Following encouragement from PETA, as well as growing public interest in wellness-focused lifestyles, Oceania Cruises launched new vegan menus—which feature more than 250 innovative, plant-based dishes—on its six ships. Two ships also have raw juice and smoothie bars.
After a PETA supporter told us that online retailer Natural Ginesis was selling glue traps, we asked the company to remove them. Within hours of learning about the anguish and torture endured by small animals ensnared in the glue, Natural Ginesis agreed to remove the traps and not sell them again.
April 11, 2017 Hundreds of animals in four developing countries will no longer be cut apart and killed in medical training courses, thanks to PETA’s donation of eight state-of-the-art TraumaMan surgical simulators, worth $200,000. This brings the total number of countries that have ended the use of dogs, pigs, goats, and sheep for crude medical … Read more »
On March 2, 2017, we filed a complaint alleging that the city of Arcadia violated the California Environmental Quality Act when it adopted a program to trap and kill coyotes without first assessing the environmental impact that such actions would have. On April 4, the City Council rescinded its prior adoption and allocation of funds … Read more »
In advance of planned performances by the notorious Garden Bros. Circus in Maine, PETA informed state authorities at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife of the circus’s long history of putting animals and the public at risk, and we asked them to stop the circus from bringing elephants into the state without first … Read more »
Union Arena officials asked Garden Bros. Circus to perform without animals after learning from PETA that a whistleblower had reported that the circus’s manager, Zachary Garden, habitually beats animals and withholds food from them and has refused to provide injured and dying animals with adequate veterinary care.
After learning that the Haai Shark Encounter was planning to harass gentle nurse sharks at the International Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon, Georgia, PETA told festival organizers that trucking sharks thousands of miles around the country so that someone can pull on their fins and tails in front of screaming children is not educational—it’s cruel. … Read more »
After hearing from more than 125,000 people who watched PETA’s investigative footage, the government of Israel pressured Paraguay to set a deadline of the end of 2017 for eliminating the horrifically cruel “shackle and hoist” method of kosher slaughter. Paraguay supplies about 40 percent of Israel’s beef.
March 21, 2017 Animals and members of the military in Virginia are safer since John Hagmann—the sexual predator and twisted mind behind the military’s cruel trauma training program, in which thousands of live animals are shot, stabbed, dismembered, and killed each year—will not be allowed to reinstate his medical license. Two years ago, the Virginia … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, the city of Norfolk, Virginia, denied Garden Bros. Circus permits to exhibit animals at its shows at the Ted Constant Convocation Center because of its and its elephant exhibitor’s records of public-safety and animal-welfare violations.
