January 2010 PETA’s Laboratory Investigations Department learned about a physiology course at Australia’s Queensland University of Technology in which cane toads were being killed after having their chests cut open in crude and inhumane classroom experiments so that students could observe the effects of various drugs on the toads’ hearts. We urged the school’s administrators to … Read more »
January 2010 After more than two years of private discussions with PETA, Japan’s ITO EN, Ltd – the world’s largest green-tea manufacturer, with more than $3 billion in annual global sales – has instituted a new policy prohibiting all animal testing. The company had previously conducted and funded painful and deadly experiments on animals that involved … Read more »
January 2010 After PETA provided SandersWingo, Black Enterprise’s 2009 Advertising Agency of the Year, with information about how great apes suffer in the advertising industry, the agency signed PETA’s Great Ape Humane Pledge, agreeing never to use great apes in future ad campaigns.
January 2010 Less than six months after PETA released its undercover investigation in laboratories at the University of Utah, Utah legislators voted overwhelmingly to amend an archaic state law so that government-run animal shelters would no longer be forced upon request to sell dogs and cats to laboratories for use in cruel and deadly experiments. PETA’s investigation … Read more »
October 2009 PETA’s Laboratory Investigations Department (LID) learned about a University of California-Irvine neurosciences course in which 200 rats per year were being killed after holes were drilled into their skulls and their brains were damaged in crude classroom experiments. We sent a letter to the school to urge its administrators to end the cruel procedures, … Read more »
October 2009 After PETA’s Laboratory Investigations Division learned that cats were having hard plastic tubes repeatedly forced down their throats in cruel intubation training exercises at Heartland Regional Medical Center (HRMC) in St. Joseph, Missouri, we sent a letter to the director of the course detailing how animals suffer in these procedures and explaining that modern … Read more »
October 2009 PETA’s Laboratory Investigations Department (LID) learned about an Oakton Community College anatomy and physiology course in which dozens of rats and salamanders were dissected alive so that students could observe their working organs before the animals were killed. LID immediately contacted the school to urge its administrators to end the cruel procedures. We sent … Read more »
October 2009 After learning that a massive animal testing program in Europe was going to cause even more animal suffering as a result of duplicative testing, PETA initiated a joint letter to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), which oversees the program, asking it to intervene. Now, in a huge victory for animals, ECHA has announced a … Read more »
October 2009 After receiving complaints that Dollar General was selling glue traps (the cruelest method of wildlife control), we wrote to Dollar General executives and urged them to stop selling glue traps immediately. Upon learning about the cruelty of these traps, representatives of the massive bargain retailer told us that the chain would stop selling all … Read more »
October 2009 After receiving complaints from United Airlines passengers that the airline was showing “Texas Ranch House” as an in-flight entertainment option, PETA wrote United to ask it to replace the series with a humane option. The selection showed Wild West re-enactors branding cows with hot irons and cutting off their tails without the use of … Read more »
October 2009 After learning from PETA about the suffering endured by great apes who are used in advertising, global advertising agency Enfatico signed on to PETA’s Great Ape Humane Pledge, agreeing never to use great apes in any future productions.
October 2009 PETA received calls of concern from JCPenney customers who were dismayed that the company was selling a product called “Planet Frog,” a small aquarium kit that comes with a coupon to receive live tadpoles in the mail. After a harrowing journey by delivery truck, the tadpoles are placed in the small tank in which … Read more »
October 2009 Australian fashion designer Alannah Hill has agreed to stop using rabbit fur in her collections. The girly-chic designer had a change of heart after hearing from thousands of PETA Asia supporters who got fired up about fur after watching video footage that documents disgusting conditions on a Chinese fur farm.
October 2009 After receiving complaints from concerned PETA members and supporters who were outraged that women’s fashion retailer Boston Proper was selling fur in its catalogs and online, we immediately contacted the company and urged it to go fur-free. Boston Proper listened to our concerns about the cruelty that animals on fur farms endure–including being bludgeoned, … Read more »
July 2009 After years of pressure from animal rights activists nationwide – including PETA – JCPenney has finally decided to stop peddling pelts. PETA first wrote to JCPenney about the company’s support of the cruel fur industry in 2001, and we have kept the pressure on ever since, including sending complaints to the company over its … Read more »
