Natural Bridge Zoo owner Gretchen Mogensen, former owners Debbie and Karl Mogensen, the roadside zoo’s former veterinarian, and its former elephant trainer were indicted by a Virginia grand jury on 55 criminal counts of torturing, overdriving, or cruelty to animals and 8 felony counts of forgery of a public record. The indictments follow the Virginia … Read more »
After PETA reached out and shared how animals suffer in the angora and fur industries—including angora rabbits who scream as workers tear hair from their skin and animals on fur farms who are electrocuted, gassed, or skinned while still conscious—Eugenia Kim confirmed that it is among the hundreds of brands that no longer use angora … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, popular lingerie and loungewear brand Adore Me banned feathers! Adore Me is sold at thousands of Macy’s, Nordstrom, Target, Victoria’s Secret, and Walmart stores. This compassionate decision will help prevent birds from enduring a lifetime of suffering in the feather industry. Please click here to urge Windsor to follow Adore Me’s … Read more »
Following collaborations with PETA scientists and other experts, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics published a document outlining how non-animal tests can—and should—be used to assess industrial chemicals for skin irritation. The document prioritizes the use of reliable and human-relevant non-animal methods over those that use live rabbits to assess … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, Taiwan’s FDA, the government body responsible for regulating food safety, has updated its food safety rules for novel foods, prioritizing animal-free testing methods and allowing companies to use existing safety data of sufficiently similar ingredients instead of conducting cruel and pointless experiments on animals for the target ingredients. Historically, food safety … Read more »
More than 150 dogs have died in the Iditarod, including Ventana, who was raced to death while pregnant last year. After learning about this cruelty, Snowy River Equipment Sales, a now-former sponsor of Seeing Double Sled Dog Racing—a kennel owned by Iditarod mushers Anna and Kristy Berington—has committed to not supporting the dogsledding industry in … Read more »
In another leap toward stopping cruelty to animals abused in laboratories, QTrade Teas and Botanicals—the largest organic tea importer in North America—has agreed to ban all experiments on animals following talks with PETA. PETA discovered that the company donated to a test in which experimenters used genetically modified mice born with a peanut allergy, force-fed … Read more »
Following years of collaboration with PETA scientists, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its recommitment to ending tests on animals. PETA’s Managing Director of Regulatory Toxicology, Dr. Amy Clippinger, joined the EPA Administrator and spoke at the public announcement. This commitment to increase reliance on non-animal testing approaches echoes longstanding sentiments of the agency … Read more »
A paper co-authored by PETA scientists shows that human cell–based vaginal tissue models have the potential to replace rabbits when assessing the safety of personal lubricants. This non-animal method delivers data that is predictive of human health effects, reproducible across laboratories, and ranks personal lubricants by vaginal irritation potential.
Thanks to PETA’s donation of four advanced TraumaMan human-patient simulators, the practice of cutting open animals as part of learning how to treat life-threatening injuries in humans will no longer be part of Saudi Arabia’s Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) program. The TraumaMan models, which have arrived at Saudi Arabia’s ATLS National Office, are human … Read more »
Pressure from PETA supporters has once again saved animals’ lives around the world as the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) has announced it will no longer recommend that companies conduct cruel experiments on animals to establish dubious claims about digestion for marketing food and beverage products sold in Taiwan. More than 25,000 PETA supporters … Read more »
Mondelēz International, the maker of Oreo cookies and other snack foods, has just closed loopholes in its animal testing policy after relentless campaigning from PETA and more than 63,000 supporters. After several meetings with PETA, the company has amended its public animal testing policy, which previously allowed myriad horrific and deadly experiments on animals, including … Read more »
After two years of incessant pushing by PETA, and reams of evidence of jockey Jose Nicasio riding at deadly unregulated California racetracks, the California Horse Racing Board suspended Nicasio’s license and banned him from ever reapplying. This sent a clear message to jockeys, trainers, and owners that participating in bush track races, where horses are … Read more »
After hearing from PETA how angora rabbits are confined to tiny cages for their entire lives and workers pin them down and rip fistfuls of hair from their sensitive skin—or shave and cut their hair so violently that they often bleed—Monosuit agreed to ban and remove angora from its website! While Monosuit and more than … Read more »
After talks with PETA, Caribou Coffee—one of the top U.S. coffeehouses with over 800 locations globally—made customizing drinks with vegan milk free for all customers! Previously, PETA awarded the chain for removing the vegan milk upcharge for Caribou loyalty members who pre-ordered on the app. Now, anyone—including those ordering in-store or not signed up for … Read more »
