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 »
After PETA reached out and shared how animals suffer in the angora and fur industries—including angora rabbits who scream as workers tear hair from their skin and animals on fur farms who are electrocuted, gassed, or skinned while still conscious—Eugenia Kim confirmed that it is among the hundreds of brands that no longer use angora … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, popular lingerie and loungewear brand Adore Me banned feathers! Adore Me is sold at thousands of Macy’s, Nordstrom, Target, Victoria’s Secret, and Walmart stores. This compassionate decision will help prevent birds from enduring a lifetime of suffering in the feather industry. Please click here to urge Windsor to follow Adore Me’s … Read more »
Following collaborations with PETA scientists and other experts, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics published a document outlining how non-animal tests can—and should—be used to assess industrial chemicals for skin irritation. The document prioritizes the use of reliable and human-relevant non-animal methods over those that use live rabbits to assess … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, Taiwan’s FDA, the government body responsible for regulating food safety, has updated its food safety rules for novel foods, prioritizing animal-free testing methods and allowing companies to use existing safety data of sufficiently similar ingredients instead of conducting cruel and pointless experiments on animals for the target ingredients. Historically, food safety … Read more »
More than 150 dogs have died in the Iditarod, including Ventana, who was raced to death while pregnant last year. After learning about this cruelty, Snowy River Equipment Sales, a now-former sponsor of Seeing Double Sled Dog Racing—a kennel owned by Iditarod mushers Anna and Kristy Berington—has committed to not supporting the dogsledding industry in … Read more »
In another leap toward stopping cruelty to animals abused in laboratories, QTrade Teas and Botanicals—the largest organic tea importer in North America—has agreed to ban all experiments on animals following talks with PETA. PETA discovered that the company donated to a test in which experimenters used genetically modified mice born with a peanut allergy, force-fed … Read more »
Following years of collaboration with PETA scientists, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its recommitment to ending tests on animals. PETA’s Managing Director of Regulatory Toxicology, Dr. Amy Clippinger, joined the EPA Administrator and spoke at the public announcement. This commitment to increase reliance on non-animal testing approaches echoes longstanding sentiments of the agency … Read more »
