bodies

  21-11-2025 20:02 via peta.org.au
  Medieval torture has a modern-day sequel: the angora industry. Imagine someone tying you up so tightly you can’t move. They violently shave every inch of your body until your skin bleeds. For rabbits in the angora wool trade, this nightmare is reality—and PETA has the undercover investigation to prove it.PETA Asia obtained shocking footage shows bloody rabbits frozen with fear from eight angora wool factory farms in China, where most of the world’s angora is sourced. Workers ti
  
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• This Aussie Company’s Realistic Human Simulators Could Save Countless Animals’ Lives Globally

  12-11-2025 22:35 via peta.org.au
  Thousands of animals across the globe are sliced open, mutilated, and killed in surgical training procedures each year, even though simulators can replace the use of animals in nearly all training situations.But after speaking with PETA entity scientists, one innovative maker of animal-free medical training models has solidified its public stance supporting the development of ethical surgical training tools to help medical institutions shift away from using live animals.Australia-based IMRA
  
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• Balloons and Soy Sauce Packets are Just a Drop in the Ocean When it Comes to Plastic Pollution 

  11-11-2025 22:33 via peta.org.au
  New South Wales plan to phase out more common plastic litter is a step in the right direction when it comes to helping animals and the environment. But stopping balloon releases and avoiding single-use plastic soy sauce containers is just a small step when it comes to helping animals in the ocean.Humans produce nearly 300 million tons of plastic every single year, and 14 million tons of it is dumped into our oceans annually. With balloons, what goes up must come down. Whether they&rsqu
  
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• Investigation: Elephants in Bali Subjected to Violence and Neglect

  08-11-2025 02:46 via peta.org.au
  A new PETA video reveals that elephants at tourist traps in Bali, Indonesia were chained in barren pens with wounds and scars on their heads and scars on their legs. Workers hit and jabbed them repeatedly with bullhooks –weapons that resemble a fireplace poker with a metal hook on one end.Bali’s Elephant Tourist TrapsThe facilities exposed in PETA’s undercover video include Bakas Adventure Elephant Safari and Rafting and Mason Elephant Park & Lodge –which market thems
  
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• Egyptian President Urged to Act Following Damning New Footage of Horse ‘Graveyard’ Near Pyramids

  06-11-2025 21:37 via peta.org.au
  Horses and camels used for tourist rides near the pyramids of Egypt are perishing in numbers higher than ever before. Ahead of the official opening of the historic new Grand Egyptian Museum, PETA Asia sent a letter to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi alerting him to damning new footage of dead horses – used to give tourists rides through Egypt’s historic sites – piled up in a secret graveyard close to the new museum’s walls.Watch the new video to see horses and camels force
  
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• “Embrace Vegans and Get Five Stars!”

  06-11-2025 18:21 via peta.org.au
  Chef Dylan Cashman of The Blue Door restaurant in Surry Hills has been bombarded with one-star reviews for failing to offer animal-free options, which has prompted a sweet – but cheeky – gift from PETA.We’ve sent the chef sent a PETA empathy kit and five vegan chocolate stars, with a note reading, “Imagine all the stars you could earn by embracing empathy – and vegans!”PETA isn’t condoning fake reviews, but we do agree that failing to cate
  
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• PETA to AC/DC: Wool Industry is a “Highway to Hell” For Sheep

  04-11-2025 17:10 via peta.org.au
  Ahead of the Australian leg of AC/DC’s “Power Up” tour, PETA is sending guitarist Angus Young a new school uniform made with 100 per cent plant wool. Both the plant wool blazer and the 100 per cent cotton cap are embroidered with a patch featuring a sheep and the words “ACD-SEE Sheep, Not Wool”.The gift coincides with PETA’s inaugural Plant Wool Month, which celebrates sustainable, animal-free fibres made purely from plants.We hope this new uniform will inspir
  
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• PETA Wants Black Caviar Statue Fitted With “Cruel Apparatus” To Reflect Mare’s Final Years

  03-11-2025 18:35 via peta.org.au
  Ahead of the Melbourne Cup, PETA has written to Strathbogie Shire Council, urging it to update Nagambie’s Black Caviar statue to reflect the cruelty she endured in her final years as a breeding mare.
  Black Caviar’s bronze likeness currently only reflects the abuse she endured on the sprint track, but we want racegoers to know that, even in disingenuously named “retirement”, Black Caviar was forced to produce nine foals in 11 years.Our artist’s rendering illustrates
  
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• November Is Plant Wool Month: Here’s Everything You Need to Know

  03-11-2025 16:41 via peta.org.au
  When it comes to weaving a better future using long-lasting materials that can help protect our forests and oceans, reduce emissions, and protect animals, nothing comes close to soft, insulating, natural, and environmentally friendly plant wool.Made from a myriad of natural fibres, from cotton and hemp to nettles, bananas, and even potatoes, the list of plants being innovatively turned into green, kind fibres continues to grow. All over the world, visionaries a
  
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• ‘Love Triangle’ Host and Her New Rescued Pup Have a Message for Dog Guardians

  30-10-2025 20:33 via peta.org.au
  Love Triangle host and Selling Sunset star real estate agent Chrishell Stause knows a thing or two about finding the perfect home—and recently, she found one for someone extra special: her rescued pup, Peace. Together, they’re stealing the show in a new PETA campaign to urge everyone to Give a Shelter Dog Their Home Sweet Home and include them in every part of our day—whether we’re getting ready in the morning, preparing dinner, or strolling around the neighbourhood.Prote
  
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• Animal Allies Arrested at the Vatican Over Catholic Church’s Ties to Cruel Bullfights

  09-10-2025 14:45 via peta.org.au
  Earlier today, PETA supporters in Europe were arrested at the Vatican during the Jubilee of Consecrated Life as crowds of monks, nuns and priests looked on in shock.Wearing t-shirts reading “Stop Blessing Corridas!” and holding a banner featuring Jesus proclaiming that torturing animals is a sin, the action in front of St Peter’s Square was urging the Catholic church to cut ties with cruel bullfighting. It followed the news that a group of Franciscan monks, from the Capuc
  
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• Rodeo Reimagined: Could This be Hobby Horsing’s Next Leap? 

  06-10-2025 22:25 via peta.org.au
  PETA entities and animal protection group GAIA (Global Action in the Interest of Animals) have sent a joint letter to the Hobby Horse Federation urging it to add a rodeo discipline to hobby horsing. Such an event would highlight what the federation does best: entertaining audiences with human athleticism and creativity that doesn’t saddle animals with suffering.Hobby horsing is a sport that simulates equestrian events like show jumping and dressage, using a hobby horse instead of a real ho
  
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• Rage Against the Machines: New Australian Footage Shows Babies Being Sorted Like Mail

  02-10-2025 03:38 via peta.org.au
  When kids’ TV shows depict baby animals on farms, they’re always happy. Pigs snuggling with their mums, calves drinking from their mothers’ teats, and baby chickens nestling under their mother hen’s wing.But the reality for young animals in the food industry is far more grim: whirring blades, mechanised sorting systems, and cold steel machines where warm mothers should be.No matter what welfare labels are slapped on the products of cruelty, all paths from living being to
  
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• Will Adelaide Council Erect PETA Memorial to Honour Pigs Killed in Factory Farm Blaze?

  18-09-2025 18:28 via peta.org.au
  Andgar piggery in Dublin, South Australia, a grotesque factory farm already being investigated for cruelty allegations, is back in the headlines after a fire reportedly claimed the lives of hundreds of pigs.In a rapid response, PETA has written a letter to Adelaide Plains Council calling for the erection of a memorial plaque at the site to “honour the hundreds of pigs who no doubt screamed in agony while they burned alive”.   Every Pig is SomeoneLike all animals,
  
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• Will the “Pub with No Beer” Become the Pub with No Meat?

  11-09-2025 20:18 via peta.org.au
  Sixty eight years ago, Australian country music legend Slim Dusty wrote the ballad a Pub with No Beer. This song, which was the first-ever Australian-recorded song to receive a Gold Record in Australia, was based on a poem written in and about a pub called Lee’s Hotel, in Ingham, Queensland.PETA Asks Ingham Icon For Menu ChangePETA has written to Lee’s Hotel, the venue that started it all, urging it to become a Pub with No Meat. We’ve even offered to cover the cost of a year&rs
  
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• Art Meets Activism: Portrait of Ingrid Newkirk Nominated for Prestigious Award 

  08-09-2025 22:50 via peta.org.au
  Australian artist Jaq Grantford has been named a finalist in 2025’s Portia Geach Memorial Award, Australia’s most prestigious portrait prize for women artists, and her subject is none other than Ingrid Newkirk, the founder of PETA and a fearless force for animals. The powerful portrait, titled The Animal Advocate, captures not only Ingrid’s likeness but also her unwavering spirit and lifelong dedication to animals. It is bold, unapologetic, and deeply moving, just like Ing
  
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• Tasmania’s Salmon Farms—And All Fish Factory Farms—Must Go, Not Grow

  08-09-2025 16:48 via peta.org.au
  Most people are familiar with the intensive factory farming of pigs, chickens, and other mammals exploited for food, but few realise that fish are also factory-farmed. In Australia, farming marine animals (called aquaculture) is the country’s fastest-growing primary industry, accounting for 34% of the total gross value of sea animals used for food.Forty different species are victims of aquaculture in Australia, with the most intensively farmed animals being tuna, prawns, crabs, barramundi,
  
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• PETA Warns Travellers: Avoid Bali’s Illegal Cockfighting Spectacles

  06-09-2025 15:41 via peta.org.au
  Foreign travellers are being lured to disgusting cockfighting spectacles in Bali, where frightened roosters are forced to slice each other to the bone to prop up illegal gambling operations.Disturbing, video footage from the first-ever PETA Asia investigation into the cruel events reveals that terrified roosters have sharp razors strapped to their feet and are forced to fight to the death in front of jeering crowds where illegal gambling runs rampant – and Bali cab drivers are promoting th
  
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• Rodeo Does Not Belong at the Olympics

  28-08-2025 20:41 via peta.org.au
  The Olympics are meant to celebrate fair play and sportsmanship, not violence and animal abuse, so PETA is urging the 2032 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games to reject the Mount Isa mayor’s suggestion that rodeo be featured as an exhibition event.As more of the public have come to understand that cows, bulls, and horses are no different in any way that matters from the animals with whom many of us share our homes, public opposition to rodeos has grown. The individuals tormented at rodeo
  
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• How to Help Fathers of All Species This Dad’s Day

  21-08-2025 18:17 via peta.org.au
  Father’s Day is a time to celebrate the father figures in our lives, and the special bonds that dads of all species share with their kids. After all, humans are far from the only animals who bond with their babies, bring home the bagels, and seek to enjoy family time without encountering cruelty.Let’s celebrate some of the more uniquely Aussie great animal dads and how you can help ensure they’re free from harm to enjoy time with their babies.EmusWhen it comes to medal-worthy d
  
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• Good News! Tasmania Will Phase Out Greyhound Racing – But This Needs to Be Nationwide

  11-08-2025 18:22 via peta.org.au
  Citing a clear misalignment with community values, the Tasmanian Premier, Jeremy Rockliff, has finally announced a plan to phase out greyhound racing in the state by 2029.This, of course, is excellent news for greyhounds, some 6,500 of whom have been injured and 78 more killed on Australian tracks in the past year alone.
  But, with other state governments still throwing millions of dollars at the cruel industry, and thousands of dogs still being abused in the name of gambling, so much more needs
  
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• Baby Clings to Life at Australian Lamb Farm

  04-08-2025 22:38 via peta.org.au
  Which animal loves to play, wags their tail to express joy, and will paw at you for pats?A lamb, of course!Like puppies in all the ways that matter, lambs are gentle, curious individuals who are killed at mere months old so we can eat their flesh.Newly Released Footage Reveals Suffering in Aussie Lamb IndustryNewly released footage shot inside an Australian lamb operation by PETA Asia reveals dead and dying lambs, some covered in blood, others swarming with flies as their bodies rot in the scorc
  
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• PETA Exposes Camels Being Horrifically Abused for Tourism in Morocco

  31-07-2025 16:02 via peta.org.au
  A new PETA Asia investigation into the Moroccan tourism industry reveals that camels used to give rides are viciously beaten, tied up with no protection from the elements, and slaughtered when they’re no longer profitable.Exploited and Beaten, then Killed or Sold for MeatThe disturbing video shows camels tethered on ropes only a few feet long, left exposed amid a severe sandstorm, and forced to haul tourists all day in the sweltering heat. One operator was filmed repeatedly beating a tied-
  
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• Australian Experimenters Strangle Female Rats in Gruesome Domestic Violence Test

  06-03-2025 23:57 via peta.org.au
  
  Australian Experimenters Strangle Female Rats in Gruesome Domestic Violence TestNews7 March 2025PETA US and PETA Australia are calling for swift and immediate consequences after experimenters at an Australian university tied weights around female rats’ necks and strangled them in a gruesome and pointless attempt at studying domestic violence in humans.The cruel test was first exposed by Animal-Free Science Advocacy and took place at Melbourne’s Monash University.PETA entity scientist
  
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• Lent— An Ideal Time to Go Vegan

  03-03-2025 22:00 via peta.org.au
  
  Lent— An Ideal Time to Go VeganNews4 March 2025
  For more than eleven million Australian Christians, Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and lasts approximately 40 days, is a practice in self-denial to honour the sacrifices made by Jesus. Traditionally, Lent is a time of introspection, which many observe by abstaining from foods such as eggs, meat, and fish. More recently, this has evolved to include avoidance of vices like social media and alcohol, but, with more than 700 million land
  
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• Yes, Fish Are Animals Too – SA Updates Animal Welfare Act

  27-02-2025 22:22 via peta.org.au
  
  Yes, Fish Are Animals Too – SA Updates Animal Welfare ActNews28 February 2025
  South Australia has introduced new reforms to the Animal Welfare Act. The revisions introduce tougher penalties for humans caught abusing some animals as well as minimum standards of care, allowing authorities to intervene when a companion animal is being neglected. The new rules have also finally updated South Australia’s definition of an animal to include fish. As PETA pointed out in our submission t
  
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• How World Spay Day— February 25— Saves Lives

  24-02-2025 22:26 via peta.org.au
  
  How World Spay Day— February 25— Saves LivesNews25 February 2025
  Thanks to Valentine’s Day perched right in the middle, February is known as the month of romance. But when it comes to our companion animals, unbridled passion is a bad idea, which is why the last Tuesday in February is World Spay Day.World Spay Day reminds us how important it is to desex the cats, dogs, rabbits, and other animals we live with so that they can live longer, happier lives and so that we never contri
  
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