July 2008 After receiving complaints about a Verizon commercial featuring two aggressive pit bulls chained in a junkyard, PETA immediately contacted the company. Explaining that the ad sends an extremely damaging message to the public–that it is acceptable to chain dogs and use them as cheap burglar alarms, depriving them of their basic needs–we asked Verizon … Read more »
July 2008 When PETA learned that the New Hampshire Motor Speedway was planning to feature live elephants at a pre-race event, we immediately contacted the executive vice president of the track and informed him about the abusive tactics inherent in training elephants to perform. We pointed out that forcing these highly intelligent animals to perform at … Read more »
July 2008 Mercy General Health Partners and Hackley Hospital in Muskegon, Michigan, intended to celebrate their merger as Mercy Health Partners with a live butterfly release. PETA alerted hospital administrators that butterflies are extremely delicate and that using them in this manner can be deadly. PETA has received reports of butterflies arriving dead, becoming disoriented and … Read more »
July 2008 PETA filed a complaint against the University of Texas’ Michael E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine & Research, a chimpanzee research center that allowed six chimpanzees to escape over a five-month period, including a chimpanzee named Tony who was shot and killed. In response to the complaint, the U.S. Department of Agriculture fined the … Read more »
July 2008 Back in August, we wrote to Zappos.com about the fur products it was selling, urging it to adopt a fur-free policy. At the time, the company said that it would look into the issue to gauge people’s thoughts on it. So to help speed up that process, we launched an online marketing campaign, getting … Read more »
July 2008 After PETA alerted the Morris Animal Foundation to the abuse of dogs who were undergoing cruel kidney-transplant experiments, which the foundation was funding at Auburn University, the foundation launched its own investigation. As a result, funding to the university has been suspended and the foundation has decided that it will never again fund work … Read more »
July 2008 When PETA was made aware that Toronto nightclub This Is London planned to feature live kangaroos and wallabies at an Australian-themed party, we quickly called and wrote to the club”s management. We let them know that a nightclub is no place for animals, who would surely be made to endure harmful stress and confusion. … Read more »
July 2008 Anyone out there who loves to shop without getting off the couch and also hates to see animals suffer will love the fact that the Home Shopping Network (HSN) – which reaches 90 million U.S. homes – has adopted a permanent fur-free policy. In a letter to PETA, HSN CEO Mindy Grossman wrote, “We … Read more »
July 2008 When PETA learned that Fitwize4Kids, a national healthy lifestyle center for children, was participating in Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus’ CircusFit program, we immediately contacted Fitwize CEO Warren Gendel. We informed him of the tragic animal deaths for which Ringling is responsible and the abusive training methods that the circus routinely uses. … Read more »
July 2008 After receiving complaints, PETA contacted the management of Six Flags Theme Parks to dissuade them from repeating a 2007 Fright Fest stunt in which patrons were challenged to eat live Madagascar hissing cockroaches. Six Flags responded that all its parks will be leaving the cockroaches alone this year and moving on to “Fright Fest … Read more »
April 2008 PETA calls off its campaign in Canada after reaching a historic agreement with the company that coordinates purchasing chickens for all KFCs in Canada to dramatically reduce the suffering of the millions of chickens killed for Canadian KFCs. Most KFCs in Canada are also introducing a vegan faux-chicken option to their menus. PETA’s campaign … Read more »
April 2008 After receiving complaints about a MovieTickets.com commercial featuring a young chimpanzee named Jake, PETA wrote to the company and urged it to discontinue the ad and refrain from using great apes in future advertising efforts. MovieTickets.com quickly responded and promised not to produce any ads with Jake or other chimpanzees in the future.
April 2008 When PETA learned about a series of ads for CDW using a live chimpanzee, we wrote to the online computer-equipment resale company, issued an action alert to our members, and ultimately bestowed our “Litterbox Award” upon CDW. After receiving the dishonorable award, CDW contacted PETA to let us know that it had ended this … Read more »
April 2008 Thanks to a courageous whistleblower, PETA convinced National Taiwan University College of Medicine to cancel several cruel experiments, including an outdated pharmacology experiment in which students would inject the deadly poison strychnine into mice to measure how long they would convulse before dying. The university also canceled an experiment in which students would inject … Read more »
April 2008 When PETA learned that six monkeys at New York’s Lehman College who were slated for retirement at a sanctuary were instead sold to New York University (NYU) for invasive brain experiments, PETA contacted both Lehman and NYU and mobilized its members with an online action alert. After hearing from thousands of concerned people, NYU … Read more »
