Time's running out! Help PETA's legal team accomplish even more!
 | | Time's running out! Help PETA's legal team accomplish even more! | Dear Aaaaaaa,
I took my first steps toward becoming an animal rights activist as a senior in college—ironically, while writing a paper portraying vegetarian eating as a shortsighted fad.
I never expected that researching it would open my eyes to the misery of living, feeling beings abused and killed for meat, eggs, and dairy "products"—or that writing it would leave me determined to do all that I can for animals.
Today as a lawyer with the PETA Foundation, I’ve made defending the rights of animals abused in roadside zoos, circuses, and the film and television industries both my mission and my passion. I've committed my career to helping bears, chimpanzees, and other animals abused for entertainment leave their cramped, barren cages and get a new lease on life.
Will you give our groundbreaking legal work for animals an immediate boost by donating right now? We're hoping to raise $100,000 to support the PETA Legal Fund by this Saturday, and we need your help to reach our goal! | | | | Donate now and help us reach our $100,000 goal by this Saturday! | | | | I'll give you just two examples of the wonderful impact that you can make by supporting the PETA Legal Fund: a pair of bears named Ben and Bogey.
Until recently, both bears were confined to small, virtually barren enclosures at a notorious North Carolina roadside zoo. Ben suffered from eye lesions so severe that in 2015, the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited the roadside zoo after our complaint. His eyes remain permanently scarred today. Bogey paced incessantly in her tiny concrete-floored cell and bit the bars of her cage, behavior that was likely a result of being confined to a space about 0.0004 percent of the minimum range that the bears occupy in nature.
After years of inspections, complaints, and a lawsuit, the roadside zoo finally agreed to release them, and today, they're enjoying their new home at a vast, serene sanctuary, where they're finally able to run, roam, climb, and swim.
Ben and Bogey are only two of the 67 bears our team has helped rescue in the last five years alone, but right now, there are hundreds more just like them who need help. Will you come to their aid?
Your gift today will push us closer to our goal—and help us rescue more animals like Ben and Bogey.
Over the course of my nine years here, I've seen us grow into the largest and most effective legal team working for animal rights in the world. What we're accomplishing for animals is nothing short of historic:
When corporate giants push states to pass insidious "ag-gag" laws designed to stop anyone from documenting animal abuse on farms and in slaughterhouses, we challenge them every step of the way—and in Utah and Idaho, we helped get such legislation struck down. When protesters were sued using laws designed to fight organized crime, the case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which adopted PETA's argument and reversed a lower court's ruling against the protesters. When SeaWorld condemned wild-caught orcas to decades of cruel confinement, our work to get them out of the tanks led a U.S. court to consider constitutional rights for animals for the first time—a case that's still creating heated debates regarding the ethics of animal captivity, both in the media and in law schools. However, PETA's legal team does far more than file lawsuits: We're changing how the law—and the world—looks at the rights of all animals to live free from exploitation, abuse, and neglect. But we cannot do this work without your support.
Please donate right now and help keep our vital legal work for animals going strong.
Thank you for your compassion and support.
Kind regards,
Brittany Peet
Director
Captive Animal Law Enforcement
PETA Foundation | | | |
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