In response to a complaint made by PETA, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation cited Wild World of Animals exhibitor Grant Kemmerer for five violations of state wildlife laws, including three for allowing members of the public to have direct contact with big cats during parties at a private residence. The agency fined … Read more »
After hearing from PETA about the cruelty inherent in using live reindeer in holiday displays, Stauffers of Kissel Hill—a home and garden store with locations across Pennsylvania—confirmed that there will be no live reindeer in its displays this year and that it doesn’t plan to use them again in the future! These captive exotic animals … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Kirin Holdings Co., Ltd.—the second-largest alcoholic-beverage manufacturer in Japan and the ninth-largest one in the world—has agreed to end all experiments on animals not required by law. Since 2015, the company—which is best known in North America for Kirin Ichiban—had funded numerous such experiments, including ones in which animals were force-fed … Read more »
After PETA sent a letter pointing out that the notorious Garden Bros. Circus failed to obtain the required permit to perform with elephants during its shows at the St. Lucie County Fairgrounds in Florida, county officials responded by directing the circus to make its scheduled performances there elephant-free.
The PETA International Science Consortium presented its Early-Career Scientist Award at an international conference to a toxicologist developing a 3-dimensional model of the human liver to replace the use of rats in liver-toxicity testing. And a researcher from Argentina won this year’s award to attend a prestigious toxicology workshop where she’ll receive training to help … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Morinaga & Co.—Japan’s largest confectioner and maker of HI-CHEW candy, which is sold in the U.S.—ended all tests on animals to establish health claims about its products. During deadly experiments not required by law that were published by the company starting in 2016, nearly 100 mice and rats were force-fed, starved, … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and more than 20,000 of our members and supporters—all in one single day—travel company Journeys International removed all elephant camps from its tours. Even though the company had agreed to remove elephant rides more than a year prior, it still offered trips to exploitative facilities that chained elephants, hit them with … Read more »
In a landmark victory for dogs, Florida has just voted to ban greyhound racing! The state’s 11 dog tracks will shut down, saving thousands of greyhounds from being caged for 22 to 23 hours a day, given performance-enhancing drugs—including cocaine—and forced to run to the point that many sustain broken legs, develop heatstroke, or suffer … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Flowers Foods—one of the largest producers of packaged bakery foods in the United States and the maker of numerous brands, including Wonder, Tastykake, and Nature’s Own—established a progressive public policy banning animal testing (which it did not previously conduct or fund) and posted the new policy on its website.
After hearing from PETA and nearly 115,000 of our members and supporters about SeaWorld’s long history of animal mistreatment—including how the company crams orcas into tiny, barren concrete tanks in which they gnaw on metal gates in frustration and often die decades short of their natural life expectancy—Air Canada stopped selling SeaWorld tickets. The airline … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Molson Coors Brewing Company—one of the world’s largest brewers and the maker of many beer brands, including Coors Light, Molson Canadian, and Blue Moon—established a progressive public policy banning animal testing (which it did not previously conduct or fund) unless required by law and posted the new policy on its website.
PETA made huge progress toward ending the cruelty inherent in big-cat cub encounters. In addition to filing a lawsuit against Wildlife in Need over its abuse of big cats, we sued the roadside zoo’s veterinarian, Dr. Rick Pelphrey, for mutilating big cats by declawing them. PETA secured a first-of-its-kind consent judgment that creates a legal … Read more »
After more than 11 years of PETA-led protests, shareholder resolutions, in-person meetings, and pressure from supporters, luxury brand Coach announced that it’s joining the fur-free movement, admitting that “it’s the right thing to do.” The brand joins hundreds of other retailers—including Burberry, Versace, Michael Kors, BCBG, and Gucci—in turning its back on an industry that … Read more »
Bevel, LovelySkin, The Good Liver, Phoenix Shaving, Royal Brush Manufacturing, and Silver Brush Limited are the latest compassionate companies to confirm that they’ve banned badger hair! Badgers suffer from untreated wounds and go insane in isolation inside tiny cages on badger-hair farms. PETA’s exposé revealed that a slaughterhouse worker bludgeoned a screaming badger on the … Read more »
PETA Germany—advised by PETA scientists—has persuaded St. Elisabeth and St. Barbara hospital in Halle, Germany, to stop cutting open pigs’ chests in deadly surgical-training exercises and instead embrace sophisticated, non-animal teaching methods. The hospital offers an annual thoracoscopy skills training course, during which surgeons operate on live pigs before ultimately killing them. Thanks to the … Read more »
