PETA’s Victories and Accomplishments

April 2014 After PETA contacted the director and board members of the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota, the organization made the compassionate decision to cancel the launch of 60,000 balloons that would potentially injure countless animals.

The NH State Board of Education adopted a dissection-choice policy that allows students to opt out of animal dissection and be provided with humane methods.

After extensive talks with PETA, global retailer Target committed to keeping angora out of its 2014 store-brand collection.

After PETA received a report that a market was selling live frogs tied up in individual netted bags, we got local law-enforcement officers to investigate.

The apartment complex’s owners pulled the Avitrol and agreed not to use any poisons in the future.

Georgia House Bill (H.B.) 423 would have allowed the use of live raccoons in field trials, but luckily the bill was defeated.

Elephant profiteer Have Trunk Will Travel has thrown in the towel this year: It will not provide elephant rides at the 2014 San Diego County Fair.

Google removed a game that challenges users to kill digital cockroaches, following PETA input.

Florida Festival will no longer give live animals away as prizes!

After years of pressure from PETA, NBCUniversal has agreed to drop orangutans and capuchin monkeys from its “Animal Actors” show at Universal Studios.

California school made the compassionate decision to remove the puppy from the list of auction items after receiving a letter from PETA.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture fined the University of Wisconsin–Madison more than $35,000 for violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act.

China Southern Airlines announced to PETA that it has banned all shipments of primates to laboratories.

After intense public pressure, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation banned the retail sale of second generation rodent poisons.

PETA donated virtual dissection computer software to the University of Houston–Victoria to replace animal dissection in biology classes.