Following a vigorous PETA campaign that kicked off with a demonstration featuring a life-size crying, chained inflatable orca outside AAA’s office in New York City last year—and that included e-mails from more than 75,000 of our members and supporters—AAA Northeast has confirmed that it has stopped selling SeaWorld tickets! Now, urge AAA National to follow … Read more »
Following talks with PETA, Uno Pizzeria & Grill is planning to launch a new vegan menu this fall featuring the Beyond Burger and two pizzas made with Daiya nondairy cheese. The new menu is already available at select locations.
Following talks with PETA, fine-dining chain Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse is adding a new vegan entrée to its menu: Roasted Heirloom Cauliflower Steak, made with a roasted slab of cauliflower served with ginger-soy maitake mushrooms, farro, charred asparagus, cilantro chimichurri, and tomato vinaigrette. It will be available on the lunch and dinner menus beginning … Read more »
After PETA contacted The Jim Pattison Group—a Canadian company that owns numerous brands, including Buy-Low Foods and Save-On-Foods—it made the compassionate decision to ban the sale of glue traps across its entire portfolio! The brands that were selling these vile devices—which contain adhesive that sticks to animals’ fur or feathers, causing them a tremendous amount … Read more »
Since 1993, Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim has published or funded at least 12 papers and submitted at least one patent application that describe using the forced swim test on a total of more than 1,300 mice and rats. But after hearing from PETA and PETA Germany, Boehringer Ingelheim agreed to ban the test.
Following talks with PETA and a couple of years of planning, Baskin-Robbins has released its first two vegan ice cream flavors, made from almond butter and coconut oil: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Chocolate Extreme
In March 2019, PETA filed a lawsuit against the University of Massachusetts–Amherst after it refused to hand over video records of experiments done on monkeys, despite being instructed to do so by the state. The case reached a settlement, and UMass agreed to provide PETA with all of its videos of primate experiments from a … Read more »
After hearing from PETA about the suffering that orcas and other animals endure at SeaWorld, United Airlines has stopped selling tickets to all SeaWorld parks and removed any mention of them from its United Vacations website. The airline joins Alaska, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, Spirit, Sunwing, and WestJet airlines—along with dozens of other companies—in cutting ties … Read more »
Following talks with PETA, Dunkin’ is testing the meat-free Beyond Sausage Breakfast Sandwich at 163 locations, with plans to roll it out nationally. It can be ordered vegan by asking for it without eggs or cheese and comes on an English muffin.
Following talks with PETA, Stewart’s Shops added pints of its first vegan ice cream—Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup, made with coconut milk—to all of its 335 locations.
Blue Apron has added the Beyond Burger to its offerings after talks with PETA, which had requested that it do so.
After years of pressure from PETA entities worldwide, including e-mails from more than 300,000 of our members and supporters, U.K. travel giant Virgin Holidays announced that it will no longer sell tickets to SeaWorld or any other park that keeps whales and dolphins in captivity! Virgin joins dozens of travel companies—including Alaska, JetBlue, Southwest, Sunwing, … Read more »
A federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland issued a first-of-its-kind ruling on PETA’s motion for summary judgment, finding that Tri-State Zoological Park’s failure to provide a now-deceased tiger named Cayenne with adequate veterinary care “harmed” her, in violation of the federal Endangered Species Act.
After hearing from PETA, PETA Switzerland, and PETA Germany, Roche Pharmaceuticals has confirmed that it has ended its use of the forced swim test, in which small animals are dropped into inescapable beakers of water and must frantically swim to keep from drowning. Between 2001 and 2018, Roche published at least 11 papers that described … Read more »
After ongoing talks with PETA and learning that in the mohair industry, gentle angora goats—who are easily terrified and struggle desperately to escape during shearing—suffer tremendously before being violently killed for their wool, Sundance Catalog agreed to ban mohair! It joins nearly 350 brands worldwide that have banned this fiber, including ASOS, Diane von Furstenberg, … Read more »
