Following years of collaborative discussions with PETA, Airbnb announced comprehensive Animal Experience policy guidelines that prohibit any activities involving direct contact with wild animals, including elephant rides, “swim with dolphins” excursions, and tiger-cub petting. The company also prohibits facilities with captive marine mammals, including SeaWorld. Airbnb joins the growing list of companies that have cut … Read more »
Following years of collaborative discussions with PETA, TripAdvisor has stopped selling tickets to any facility that displays captive cetaceans, including SeaWorld. The travel giant joins Alaska, British Airways, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, Spirit, Sunwing, and WestJet airlines—along with dozens of other companies—in cutting ties with the abusement park.
A judge in Taichung, Taiwan, upheld guilty verdicts for two Fengyuan Pigeon Club officers and 184 pigeon racers for illegal gambling. The club president was sentenced to one year in prison and fined over $200,000, the accountant was sentenced to nine months in prison and fined over $6,000, and the participants received fines. Combined with … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, multibillion-dollar, Fortune 500 giant Ball Corporation¬—most famous for the iconic Mason jars it used to manufacture—has stopped funding cruel and deadly experiments on animals. Ball—which is now the world’s largest manufacturer of recyclable metal beverage and food containers and a supplier for Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Budweiser, and other household names—is a top … Read more »
Garden Bros. Circus was planning to take its cruel elephant act to The Corbin Arena in Kentucky, despite a local ordinance prohibiting the possession of wild animals for display or exhibition purposes. After PETA alerted the Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources to the planned performance, the agency pledged to inform both the venue … Read more »
Last year, the Highlands County Fair Association in Sebring, Florida, canceled planned Loomis Bros. Circus shows after hearing from concerned local residents and thousands of PETA members and supporters. This year, on November 21, the association is hosting Garden Bros. Circus but won’t allow animals! This is a victory for the elephants, camels, and horses … Read more »
A report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office credited PETA scientists with working with federal agencies to promote the use of non-animal test methods and urged federal agencies like the National Institutes of Health to evaluate and let the public know how well they’re doing in reducing animal tests—something PETA has been calling on … Read more »
After PETA and more than 96,000 people urged Fodor’s to update its travel guides to include information about the cruelty inherent in elephant rides—including how elephants used for them are beaten into submission and forced to spend much of their lives in chains—its website now reflects the truth: “Riding elephants is cruel.” The travel guide … Read more »
Following a spirited protest by members of PETA and Long Island Orchestrating for Nature (LION) against animal exhibitor Wild World of Animals at the Bellmore Street Festival, the Chamber of Commerce of the Bellmores in New York agreed not to host animal acts again at the fair or any of its other events! During PETA … Read more »
After PETA urged Trader Joe’s to redesign the packaging of several products that showed animals performing circus tricks—including its toilet paper, its Bamba snacks, and some of its peanut butter jars—the company updated all the imagery to be animal-free. This compassionate decision is a victory for elephants, tigers, bears, and other animals who are carted … Read more »
As a result of a paper coauthored by scientists from the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the EPA has drafted a policy that will allow companies to submit a waiver for a test in which birds are fed pesticide-laced food for days before being killed. The peer-reviewed paper, … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, Robertet S.A.—the world’s ninth-largest flavor and fragrance company—banned animal testing and included the new policy in its official Charter of Ethics. Prior to taking this progressive action, it had participated with another company in a joint experiment on mice in which Robertet S.A. chemically analyzed a flavor compound while other experimenters … Read more »
Following intense pressure from PETA, 500 physicians, many scientists, a number of celebrities, and hundreds of thousands of activists, the canine muscular dystrophy (MD) laboratory at Texas A&M University (TAMU) has stopped breeding dogs to develop the crippling disease in its useless effort to find a cure for humans with MD. So there will be … Read more »
Following pressure from PETA and its supporters, French luxury fashion house Balmain has announced that it’s going fur-free. Balmain follows in the footsteps of the hundreds of compassionate designers and retailers around the world—including Armani, Burberry, Coach, Gucci, Prada, and Versace—that have banned fur, most of which comes from animals who spend their entire lives … Read more »
After 20 years of PETA protests, campaigns, and dedicated science work, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would stop funding and requesting tests on mammals by 2035. The EPA also committed to shorter-term goals such as providing millions of dollars in funding to advance non-animal testing, reducing funding and requests for mammalian … Read more »
