Following requests made by more than 50,000 PETA supporters, Mysterious Circus has confirmed that it has gone animal-free. The venue sparked outrage last year when it used an elephant named Okha in its lineup of spectacles. Okha—who was supplied by Brian Franzen, a disgraced exhibitor whose violent history toward animals includes striking an elephant in … Read more »
After meeting with PETA, Airbnb stopped selling tours and experiences that include camel and horse rides at the Giza Pyramids, acknowledging that these offerings violate its animal welfare standards. Since PETA’s latest investigation became public, other travel companies—including Black Tomato, Shore Excursions Group, ToursByLocals, Under30Experiences, and World Travel Holdings—also committed to stop offering rides at … Read more »
Based on information PETA provided after exposing the Caucaseco Scientific Research Center in our 18-month damning investigation, two respected journals have taken rare action against the research conglomerate. The journal PlosOne retracted an article by Caucaseco experimenters due to lack of proper permits. And the journal Infection and Immunity of the American Society for Microbiology … Read more »
In a significant win for animals, food distributor Andre Prost—the owner of the popular coconut milk brand A Taste of Thai, is no longer using Thai coconuts following PETA Asia investigations revealing that endangered monkeys are chained, whipped, beaten, and forced to spend long hours picking coconuts from trees. Andre Prost will now only source … Read more »
A high-pressure PETA campaign has convinced the National Watermelon Promotion Board to stop starving, suffocating, killing, and slicing open animals in experiments to promote the sale of watermelons. In letters to its leadership, PETA called out the board for bankrolling the deadly tests on mice and rats. PETA supporters sent 18,000 e-mails urging a ban … Read more »
Tribe 9 Foods, a Madison, Wisconsin-based specialty food company, has stopped funding cruel and pointless experiments on animals at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Food Research Institute after hearing from PETA. Tribe 9 withdrew its support of the institute after PETA informed it that the institute was using the company’s donations to force-feed mice parasite-infested feces, … Read more »
Evansville, Indiana-based company AmeriQual Group—the largest supplier of Meals, Ready-to-Eat to the U.S. military—has stopped funding cruel and pointless experiments on animals at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Food Research Institute after hearing from PETA. AmeriQual and multiple other major food and beverage companies withdrew their support of the institute after PETA informed them that the … Read more »
Two federal lawsuits that cited evidence provided by PETA—one filed by the Department of Justice and the other by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)—have barred the Mt. Hope Auction from holding its triannual exotic-animal auction. After PETA first put the horrific auction on the government’s radar in August 2022, the USDA cited Mt. Hope … Read more »
In India, PETA scientists presented at and helped organize an annual international conference where attendees discussed the latest non-animal toxicity testing approaches. More than 100 attendees from government, industry, research institutes, academia, and animal protection groups participated in discussions. In Germany, another PETA scientist and resident ecotoxicologist presented methods for assessing the toxicity of pesticides … Read more »
Global candy maker Ferrero International—owner of Ferrero Rocher, Nutella, Tic Tac, and more—and North American dairy giant Agropur Cooperative are abandoning cruel experiments after hearing from PETA. The companies made the compassionate commitment by signing PETA’s new Eat Without Experiments pledge, assuring that they “[do] not and shall not conduct, fund, commission, or allow any … Read more »
The 9th Circuit Court issued a landmark decision holding that members of the University of Washington’s animal experimentation oversight committee have no constitutional right to keep their identities secret. The decision in favor of PETA and the Northwest Animal Rights Network reverses a preliminary injunction granted by a Seattle-based United States District Court. This marks … Read more »
In the wake of HBO Max’s Chimp Crazy and escalating pressure from PETA, Tiger King villain Mario Tabraue surrendered Limbani the chimpanzee—who was kept in solitary confinement for eight years, to the Save the Chimps sanctuary. Limbani was the 25th chimpanzee PETA has helped to rescue, including by making a donation toward his lifetime care.
SeaQuest’s parent company, SeaQuest Holdings, LLC, filed for bankruptcy after the company reported less than $1 million in assets but over $10 million in liabilities. This development followed the announced resignation of the company’s CEO, Vince Covino, in August 2024. These changes came after years of PETA pressure on the aquarium chain and continued calls … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, the Midwest-based department store chain Von Maur has made the compassionate decision to stop sourcing fur! This exciting news means that fewer animals will be forced to live on fur factory farms in cramped cages, where they frantically pace back and forth, gnaw on the bars, and mutilate themselves out of … Read more »
Thanks to an award from PETA Science Consortium International e.V., two early-career scientists attended the tenth annual iteration of a prestigious non-animal toxicology training course in Luxembourg. The course allowed them to learn about and gain hands-on experience with non-animal tests for assessing a chemical’s ability to cause eye, skin, or lung irritation, skin allergies, … Read more »
