PETA has obtained records showing that in Miaoli, Taiwan, a police raid of the Xiangshun Pigeon Racing Chapter resulted in jail sentences for two club officials and fines for 16 pigeon racers. Combined with the prosecutions of people from two other pigeon-racing clubs, this raises the total number of people charged to 239—the most who … Read more »
PETA’s Global Beauty Without Bunnies program is pleased to welcome Procter & Gamble’s Aussie hair-care brand to its list of companies and brands that have banned all tests on animals worldwide. The well-known brand worked with PETA to make this compassionate choice and will feature our cruelty-free bunny logo on its website and eventually on … Read more »
After years of pressure from PETA, designer and retailer Rebecca Minkoff has banned fur! The brand joins hundreds of other designers and retailers—including BCBG, Donna Karan, Farfetch, Guess, Nicole Miller, and Victoria Beckham—in turning its back on an industry that forces terrified animals to spend their entire lives inside filthy, cramped wire cages before being … Read more »
Following years of work by PETA, Keith Wilson, the owner of Wilson’s Wild Animal Park in Winchester, Virginia, was charged with 46 counts of cruelty to animals. These charges come after state officials inspected the facility and seized more than 100 animals found in squalid and inadequate enclosures, including bears, tigers, lions, primates, and many … Read more »
After PETA alerted the U.S. Department of Agriculture to a video posted on Facebook showing Zootastic Park owner Scottie Brown exhibiting an apparently distressed juvenile tiger at a public event, the agency cited the North Carolina roadside zoo for two violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act.
Ingredion Incorporated—a multibillion-dollar global ingredients provider and “one of The Coca-Cola Company’s biggest suppliers of corn syrup”—has implemented a new policy banning all experiments on animals for basic research and to establish health or nutritional claims for marketing ingredients, none of which is required by law. Ingredion previously funded or donated to numerous disturbing animal … Read more »
After hearing from PETA that circuses tear baby animals away from their mothers, confine them to cages, shackle them with chains, and subject them to violent training sessions, Central Michigan University committed to not hosting any more circuses with animals! The university hosted Jordan World Circus for the last time earlier this month at its … Read more »
Luxury clothing brand Jil Sander banned exotic-animal skins after learning from PETA that in the exotic-skins industry, workers violently handle ostriches, electrically stun them, and slit their throats, as well as cutting open alligators’ and crocodiles’ necks and jamming metal rods down their spines. Jil Sander joins Chanel, Diane von Furstenberg, Vivienne Westwood, and Victoria … Read more »
The Lawrence County Circuit Court in Alabama dismissed an appeal by Hugo and Franciszka Liebel, who sought to overturn an order that granted custody of Nosey the elephant to a Lawrence County animal control officer. The dismissal means that Nosey remains safe from the people who had chained, exploited, and neglected her for years. At … Read more »
After less than a year of intense pressure from PETA and more than half a million activists, Pfizer—the world’s third-largest pharmaceutical company—has banned the forced swim test. In this experiment, small animals are dropped into inescapable beakers of water and made to swim for their lives, supposedly to gauge the effectiveness of drugs to treat … Read more »
Victory! The sale of foie gras, a dish made from the diseased, fattened livers of ducks or geese who’ve been force-fed and then slaughtered, has been banned in New York City. From our first foie gras farm investigation decades ago to our recent, nearly year-long effort in which we sent out e-mail alerts and attended … Read more »
Following talks with and recommendations from PETA, Denny’s launched the Beyond Burger in Los Angeles and will go nationwide with it in 2020.
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. published a paper on a project that it’s working on with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a non-animal testing laboratory, and personal-lubricant companies to replace the use of rabbits with human skin cells in FDA-required tests for personal lubricants. In these tests, rabbits are restrained and lubricant … Read more »
After learning from PETA that badgers used for their hair are physically and psychologically tormented before experiencing a terrifying death, NARS Cosmetics agreed to ban badger hair! Badgers in China—the world’s top producer of badger hair—are trapped in the wild using snares, which are primitive wire nooses that tighten around an animal’s neck and slowly … Read more »
Following discussions with PETA, Takasago International Corporation—Japan’s largest flavor and aroma company—is banning all animal tests to establish health claims for marketing ingredients, including tests funded through universities and third-party research organizations. Before adopting this public policy, Takasago funded an experiment in which mice’s skulls were removed with an electric grinder, chemicals were injected into … Read more »
