When cosmetics giant Revlon held its annual meeting in Edison, New Jersey, yesterday, PETA was there to put the cosmetics giant's bigwigs on the spot. They didn't need any "smoky rose" blush to add a little color to their cheeks when a PETA representative stood up and made the following statement:

The answer was what we expected: Revlon sells its products in countries that require tests on animals for its products—and has no plans to stop.

PETA turned to this innovative way to be heard by the company—purchasing just enough Revlon stock to allow us to attend shareholder meetings—after our repeated requests for information went unanswered. Next year, after we've held stock for a year, we'll be eligible to introduce a shareholder resolution calling on Revlon to renew its commitment to cruelty-free products. 

What You Can Do

Refuse to buy Revlon products until the company pulls out of China like Paul Mitchell, Nature’s Gate, and other companies have. Visit our "Beauty Without Bunnies" page to find a list of companies that don't test on animals and to order a free copy of our first-ever global Cruelty-Free Shopping Guide to take with your every time you shop.

Driver Jim Weiland is on the fast track to ending animal suffering. As he prepares to face off against other Ferrari drivers in the North American Ferrari Challenge, a cross-continent race series, his 458 Italia GT is facing off against cruelty to animals, with these new PETA decals:

Jim will tour the U.S. and Canada, challenging other drivers to keep up and challenging race fans to ramp up their kindness to animals. Our cruelty-free product logo on the car's hood will remind people to choose cosmetics and household products that were tested without blinding bunnies.

Using your passion to spread the cruelty-free message? We'd call that "being driven."

Whatever your hobby, there is always a way to use it to help animals. Contact PETA's Action Team for help getting involved.

The following originally appeared on Girlie Girl Army.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure was hit with a tidal wave of backlash when it announced that it was pulling $680,000 in grants to Planned Parenthood that had covered breast-cancer screenings for underprivileged women. As the people behind all the pink went red in the face, Komen decided that the only way to bail out the sinking ship was for CEO Nancy Brinker to resign. Theoretically, she did. But she's still there, in a new position: chair of the Komen Board Executive Committee. No one has replaced her as CEO, and she still holds the title on Komen's website. According to recent news reports, in addition to still seemingly being at the helm of the organization, she just landed a tidy little raise—64 percent, to be precise—bringing her salary to nearly $685,000. Quite an interesting number. And surprisingly, she seems to have done it without much of a flap.

Komen had to backpedal and reinstate Planned Parenthood's grants. But even so, the organization spent a measly 11 percent of its $420 million in annual donations on screening. And it allotted 15 percent for research. So are women actually going pink "for the cure" or for other things—such as Brinker's reported five-star accommodations, private flights, and luncheons with lobster flown in from Maine?

Equally troubling is the type of "research" that Komen funds: archaic experiments on animals that for more than 40 years still haven't produced a cure. "The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse," Richard Klausner, former head of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), has observed. "We have cured mice of cancer for decades, and it simply didn't work in humans." The same is true for the millions of rats, guinea pigs, rabbits, cats, dogs, monkeys, and other animals who have died in the name of cancer experimentation—because their genetic makeup is vastly different from ours. The NCI now uses human cancer cells, taken by biopsy during surgery, to perform first-stage testing for new anti-cancer drugs, giving us all a much better shot at combating cancer. But while other organizations such as Komen waste funds on experiments that have proven time and again not to work, women with a family history of breast cancer, like Angelina Jolie, are so fearful that they are preemptively having their breasts removed.

As a woman, an animal advocate, and a granddaughter whose dear grandmother died of breast cancer at age 64, I am outraged by Komen's wastefulness and apparent disregard for underprivileged women. We deserve better than this.

A host of organizations dedicate their proceeds to offering screenings for underserved women and finding a cure through cutting-edge non-animal testing methods. Among them are the American Breast Cancer Foundation, the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, the National Breast Cancer Coalition, and the United Breast Cancer Research Society. PETA has compiled a complete list. 

To end breast cancer, we have to think outside the pink.

Animal activist Michelle Doers was reading Animal Times when she first learned about actor James Cromwell's arrest at the University of Wisconsin (UW) for protesting its heinous experiments on cats. That's when she remembered reading about something else in the PETA publication: a woman who wrapped her car in an ad to raise awareness about animal issues. So Michelle decided to turn her own car into a moving billboard for animals.

For the next two months, Michelle will be using her car to speak up for animals in laboratories and encouraging others to buy only cruelty-free home and beauty products. After that, she plans to change the wrap on her car seasonally. Her next message will encourage people to boycott Ringling Bros. for its abuse of elephants.

Another stellar activist and PETA supporter, Anne Feingold, helped coordinate a joint letter through her cat rescue organization that was signed by more than 150 cat advocacy and rescue organizations from nearly all 50 states. The letter, which unequivocally condemns UW's cruel experiments on cats, was sent to the leadership of the university as well as to the federal funding agency that enables this abuse. Anne also showed impressive initiative and dedication by contacting local media in Madison, Wisconsin, to alert them to her efforts.

Are you inspired by Michelle and Anne? Want to help animals from your computer and in your community? Join our Action Team! And if you're an activist younger than 21, check out peta2's Street Team! 

Big dairy better be wary. Casey Affleck and Ryan Gosling have helped us expose dairy farms' cruel practice of dehorning calves to the public, and now PETA is appealing directly to dairy distributors' shareholders.

We bought stock in several dairy companies and businesses that have dairy farms in their supply chains so that we could propose shareholder resolutions asking the companies to phase out dehorning. Last week, we attended the annual meeting for WhiteWave, which owns Horizon Organic Milk, and told the other stockholders how the companies' dairy farm workers use searing-hot irons to burn off horn tissue or sharp tools to gouge out, or cut off calves' horns and often the surrounding tissue, too, while the animals bellow and writhe in pain. Not exactly the kind of thing that stockholders want to hear. We'll be piping up at the annual meeting for Domino's and proposing a shareholder resolution asking the company to require its suppliers to phase out dehorning.

PETA is offering both companies an easy solution: breed for polled (hornless) cattle. A single gene determines whether or not a cow will have horns, and this approach has proved effective in the beef industry.

We're also offering consumers an easy way to end dehorning: Purchase only cruelty-free (nondairy) milk. Let's horn in on cruelty, shall we?

Ever since her red swimsuit days, people have been enamored with PETA's weapon of mass distraction, Pamela Anderson. And now you can have a little piece of the original "Lettuce Lady" for yourself. When Pam and PETA Vice President Dan Mathews spoke to Cambridge University about animal rights, she autographed copies of the Paul McCartney–narrated meat-industry exposé "Glass Walls" for the students. And she autographed a few more to give to lucky PETA Files readers.

To enter to win, simply leave a comment telling us about something Pam-like that you've done to help animals—her résumé is extensive, so there's plenty to choose from. Maybe you've attended a fur demonstration, spoken out against the Canadian seal slaughter, ditched meat, adopted a companion animal, given a speech about animal rights, switched to cruelty-free cosmetics, or acted to get horse-drawn carriages off the dangerous streets. 

Or maybe—like Pam—you've done all of the above. Just tell us about it, and two winners will be selected at random.

And if reading about all of Pam's compassionate actions has inspired you, plenty of animals still need your help, so get out there and get Pamelactive!

The contest will end on March 27, 2013, and we'll contact the winners by March 29, 2013. By commenting here, you're acknowledging that you've read and you agree to our contest terms and conditions and our privacy policy and you're also agreeing to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal info in accordance with those policies as well as to receiving e-mails from us.

Today is a monumental day. Starting today, any cosmetics product or ingredient that is tested on animals anywhere in the world cannot be sold in the European Union. So every one of the 500 million EU consumers will be purchasing only cruelty-free cosmetics.

The European Parliament had already banned cosmetics companies from tormenting animals in cruel tests on EU soil. But now that the deadline for the last step of this historic phased-in ban on animal testing has arrived, companies eyeing the lucrative EU market will have to abandon all animal tests anywhere in the world for both their finished products and their ingredients. The ban has already led many companies to invest in advanced non-animal testing methods, sparing countless rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, rats, and other animals from having chemicals dumped into their eyes, poured down their throats, and ground into their skin.  

The EU ban reflects the public's conviction that cosmetics should not be valued over animals' lives. People on this side of the pond can let our voices be heard, too—by purchasing only cruelty-free products. Please order PETA's free Beauty Without Bunnies Cruelty-Free Shopping Guide today, and PETA's online database of companies that don't test on animals—anywhere in the world—makes it as easy as point, click, and save lives. 

Since PETA began campaigning to expose companies that conduct agonizing and deadly tests on animals, consumers have firmly supported cruelty-free businesses like those on PETA's list of companies that don't test on animals. Realizing this, some unscrupulous companies are concealing the whole truth from consumers about their animal testing policies, but you shouldn't buy their propaganda—or their products.

Recently, for instance, Shiseido announced that it would mostly stop testing on animals. While eliminating animal tests is welcome, the company added that it would continue to test ingredients on animals "where it is required by law." So money spent on Shiseido products will continue to fund cruel testing on animals in countries such as China, where animal testing is still required by the government (although PETA's working to change that, too)—meaning that the company has not eliminated animal testing entirely.

Mary Kay is another corporation that seems to be playing word games with its customers, claiming that it doesn't "conduct" animal testing. Yet while Mary Kay might not perform the tests itself, the company does pay the Chinese government to test its products on animals.

PETA has also repeatedly contacted a number of other companies that refuse to reveal their animal testing policies. These companies—which should not be considered cruelty-free until they make a clear statement on animal testing—include the following:

• Revlon 
• AmazingCosmetics
• Amway
• Elizabeth Arden
• Hello Kitty
• Jurlique
• Puig (Paco Rabanne, Carolina Herrera, and Nina Ricci fragrances)
• Talika

What You Can Do

By refusing to support companies that test on animals, we leverage our collective buying power to send a distinct message that testing on animals for cosmetics is unacceptable. To make sure that you're shopping truly cruelty-free, please check the online listing of companies that do and that don't test on animals or order your free copy of PETA's first-ever global cruelty-free shopping guide!

PETA pal Stella McCartney never kills animals for her designs, but she certainly killed it at Paris Fashion Week with her cruelty-free collection. The star-studded front row raved about her fur- and leather-free autumn/winter 2013 ready-to-wear collection. An impressed Bono astutely observed to PETA Veep Dan Mathews, "Stella is PETA's number one ally in the fashion world." Jessica Alba said, "Her clothes are just as elegant as any line that uses animals." And Stella's proud pop, Paul McCartney, noted, "I thought it was beautiful. Very clean, very strong." 

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Stella's comfortable yet stylish designs are universally appealing to everyone from A-listers to young professionals like me, who make a beeline for the Stella rack at Last Call Neiman Marcus. They're comfortable pieces, yes, but there's also comfort in knowing that no animals died for my fashion statement. And there's comfort in knowing that my money is going to a design house that will continue blazing the path into a brave new fashion world where creativity reaches compassionate new heights. 

More good news on the international product testing front: After discussions with PETA, Pangea Organics is ending all sales of its products in China, where animal tests for cosmetics are required. For choosing principles over profits and vowing not to pay for animal tests anywhere in the world, PETA is proud to honor Pangea Organics with our Courage in Commerce Award.

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Pangea Organics has been a member of PETA's Beauty Without Bunnies program and will stay on PETA's cruelty-free list along with more than 1,300 cosmetics companies and personal-care and household products companies that are committed to compassion.

Pangea joins a growing list of companies that are choosing to stay true to their cruelty-free roots. Last year, Paul Mitchell Systems became the first company to pull out of China rather than harming animals after learning from PETA that selling in that country would mean painful and deadly tests on animals, and other companies, such as Dermalogica, have followed suit. Urban Decay also reversed its decision to enter the Chinese market after hearing from thousands of PETA supporters. And NYX, Paula's Choice, Yes To Carrots, and Jack Black have all said, "No, thanks!" to the Chinese market until tests on animals are no longer required—and that day is coming closer. PETA is helping to fund the efforts of the Institute for In Vitro Sciences, which is working to help Chinese scientists and government officials accept superior, non-animal methods, and China is poised to approve its first non-animal test. 

Please help us congratulate Pangea Organics, and show your support for cruelty-free living by using PETA's brand-new global Cruelty-Free Shopping Guide every time you shop! Order a free copy or use PETA's Beauty Without Bunnies database to find compassionate companies that refuse to pay for animal tests anywhere in the world.