January 2003 PETA contacted organizers of Fayette County, West Virginia’s annual Bridge Day festival after learning that an animal exhibitor with a history of violating federal animal welfare guidelines was allowed to bring an infant tiger for photo ops with the public. We outlined the cruelty and public-safety issues associated with allowing the public to hold … Read more »
January 2003 When six freshmen at Davidson College in North Carolina were required to beat a goose to death with a golf club during a hazing ritual, PETA took action. We bombarded the Supreme Executive Committee of Kappa Sigma fraternity with letters, calls and e-mail mesages. As a result, the committee shut down its Davidson College … Read more »
January 2003 PETA was contacted by an animal control officer in Minnesota who was concerned that a tiger cub who had recently been confiscated from a neglectful home would be returned to her “owner.” The tiger was reportedly living inside a home in which raw chicken, feces, and urine covered the floors of many rooms. The … Read more »
January 2003 PETA learned that the promoter of an event modeled after Spain’s abusive “Running of the Bulls” was planning to encourage Reno, Nevada, officials to hold the spectacle in their city. We immediately faxed the president of the Reno-Sparks Convention & Visitors Authority, with whom the promoter was scheduled to meet, as well as the … Read more »
October 2002 After receiving numerous complaints about farmed animals being kept in filthy, cramped conditions in Erie, Pennsylvania, PETA contacted city officials about a proposed ordinance that would ban farmed animals within city limits. We asked members in the area to write letters and voice their opinion at city council meetings. The tremendous response helped to … Read more »
October 2002 When PETA discovered that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) planned to hire a trapper to kill a new colony of beavers in a creek near a metro station, we immediately contacted the agency with information on nonlethal alternatives. In late August, representatives from PETA and the Humane Society of the United States … Read more »
October 2002 In August 2002, following 20 years of captivity, Keiko the killer whale was freed from a pen in Iceland where trainers had spent three years and $20 million to prepare him for his return to the wild. Then, after only six weeks of freedom, Miami Seaquarium applied to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) … Read more »
October 2002 PETA convinced about 40 companies, including Adidas-Salamon, Kenneth Cole, Gucci, Gap Inc., Nike, and Reebok, to refuse to use Indian leather in their products after our investigators uncovered horrific abuses during the illegal transport of cows to slaughter. After viewing the footage, the CEO of Florsheim said, “We found the treatment of animals, as … Read more »
October 2002 Janesville residents bombarded PETA with calls and letters about the hunting of Canada geese in their city’s public parks. Several activists were arrested while attempting to stop hunters, and despite offers from animal protection groups to work with the city to resolve the goose issue, the city refused to declare a cease-fire. PETA sent … Read more »
October 2002 According to a Chesapeake, Virginia, resident who contacted PETA, a woman who came across a family of ducks on the road hit the accelerator and deliberately drove her car into the ducks, mortally wounding one of the birds and injuring several others, and then continued on her way. According to our contact, the duck … Read more »
October 2002 PETA wrote to the general manager of the Lowell Spinners Baseball Club in Massachusetts, an affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, after learning that the club had scheduled several events featuring Greenville Wildlife Park’s cruel traveling zoo. Even though Greenville Wildlife Park claims to be a rescue operation, it breeds exotic animals to amuse … Read more »
October 2002 The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) issued a notice that it planned to poison thousands of prairie dogs at Lubbock’s Land Application Site (LLAS) on the grounds that the prairie dogs caused groundwater contamination beneath the site. PETA received a letter from the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife stating that the TCEQ … Read more »
October 2002
October 2002 Thanks to a committed team of activists and PETA, pigeons and many other birds in Boulder, Colorado, will no longer suffer and die at the hands of humans. On October 1, the Boulder City Council voted unanimously to pass an ordinance declaring the city a bird sanctuary that protects all wild birds. Migratory songbirds … Read more »
July 2002 The annual New Jersey “A Dinner of Hope” fundraiser for needy children was to include foie gras, and Michael Ginor of Hudson Valley Foie Gras was to be a guest chef. PETA wrote to the organization, all of its trustees, and the restaurant hosting the event asking that they take foie gras off the … Read more »
