PETA has learned that gruesome spine-crushing experiments on rabbits conducted at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute and funded by the National Institutes of Health have been halted at least five months ahead of schedule. This comes after we exposed these painful and pointless tests, paid for with nearly $3.8 million from NIH. The experiments left rabbits unable … Read more »
Following over 600,000 messages sent by PETA supporters, dozens of demonstrations at venues hosting the circus, and a barrage of public support for Viola the elephant, Jordan World Circus stopped using elephants. Jordan World had been using elephants supplied by Carson & Barnes Circus, including Viola, who has been hauled across the country in circus … Read more »
Following PETA Asia’s second video exposé revealing that goats are struck with brooms and poles, roughly shorn until bleeding, and even left dead in heaps, TJX—the parent company of TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, and many more—banned mohair, sparing countless angora goats from tremendous suffering. Hundreds of brands, including J. Crew, Gap, Banana Republic, UNIQLO, and … Read more »
After years of reporting West Coast Game Park to federal authorities who failed to take action for egregious animal welfare violations, PETA supplied evidence of clear neglect to the Oregon State Police, which executed search warrants in May 2025 and confiscated all 322 animals who were suffering there. Law enforcement officials pressed criminal charges against … Read more »
After facing relentless pressure from PETA and its international entities, including messages from over 100,000 supporters, Etsy banned the sale of fur! Animals used for fur are caught in painful traps or confined in tiny cages before being gassed, electrocuted, or skinned alive. By going fur free, Etsy joins hundreds of compassionate brands and retailers … Read more »
After hearing from PETA about the cruelty of live-animal displays, Lopesan Hotel Group will no longer display live animals at its properties! This move follows complaints that a turkey was displayed at a Lopesan hotel. Anytime animals are restrained, confined, and transported to unnatural surroundings, the experience is typically highly distressing and can pose serious, … Read more »
The City of Ventura, CA, has officially adopted a PETA-initiated citywide ban on the use and sale of glue traps, becoming the fourth city, and the largest city, in the U.S. to ban these cruel, indiscriminate traps! Glue traps catch and kill mice, rats, lizards, snakes, songbirds, owls, bats, chipmunks, squirrels, and many other animals, … Read more »
Mushroom grower and food packer The Giorgi Companies, Inc.—owner of Giorgi Mushroom Company, Giorgio Foods, Inc., and Giorgio Fresh Co.—has cut off support for all animal testing and joined PETA’s Eat Without Experiments program. The move follows discussions with PETA scientists, who had discovered loopholes in the company’s animal testing policy that previously allowed it … Read more »
Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine canceled its planned horse-killing laboratory, saving eight healthy and adoptable horses from death, after PETA supporters sent more than 36,000 emails as well as calls to school officials, joining the compassionate veterinarian group Our Honor in pleading to spare the horses. Just four days after we launched our … Read more »
After sharing PETA Asia’s latest angora investigation, which shows workers yanking rabbits out of tiny cages and suspending them from the ceiling, yanking down on their hind legs, and slicing off their hair with clippers, two NYC-based designers, Danielle Guizio and Jennifer Ouellette, banned angora! Please click here to urge Kangol to join the over … Read more »
As the Michelin Green Guide marks its 100th anniversary, Michelin confirmed—following meetings with PETA France about animal use tourism and with PETA about leather cruelty—that it will no longer recommend activities such as elephant and camel rides, warn readers that bullfighting is abusive and declining, and stop selling leather. As Michelin Éditions explained, “We are … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, Starbucks in Thailand is now offering soy milk at no extra charge! The announcement arrived just in time for Lunar New Year, giving vegans even more reason to celebrate. Click here to urge The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to end its upcharge for vegan milks.
ICL Performance Products— an Israel-based global specialty minerals company headquartered in St. Louis—has heeded PETA’s call to stop funding cruel experiments on animals at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Food Research Institute, which pays experimenters to conduct invasive and deadly tests on animals related to food and food ingredients. After hearing from PETA, the institute changed … Read more »
In a colossal breakthrough for monkeys and science, the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) board of directors unanimously passed a resolution today authorizing negotiations with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to end experiments on monkeys and transition the federally funded Oregon National Primate Center to a sanctuary for the more than 5,000 monkeys … Read more »
Natural Bridge Zoo owner Gretchen Mogensen, former owners Debbie and Karl Mogensen, the roadside zoo’s former veterinarian, and its former elephant trainer were indicted by a Virginia grand jury on 55 criminal counts of torturing, overdriving, or cruelty to animals and 8 felony counts of forgery of a public record. The indictments follow the Virginia … Read more »
