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1) Animals are counting on compassionate people like you to give them a voice and be their heroes by learning about the issues they face and taking action.

2) Each of us has the power to save animals from nightmarish suffering-and best of all, it's easier than you might think. If you're ready to join the millions of other compassionate people who are working to create a kinder, better world for animals, please read on to learn how animals suffer in the [|food], [|animal experimentation], [|entertainment], [|clothing] and [|pet-trade] industries.

3) Every day in countries around the world, animals are fighting for their lives**.** 4) They are enslaved, beaten, and kept in chains to make them perform for humans' "entertainment"; they are mutilated and confined to tiny cages so that we can kill them and eat them; they are burned, blinded, poisoned, and cut up alive in the name of "science"; they are electrocuted, strangled, and skinned alive so that people can parade around in their coats; and worse.

5) People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world, with more than 2 million members and supporters.

6) PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in the clothing trade, in laboratories, and in the entertainment industry.

7) PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.

8) We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of beavers, birds, and other "pests" as well as cruelty to domesticated animals.

9) PETA staffers come from a variety of backgrounds and hold a host of different positions, from activists to administrators to executives.

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11) People for the ethical treatment of animals

12) Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved.

13) PETA investigators have documented that pushing undeveloped horses to run at extreme speeds can result in catastrophic breakdowns at auctions.

14) Mouse hearts are so fundamentally different from humans' that testing experimental heart arrhythmia drugs on mice is essentially pointless.

15) Chained dogs are often deprived of love and care and the opportunity to curl up indoors.