Good news! Private Member’s Bill C-205, for which we created an action alert, did not pass through the legislative process and won’t become a law that could have prevented documentation of systemic, routine abuse of animals used for food.
Texas Biomedical Research Institute, home of the notorious Southwest National Primate Research Center, withdrew its request for $11 million from the taxpayer-funded San Antonio bond program after objections from PETA supporters, including PETA Students Opposing Speciesism hub organizer Mariah Smith, and other local activists. They testified at public hearings, submitted public comments, and called their … Read more »
In a surprising move and after many pleas from North Carolina residents, the Charlotte City Council voted down a bullhook ban and instead banned wild-animal acts altogether. This victory follows years of public advocacy and vigorous grassroots action—which PETA assisted by alerting locals to take action and providing comments arguing in favor of a ban … Read more »
Oswald’s Bear Ranch in Michigan was ordered to pay a $2,400 penalty to settle a U.S. Department of Agriculture lawsuit stemming from a tip from PETA that the roadside zoo’s owners had lied to the agency about the circumstances surrounding a bear cub’s death. Two cubs escaped from Oswald’s during a power outage, and one cub named … Read more »
Following a campaign by grassroots activists and PETA, Canadian retailer RUDSAK has pledged to stop selling fur by the end of 2022. This means that fewer rabbits, raccoons, foxes, and coyotes will endure a violent death for a frivolous fur-trimmed jacket. Please keep the momentum going by clicking here and urging True Outliers to go fur-free.
Following talks with PETA, the Armani Group—whose iconic brands include Giorgio Armani, Emporio Armani, EA7, and Armani Exchange—has confirmed that it has banned the use of angora in future collections. It implemented a ban on fur in 2016. PETA is celebrating the company’s decision to extend its no-fur policy to include angora and encourages all … Read more »
After hearing from PETA about the suffering that reindeer endure in holiday displays, Camp Abbot Trading Co., a hardware store in Oregon, has banned all events with live reindeer and any other animals! Reindeer travel up to 1,000 miles during their annual migration, traversing the tundra and swimming across rivers. But in holiday displays, they’re … Read more »
When PETA received footage from activists showing tiger exhibitor Adam Burck—whose license to exhibit animals had been canceled only weeks earlier by the USDA—illegally performing with tigers at the Hadi Shrine Circus in Indiana on Thanksgiving night, we rushed a complaint to Evansville Animal Care & Control. By 9 a.m. Friday, Burck had been sent … Read more »
PETA scientists intervened in a legal case in which the European Chemicals Agency was requiring a company to conduct tests on animals even though such tests contradicted the agency’s own requirement that animals be used only as a last resort. In this major victory for animals, PETA scientists provided evidence that helped win the case, … Read more »
Just days after PETA wrote to the North Dakota attorney general reporting that SeaQuest CEO Vince Covino’s bid to open a cruel operation in a former Grand Forks department store was based on lies, Covino backed out of his plans to add this North Dakota location to his chain of petting zoo aquariums. No animals … Read more »
Following discussions with PETA, Swire Coca-Cola Taiwan—one of Taiwan’s leading soft-drink manufacturers and the Taiwanese bottling partner of The Coca-Cola Company—banned animal tests not required by law. The company previously conducted or funded experiments on hamsters—purportedly to make human health claims about its green tea products—in which the animals were starved, killed, and dissected.
Following pressure from PETA, including e-mails from nearly 60,000 of our supporters, Uni-President Enterprises Corporation—the largest food company in Asia—banned animal tests not required by law. The company previously conducted or funded at least 17 animal experiments—including one published in 2021—that involved mutilating and killing almost 1,000 animals in attempts to make human health claims … Read more »
Following pressure from PETA, including e-mails from nearly 60,000 of our supporters, Yakult Co., Ltd.—known for its probiotic drinks in Taiwan—banned animal tests not required by law after being formally included in its parent company’s (Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd.) newly updated policy banning such tests. Yakult Co. previously conducted or funded experiments in which nearly … Read more »
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) finally canceled Adam Burck’s license! After PETA discovered that the Jordan World Circus tiger exhibitor had moved to Oklahoma without alerting the agency—and didn’t have a facility to house tigers—we repeatedly urged it to investigate and terminate his license. When the USDA finally conducted an inspection, it found Burck … Read more »
Following five years of pressure from PETA and after hearing from hundreds of thousands of our supporters, travel giant Expedia has stopped selling tickets to SeaWorld and cruel “swim with dolphins” encounters! This is a victory for all the dolphins who are forced to perform meaningless tricks and are harassed by humans who touch and … Read more »
