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 »
July 2002 In June 2002, after almost two years of working with PETA, the Food Marketing Institute and the National Council of Chain Restaurants released their first-ever retail farmed-animal welfare guidelines. The guidelines cover a wide range of issues, from anesthetized mutilation of dairy cows to farm-to-slaughterhouse transportation. While basic, these guidelines are historic in that … Read more »
July 2002 A PETA member was in a Blain Supply store in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, shopping when she heard a bird trapped in the wall beating her wings frantically in an attempt to escape. She notified a sales associate, who told her that birds often become trapped behind the store walls and that typically the store managers … Read more »
July 2002 A concerned Carver County, Minnesota, resident contacted PETA after he learned of plans to open a slaughterhouse where countless animals would be slaughtered without being stunned first. PETA had many conversations with county officials and wrote numerous letters, one of which was read aloud at a planning commission meeting and another of which was … Read more »
July 2002 A resident of Warwick, New York, contacted PETA about the town’s plans to trap and kill all the beavers near a dilapidated road culvert in order to prevent flood damage. We immediately sent a letter to the town supervisors asking them to halt the trapping program and, instead, upgrade the existing culvert and/or install … Read more »
July 2002 After making several complaints to county officials and getting nowhere, the neighbor of an Illinois man who was raising hundreds of rabbits and slaughtering them called us for help. PETA verified that the property was not zoned for this type of use, made a formal written complaint to the building inspector, and contacted county … Read more »
