Michael Bossert pleaded no contest to cruelty-to-animals and possession charges stemming from PETA’s complaint and video showing him slamming a shark against the side of a boat and apparently carving out chunks of the animal’s flesh to use as bait. Bossert received 12 months of probation, a fine in addition to court costs, and community … Read more »
PETA Science Consortium International e.V. gives essential training opportunities to scientists to ensure that they have the skills needed to pursue careers in animal-free science. Thanks to these awards, an undergraduate student at North Carolina Central University attended the 2022 Society of Toxicology (SOT) conference. The award to attend the SOT conference was established to … Read more »
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art confirmed that it had removed and banned glue traps! This great news comes after PETA contacted the museum and explained that animals caught on glue traps suffer, sometimes for days, before eventually dying from blood loss, suffocation, exhaustion, injury, shock, or dehydration. Please never buy glue traps, and click here to … Read more »
Hats off to Talbots! After hearing from PETA that gentle alpacas are kicked, hit, and slammed onto tables—some even while pregnant—then shorn so quickly and violently that many are left bleeding from deep wounds, the retailer made the compassionate decision to eliminate all alpaca fleece from its merchandise by the end of 2022. Please urge … Read more »
Following discussions with PETA and our partner organization in Taiwan, Kindness to Animals, Microbio Co. Ltd.—a maker of health-food products in Taiwan—has banned animal tests on products for which such tests are not explicitly required by law. The company had previously conducted or funded at least five animal experiments from 2005 to 2016 that involved … Read more »
PETA sued the South Dakota Animal Industry Board over its refusal to release identifying information in certificates of veterinary inspection, which are key documents used to track the movement of exotic wild animals among roadside zoos, circuses, and breeders. The court ruled in our favor, finding that the state agency didn’t have a legal basis … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, PETA Australia, and Humane Research Australia, Macquarie University in Sydney decided to prohibit the forced swim test. The school’s Animal Ethics Committee reviewed the scientific literature on the test and reached the same conclusion as PETA scientists: The forced swim test is bad science. In 2021, Macquarie University experimenters published a … Read more »
PETA scientists coauthored a paper that challenges the standard practice of measuring the accuracy of new non-animal methods by comparing them to animal tests. The paper provides a new, faster way to evaluate novel methods that’s grounded in human biology and good science rather than flawed tests on animals.
After hearing from PETA about the cruelty of using camels, snakes, and other animals for public exhibitions, Micky’s West Hollywood in California committed to leaving live animals out of all future events! The club now joins the nearly 750 venues nationwide that already prohibit or restrict traveling animal acts, recognizing that spectacular events can be … Read more »
After learning from PETA that meaningless down industry standards fail to protect ducks and geese from cruel practices like live plucking—in which the terrified birds’ feathers are ripped out by the fistful, leaving them with bloody wounds—fashionable outerwear company Bernardo stopped using down in all its puffers, the company’s only products that had contained the … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and the public, Northern Tool + Equipment banned glue traps online and at its more than 120 stores nationwide. That means there are now fewer vile glue traps available that can capture small animals and cause them to suffer for days before they eventually die from blood loss, suffocation, exhaustion, injury, … Read more »
EGYPTAIR informed PETA U.S. that it is no longer in the business of transporting monkeys from Africa and Asia to laboratories in the U.S. and elsewhere. This followed an intense three-month campaign by PETA entities around the world, which included protests in the U.S.—at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and Dulles International … Read more »
After pressure from PETA and more than 75,000 of our supporters, Erlanger Health System announced a new policy banning its staff—including its emergency medevac provider, LIFE FORCE—from participating in medical training that uses animals. Previously, LIFE FORCE personnel were forced to attend training sessions held by the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in which … Read more »
In 2016, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) implemented its infamous “teachable moments” program. Rather than being written up in an inspection report for failing to comply with minimum animal welfare standards, facilities that ran afoul of the law could simply be asked to do better. When animals such as bear cubs, monkeys, and dogs … Read more »
KEKA Aerospace—a private space agency in the Democratic Republic of the Congo—publicly confirmed in a tweet chain that a rat named Kavira died last year “because of a failure” aboard the firm’s Troposphere 5 rocket and that the company “will never use animals in [its] research again,” including for its planned Troposphere 6 rocket launch … Read more »
