After learning about how badgers are confined in filthy wire cages and stabbed in the neck for shaving brushes, Nordstrom made the compassionate decision to stop selling badger-hair brushes! Please click here to urge shaving companies MÜHLE and Taylor of Old Bond Street to follow Nordstrom’s lead.
Another city has said no to glue traps! Ann Arbor, MI has officially banned the use and sale of glue traps citywide following outreach from PETA, becoming the seventh U.S. city, and the first outside California, to outlaw these cruel devices! Glue traps indiscriminately ensnare small animals, including mice, rats, lizards, snakes, songbirds, owls, bats, … Read more »
Agoura Hills, CA has officially adopted a PETA-initiated citywide ban on the use and sale of glue traps, making it the sixth city in the U.S. to ban these cruel, indiscriminate traps! Glue traps ensnare mice, rats, lizards, snakes, songbirds, owls, bats, chipmunks, squirrels, and many other animals, leaving them to endure agonizing, prolonged deaths … Read more »
Sustained efforts by PETA and the veterinary group Our Honor have convinced Washington State University to spare goats and sheep from gruesome deaths in a veterinary surgical training laboratory. The animals were slated for terminal procedures, but tens of thousands of supporters contacted administrators, urging them to reconsider. The university’s decision ends a large-animal surgery … Read more »
PETA Science Consortium International e.V. and collaborators in the US and India co-organized first-of-their-kind, hands-on training courses in India on state-of-the-art non-animal toxicity testing methods. The multi-day training courses mark the first time these sessions have been open to the scientific community in India, attracting more than 100 scientists interested in gaining practical experience with … Read more »
After learning from PETA that goats on Responsible Mohair Standard (RMS)-certified farms were shorn so roughly that they were left with bleeding wounds, designer Cecilie Bahnsen made the compassionate decision to stop using mohair in all future designs for her namesake brand. Bahnsen’s decision will help spare goats from tremendous suffering. Please click here to … Read more »
FAO Schwarz heard from PETA and more than 43,000 supporters that in the mohair industry, Angora goats are painfully shorn and ultimately slaughtered. After learning of PETA’s planned demonstration outside its New York City store featuring a 10-foot-tall bloody teddy bear, the toy retailer confirmed to PETA that it had pulled all mohair teddy bears … Read more »
After years of a cruel and ineffective trapping program in Torrance, a much more enlightened and fact-focused city council voted to stop the expensive program. Dozens of America’s Song Dogs endured terrifying snaring only to be thrown into a chamber and gassed to death by a trapper who flouted the law. Lethal means of ‘coyote … Read more »
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is increasingly using an approach co-developed by PETA scientists that predicts cancer risk from existing toxicity data. This approach spares 800 animals each time it is used. So far this year, the EPA has spared a total of 4,000 rats and mice.
PETA scientists and their collaborators published a new study that uses lab-grown human lung cells instead of animals to test chemicals. The research is already making an impact, as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency used the data to develop guidance prioritizing human-relevant, non-animal data over inhalation tests on animals for certain types of chemicals.
West Coast Game Park Safari owner Brian Tenney was sentenced to 7.5 years of incarceration after pleading guilty to 47 criminal charges, including 43 counts of animal neglect. The case was sparked by PETA’s reports of ongoing neglect at Tenney’s operation to Oregon State Police beginning in 2024 until law enforcement raided the roadside zoo … Read more »
Following discussions with PETA, Spain-based hospitality giant Meliá Hotels International confirmed that it will no longer allow attractions or encounters involving live animals at its properties. Animals used for interactions and photo opportunities are often warehoused in dirty enclosures and cramped conditions. Transporting animals and displaying them in crowded areas risks further stress, leading them … Read more »
The University of Minnesota has confirmed that experimenter Geoff Ghose “no longer works with nonhuman primates.” The development comes after PETA exposed Ghose’s experiments, in which he and his staff cut into monkeys’ scalps, bolted metal headposts to their heads, and implanted recording chambers over openings in their skulls. In April 2025, PETA met with … Read more »
In September 2026, Pitzer College became the first school in the country to install a memorial plaque honoring animals killed for food. PETA worked with Pitzer students, alumni, and faculty to get the project approved and sponsored the installation of the plaque, which is now prominently displayed at the entrance to the campus dining hall. … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and over 28,000 supporters, the Taiwan government stopped recommending tests on animals for blood glucose and blood lipid marketing claims—a monumental move that saves mice, rats, and hamsters from being force-fed, starved, tormented, and killed in pointless experiments. This decision reverses the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration’s outdated recommendation that cruel … Read more »
