PETA Foundation lawyers and co-counsel won a precedent-setting victory in court when a motion to dismiss the class-action lawsuit against Texas-based Vital Farms Inc.—whose eggs are sold at Whole Foods, Target, Kroger, and other major grocers nationwide—was denied. The judge’s decision meant that the case—brought by consumers who were misled into buying eggs at a … Read more »
The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland ordered Tri-State Zoological Park of Western Maryland Inc., Animal Park, Care & Rescue Inc., and Robert Candy to pay collectively over $1.2 million in attorneys’ fees, expert fees, and costs to PETA.
After PETA tipped off local authorities that Lisa Lopez—an unlicensed animal exhibitor who operates under the name All Things Wild—was planning to display tigers illegally at the Cowtown Fair in Fort Worth, Texas, in March 2022, officials shut down the exhibit on its opening day. Lopez was scheduled to sell photo opportunities with big cats, … Read more »
PETA scored a victory with our Endangered Species Act (ESA) lawsuit against notorious animal exhibitor and Tiger King villain Jeff Lowe. The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma found that he had “treated the four lions directly involved in this case … with appalling cruelty.” This was the first court decision establishing … Read more »
The Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) has finalized a regulation that removes animal testing recommendations and requirements for companies wanting to make blood pressure health marketing claims about their food and beverage products. The testing included feeding foods of interest for at least eight weeks to rats bred to develop hypertension and measuring their … Read more »
Allowing four prairie dogs to escape, failing to provide an ailing lamb with adequate veterinary care, and allowing vulnerable schoolchildren to handle a tiger cub were just a few of the issues that prompted the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to fine Animal Haven Zoo in Wisconsin $6,450. According to the agency’s records, it cited … Read more »
Following discussions with PETA, Grape King Bio—Taiwan’s largest biotech fermentation health-food company, known there for its popular energy drink—has banned animal tests not explicitly required by law. It previously conducted or funded at least 10 animal experiments from 2002 to 2020 that involved mutilating and killing no less than 1,333 animals, purportedly to support health … Read more »
Los Angeles World Airports, which owns and operates LAX and Van Nuys airports, has banned and removed glue traps! This move comes after PETA told it that the traps cause small animals stuck in the adhesive to suffer, sometimes for days, before finally dying from dehydration, starvation, or asphyxiation. Anyone thinking of buying a glue … Read more »
A top official has confirmed to PETA that no animals will be killed in barbaric survival training drills during Cobra Gold 2022, a massive joint multinational military exercise held in Thailand and attended by the U.S. military. During these cruel, dangerous, and likely illegal exercises, troops had been forced to kill chickens with their bare … Read more »
Following years of pressure from PETA—including protests all around the world, shocking ad campaigns, and phone calls and e-mails from nearly 500,000 supporters like you—Millennium Hotels and Resorts is dropping its sponsorship of Alaska’s deadly Iditarod dog-sled race! Millennium Hotels joins over a dozen other companies—including Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, ExxonMobil, Jack Daniel’s, and Wells Fargo—in … Read more »
Failing to provide a limping aoudad sheep with adequate veterinary care and failing to provide animals with sanitary, potable water were just some of the issues that prompted the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fine Waccatee Zoo in South Carolina $7,800, according to the agency’s records. The roadside zoo—which PETA dubbed the “worst roadside zoo … Read more »
The Cleveland County Agriculture & Livestock Exchange was cited by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) after PETA provided the agency with evidence following our investigation into the Shelby Alternative Livestock Auction, which was held at the stockyard in October 2021. The citations were based entirely on our eyewitness video footage, which showed a coatimundi … Read more »
In a rare move, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cited the Cleveland County Agriculture & Livestock Exchange in North Carolina based entirely on undercover video footage provided by PETA. The citations stemmed from our footage of a coatimundi screaming and chittering out of terror while being auctioned off, a wallaby being dangled by the … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, Asian food distributor North American Food Distributing Co. (NAFDC)—which is based in Sacramento, California—cut ties with Chaokoh, a company implicated in using forced monkey labor to pick coconuts. NAFDC is an importer and wholesale distributor of Asian food products for businesses and restaurants, and it has affiliated companies in Tokyo and … Read more »
After PETA and the Animal Legal Defense Fund sued Pymatuning Deer Park in Pennsylvania, claiming that animals protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) had endured mistreatment there, the notorious roadside zoo retired eight animals in its custody to The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado, including birds, lemurs, and three big cats.
