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The Triple Crown Races have begun with the Kentucky Derby on the first Saturday in May. But the only thing people are talking about is how the longshot winner,Rich Strike, was punched on national television after the race was over. PETA Sr. VP Kathy Guillermo talks about how it shows that the public's attitudes on racing are changing with more people aware of the cruelty that is part of what some people are calling sport.

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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 leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way.

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(Originally released  May 11 2022).

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NEW DOCUMENTARY, "THE END OF MEDICINE."

Coming May 10, to Apple, I-Tunes, Amazon Prime.

The threat of big corporate farms is real to the animals, consumers, and to the planet. That's the message from director Alex Lockwood in his new documentary, "The End of Medicine." Lockwood speaks with the scientific experts, but the story is told through the eyes of Dr.Alice Brough, a pig veterinarian who worked inside the industry that kills 11 million pigs a year in the UK. It was an experience that turned her into a vegan. "The End of Medicine" opens May 10 and is available for pre-order NOW on I-Tunes, Apple, and Amazon Prime. Dr.Brough and Alex Lockwood speak with Emil Guillermo on the PETA Podcast.

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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 leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way.

Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism.

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(Originally released  May 4, 2022).

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When laboratories transport monkeys into the U.S. and throughout the country, every movement must be documented by a veterinary inspection. PETA found it's not being done in dozens of cases involving nearly 2,000 monkeys. These illegal shipments represent a public health risk as monkeys can pass such diseases as tuberculosis, West Nile virus, and Herpes B to humans. Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel, PETA scientist, talks to Emil Guillermo about how PETA is asking the USDA to suspend and fine research facilities for failure to comply with the Animal Welfare Act.  Dr. Jones-Engel talks about how awareness was raised after a van carrying monkeys crashed in Danville, Pennsylvania in January this year. And she says how this wouldn't be an issue if researchers simply stopped wasteful, useless and cruel experimentation on animals.

Go to PETA.org for more on the illegal shipments of monkeys.

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 leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way.

Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism.

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(Originally released  April 27, 2022).

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It's no small thing to bring together a divided government in Virginia and get them to unanimously pass five new laws to save dogs bred for experimentation. But that's what happened after a PETA undercover investigation exposed cruelty at Envigo in Virginia, a 5,000 dog breeding farm that was more like a prison. PETA documented deplorable conditions at Envigo including finding more than 360 dead dogs on the premises. But when the feds wouldn't take action, PETA went to Virginia's state legislators. Normally gridlocked and divided, the legislature, at PETA's urging, came together to fight animal cruelty. PETA Sr. VP Daphna Nachminovich talks to Emil Guillermo about how the investigation sparked passage of new laws holding Envigo accountable.

Go to PETA.org to learn more:

The Envigo Investigation

How the U.S. Senate is taking action.

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 leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way.

Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism.

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(Originally released  April 19, 2022).

PETA's documentary, "Test Subjects" is winning hearts and minds on the film festival circuit. The film depicts three scientists who found the moral courage to leave vivisection behind and cross over to fight for the animals. After premiering at the famed Raindance Film Festival in England, it has been nominated for best documentary short at the Lancaster International Film Festival. In honor of that, we reprise an episode on one of the scientists featured in the documentary, Dr. Frances Cheng.

In conversation with Emil Guillermo, Cheng talks about how she came from Taiwan to the U.S. to become a scientist.  As a graduate student, she did a test on saturated fats on rats and learned that the physiology of rats and humans are so different that too often it renders animal tests useless.

It's the reason 95 percent of drugs tested on rats fail in human trials.

Cheng talks about how that fact began a new emotional journey for her as a scientist. She now regrets having experimented on animals but is haunted by her past actions and can't talk about it without feeling the pain of her test subjects.

Cheng now works for PETA and is proud to say she has now saved more animals than she tortured and killed as a researcher. 

SEE THE DOCUMENTARY NOW

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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 leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way.

Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism.

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(Originally released Dec. 18, 2019; Reprised July 15, 2020; April 13, 2022)

PETA Germany continues to save and feed the animals trapped by the war in Ukraine.  More than 1,000 animals have been saved by PETA's Animal Rescue Teams. The effort has now expanded to include the feeding of horses left without food. PETA has brought in more than 200 tons of vegan animal food.

PETA Germany's Sylvie Bunz talks to Emil Guillermo about how the effort changes with every new twist in the far. She also talks about the farm animals of Ukraine, and the zoo in Kyiv. 

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Originally aired April 6, 2022.  

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Say, "NO," to snakeskin and python products under the LVMH brands like Louis Vuitton. PETA undercover investigators captured horrifying video of how python is used in LVMH premium-priced handbags, shoes, and wallets. LVMH denies any wrong-doing, but the video shows how snakes are denied a decent life and left sometimes for months in a bag to suffer. Just like fur is now dead in fashion, Jason Baker, PETA Sr. VP, PETA Asia, says PETA wants to see snakeskin become just like fur, its use declining as people reject cruelty in fashion. 

See the PETA undercover investigation here.

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Originally aired March 30 2022 

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It only took days after the Russians invaded Ukraine for PETA-Germany to organize an Animal Rescue team to swing into action. The mission? To quickly and safely enter Ukraine to save animals left behind in shelters, abandoned homes, and even train stations. And to feed as many starving animals as they could.  PETA Germany's Daniel Cox has now returned from Ukraine to update the efforts and the growing number of animals saved. The heartbreaking fact is that for as many animals as the team is able to save, so many more are left behind.

Cox talks to Emil Guillermo about what the teams saw, and how they created a pathway for animals from other parts of the country to get to the western city of Lviv, where the team picks up the animals for a trip to the border and beyond. 

Cox says the effort will continue for as long as it can, feeding and saving as many animals and their companions as they can.

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Originally aired March 23, 2022 

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At one point in life, Jonathan Horn mushed. J.J. tried dogsledding just once, but it let J.J. know firsthand the cruelty of the activity. J.J. saw what it did to the lead dog, Bianca. Horn, now a PETA campaigner, talks about how J.J. uses Bianca's memory to fight for the end of the grand symbol of dogsledding, the Iditarod. Horn was just coming back from Alaska and on the way to another PETA demonstration when J.J. took some time at an airport to talk with Emil Guillermo about the just-completed 50th Iditarod. It's still a cruel enterprise that has no real purpose but to subject hundreds of dogs to real suffering.

Note: While the race winner was named, the race continues until the last participant finishes. The number of dogs injured or pulled from the race will likely be higher than first reported.

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Originally aired March 16, 2022 

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Sylvie Bunz, PETA Germany's Special Projects manager, leads the effort to save animals abandoned due to Russia's war in Ukraine. She talks to Emil Guillermo about the dangers involved (at least one person has died providing dog food to a shelter). "There's no time to lose," says Bunz, who also runs PETA's effort in dealing with the 600,000 wild dogs in Romania.

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Originally aired March 9, 2022 

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