After learning that in the alpaca-wool industry, workers cruelly handled alpacas, slammed them onto tables, tied them by all four legs, forcibly stretched them out, and violently and carelessly sheared them as they cried out and spat in fear, retailers ESPRIT and Overstock banned alpaca wool! Please urge Anthropologie to follow the growing number of … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and nearly 110,000 members of the public, Kugo—the parent company of shaving brands RoyalShave, Pomades, and TheStache.com—confirmed that it had banned badger hair! These brands join nearly 100 others worldwide that have turned their backs on an industry that forces badgers to live inside cramped, wire cages before workers bludgeon them and … Read more »
After discussions with PETA scientists, GlaxoSmithKline, one of the top 10 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, banned the forced swim test. Between 2002 and 2018, its employees published at least 29 papers that describe the use of the test in experiments involving at least 1,327 mice and 447 rats.
After PETA appealed to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regarding the serious health hazards involved in big-cat cub-petting events now that the novel coronavirus has been found in captive big cats, the USDA announced that it would issue an advisory note recommending, in part, that exhibitors encourage members of the public to keep at … Read more »
Following years of campaigning by PETA, Dairy Queen is now offering a vegan ice cream bar at participating stores nationwide. The Non-Dairy Dilly Bar is made with coconut cream and covered with vegan chocolate. Actor Alan Cumming had urged the company to add nondairy options on PETA’s behalf, and tens of thousands of our supporters … Read more »
After hearing from PETA that elephants who are forced to participate in festivals or other displays suffer in many of the same ways as those who are exploited for rides, The Republic of Tea made the compassionate decision not to use images of captive wildlife on its packaging going forward. PETA wrote to the company … Read more »
Working with medical doctors, engineers at the Catholic University of Bolivia in La Paz have successfully developed a new type of automated ventilator to treat COVID-19 patients. The machine was tested on a human simulator containing an artificial lung that PETA scientists had recommended to the engineers. This spared pigs, the usual test subjects for … Read more »
Ball Corporation is no longer listed as a platinum partner of Wings for Life, a Red Bull–backed charity that supports horrific and scientifically bogus spinal cord injury experiments on animals. Ball’s decision to terminate its association with the charity comes after discussions with PETA that led the company to adopt a public policy that bans … Read more »
Brooks Brothers—the oldest retailer in the U.S.—confirmed that it stopped ordering products made with exotic-animal skins! This compassionate decision came after learning from PETA that in the exotic-skins industry, workers electrically stun ostriches and then slit their throats, hack open alligators’ and crocodiles’ necks and jam metal rods down their spines, and nail snakes to … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. chose Viviana Stephanie Costa Gagosian, a student seeking her master’s degree in genetics at the Federal University of Paraná in Brazil, as the winner of its Award for Innovative Approaches in Science. Gagosian was honored at the Summer School on Innovative Approaches in Science, a virtual school on non-animal … Read more »
PETA won a public records lawsuit against Oregon Health & Science University, which must provide us with 74 videos of taxpayer-funded experiments on monkeys that took place at the university’s primate research center. These experiments involve impregnating macaque monkeys, feeding the mothers various experimental diets, separating them from their offspring, and deliberately frightening the young … Read more »
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signed Senate Bill 1030, which bans public contact with dangerous captive animals, including bears, primates, and certain big cats. In effect, this will eliminate cruel cub-petting operations in the Commonwealth. The law goes into effect on July 1, 2021. PETA supported this bill at legislative hearings and encouraged our members and … Read more »
PETA was awarded a default judgment and permanent injunction in our Endangered Species Act lawsuit against Dade City’s Wild Things in Florida, which is now permanently banned from owning or possessing endangered tigers and has reportedly closed its doors! The remaining tigers were relocated to The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado, where they will be … Read more »
Funding from the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. contributed towards the creation of a first-of-its-kind three-dimensional model that can be used to study the effects of chemicals on the deepest part of the human lung. This model could prevent tens of thousands of rats and mice from being confined to small tubes and forced to … Read more »
After meeting with PETA, outerwear company Amundsen Sports banned fur! We’re delighted that it’s joining the hundreds of designers and retailers—including Columbia, Fjällräven, Patagonia, and REI—that sell only faux fur. This compassionate decision will prevent countless gentle animals from being caught in painful traps that slam down on their limbs—often breaking bones—before trappers return to … Read more »
