Dear Mr. President:

On behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and our more than 2 million members and supporters, I am writing to ask three things: 1) that you please send this year's pardoned turkeys to a credible sanctuary; 2) that in your speech at the...

Like the Greek god Typhon, who threatened heaven with his scorched breath, Glenn Beck creates a firestorm whenever he opens his mouth. The heavens shook and the gods fled when Typhon appeared on that giant TV screen of old -- the sky -- and, now as then, guilt by association...

As the high cost of health care was debated this week in the nation that was once the most powerful on Earth and is now just the fattest, two announcements were made. Time showed a slab of meat on its cover and declared, "The real cost of cheap food" (meat,...

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind. They use tools to sweep paths and even to draw pictures in the dirt and scratch themselves in inaccessible places, and they communicate subsonically at frequencies so low that humans...

This week, Sir Paul McCartney and his daughter Stella introduced the concept of "Meat-Free Mondays," coincidentally the same name as that of a program that PETA Europe is also working on in British schools. As a vegan who was once busily eating her way through the animal kingdom, from mussels...

A massacre took place in late July in the Mouding County in southwest China after an outbreak of rabies. Rather than assessing the situation and dealing with the problem responsibly by, say, implementing a dog vaccination program, authorities ordered the slaughter of all dogs, even those who have never put...

With the national debt in the trillions, the U.S. government is still letting money go up in smoke.

For decades now, we’ve known that those men in the white coats who were employed by tobacco companies to appear on TV and tell us that smoking soothed a scratchy throat were...

Even when they're rescued, "Katrina animals" will not be out of the woods (or water). One of PETA's rescue workers described the condition of some dogs she is pulling out of wrecked houses and pens as "demented." After the noise, the wind, the water, the starvation, the lack of...

What are they thinking now? Here's another stupid and very wrong decision from the top that brings pain. The authorities are telling people who have lost everything or close to it, that they must CHOOSE between their animal and a piece of luggage. This is not only immoral, it is...

Out of the devastated South come wonderful photographs of people hugging cats to their chests as they wade through the water, a man handing a trembling beagle out through the window of a submerged house, a girl running from a wrecked gas station carrying...

Imagine tucking into a plate of sausages, popping chicken nuggets into your mouth and dining on a steak—all with the approval of the most ardent vegan animal rights activists, environmentalists and health proponents. This may not be just wishful thinking, for meat-eaters or activists, because scientists at the University of...

In 2002, employees at Taser International shocked a conscious bull with an electric stun gun, and that got PETA’s attention. You can see a video clip of what they did to the bull on Taser’s Web site. Now, the rising toll of Taser-related human deaths has cast doubt on the...

We know that it is sometimes irate mothers and fathers who have to push the military to provide safer vehicles and more protective gear for personnel in Iraq. Here is another tale of how military training could be improved.

Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland is a pretty scary place if...

On March 7, 2004, I was on board a flight to Norfolk, Virginia which attempted to land when all other aircraft had fled the area due to a hurricane watch and severe crosswinds during a black thunderstorm we could see below us. We ran into wind sheer during each of...

Steve Johnson is the former director of a monkey Abu Ghraib headquartered in Vienna, Virginia. You may remember Hazleton, as it was called back then, now Covance, the world’s largest supplier of and user of animals in product tests -- these are the tests in which animals have everything from...