October 2014 PETA had spent years trying to get paper and cleaning products company Seventh Generation to stop lobbying for legislation that would result in tens of millions of animals being poisoned in new chemical tests and instead support reforms that would require animal tests to be used only as a last resort. When Seventh … Read more »
October 2014 After intensive efforts led by PETA India’s science policy adviser, and with support from PETA U.S. and the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd., the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare officially banned animal-tested cosmetics and their ingredients from being imported into India. PETA India, with the help of PETA entities worldwide, challenged … Read more »
October 2014 After hearing from PETA, the agency agreed never to host big-cat exploiter Dirk Arthur again. Arthur has a long history of violating the Animal Welfare Act, including an incident in which he kept the animals in metal cages with no protection from the scorching sun when temperatures reached 127 degrees.
October 2014 Following a meeting with PETA, AlexandAlexa, a U.K.-based children’s clothing retailer that sells high-end labels worldwide, agreed to stop selling angora. The company put its new commitment into action by immediately removing angora products from its website and by agreeing not to sell the angora products that it had planned to market in … Read more »
October 2014 Students at New York City’s Clinton School for Writers and Artists will no longer dissect animals, thanks to a software donation from PETA. After hearing from a concerned student and discussions with school administrators, PETA donated virtual dissection software to fully replace archaic animal dissection at the school.
October 2014 Students in psychology classes at the prestigious Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru, will now learn about physiology without harming any animals, thanks to interactive simulation software donated by PETA. After receiving a complaint from a concerned student about classroom laboratories which undergraduate students were being directed to purchase live … Read more »
October 2014 Following discussions with PETA, these 19 airlines have given assurances or created formal company policies banning shipments of primates to labs: AeroMexico, AirAsia, airBaltic, Air Europa, Air New Zealand, Air Wisconsin Airlines, Aloha Air Cargo, American Expediting Company, Copa Airlines, easyJet, Fiji Airways, Iberia Airlines of Spain, Mokulele Flight Services, OHL, PenAir, Qatar … Read more »
September 2014 After PETA contacted the college and explained why having a petting zoo at its Alumni Weekend—which is scheduled for this October—would be a bad idea, the school stated that it would cancel the appearance of live animals at the event.
September 2014 Following a PETA exposé of mistreatment of animals in the laboratories of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Charles Rupprecht, an animal experimenter formerly at CDC, was forced to resign from Ross University, where he was Associate Dean in charge of oversight of experimentation on animals. Through a review of … Read more »
