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Labor Day means a carefree long weekend for many nine-to-fivers, but some laborers can't just close up shop and forget about their jobs, even for a day. For animal shelter workers, the work never ends because the stream of battered and bruised animals in need of refuge never ends. Few people …

Has this ever happened to you? You read about some wonderfully heroic thing that someone "out there" does and you wonder why you aren't out there doing great things too? We read about how activists unveiled a flag on a national monument and we think, "Why …

Who could forget the haunting images of cats and dogs who were left behind after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast? Animals were clinging to trees surrounded by toxic floodwaters; swimming madly toward people who were not permitted to rescue them; pacing, stranded, and left to die on rooftops and balconies.

What would happen to your beloved …

Mine was one of the few cars early this morning headed into Hampton Roads, where PETA's headquarters are located. The roads are at a standstill in much of Norfolk and Virginia Beach as tourists and many residents, especially those with homes on the water, head inland and north, many under mandatory …

Originally posted on Forbes.com.

Michael Tobias (MT) What is the most pressing problem that animal rights groups like PETA face today?
Ingrid Newkirk: (IN) That’s a bit like asking which shoes pinch the most. It’s got to be what people eat, simply because, while not everyone wears fur or experiments on animals, everyone eats. That means a mind-boggling …

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E-mail your answer to the question "What does cruelty-free mean to you?"—along with your name and full mailing address—to us at PETAPrime@peta.org. Be creative! Tell us the story of what inspired you to drop skins …

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Practically every day, we hear about "miracle" weight-loss pills, fitness equipment that will exercise for us, creams that can make us look 20 years younger, and quick and easy procedures that are guaranteed to heal everything that ails us. There's so much misinformation and quackery out there that we might as well …