2014 annual review Dear Friends,

2014 was another banner year for PETA and the animals we defend. creature. The work of people like [the PETA Foundation’s director of ] makes apparent that generations to come will As described by The Saratogian’s horse-racing columnist, PETA’s one day look upon such practices with eyes filled with shame first-of-its-kind eyewitness investigation of horse drugging at and disgust.” Saratoga Race Course and Churchill Downs “exploded like a nuclear bomb in the racing community.” PETA’s strong outreach efforts among the fastest-growing demographic in the U.S.—the Latino community—reached millions. In February, our mobile veterinary clinics division celebrated its PETA Latino’s website was visited by more than 10 million people,

© PETA 100,000th surgery. our Spanish-language “Glass Walls” agribusiness exposé was viewed by more than 1.3 million people, PETA Latino’s Facebook In a major victory for baby seals—won with PETA’s help—the page posts reached an average of 30 million people each month, World Trade Organization upheld the European Union’s ban on and our campaign issues were covered by such top Spanish- seal-fur imports, a landmark step toward protecting animals language media outlets as the Miami newspaper el Nuevo Herald, under international trade law. El Universal (Mexico’s largest newspaper), People en Español, CNN en Español, Univision, Telemundo, and MundoFox. The shocking footage from our wool industry exposé has been viewed 3.8 million times, and more than 65 apparel companies Of course, none of this exciting progress for animals would have have begun displaying our new “PETA-Approved Vegan” logo in happened without the help of our members and supporters, for response to consumer demand for animal-friendly clothing! whom we are grateful every day. I wish to extend special thanks to our Vanguard Society, Augustus Club, and Investigations & We managed to get 18 more bears who had been imprisoned in Rescue Fund members. The victories for animals on the following concrete pits or cells moved to beautiful sanctuaries, where they pages are dedicated to all of you! now enjoy fresh air and grass beneath their feet. With kind regards, Thousands of people on three continents heard PETA’s message of compassion in person as a result of my “Naked Truth” wake- up tour. Following a speech at Harvard Law School by the PETA Ingrid E. Newkirk Foundation’s director of animal law about the cruelty of SeaWorld, President the Harvard Law Record—the oldest law school newspaper in the nation—wrote: “Orca captivity is barbaric, inhuman and a gross Board of Directors and Officers: violation of the rights of a highly intelligent and deeply feeling Ingrid E. Newkirk • Michael P. Rodman • Jeanne Roush © Poresh Petr/Dreamstime.com THE WAY

We believe that animals have an intrinsic worth of their own, quite apart from Awareness is the first step. Change is the second. their utility to humans, and should not be treated as commodities. Therefore, PETA’s motto is “Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for In addition to the aforementioned tactics, PETA also creates change for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.” animals through shareholder activism, corporate negotiations, Internet marketing, scientific research and analysis, lobbying, humane education, The greatest cause of animal suffering is not malice. It is ignorance. youth involvement, outreach to the courts and law enforcement, and rescue work. The places in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time are inaccessible to most people: factory farms, With these tools, we’re convincing grocery and restaurant chains , fur farms, laboratories, the entertainment industry, the pet to require their meat, milk, and egg suppliers to make sweeping trade, and the backyards and homes of abusive animal guardians. reforms. We’re persuading designers and retailers to stop selling fur, skins, down, and wool. We’re getting animal tests replaced with The ally of ignorance is silence. sophisticated and humane non-animal alternatives. We’re convincing the film, television, and advertising industries to replace the use of live Just as mold thrives in the dark, animal abuse thrives in a climate of secrecy. great apes and other wild animals with computer-generated imagery or Just as sunlight is the best disinfectant, public awareness is PETA’s most animatronics, and we’re turning people away from live-animal shows effective weapon against animal abuse. and exhibits.

No one does more to raise awareness of the plight of animals than PETA. We’re saving animals’ lives through hands-on rescue work. We’re The video footage and other findings from our undercover investigations of convincing law-enforcement authorities to take facilities in which animals are neglected and abused draw millions of Web seriously. We’re persuading the courts to give animal abusers stiffer viewers each year. Our media campaigns—and especially our recruitment penalties, anger-management training, and prohibitions on owning of celebrity spokespeople—put animal issues in the headlines of major animals. We’re engaging young people and revolutionizing the way media outlets every single day. Our grassroots outreach is second to none, future generations will regard animals. And we’re inspiring countless with demonstrators and leafleters on the streets all over North America people to , to buy only cruelty-free products, and to make seven days a week. animal-friendly choices in all aspects of life.

At a time when all but the most controversial voices are drowned out in a Ultimately, PETA strives to achieve a world in which animals are media din, our willingness to be cheeky and provocative when necessary respected and people are aware of and concerned about the ways in ensures that the plight of animals is not ignored. which their daily decisions affect the lives of other sentient beings. Lion: © Sean Noronha • Other animals: © PETA 5 The Dedication and Generosity of PETA Members Make Our Work Possible Vanguard Society members and Augustus Club members like those below serve as the roots of financial support that enable our vital programs to grow stronger.

Kerry Masters and Bob Anderlik, VANGUARD SOCIETY AND AUGUSTUS CLUB MEMBERS “ PETA tackles the tough issues with a combination of humor and bravado, bringing awareness of animal cruelty and abuse to the public and inspiring us to get involved and be better, more compassionate people.” —Kerry

“ Since I am 87 now, I can’t get out to protest much. But my heart belongs to animals, so I support PETA through automatic monthly giving, my PETA charitable gift annuity, and my will. When PETA speaks, people listen.” —Bob

Bob and Judy Clark, VANGUARD SOCIETY AND AUGUSTUS CLUB MEMBERS “ We fully support PETA’s work to uncompromisingly push for change and to create awareness of the deplorable suffering that billions of animals endure each year. We are fully aligned with PETA’s four focus areas (animals used for food, clothing, experimentation, and entertainment). We have met PETA’s leadership team and could not be more impressed by their commitment, dedication, creativity, and hard work. Like many other like-minded advocates, we have included funding for PETA in our estate plans.”

Alysoun Mahoney and Greg Reiter, VANGUARD SOCIETY AND AUGUSTUS CLUB MEMBERS “ Animal advocacy is our favorite cause, and PETA is by far our favorite animal advocacy organization. PETA’s people are brilliant and dedicated—they are pioneering and strategic in their issue choices and campaign tactics. Throughout the world, we see evidence that PETA has fundamentally changed the way humans think about nonhuman animals. And here at home, we have PETA to thank for the companionship of three wonderful rescued animals: our dog, Itchy, and our horses, Henry and Caroline.” © Vidady/Fotolia.com 7 ANIMALS ARE not ours to eat

The food industry causes more animals to suffer than including prolapsed organs—for up to a week with its constitutionality with a lawsuit and successfully any other industry—billions of them every year. That’s no apparent medical care or pain relief before dying defeated the Idaho Dairymen’s Association motion why PETA works to eliminate the most egregious in misery or being hauled away for slaughter. to intervene. The state of Utah also failed in its abuses of animals on factory farms, in transport attempt to get a court to dismiss our lawsuit trucks, and in slaughterhouses while actively Thousands of people took our online pledge to go challenging its “ag-gag” law. campaigning to get people to go vegan. For more vegan after watching video footage released by examples of progress, visit PETA.org/AnnualReview. PETA of emaciated cows who were forced to live We successfully in knee-deep, liquefied manure, which caused skin used headline- Thanks to PETA, no more pigs will be repeatedly ulcers and lameness, at a North Carolina dairy farm. making electro-shocked, jabbed, and beaten with chains at The farm was cited for six violations of state law and demonstrations the Southern Quality Meats, Inc., plant in Pontotoc, is now closed for good. and public service Miss. After a whistleblower provided PETA with video announcements footage showing the illegal treatment of pigs there, (which you we filed a federal complaint. The facility was then found can view at to be in violation of federal law and is now closed. PETA.org) as well as tongue- A PETA eyewitness in-cheek tactics investigation that (see examples broke on CNN online) and worked allowed millions with celebrity of viewers to In 2014, following PETA’s vigorous efforts to defeat spokespeople— see—for the first them, “ag-gag” bills died in Arizona, Indiana, including musicians time ever—how the Kentucky, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Paul McCartney, Morrissey, Fred Schneider, and © iStock.com/vicspacewalker meat industry treats Tennessee. These bills were designed by agribusiness Natalia Clavier; actors Peter Dinklage and Victoria pigs at the very in an attempt to outlaw undercover investigations Summer; hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons; designer beginning of their lives. Our video and documentation of farms and slaughterhouses. PETA has been Vivienne Westwood; and bodybuilder Jim Morris— revealed that lame pigs at one of the world’s campaigning against these bills with the help of to draw media attention to and raise awareness of the leading pig-breeding facilities were routinely left Republican strategist Matalin. Although an billions of animals who suffer and die for the meat and to languish with painful conditions and injuries— “ag-gag” bill passed in Idaho, we are challenging dairy industries each year.

Lori Bazan and Chris Stover, VANGUARD SOCIETY AND AUGUSTUS CLUB MEMBERS

“ We have been PETA supporters for more than 30 years and love that PETA’s logo is a white rabbit. Rabbits—such as our beloved Leo and Minerva, pictured here—are wonderful companions. They are happy that they have PETA as their champion!” PETA Australia 9 ANIMALS ARE not ours to wear

PETA has persuaded more fashion and apparel permanently. Our campaigns have panicked the angora leading retailers to drop companies to adopt animal-friendly policies than industry. The continuing collapse of the angora trade wool in favor of animal- any other organization. Online video footage that means that countless rabbits will be spared the pain free fabrics. was recorded of being stretched out and tied down and having by PETA and the fur ripped from their bodies. We persuaded Restoration our international Hardware, Crate & Barrel, affiliates and This year, PETA’s campaign against Canada’s annual and CB2 to spare ducks shows animals seal slaughter—the largest commercial slaughter of and geese from having as they are marine mammals on Earth—cleared a huge hurdle their feathers painfully violently abused when the World Trade Organization rejected an ripped out by changing for their wool appeal from the Canadian government, which their websites to offer or killed for supports the sealing industry, and upheld the down-free options for throw pillows.

their skins has © Veronika Markova/Dreamstime.com European Union’s ban on seal-product imports, now been seen showing that concerns are important Through attention-grabbing ads, videos, and other by tens of millions of people. PETA and our affiliates enough to outweigh commercial interests. Thirty actions featuring celebrities—including beauty are also the only organizations with major campaigns thousand fewer seals were killed in 2014 than in 2013. icon Pamela against the cruelty of the wool industry. For late- PETA Asia has also been working hard to make sure Anderson, breaking news on these issues, please visit that Canada does not find a market in the region, and NFL running PETA.org/AnnualReview. its efforts were validated when a top Canadian official back Le’Veon admitted that a trade agreement to sell seal meat to Bell, NBA Thanks to the shocking revelations of PETA Asia’s China had been thwarted by animal rights activists. point guard investigation of angora farms—whose footage Ty Lawson, has surpassed 3.5 million views on YouTube and Through first-of-its-kind investigative footage—viewed and television Facebook—PETA and our international affiliates more than 3.8 million times—PETA allowed viewers host Keltie have persuaded dozens of retailers, including Ann around the world to see that workers beat, jabbed, Knight—

Taylor, Anthropologie, Calvin Klein, Eddie Bauer, kicked, mutilated, stomped on, and even killed PETA Photo: Trevor Brown Photography Grooming: Katelyn Simkins Express, Forever 21, Gap Inc., H&M, Lands’ End, terrified sheep while shearing them in the U.S. educated Limited Brands, Perry Ellis, PUMA, QVC, Tommy and Australia, the world’s top wool producer and millions of people about the cruelty of the Hilfiger, Zappos, and many more, to ban angora wool exporter. PETA is using this footage to convince skins industry.

Eric and Melissa Kurtzman, VANGUARD SOCIETY MEMBERS “ We commend PETA for pushing the willfully ignorant to open their eyes, to know their part in the travesty humankind commits against animals, and to decide how to participate. We thank PETA for helping us to see our own part and revise our own participation.”

11 ANIMALS ARE not ours to experiment on

With more scientists • In Sweden, funding from PETA helped establish a Institutes of Health in which baby monkeys were on staff than any national center to develop and coordinate non- driven insane and launching a campaign to end other animal methods that can be used to meet them with the support of members of Congress protection group, European Union regulations. and Dr. Jane Goodall PETA is working • In Poland, we convinced the government to replace • Persuading Lorillard Tobacco Company, the third- on six continents the use of animals in crude military trauma largest cigarette manufacturer in the U.S., to ban all to replace the training exercises. animal tests unless required by law in the future

© Igorr/Dreamstime.com use of animals in • In China, after PETA provided funding for experts to • Facilitating the approval of a more humane method laboratories with educate and train scientists and government officials of testing for paralytic shellfish poisons, thereby sophisticated non-animal methods and saving tens in the use of non-animal testing methods, the saving tens of thousands of mice a year from of thousands of lonely, terrified animals every year government ended its longstanding requirement seizures, paralysis, and death by suffocation from being poisoned, burned, cut open, and killed. that cosmetics manufactured in China be tested • Persuading the Michigan and the New See PETA.org/AnnualReview for more progress. on animals in order to be sold there. Hampshire state boards of education to adopt • Also in China, China Southern Airlines, which dissection-choice policies that allow students Some milestones from our international efforts in in 2013 shipped more than 2,500 monkeys to to study biology using virtual-dissection software 2014 include the following: laboratories in the U.S., joined the dozens of other instead of animals airlines that PETA and our international affiliates • Convincing the • In India, following campaigns by PETA and our have persuaded to ban such shipments. U.S. Department of international affiliates, the government banned Defense to replace the import of all cosmetics tested on animals. PETA’s other achievements for animals in laboratories its use of live animals • In Bolivia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, from the past year include the following: in key medical Mexico, Mongolia, Panama, and Trinidad and training areas Tobago, live animals have been replaced in • Saving 8,000 animals by helping convince the • Enlisting celebrities surgical training courses by sophisticated human Environmental Protection Agency to drop two such as James simulators donated by PETA, sparing thousands plans that would have required manufacturers of Cromwell and Peter of animals from being cut open and killed. chemicals produced in high volumes to conduct Gabriel to influence • In New Zealand, PETA’s scientists helped convince animal testing Air France to stop members of Parliament to ban animal tests for • Releasing never-before-seen video footage shipping monkeys recreational drugs. of psychological experiments at the National to laboratories

Ariel and Jen Santos, VANGUARD SOCIETY AND AUGUSTUS CLUB MEMBERS “ The life and death of our beloved dog Stewart has inspired us to care more for animals and advocate for their rights. This is why we support PETA’s programs through our monthly gift to the Investigations & Rescue Fund.”

13 ANIMALS ARE not ours to use for entertainment

No organization is more successful than PETA Debbie Harry, Lea Other victories included assistance with the rescue in exposing and stopping the abuse of animals Michele, Wendy of 17 bears from concrete pits at Black Forest used for entertainment. Check out PETA.org/ Williams, and Bear Park, a Georgia roadside zoo (they are now at a AnnualReview for more information. others—to call for a reputable sanctuary, and Black Forest is permanently ban on carriage rides closed); legal complaints that prompted the transfer PETA’s first-of-its-kind eyewitness investigation and the retirement of Boudreaux the black bear (opposite page) from at Saratoga Race Course and Churchill Downs of the horses a tiny windowless indoor cage at a Louisiana zoo revealed that drugs were given daily to to sanctuaries. to a beautiful Colorado sanctuary; the cancellation Thoroughbreds to mask pain and keep injured of dozens of horses running. Our findings prompted a series We turned up the heat on SeaWorld—which harmful events, of 15 New York Times articles as well as other deprives captive orcas of everything that is natural including bull international media coverage, nine state and federal and important to them—with the following actions: runs, elephant investigations, backing of legislation for federal rides, promotional drug intervention by The Jockey Club (a reversal • PETA supporters blocked SeaWorld’s Rose events with big of its decades-long position), stronger surveillance Bowl Parade float, garnering national media cats, and donkey and monitoring of veterinary records at major coverage that educated millions about the basketball games; racetracks, stronger rules in California to eliminate company’s animal abuse. and the denial or electro-shock buzzers, restrictions in California • PETA and the American Civil Liberties Union suspension of on thyroid medication for racehorses, and major filed a lawsuit and got PETA’s anti-SeaWorld ad permits, fining, drug-regulation reforms by The Stronach Group, displayed in the San Diego International Airport and/or the issuing a leading owner of U.S. racetracks. after it had been initially rejected by the airport of citations for Photo: © Robin Layton and its ad vendor. animal welfare PETA is helping to bring New York City closer to • We convinced Southwest Airlines, Virgin violations the day when horses are no longer abused by America, Savings.com, and others to eliminate to numerous cruel circus owners and other the carriage industry there. In 2014, we directed their SeaWorld promotions. exhibitors. We also enlisted celebrities such as massive media attention to numerous cases of Kathy Najimy, Seth MacFarlane, Jason Biggs, sick and injured horses by holding high-profile SeaWorld’s stock dropped more than 44 percent Kate del Castillo, Darren Aronofsky, and Laura demonstrations and recruiting celebrities—including since it was first issued, and its revenue has Vandervoort to speak out against the abuse of Pink, , , Jillian Michaels, decreased by millions. animals for entertainment.

Marion Bedford, AUGUSTUS CLUB MEMBER

“ Thank you, PETA, for showing me the suffering of animals throughout our world. As a longtime monthly donor and member of the Augustus Club, I am trying to do my bit to help those who can’t help themselves.” PETA 15 ANIMALS ARE not ours to abuse in any other way

With staff has provided in the impoverished communities that were left with someone who could not care for members surround our Norfolk, Va., headquarters, the Sam them properly after their owner moved. We got on call 24 Simon Center. We also added another mobile them surrendered and found a new home for hours a day veterinary clinic to our fleet—the Martha and them with a terrific, caring couple on several to respond Ruby Mobile Clinic, donated to us by the extremely acres of land. to reports generous anna j. ware, whose dogs it was named of animals after. In addition to performing spay and neuter Other victories in imminent surgeries, our clinics provide thousands of animals include closing danger, PETA with crucial vaccinations, medications, and even a chinchilla handled more emergency surgeries. farm and than 17,230 cruelty reports from all 50 states and rescuing 424 numerous other countries. See more rescue stories PETA’s fieldworkers rescue animals from dire straits chinchillas; at PETA.org/AnnualReview. and force abusers to face legal consequences. Here facilitating the are just five of the many animals we rescued in 2014: passage of In California, both the owner of Global Captive a total ban Breeders, LLC (GCB) and the company’s former • Angel, a penned, pregnant, extremely emaciated on tethering manager were convicted of cruelty to animals pit bull, was so weak that she was unable to dogs in in 2014. Both are prohibited from acquiring any stand up when we found her. Her owners were Weldon, N.C.; animals, and the owner is also prohibited from convicted of cruelty to animals and banned from persuading Photo: JSquared Photography • Hair: Gilbert Muniz, for Cloutier Remix • Makeup: Agostina, for Exclusive Artists entering into any business venture involving ever owning animals again. Mid-America animals—sentencing conditions that PETA had • Squirrel, a Chihuahua, was chained outdoors Apartment pushed for. PETA’s investigation of GCB revealed that 24/7 in freezing cold weather. We persuaded his Communities (the seventh-largest apartment nearly 16,000 rats and mice and more than 600 owner to surrender him and found him a loving management company in the U.S.) and ezStorage reptiles were languishing in waste-filled cages, home with a wonderful family. (with 65 locations on the East Coast) to stop many of them starving, injured, or gravely ill. • Noelle, a pot-bellied pig, was confined to a using inhumane glue traps; and enlisting Cloris tiny, filthy, junk-filled pen. We were able to gain Leachman, Molly Shannon, Mike White, Marc This year marked PETA’s first-ever World Spay custody and found her a lovely new home on a Maron, Tricia Helfer, Thiago Alves, and Miss Day 24-hour Spay-a-Thon as well as the 100,000th beautiful Virginia farm. America 2014, Nina Davuluri, to speak out in low- or no-cost spay/neuter surgery that PETA • Henry and Caroline, two malnourished horses, behalf of companion animals.

Tina Beriro, VANGUARD SOCIETY MEMBER “ I began working with PETA in 1983. No other organization has stayed as true to its mission and as effective in its relentless and sophisticated campaigns. PETA’s vision, the breadth of issues they tackle, and the sheer grit and persistence to victory is breathtaking!” © José Marafona/Dreamstime.com ANIMAL RIGHTS: 17 the next generation

With nearly 600,000 • Our network of campus reps—dozens of top-tier than 15,000 young people used our green-screen e-mail subscribers student activists who receive stipends as well as photo booth, which allowed them to star in an animal and more than 1 training from peta2 staff on raising awareness of liberation comic strip and then share it on Facebook, million likes on animal rights issues among their peers—is shaking thereby spreading our message of compassion even Facebook, our things up on college campuses. From organizing further. youth outreach vegan pizza giveaways to waging protests against division—peta2— animal experimentation on campus, these students TeachKind, peta2’s humane education division, seeks to inject the are the vanguard of the gave numerous presentations at elementary concept of animal in America. schools in Los Angeles and the Bay Area and rights directly into the bloodstream of today’s • We’re also equipping a whole new generation provided teachers around the country with youth culture. To learn more, please visit PETA.org/ of attorneys to use the law to liberate animals. curriculum guidance. AnnualReview. Through the sponsorship of well-received speaking engagements at top law schools—including Many popular One of the many ways in which peta2 excels in Columbia University, Harvard University, Cornell young stars— changing the hearts and minds of young people University, Yale University, and the University including is with effective outreach on university campuses of Pennsylvania—we’ve been ensuring that law singers across the country. Here are a few examples from students learn how to use the legal system to Christina this year’s efforts: advocate for animals. Grimmie, Madison Beer, • We sparked enormous student interest when peta2 reached hundreds of thousands of and Jhené

our interactive exhibits rolled onto more than concertgoers at some of the most popular music Photo: JSquared Photography Hair and makeup: Rachel DeSimone Aiko; musician 85 college campuses this year, including Stanford events of 2014—including the massive Riot Fest Christofer University, the University of Texas, Massachusetts and the Safe in Sound Festival tour—and hit the road Drew (of Institute of Technology, and Princeton University. with our interactive, comic-themed “Be a Superhero NeverShoutNever); YouTube celebrity Kalel Kitten; Our “Glass Walls” exhibit gave students a taste for Animals” campaign, which accompanied the reality TV star Megan Massacre; electronic DJ Steve of the intense confinement and cruel conditions massively popular annual Vans Warped Tour and Aoki; bands Rise Against and Asking Alexandria; on factory farms, and our “I, Chicken” virtual reality inspired more than 100,000 young people to take and professional surfer Tia Blanco—spoke out for experience gave students a glimpse of life from the “Try Vegan” pledge via their mobile phones animals through their participation in peta2’s a chicken’s perspective. (we followed up with tips on eating vegan). More campaigns and events.

Ali and Jordi Silver “ It’s not that we support PETA—PETA supports us. When we tell our friends that we won’t go to the circus or that we’re vegan … we send them links to PETA! What PETA does helps us explain to others how animals aren’t ours to use.” © Nico99/Dreamstime.com 19

financial statement

REVENUES the year in numbers Contributions $ 50,449,023 Gross Merchandise Sales $ 627,336 • PETA’s websites were visited by more than 60 million dogs who are forced to live outdoors with warm, Interest, Dividends, Royalties, people. dry shelter. We’ve now delivered a total of more and Other Income $ 856,642 • PETA’s Facebook posts reach an average of 70 million than 6,000 free doghouses. Total Revenues $ 51,933,001

people each month. • PETA’s online catalog sold more than 45,000 pieces OPERATING EXPENSES • PETA sent out e-news to more than 2.6 million of animal rights merchandise, including T-shirts, Programs subscribers. mugs, tote bags, books, stickers, buttons, and items International Grassroots Campaigns $ 8,691,235 • PETA’s blog received more than 6 million page views, for companion animals, which not only raise urgently Public Outreach and Education $ 19,455,622 Research, Investigations, and Rescue $ 12,993,951 and the PETA Living blog received more than needed funds for PETA campaigns but also help to Cruelty-Free Merchandise Program $ 969,721 15.7 million page views. promote cruelty-free living. Membership Development $ 4,768,940 • PETA sent out more than 20 million letters via our • PETA had more than 490 letters and 660 opinion pieces Management and General Expenses $ 501,746 Total Operating Expenses $ 47,381,215 advocacy campaigns, urging companies and individuals posted on websites and printed in various newspapers to make changes that would benefit animals. and magazines. CHANGE IN NET ASSETS $ 4,551,786 • PETA’s “How to Go Vegan” website received more • PETA was mentioned by many major print media Net Assets Beginning of Year $ 11,931,766 than 648,000 page views. outlets, including the Associated Press, The Atlanta Net Assets End of Year $ 16,483,552 Donor Restricted (Permanently) $ 3,169,207 • PETA secured free advertising space worth more Journal-Constitution, The Atlantic, The Baltimore Sun, Donor Restricted (Temporarily) $ 2,174,759 than $3 million. The Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, BuzzFeed, the Board-Designated Legal Matters $ 1,000,000 • PETA’s Communications Department booked more Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Christian- Undesignated $ 10,139,586

than 3,000 radio, TV, and print interviews. Science Monitor, The Daily Beast, the Daily Mail, OPERATING EXPENSE ALLOCATION • PETA’s International Grassroots Campaign Department The Dodo, The E.W. Scripps Company, Forbes, The Direct Program Support 88.87% helped organize nearly 1,400 demonstrations. Huffington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Mashable, Membership Development 10.07% 1.06% • PETA’s youth division, peta2, reached out to more The Miami Herald, Mother Jones, Newsweek, the Management and General Operations than 241,000 young people at colleges, music New York Post, The New York Times, People, The Plain festivals, and other events, and our Youth Action Dealer, PolicyMic, Reuters, Slate, Smithsonian, TIME, PETA is a nonprofit, tax exempt 501(c)(3) corporation Team grew to more than 100,000 members. USA Today, US News & World Report, Us Weekly, The funded almost exclusively by the contributions of our • PETA filled requests for more than 613,000 free Wall Street Journal, the Washington Examiner, The members. We strive to use our funds in the most cost- effective and efficient manner possible, a commitment copies of our vegan starter kit. Washington Post, and The Wire. illustrated by the fact that 88.87 percent of our operating • PETA handled more than 17,230 calls and e-mails • PETA’s work received television and/or radio news expenses went directly to our programs fighting animal regarding cruelty to animals. coverage from ABC News, Al Jazeera America, CNN, exploitation. We expended only 10.07 percent on fundraising efforts that drive our operations and 1.06 • PETA’s Mobile Clinics Division spayed and neutered C-SPAN, E!, Entertainment Tonight, Erin Burnett percent on management and general operations. more than 11,000 cats and dogs in southeastern OutFront, ESPN, Fox News, Fox News Radio, Fuse, Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, including Hannity, HLN, Jane Velez-Mitchell, MSNBC, Real Sports Ten percent of PETA’s dedicated staff earn only $16,000 more than 600 feral cats and more than 825 pit bulls With Bryant Gumbel, Reuters TV, Telemundo, VICE to $29,999, 47 percent earn $30,000 to $39,999, and only the remaining 43 percent make more than $39,999. Our at a discount or free of charge. We’ve now spayed News, and Washington Journal. president, Ingrid Newkirk, earned $40,320 during fiscal or neutered a total of more than 110,400 companion • PETA has given $1,650,530.77 to scientists who are year ending July 31, 2014. animals. developing alternatives to animal testing and simulators The financial statement shown here is for the fiscal year • PETA built and delivered more than 240 free to replace animals, as well as for training scientists in ending July 31, 2014, and is based on our independently doghouses and bagged 1,200 bales of straw, providing the use of non-animal methods, as of this year. audited financial statements. animal-friendly businesses PETA would like to thank the following compassionate companies, which are members of our PETA Business Friends program. These companies are generous PETA and animal rights supporters. To learn more about this program, please visit PETABusinessFriends.com. © Colette6/Dreamstime.com

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’s true friends memorial program PETA’s True Friends® Memorial Program honors and preserves the memory of people who were true friends to animals as well as the memory of animals who were true friends to their guardians. For more information about this program, please visit TFMemorial.org.

Drew Rodriguez, Vanguard Society and Augustus Club member, and Theo In loving memory of the following true friends:

• Alex Hudspeth, from Lawrence Ziese • James R. Burney, from Francis Menzel • Mark Stewart, from Allison Dobbins and • Robin Williams, from Joanne MacIntyre • Alicia Witt, from Nancy Strubbe Santi • Janice, from Pinky Gelb James Moore, Annabelle, Lamin and • Savanna Lenore Janes White, from • Allen Serody, from Dr. Regina Bannan • Jaymie B. Creitz, from Eileen Creitz Mulai, Brad Mayer and Ed Reynolds, Jeanne Dean • Barbara Fritz, from Susan F. Drake • Jeanne Mariko Tuomey, from AE Tuomey Cathy Strombom, Linda Hanson, Mary • Sophie Lange, from Brophie Carey, • Betty Daley, from Barbara Zikos • Jean Pizza, from Rosanne Feigenbaum Jane Thomas, Samwise, Sadie and Jessie BW and Valentine, Elaine Sloan, Gus • Bob Kildall, from Claudine Erlandson • Dr. Jessica A. Camponovo, from Stephen Lin, Susan Killen, Susan and Greg Geissler, and Maxine Kehrli, Jengiz, Marie Lange, • Bob Ronco, from Lee and Gina Zeitlin Barrow and Janis Manley the Obliteride team, and Titus Peter Wood, Shadow and Barkley, and • Buddy Whitley, from Robin and William • Jessie and Belle, from Lisbeth Morrison • Martin Hornstein, from Cece and Lee The McCoy Family Whitley • Jim and Lilian, from Cathy Morton Hornstein, Deb Schwab, and Stacy • Stacey Victoria, from Sheryl Kabick • Cassi Churchwell, from Lori Collins • John Amber, from John Snook Hornstein • Stella Marie Baker Fitzgerald, from • Chissa Gordon, from Marguerite Gordon • Jose M. Rodriguez, from Richard • Mary Dunsmore, from Martha Dunsmore Paul Baker and the entire PETA family Rodriguez • Michael, from Maria and Ruth Lucchese • Stewart, from Ariel and Jen Santos • David Middlesworth, from the entire • Karen Ruth Bortnick, from Louis Bortnick • Michelle Soptei, from Robert Soptei • Sweet Chloe, Nellie, Maud, Maggie, PETA family • Katharine Thalberg, from William Stirling • Midori, from SIYEED and Babe, from Rick Thompson and • David Tenberg, from Marvin Tenberg • Kathy Winant, from Doug, Rich, Ron, • Mojo, from Mr. and Mrs. Earl Trostrud Ken Siegert • Dexter Porreca, from Hernani Tosoc and and Steve • Monty and Pepper, from Linda Moran • Sweet Murphy, from Pat Guter Becky Fenson • Katie Rose, from David Borenstein • Myrna Duxler Harris and Ronald S. • Talos, from Gwendolynne May • Diane Jane Nielsen, from Marina Newby • Kingsley, from George King Harris, from Lori Degen • Teddy Bear Goode, from Stacy Goode • Druzhok, Koro, Shandy, Rogan, Darby, • Lake Patey, from Christine Pickrell • Nina Wilker Sposit, from Betty Wilker • Ted Lyons, from Barbara and Dennis Rowdy, Sophia, and Dexter from Karen • Lawrence Segota, from Linda Segota • Oscar and Georgie Ganjoo, from Kristen Gleason Porreca • Lindsay Martin, from Tammy Ramsay Ganjoo • Thomas Jones, from Dr. Robert Stanley • Duncan Goltsov, from Pat and Don Guter • Lucifer, from Michael Bandler • Phyllis Einstandig, from Laura Einstandig and Oralia Preble-Niemi • Edward Baron, from Veronika Backmann- • Lucky, Peggles, Fluffster, and Mittens, • Pixie, from Joan Williams Peaslee • Thora, from Melissa Terzis Baron from June Volsky • Precious, from Robert J. Wilson • Tigger, from Sheila McNally • Elizabeth Collins, from Bob Egerman • Lucy Rives Lockwood, from Jane Picot • Prince, from Marlene Welton • Tipsy, from Susan Hilton • Emerald and Alexander, from Walter • Lynda Thompson, from Janet R. Kunde • Rascal Uhrbach, from Shelly Brown • Tom Jones, from Robin and George and Ray Anita Hemphill • Margaret (Grace) James, from St. • Robert Corbitt, from the family of Guerry • Ingrid, from Andy Schulgasser Andrews Country Club Robert Corbitt • Tuxedo, from Karen Scherrer • Jack Erlandson, from Cornelia Slee, • Marian Carnegie, from Diane Nayda • Dr. Robert Post, Seymour and Leona • William R. Fivis, from Donna and Eric Wallens, Muriel A. Van Housen, • Marissa Courtney Bouwmeester, from Post, Sadie and Lewis Post, and Bob Fivis and Ruth Kildall the Ontario College of Teachers Sadie and Jerry Adlerman, from Judith • Woo-Woo, from Robert Baggett • James Bridges, from Jane Basilico • Marius, from Howard Gross Ann Post • , from Elaine Chuculate ’S VANGUARD SOCIETY partnership opportunities We would like to extend a special thank-you to the members of our Campaigner’s Circle ($5,000-$9,999), Investigator’s Circle ($10,000-$24,999), Director’s Circle ($25,000-$49,999), Vice President’s Circle ($50,000-$99,999), and President’s Circle ($100,000+). You give us hope on the hard days, strength when we’re tired, and the resources necessary to make the huge changes that animals need. Animals can’t pick up the phone and dial 911—but thanks to each of you, they have a loud voice, and society is listening. Members of our Leadership Council and Executive Committee (President’s Circle donors) provide © Chip Vinai additional invaluable support and guidance, for which we are particularly grateful.

President’s Circle • Anonymous • Eric and Melissa Kurtzman • Anonymous • Nanci Alexander and Sublime • James Bowers • Linda Look • Anonymous Restaurant • Anonymous • Alysoun Mahoney and Greg Reiter • Sandy Boss and Gary Reamer • • Gary and Nadine Edles • Eric Margolis • Patti Breitman • The Bridge Foundation • Faith and James Knight Foundation • Anonymous • Sherri Brown • Anonymous • Debbie Fong • Kokilaben Patel • Allison Burgess • Robert and Erika Brunson • David Schaffer • Eleanor Phipps Price • Peter Castonguay • Anonymous • Anonymous • Elizabeth K. Raymond • The Celia and Marcos Family • Anonymous • Barbara Wilkinson and Edmund S. • Marco Antonio Regil Institute • The Janet L. Mills Foundation Wilkinson Jr. • David Reuben • Gloria Christal • The John and Wendy Neu • Nancy Richards • Deborah Claassen Foundation Director’s Circle • Rick Salomon • Isabell Coffey • THE LYNNE COOPER HARVEY • Anonymous • Tom and Kim Scholz • Richard Culp FOUNDATION • Robert W. Baggett • Arnold Shapiro and Karen MacKain • Kathryn Dalenberg • Anonymous • Tina Beriro • Anonymous • Anonymous • Cary Mabley • Anonymous • Andrew Smith and Jennifer Bottos • Michel David-Weill • Bill Maher • Robert and Judy Clark • Jean Sotiropoulos-Foss • Anonymous • Carlee McGrath • Jan Corning • The Turney Charitable Animal • Larraine Decker • Laurie C. McGrath • Emogene Gable Fund Welfare Trust • Patricia DeLemos • Anonymous • Rima Farah and Olivier Lordonnois • Diane Warren • Maryam and Jonathan Dickey • • Sharon Gannon and David Life • Jim and Shannon Weiland • Doreen Dykes • June Volsky • Gary W. Wood Foundation • Anonymous • Anonymous • anna j. ware • John and Annemarie Groth • Anonymous • Anonymous • Dr. Daran W. Haber Investigator’s Circle • Anonymous • Lea Harris • Elizabeth Abbott • Vicki and Gilles Fecteau Vice President’s Circle • Jivamukti Yoga • Aspen Community Foundation • Dr. Hope Ferdowsian and Dr. Nikhil • Patty and Ron Allison • Stephen and Lynne Kane • Florence Azria Kulkarni • Arcus Foundation • Steve Komie • Beth Bader • Brian J. Field • Stanley and Martine Fleishman • Slobodan Randjelovic • Barbara Baxter • Dr. Patricia S. Herzog • Alyne Fortgang • Anonymous • Martha Bell • Jeff Hoffman and Andrew • Kathy Freston • Lavonne Rodstein • Sam Bisbee and Jackie Kelman Rodriguez • David and Laura Frisk • Philip Rome Bisbee • Kim Howe • Jim and Susan Gatten • Dr. H. Charles Romesburg • The Black Cat Foundation • Anonymous • S. Kendall Gold • Anonymous • Anonymous • Cynthia M. Iris • The Harry Schwartz Foundation • Andy and Sandy Ross • Jeffrey I. 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La Vea • Guido Lenarduzzi and Tammy Huot • Vincelee Stevens and Dr. Alex • Frederica Davis • Anonymous • Anonymous Singer • Rick Davis • Herbert Brian Lee • Claire and Ed London • Lawrence Stockton • Lisa DeBartolo and Don Miggs • Anonymous • Eva Ma • Khaleel Sulaiman • Louis Dorfman • Debra Lones • Sally Mackler • Mehran and Laila Taslimi • Wendy and Michael Doyle • Dr. Susan Mackey-Jamieson • Jennifer Maitland • Frances Terwilliger • Brook Dubman and Amy Dubman- • Sole Marittimi • Brooks McCormick • Jay and Liza Turley Wells • Gui Mayo • The Melvin D. Mond Fund • Bob Tuschman • Anonymous • Robin McManus • Lindsay M. Mickles • Heather and Paul Van Munching • Craig Elsinger and Kent Rice • Sherryl Melchiorre • David Monbaron • Anonymous • Jessie Ewing • Jillian Michaels • Cathy Morton • K. Brent Venable • Margaret Feldstein • Anonymous • Jim Nicol • Jennifer Vogel • Anonymous • David Milner • David Niekerk and Elaina Rose • Richard Wernick • Ute Gannett • Moore Memorial Trust • Anonymous • Dr.Roger White • Ann Garfield • Anonymous • Anne W. Noonan • Anonymous • Brad Goldberg • Donald Moss • Inma Ortoll • Margaret and Martin Zankel • Thomas Goller • Sandra Moss • Margaret Parkinson and Karen • Deborah Goodman • Edward and Kelly Moyzes Creason Campaigner’s Circle • Marie Gookin • Anonymous • The Paulus Foundation • Tsivya Akavya • Archie Gottesman and Gary • Joan and Larry Peaslee • Mukang and Thomas Pederson • Mike and Gabrielle Allen DeBode • Fred and Suzanne Perlman • The Pettus Crowe Foundation • Susan Ash • Thomas Graffy • Patricia A. Petro • Patience Parker Pierce • Marketa Bankova • Anonymous • Anonymous • Anonymous • The Baobab Fund • Carol Grunewald and Jeremy Rifkin • Alexandra Ramsay • Belle Price • Anne Barasch • Susan Gunst • Carol Reese • Mary Prothro • Bridget Barrow • John and Sarah Henry • Dr. Richard Renfield GIVING ANIMALS A FUTURE: • Mary Jean Robertson • Laurence Rosansky • Sterling Ruby , • Ariel and Jen Santos s augustus club • Anonymous • Caryn Schall We would like to express our profound appreciation to the following members who in the past fiscal year joined PETA’s • Susan Schmidt Augustus Club, which is named after a macaque monkey discovered by PETA in 1980 at a laboratory in Silver Spring, Md., • Sarah Segal during our first undercover investigation. Augustus’ dignity and noble image make him a fitting symbol for this very special • Erika Seshadri group. By naming PETA in their will or trust or as a beneficiary of another planned gift, they and the rest of our 6,000 Augustus • Diane Meyer Simon Club members enable us to protect other animals from suffering the inexcusable cruelty that Augustus endured—and to do so • Margaret Sliva for generations to come. • Darren and Lucinda Sparks • Elizabeth Steele • Rita Albert • Donna Callan • Giannina D’Urbano • Anonymous • Louise Abrams • Ruby Carr • Norine Earl • Joanna Stroz • Delilah Altun • Rosalba and William Cassel • Johanna K. Egan • James Sutherland • Carol Anderson • Alexis Castillo • Fran Egloff • Norton and Dorit Tabackman • Gloria Austin • Mary Chapman • Sharon Eidelson • Brett Thompson • Jen Banks • Barbara Chevers • Sharon C. Ekleberry • Min Thura • Alfred J. Barbano Jr. • Jeffrey Choate • Rosamaria Eleoterio • Jennifer and Steven Titus • Nancy H. Barney • Bernice Clark • Cynthia Espinosa • Mary Toynbee • Lynn Batastini • Stephen Colby • Jane Maria Euteneuer • Irene Trautman • Bonnie Bates • Patricia Collins • Susan H. Fanning • Donna Turley • Peggy Bauder • Dorothy Cooney • Eileen Farrer • Joseph T. Waldo • Lorraine Bazan and Christopher • Sharon Cronan • Dorothy Feldman • Dr. Lucy Waletzky Stover • Lynn Cvitko • Mary Lynn Filipkowski • Anonymous • Johnna Beachel • Dawn D’Amico • Carole Fitzgerald • Pauline Walton-Flath • R.M. Benaducci • Elizabeth A. Davies • Debbie Fong • The Wanda Bobowski Fund • Bradley Berthold • Idelle Bette Davis • Gwen Francis • Janet Whittle • Grace Ann Bertolami • Surrah De Almeida • Doreen Fraser • Bruce Wieland • Carol Bettencourt • Dennis De Gennaro • Eleanor Freedman • James Williams • Tatyana Bezmenova • Joanna De Gennaro • Sharon French • Mary Wolf and Kelly Finnell • Polly Bixler • Sharon Derion • Sandra Fricker • Mary Yarborough • Donald Boettcher • Valerie De Ropp • Martin and Bonnie Fried • Roni Zeigler • Andrew and Kathleen Braunstein • P.J. Derringer-Matteo • Lawrence P. Fuhro • Jean and Richard Zukin • Barbara and Vaughn Brenton • Drs. Don and Glenna Descy • Ann Gale • Lt. Col. Dawna Zullo, Ret. • Virginia C. Bronsing • Kimberly Diehl • Salley Gardner • Terry Zwigoff • Carissa Brown • Denise Di Salvo • Inge Gauer • Anonymous • Millie Buckley • Ellen Smith Dolin • Mary E. Gawronski • Yvonne Buckman • Matt Domanowski • Jillian Gebert • Fern Bugg • Theresa Douglas • Jeannie Gedeon • Pamela Butler • Rodney Dunetz and • Janine Giaime • Diane Kay Byram Diana Laverdure • Alexandra Gibson • Kathryn V. Caire • Christine Dunn • Todd Gillette AUGUSTUS CLUB continued

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Despite his leg problems, a few months later, Sam purchased Valediction, and PETA arranged Valediction was run in a claiming race (in which for him to be sent to a beautiful farm in Virginia horses are bought, or “claimed”) at Saratoga owned by other PETA supporters. A veterinarian Race Course. Afterward, Valediction was in so who examined Valediction noted that although much pain that he had to be taken away from only 5 years old, he was so plagued by arthritis the stable in a trailer: He had fractured a bone that he could never be ridden again, even in his leg. by children. Valediction is now enjoying retirement, and he will never be forced to After Asmussen’s longtime assistant trainer run for his life again. Scott Blasi heard that Valediction had been sold, he was apparently so glad to be rid of “When I see him in his blanket eating carrots, the chronically injured horse that he said he I know I helped one great horse … escape the “could do a f***ing cartwheel.” Blasi joked that track and live in clover until the day he dies,” Valediction was a “rat”—industry slang for a said Sam. horse who doesn’t make money. Thanks to the support of Sam Simon and PETA Valediction underwent surgery to repair the members all over the world, PETA is educating broken bone, but PETA’s investigator was worried people about horse racing’s seedy side—and

© Leigh Vogel/PETA © Leigh that he would be forced to race until he suffered giving horses like Valediction a fresh start. Cover photo: © ClawsAndPaws/Fotolia.com

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