January 2004 Thanks to pressure from PETA, a Tennessee hoarder was charged with 39 counts of cruelty for denying food and vet care to cats and dogs on her property, and authorities seized 67 cats and dogs, including this suffering cat who had a severe respiratory infection. Read about the dangers of animal collectors.
January 2004 PETA got authorities to obtain a search warrant and arrest a juvenile and an adult in Pikesville, Kentucky, for stealing, staking, starving, and beating dogs. They were charged with cruelty to animals, and all the animals were seized. Click here to read about the link between animal and human abuse.
January 2004 PETA wrote to authorities and posted an action alert about a tragic case in which an 88-year-old man’s dog, Sadie, was beaten and hanged while the man’s business was burglarized. The perpetrator has been sentenced to five years in prison. Click here to read about the link between animal and human abuse.
January 2004 UPDATE! After contacting Let’s Help, Inc., a local charity that benefits from the chicken fly contest, about the cruelty inherent in this spectacle, the decision was made to stop using live animals–this ends a 22-year “tradition”! PETA was contacted by a county commissioner in Kansas who was upset about an annual “Chicken Fly Contest” … Read more »
January 2004 After learning about a goat farmer in Portage, Washington, who bludgeoned baby goats to death with a hammer and sliced open the bellies of pregnant goats having difficulty giving birth without anesthesia, PETA contacted local authorities and the farmer has been charged with felony cruelty to animals.Click here to read about the link between … Read more »
January 2004 PETA received complaints from mall shoppers that an exotic-animal display called “The Zoo” was set up at Victoria Mall in Texas. We contacted the mall manager, as well as the CEO of Hull Storey Retail Group, which owns the mall, asking that the company prohibit animal displays at all its locations. We also posted … Read more »
January 2004 PUMA created a commercial in which a very young chimpanzee is seen admiring a shoe. PETA and other animal protection organizations contacted the company to alert them to the cruelty inherent in forcing baby and juvenile chimpanzees to “perform” for ads and asked that it remove the commercial from the air immediately. After reviewing … Read more »
January 2004 PETA received complaints from mall shoppers that an exotic-animal display called “The Zoo” was set up at Colonial Mall Temple in Texas. We contacted the mall manager, as well as the CEO of Colonial Properties Trust, which owns the mall, asking that the company prohibit animal displays at all its locations. Colonial Properties Trust is … Read more »
January 2004 Through the use of action alerts, e-mail alerts, and automated phone messages, PETA mobilized thousands of its members in a successful effort to help end the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s dog labs. The 100 dogs who would have otherwise been cut into and killed every year are being replaced by humane and … Read more »
January 2004 A student at Plant City High School in Florida alerted PETA to the fact that one of his agricultural science teachers had ordered her students to bury alive several baby rabbits and that when they refused, she had dismembered them with a shovel. PETA immediately forwarded this information to Hillsborough County Animal Services, which … Read more »
January 2004 When we learned that the University of New Mexico (UNM) was considering a plan to use a wolf as its football mascot, PETA fired off a letter to the school’s athletic director, asking him to reject this cruel plan. We had been inundated with calls and e-mail messages from people who were outraged by … Read more »
January 2004 Honda’s advertising agency, Rubin Postaer and Associates (RPA), created a commercial for Honda in which an orangutan portrays a beauty contestant’s assistant. PETA contacted RPA to alert the agency to the inherent cruelty involved in forcing young orangutans to “perform” for ads and asked that the commercial be removed from the air. RPA and … Read more »
January 2004 MasterCard joins Sears, Roebuck, and Co. and Visa to become the third national sponsor to end its Ringling promotions amid a flood of complaints. PETA had written to the credit-card giant describing Ringling’s record of tragic animal deaths, USDA investigations, penalties, and warnings and recently sent MasterCard’s president and board of directors undercover videotape … Read more »
January 2004 Upon learning that Forever 21 was selling clothing made of fur, peta2 threatened a boycott and called on its supporters to take action against the popular clothing chain. The response from activists was so overwhelming that Forever 21 contacted PETA to begin negotiations. The company’s senior vice president soon vowed that the company would … Read more »
October 2003 KFC and Yum! Brands made sweeping changes to their Web sites and customer service scripts in response to a lawsuit that PETA filed against KFC and its parent company, Yum! Brands, accusing the corporations of lying to the public about their animal-welfare policies. PETA’s victory in this lawsuit put corporations on notice that they … Read more »
