April 2007 After receiving more than 6,000 e-mail messages from PETA members and supporters, executives at New York-based drugstore chain Duane Reade agreed to meet with PETA representatives to discuss ending the sale of cruel glue traps and the company has since joined retailers like CVS and Walgreens in ceasing the sale of these “pans of … Read more »
January 2007 Mere months after PETA began its international boycott campaign against POM, which educated the public about POM’s cruel and deadly animal experiments, POM agreed to stop funding all animal tests.
January 2007 Saugus High School in Saugus, California, hosted a pep rally in which students and faculty members chased and harassed terrified pigs and piglets, and the school’s principal participated in the event. Upon learning about the event, PETA immediately contacted the school and requested that it implement a policy prohibiting the use of animals in … Read more »
January 2007 After the Fairport Harbor, Ohio, Mardi Gras Concessions Committee heard from PETA concerning its use of live rabbits as prizes each year, the committee decided to discontinue the practice. Going a step further, the committee even sent a letter to all vendors who attend the event mandating that tickets redeemable at local pet stores … Read more »
January 2007 In September, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and other organizations petitioned the EPA to require manufacturers to conduct toxicity experiments on animals for air fresheners. PETA submitted comments analyzing data from the American Association of Poison Control Centers that show that the number of exposure incidents reported for air fresheners is … Read more »
January 2007 When Reedley High School teachers and students contacted PETA about a donkey basketball game scheduled to take place in Reedley, California, we wrote to the superintendent and board of the school district about the cruelty inherent in donkey basketball and asked that the game be replaced with a humane event. Days before the game … Read more »
January 2007 When PETA discovered that Sam Mazzola, who is notorious for his hideous bear-wrestling events and for allowing customers to take photos of themselves with adult tigers, was scheduled to appear at the Allegheny Sport, Travel, and Outdoor Show in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, last February, we didn’t waste any time contacting the Pennsylvania Game Commission. After … Read more »
January 2007 After receiving complaints that Newbury Comics was selling animal figurines made from rabbit fur, peta2 launched a campaign against the New England music store chain. Within a day of receiving more than 700 e-mails from peta2 activists, the retailer immediately removed fur products from its shelves and enacted a permanent ban on fur.
January 2007 After more than a year of negotiations with PETA, popular women’s clothing chain bebe sent out a news release announcing that it planned to go fur-free. The company’s decision was good news for bebe, which was facing a peta2 boycott campaign, but it was even better news for rabbits, who often have their necks … Read more »
January 2007 Although usually quick to recommend animal experiments for everything from asbestos to butter flavoring, a National Toxicology Program (NTP) expert panel nixed a call for animal testing of diethyl phthalate, an already thoroughly tested chemical compound widely used as a plasticizer in consumer products, including plastic packaging, cosmetics formulations, and toiletries. The NTP opted … Read more »
July 2006 When area residents contacted PETA about a “donkey basketball” game planned at Maine West High School in Des Plaines, Illinois, we wrote to the school’s principal educating her about the cruelty inherent to donkey basketball and asking that the game be replaced with a more humane event. Days before the game was scheduled to … Read more »
July 2006 After learning that Welch’s–a maker of grape juice–funded animal experiments that involved cutting open dogs’ chests, forcing monkeys to inhale noxious secondhand cigarette smoke, and injecting rats with toxic chemicals, PETA fired off a letter to company officials asking that they halt their funding of animal tests. On May 16, PETA received confirmation from … Read more »
July 2006 PETA worked with Aruba’s government to help replace T-61–an unacceptable euthanasia agent that can cause extreme burning pain and is difficult to administer humanely–with sodium pentobarbital, the most humane method of euthanizing unwanted, sick, or injured cats and dogs.
April 2006 After hearing from PETA, Westerville North High School in Ohio decided to cancel a donkey basketball game that had been scheduled to raise funds for the girls’ basketball team. This compassionate decision paid off: several activists who were opposed to the game thanked the school for its compassionate decision by making donations to the … Read more »
April 2006 One year after PETA’s undercover investigator left the laboratory of animal-testing conglomerate Covance, the U.S. Department of Agriculture fined the company for violations of the Animal Welfare Act based on PETA’s videotape evidence. PETA’s investigator documented that workers were hitting monkeys, throwing them against cage doors, and psychologically tormenting them. Sick and injured monkeys … Read more »
