Thanks to PETA, Pet Life has issued a companywide policy banning the acquisition and sale of dyed fish.
After PETA alerted officials to a YouTube video, two schoolgirls in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, are faced with criminal charges of cruelty to animals.
August 2011 At a Walmart store in Texas, a bird became mired in a glue trap set for rodents. A staffer then paraded around the store with the trapped animal and proceeded to kick the bird and the trap across the floor. Other staff members came to the bird’s rescue, safely freeing him. Animal control … Read more »
August 2011 PNC Financial, one of the nation’s largest financial institutions, with more than 2,500 locations, has instructed all its vendors that they can no longer use glue traps as a form of rodent control.
August 2011 At a festival in Mitchell Park, California, a surf shop was hosting a “bobbing for goldfish” contest. The goldfish were in a large plastic storage container, and anyone who was able to catch a live goldfish won something from the shop. PETA notified animal control, which ended the contest and warned the store’s … Read more »
August 2011 After learning about the educational superiority and cost-effectiveness of modern alternatives to dissection, a biology teacher at Crockett County High School contacted PETA to find out how to replace animal dissection in her classes with non-animal methods. Through its educational grant program, PETA donated virtual dissection software, models, and computer equipment that will … Read more »
New OECD test guideline halves the number of animals used in reproductive testing.
The bistro agreed to discontinue selling live octopuses as a live entrée.
Illinois school reprimands teacher for letting student kill rabbit in class.
July 2011 After learning that the city of Sierra Madre planned to use Tai, an elephant from Have Trunk Will Travel, in its July Fourth parade, PETA posted an alert on our website. E-mails flooded officials’ inboxes, and the elephant was removed from the event.
The defeat of these bills was a huge victory for animals and will protect undercover investigative work that is crucial to exposing cruelty to animals.
Adidas pledged never to use the skins of exotic animals such as lizards, crocodiles, snakes, sharks, and fish in its product line.
Elephants will never again bear the blow of a bullhook while in Fulton County.
June 2011 After the death of an elephant keeper at the Knoxville Zoo, where employees were put in danger by the zoo’s continuing practice of free contact, PETA and other animal rights groups sent complaints to the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration (TOSHA). TOSHA cited and fined the zoo.
PETA convinced yet another ad agency to sign the Great Ape Humane Pledge!
