After meeting with PETA and years of working behind the scenes with the company’s executives and submitting shareholder questions and resolutions, Lowe’s Companies Inc. has banned the sale of glue traps on its website! This decision will spare countless small animals from the agony of being caught on sticky boards, where they may suffer broken … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, the Florida Association of Insurance Agents (FAIA)—whose membership includes nearly 20,000 insurance professionals—has banned live-animal displays at its events, except for compassionate adoption events. The move comes after a FAIA trade show in 2025 featured a live giraffe. Animal-free events are safer for everyone and don’t support cruel suppliers that confine … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, Rustic Pathways has removed elephant bathing experiences from their trip excursions. Between PETA, peta2, and PETA Latino, more than 35,000 supporters took nearly 90,000 actions urging the company to do right by elephants. Rustic Pathways is in an influential position to educate impressionable student travelers on why interacting with elephants is … Read more »
After hearing from tens of thousands of compassionate people, the Harper County, Kansas Board of Commissioners rejected a local man’s application to keep and bleed numerous dogs there.
After hearing from PETA, Starbucks’ licensing partner Maxim’s Group confirmed it has dropped the upcharge on soy milk in Vietnam. Click here to urge The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to end the upcharge for vegan milks.
After a relentless PETA campaign, the University of Massachusetts—Amherst marmoset laboratory of Agnès Lacreuse has closed, ending more than ten years of cruel and deadly experiments on marmosets. Local advocates with Western Massachusetts Animal Rights Advocates and Compassionate Alliance for Nonhumans helped keep the pressure on. In addition to ads, protests, disruptions, celebrity letters, and … Read more »
After hearing from PETA that animals are electrocuted, suffocated, and even skinned alive in the fur industry, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts—which operates more than 70 luxury properties worldwide—has banned the sale of fur in Fairmont-managed retail stores. Fairmont Hotels & Resorts joins hundreds of top designers, brands, and retailers that have banned fur, including Alexander … Read more »
In an unprecedented move, the University of Washington’s animal oversight committee suspended the former head of the university’s Washington National Primate Research Center from all four of her own experiments on monkeys and other animals, citing Michele Basso’s blatant disregard of the rules, lack of responsibility, and loss of trust in the former leader of … Read more »
The New York-headquartered National Coffee Association and the Pennsylvania-based Backyard Beans Coffee Company have stopped funding cruel and pointless experiments on animals at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Food Research Institute after hearing from PETA. Both withdrew their support of the institute after PETA informed them that the institute was using their donations to force-feed mice … Read more »
The Oregon Legislature passed a measure requiring that the Oregon National Primate Research Center provide a plan to close by 2026 if it receives or uses any state money, or if the National Institutes of Health slashes its funding by 25%. This marks the first time lawmakers have conditioned the primate center in the state’s … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and over 40,000 supporters, Carnival Corporation no longer offers excursions to facilities that exploit elephants for riding, bathing, feeding, or other direct-contact activities. This decision will apply across Carnival Corporation’s brands, including Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Seabourn, P&O Cruises, Costa Cruises, AIDA Cruises, P&O Cruises, and Cunard. … Read more »
Colorado passed a law in 2021 making it illegal for circuses and other abusive traveling acts to bring exotic animals into the state. However, the Colorado Renaissance Festival hosted the notorious elephant exhibitor Trunks & Humps, under the guise of “education,” for several seasons following the passage of the law. That came to an end … Read more »
Eurofins, Jones Dairy Farm, and Kerry Group are the latest companies to restrict funding of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Food Research Institute away from animal testing, joining a dozen other corporate sponsors that have done the same or pulled funds entirely for the institute’s gruesome tests on animals after hearing from PETA. The institute had … Read more »
For months, PETA pushed for the Colorado Department of Agriculture to require facilities licensed under the Pet Animal Care and Facilities Act to house snakes in enclosures that provide at least enough space for the snakes to fully extend. PETA’s joint petition for rulemaking with the Colorado Reptile Humane Society launched the effort, which culminated … Read more »
Following two and a half years of sustained pressure from PETA, including advertisements, complaints to federal authorities, critiques from primatologists, scientists, and legal scholars, and 700,000 emails from supporters, federal funding for Margaret Livingstone’s infant monkey laboratory has been cancelled, ending decades of monkey torment. PETA first exposed Harvard’s monkey experiments in the fall of … Read more »
