Phoenix, Oregon, has banned fireworks from June 22 through December 30, 2022—during that time, the sale and use of any fireworks in the city will be prohibited.
Following discussions with PETA and our partner organization in Taiwan, Kindness to Animals, AGV Products Corp.—a major company licensed by Nestlé to produce, distribute, and market its Nestea products in Taiwan—has banned animal tests not explicitly required by law. AGV previously conducted or funded at least 12 cruel experiments on animals between 2006 and 2020 in … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, Kikkoman—the world’s largest Japanese-style soy sauce manufacturing company and a sponsor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Food Research Institute—told the institute to stop using its funding for tests on animals and instead to allocate the company’s donations to educational programs, special meetings, and administrative expenses only. Kikkoman, which has donated at … Read more »
The state of Quintana Roo, Mexico—one of the top tourist areas in the country—has prohibited wildlife exhibitions in public areas, which will prevent many wild animals from being forced to pose for photos with tourists. This success was the result of a combined effort led by PETA Latino and Mexican animal rights group Animal Heroes.
Following a massive public outcry over the cruel Banana Derby at the Broward County Fair, the city of Margate, Florida, adopted an ordinance restricting the display of animals for entertainment and prohibiting the use of federally protected species in such displays.
After receiving more than 80,000 e-mails from PETA supporters and a PETA delivery of humanely picked coconuts to the company’s CEO, grocery wholesaler Associated Food Stores has ended its sales of Chaokoh brand coconut milk, for which monkeys are chained, caged, and forced into a lifetime of labor picking coconuts. The company joins over 35,000 … Read more »
Following communications from PETA, national wholesale food distributor Performance Food Group has stopped selling the Chaokoh brand across its more than 150 distribution channels. Performance Food Group joins over 33,000 companies that have rejected coconut products linked to monkey labor in Thailand. This action will help phase out the use of monkeys in this industry. … Read more »
PETA released a disturbing whistleblower report of suffering ducks at Culver Duck Farms, a so-called “humane” company in Indiana. The whistleblower’s video footage and photographs showed injured and dying ducks, others who were suffocated and buried alive, and dozens of ducklings who were ground up while fully conscious. After hearing from PETA, Southeastern Grocers (the … Read more »
After hearing from PETA that more than 150 dogs have died during the Iditarod, global software company Nutanix quickly cut ties with the race. It joins dozens of companies that no longer support the cruel Iditarod, including Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, ExxonMobil, Jack Daniel’s, Millennium Hotels and Resorts, and Wells Fargo. Join us in urging the … Read more »
After PETA reported an incident in which a member of the public held a juvenile jaguar at the Florida roadside zoo Single Vision, the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited the facility over that incident and dozens of other public encounters with wild animals, including adult big cats. The agency also cited Single Vision—which received nearly … Read more »
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 »
