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Jes Cochran, a key member of PETA's Community Animal Project (CAP), goes out into underserved areas of Virginia and North Carolina to save dogs left outside on a chain. His ten-year-old love story with a dog named Edith is captured in the new documentary, "Breaking the Chain," executive produced by Anjelica Huston. Jes talks to Emil Guillermo about how CAP works, and how it has saved a number of dogs like Edith. See Edith's story in "Breaking the Chain," now available to rent or buy on streaming services

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.

Contact us at PETA.org Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk Music provided by CarbonWorks. Go to Apple podcasts and subscribe.

Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok Or at www.amok.com

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(Originally published  Dec. 2020; reprised, Dec.22, 2021).

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Dr. Emily Trunnell, PETA senior scientist, and Dr. Gina Hilton, PETA toxicologist say that a primary reason the U.S. has lost the war on cancer has been its slowness to adopt human-relevant research.  The PETA scientists talk to Emil Guillermo about the changes needed at NIH in order to find a cure for cancer. 

Take action. Sign a Petition. 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 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.

Contact us at PETA.org Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk Music provided by CarbonWorks. Go to Apple podcasts and subscribe.

Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok Or at www.amok.com

Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening to THE PETA PODCAST!

(Originally published  Dec.15, 2021).

Copyright 2021

A PETA undercover investigator has uncovered a factory farm-like facility whose intent is to raise animals for food. But in Virginia, the intent is to breed hundreds upon hundreds of dogs for sale to animal experimenters.

Dan Paden, VP of accident analysis, talks to Emil Guillermo.

Take action now! Go to PETA.org.

Listen to PETA PODCAST on Research Modernization Deal.

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.

Contact us at PETA.org Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk Music provided by CarbonWorks. Go to Apple podcasts and subscribe.

Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok Or at www.amok.com

Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening to THE PETA PODCAST!

(Originally published  Dec. 8, 2021).

Copyright 2021

Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel, a former primate researcher now a PETA scientist, tells Emil Guillermo how a reliance on monkeys as scientific models has delayed the development of an effective HIV vaccine for people. After nearly 40 years, hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars and at least a million dead monkeys, humans around the globe are still waiting for an HIV vaccine that works. A better approach is to adopt modern science techniques like those outlined in PETA's Research Modernization Deal.

Take action now! Go to PETA.org.

Listen to PETA PODCAST on Research Modernization Deal.

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.

Contact us at PETA.org Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk Music provided by CarbonWorks. Go to Apple podcasts and subscribe.

Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok Or at www.amok.com

Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening to THE PETA PODCAST!

(Originally published  Dec. 1, 2021).

Copyright 2021

"Tiger King," Season 2 is out on Netflix. But there would be no story if it weren't for the lawsuits filed by PETA. Brittany Peet of PETA's Captured Animal Legal Enforcement division tells Emil Guillermo how lawsuits using the Endangered Species Act brought about aggressive enforcement from the feds. It's the reason more than 350 animals have been rescued, the exotic wildlife business has hit rock bottom, and Joe Exotic remains behind bars. 

Peet updates us from her last appearance on the podcast in the summer. 

And she tells us about what happened to the animals as Joe Exotic's operation was shutdown.

Read more at 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 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.

Contact us at PETA.org Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk Music provided by CarbonWorks. Go to Apple podcasts and subscribe.

Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok Or at www.amok.com

Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening to THE PETA PODCAST!

(Originally published  Nov.24,, 2021).

Copyright 2021

The Washington Post sent two Pulitzer winners, writer Gene Weingarten, and photographer Michael Williamson, to PETA's Virginia headquarters to find out why people are so cruel to their dogs. The pair shadowed Daphna Nachminovich, PETA Sr. VP, on her rounds saving chained or abandoned animals around the Norfolk tri-state area. A conversation on how the story evolved between Nachminovich and Guillermo.

PETA President and co-founder, author of numerous books on animals and animal rights, is back with a new and practical book, "250 Vital Things Your Cat Wants You To Know: The Cat Guardian's Bible." 

In conversation with Emil Guillermo, Newkirk talks about everything from caring, feeding, and making sure your cat stays indoors. (It's dangerous out there). Did you know cats "smile" by squinting their eyes? Or that in cold weather, cats love to hide under cars, under the hood? All that and more in the new book and on this podcast No. 197.

Go to PETA.org for more. 

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.

Contact us at PETA.org Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk Music provided by CarbonWorks. Go to Apple podcasts and subscribe.

Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok Or at www.amok.com

Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening to THE PETA PODCAST!

(Originally published  Nov.10, 2021).

Copyright 2021

Music by Carbonworks. 

Your cosmetics may no longer be cruelty-free, that's because the European Union's European Chemicals Agency is now requiring new tests--even if products and ingredients have been tested years ago and have been deemed safe.

Dr. Julia Baines, PETA UK Science Policy Manager speaks to Emil Guillermo about why this is happening and how you can join the effort to get 1 million signatures from EU residents, wherever they may be in the world.

Make sure you're still cruelty-free, get the PETA app, Beauty without Bunnies. 

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. 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.

Contact us at PETA.org Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk Music provided by CarbonWorks. Go to Apple podcasts and subscribe.

Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok Or at www.amok.com

Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening to THE PETA PODCAST!

(Originally published  Nov.2, 2021).

Copyright 2021

Music by Carbonworks. 

The news that the National Institutes of Health funded hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of experiments on dogs in a foreign country sparked outrage in U.S. media. The idea of wasteful spending on useless animal experiments has been the target of PETA for years. But now it's apparent that in the divided political environment of Washington, there's one issue that is truly bipartisan: Saving the Animals, and especially those at NIH.

PETA Sr. VP Kathy Guillermo talks about the Research Modernization Deal that could be a bipartisan answer to a cruel and ugly situation at NIH, where nearly $40 billion dollars goes to wasteful animal experiments every year. 

Listen now. Then take action at 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 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.

Contact us at PETA.org Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk Music provided by CarbonWorks. Go to Apple podcasts and subscribe.

Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok Or at www.amok.com

Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening to THE PETA PODCAST!

(Originally published  Oct.27, 2021).

Copyright 2021

Music by Carbonworks. 

Jeffrey Kerr, Chief Counsel and Sr. VP of Corporate Affairs for PETA, talks with Emil Guillermo about how the future of animal rights will be determined by the legal victories in courts.

He discusses the Naruto/Monkey Selfie-Case, the Sea World enslavement case, and the ag-gag laws which restrict animal rights protests. 

Go to PETA.org for updates and take 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.

Contact us at PETA.org Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk Music provided by CarbonWorks. Go to Apple podcasts and subscribe.

Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok Or at www.amok.com

Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening to THE PETA PODCAST!

(Originally published  Oct.12, 2021).

Copyright 2021

Music by Carbonworks.