THE PETA PODCAST

Hannah Schein, Senior Director of Investigations for PETA, talks about how the Queen of England's involvement in pigeon racing helps support the sport's cruelty. New PETA investigation shows all eight of the Queen's birds died in quarantine before the South African Million Dollar Pigeon Race. For more information, go to PETA.org The PETA Podcast PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, is 6.5 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why. Hear from insiders, thought

PETA Sr. VP Dan Mathews talks about paying his respects to George Floyd by recently attending the memorial that took place in Floyd's hometown of Fayetteville, North Carolina. Mathews, openly gay, saw it as an opportunity to link arms and show solidarity between all the issues he cares about animal rights, gay rights and the fight for racial justice. Mathews also talks about his new book coming out about his mother. Conversation took place before the Supreme Court landmark ruling that declared that

PETA online producer Zachary Toliver talks about his essay on the PETA blog, "Why Animal Rights Activists Must Stand Up for Black Lives," where he describes how a belief in empathy and compassion for all living things can bring about about the real social change people are clamoring for in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minnesota. In this conversation with Emil Guillermo, Toliver talks about how he came to veganism and to PETA. He also explains the reality of the African American

PETA's latest undercover investigation--released Sunday in the New York Times--exposes the use and abuse of animals in the alpaca wool industry in Peru. The farm produces about 80 percent of the world's Alpaca fiber supply, and houses 4,000 animals.  Dan Paden, PETA's vice president of evidence analysis, speaks with Emil Guillermo about the Michell Group's largest Alpaca farm, and the cruel process alpacas are put through for fashion. Find out more. Go to PETA.org. The PETA Podcast PETA, the world's

Amid the news of the virus, the media tries to offer hope when reporting the latest vaccine developments. But we are still early in the process, with no guarantee of success. That means the big news may not be in the discovery of a cure, but in the near elimination of animal testing as the vaccines are raced to human trials. PETA Science Advisor Jeffrey Brown says sparing animals in wasteful tests may be the most significant breakthrough for now. Go to PETA.org for more information. The PETA Podcast

Tracy Reiman, PETA Exec.VP talks to Emil Guillermo about PETA's new ad blitz urging people to question why they are still killing animals for meat. Reiman said PETA placed full page ads in major national and metropolitan papers after seeing how meat companies were placing ads in newspapers misleading the public about slaughterhouse workers getting the virus. And then the president stepped in to make sure the slaughterhouses stayed open. Reiman said if we didn't kill animals for meat we could have

Dr. Alka Chandna, VP for PETA's Laboratory Investigations Department talks to Emil Guillermo about the abuses found at the esteemed Cleveland Clinic. A PETA investigator went undercover at the Lerner College of Medicine there and found numerous examples like mice with holes drilled into their heads without pain relief and dead mice in crowded cages. The National Institutes of Health now says it will investigate after it received PETA's 42-page complaint last week. Chandna explains that the Animal

Kathy Guillermo, Sr. VP of PETA's Laboratory Investigations Department, talks about how NIH's animal testing has been exposed by the race for a Covid-19 vaccine. If animal testing is unnecessary for one, why not all? And how has such useless testing delayed or prevented scientists from real answers to medical questions? Go to PETA.org for more information.     The PETA Podcast PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, is 6.5 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why