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Are you ready to make a big difference for yourself, animals, and the Earth through simple day-to-day choices? PETA Prime has all the information you need to live a healthy, humane, and rewarding life.
a) Blue? This ain't blue. You don't even know blue.
b) So that I match my mate, who looks just like me.
c) I eat blueberries and incorporate plant pigments into my feathers as they develop.
d) It has nothing to do with my diet: I eat bugs and make my own …
Continue reading "The Starling Asks, 'Why Am I So Blue?'"
Are animals conscious in the way that we are? What goes on in their minds? I can't say for sure, but it doesn't surprise me that elephants distinguish between different human languages as they listen to us or that dolphins have a strong sense of self and can think about the future.
I sometimes run …
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Ready or not, this is National Estate Planning Awareness Week, so it's a great time to visit PETA's new gift-planning website. Studies show that more than half of Americans do not have an adequate plan in place for after they're gone. If something happens to them, odds are that their wishes will not be fulfilled …
Continue reading "A Seven-Step Plan for Your Future"
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A veg diet can be a money saver as well as a life saver for you and animals. Recent increases in the costs of many grocery items, particularly milk and other animal products, have been attributed to the high cost of fuel and other resources.
Many plant-based staples, however, are still relatively inexpensive—including beans, pasta, rice, …
Continue reading "Money-Saving Tips at the Grocery Store"
Quick: what do retirement accounts and life insurance have in common? If you are repulsed by this question, we need to talk-this is exciting stuff! They are both great ways to give PETA a stronger voice for animals in the future. They generally aren't covered by wills or …
Continue reading "Why PETA Is the Beneficiary of My Life Insurance"
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It was clear that he wanted my help. He was the cutest baby I had ever seen, covered with white spots, mewing a soft call as he walked toward me with pleading eyes looking straight into mine, ears perked forward inquisitively. I had never heard that plaintive sound before—and I've spent plenty of time watching …
Continue reading "Why I Didn't Rescue the Fawn"
Cats, dogs, raccoon dogs, rabbits, and other animals are skinned alive in China for their fur. This fur is exported to consumers in the U.S. and abroad and often dyed to look like the fur of other animals. It's sometimes even deliberately mislabeled as synthetic! More than half the fur garments …
Continue reading "Best of PETA Prime: Help Shut Down the Chinese Fur Trade"
