After hearing from PETA, life sciences company Creative Biolabs has cast aside the cruel and worthless forced swim test. The company confirmed that it will remove the FST from its service platform and no longer offer or perform it, noting that the test is “no longer relevant for drug development efforts.”
Good Foods Group, maker of dips and spreads, has announced they no longer fund gruesome tests on animals through the University of Wisconsin—Madison’s Food Research Institute. The company publicly confirmed it “does not currently donate to the Food Research Institute.” In fewer than 72 hours, Good Foods buckled under the pressure of more than 28,000 … Read more »
And that’s a frappe! Just days after PETA launched a national campaign pressing Peet’s Coffee to stop charging extra for vegan milk, with longtime PETA pal Sir Paul McCartney part of the push, the chain has announced that it will stop penalizing conscientious consumers for choosing plant milks that are kind to cows, their calves, … Read more »
Following pressure from PETA and an activist campaign led by Utah Animal Rights Coalition, Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, Utah announced it would be phasing out its wild-animal attraction and relocating all the animals it once held in small, bleak pens. The news came after PETA shared that public records showed the abusement park had … Read more »
PETA has secured assurance from Dairy Industries (Jamaica), Old Fashioned Cheese and Great Lakes Cheese that the companies will ensure donations to the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Food Research Institute will exclusively support the non-animal research fund, preventing money from funding cruel tests on animals. PETA, a vegan organization, does not fully endorse either these companies, … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, Scooter’s Coffee—a top U.S. coffee chain with over 800 locations —dropped its upcharge on all vegan milk, including almond, oat, and coconut! Now, compassionate consumers can enjoy their coffee with cruelty-free vegan milk without paying an extra cent. Scooter’s Coffee joins Starbucks, Dutch Bros, Blue Bottle Coffee, Gregory’s Coffee, Panera Bread, … Read more »
Kewpie Corporation, Asia’s largest producer of mayonnaise, has strengthened its ban against experiments on animals after hearing from PETA. The company’s previous animal testing policy only banned experiments on animals to establish dubious “health claims,” but the company contributed to curiosity-driven tests too, including injecting mice with cancer cells and chemicals before slicing them open. … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and food and beverage companies that we convinced to avoid animal testing, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Food Research Institute has created a new fund that allows corporate sponsors to support research that is entirely animal-free. The fund, titled the “Food Research Institute Programmatic (Non-animal) Support Fund,” has a stated purpose to … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Tim Hortons—one of the largest coffee chains in the world—confirmed that it eliminated the upcharge on vegan milk for all beverages in the United States and Canada. It is now the third major coffee chain to drop the extra fee for almond, oat, and other vegan milk in the last three … Read more »
Following requests made by more than 50,000 PETA supporters, Mysterious Circus has confirmed that it has gone animal-free. The venue sparked outrage last year when it used an elephant named Okha in its lineup of spectacles. Okha—who was supplied by Brian Franzen, a disgraced exhibitor whose violent history toward animals includes striking an elephant in … Read more »
After meeting with PETA, Airbnb stopped selling tours and experiences that include camel and horse rides at the Giza Pyramids, acknowledging that these offerings violate its animal welfare standards. Since PETA’s latest investigation became public, other travel companies—including Black Tomato, Shore Excursions Group, ToursByLocals, Under30Experiences, and World Travel Holdings—also committed to stop offering rides at … Read more »
Based on information PETA provided after exposing the Caucaseco Scientific Research Center in our 18-month damning investigation, two respected journals have taken rare action against the research conglomerate. The journal PlosOne retracted an article by Caucaseco experimenters due to lack of proper permits. And the journal Infection and Immunity of the American Society for Microbiology … Read more »
In a significant win for animals, food distributor Andre Prost—the owner of the popular coconut milk brand A Taste of Thai, is no longer using Thai coconuts following PETA Asia investigations revealing that endangered monkeys are chained, whipped, beaten, and forced to spend long hours picking coconuts from trees. Andre Prost will now only source … Read more »
A high-pressure PETA campaign has convinced the National Watermelon Promotion Board to stop starving, suffocating, killing, and slicing open animals in experiments to promote the sale of watermelons. In letters to its leadership, PETA called out the board for bankrolling the deadly tests on mice and rats. PETA supporters sent 18,000 e-mails urging a ban … Read more »
Tribe 9 Foods, a Madison, Wisconsin-based specialty food company, has stopped funding cruel and pointless experiments on animals at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Food Research Institute after hearing from PETA. Tribe 9 withdrew its support of the institute after PETA informed it that the institute was using the company’s donations to force-feed mice parasite-infested feces, … Read more »
