After a PETA protest and more than 100,000 e-mails to the fair board president from our members and supporters, the Mesa County Fair in Grand Junction, Colorado, confirmed that it has no plans to bring wild animals back next year! The fair hosted the cruel and dangerous bear show A Grizzly Experience in July—even though … Read more »
Grocery operator The Save Mart Companies—which owns the Save Mart, Lucky, Lucky California, FoodMaxx, S-Mart, and MaxxValue store brands—has agreed to end its sale of live lobsters after hearing from PETA that these animals are kept in cramped, barren tanks and killed by being cut up or boiled alive, often taking minutes to die.
After PETA shared with them a horrifying video exposé of China’s badger-brush industry, The New York Shaving Company, Bonanza, Beau Brummell, and Procter & Gamble’s The Art of Shaving all made the compassionate decision to ban badger hair! PETA Asia’s eyewitness investigation revealed that “protected” badgers are illegally captured in the wild using snares and … Read more »
Verbum Dei High School, a Catholic school in Los Angeles, agreed to remove its official dress code requirement that students’ belts be made of leather after PETA contacted its administration. This policy change is an example of Christian mercy that will no doubt inspire other schools around the country to make similar compassionate changes to … Read more »
Thousands of rabbits and even more horseshoe crabs are used in painful tests each year to test drugs and medical devices for contaminants that cause fever. The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. worked with government and testing-standards agencies to organize a workshop at which government and industry researchers brainstormed the best way to replace these … Read more »
After hearing from PETA scientists, South Korea spared hundreds of dogs by joining Japan, the U.S., the EU, and Canada in dropping its requirement that dogs be subjected to a yearlong pesticide poisoning test.
Nearly 320 brands worldwide—including Restoration Hardware, Brooks Brothers, and Ralph Lauren—have banned mohair after learning from PETA that workers in the mohair industry were seen dragging terrified goats by the horns and legs and cutting off their skin during shearing. Angora goats used for mohair are subjected to painful mutilations, including when workers castrate them … Read more »
After hearing from PETA that Jordan World Circus and the exhibitors it contracts with have long histories of animal-welfare and public-safety concerns, New Mexico State University (NMSU) confirmed to PETA that the circus’s performances that were previously scheduled to take place at the school’s Pan American Center had been canceled. The university also committed to … Read more »
After PETA wrote to AAA Arizona about SeaWorld’s long history of animal mistreatment—including that 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—the company confirmed that it no longer sells tickets to these cruel parks. AAA … Read more »
After hearing from PETA about SeaWorld’s long history of animal mistreatment—including that the company crams orcas into tiny, barren concrete tanks in which they gnaw on the metal gates in frustration and often die decades short of their natural life expectancies—GiftRocket removed the marine mammal park from its list of suggested gift card uses. It … Read more »
Iconic British brand Burberry is going fur-free—and it’s ditching angora, too! This monumental victory comes after more than a decade of campaigning by PETA entities worldwide against the company’s use of fur, including holding dozens of protests outside its stores worldwide, sending tens of thousands of e-mails, distributing countless leaflets and posters, and even becoming … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Fuji Oil Holdings Inc.—a leading producer of oils, fats, confectionery ingredients, and soy—confirmed that it will no longer fund, conduct, or commission tests on animals in order to make health claims about its products. In experiments previously funded and conducted by the company, rats and mice were starved, force-fed, and injected … Read more »
After hearing from PETA that dogs used in sled racing spend most of their lives chained to plastic barrels or in factory farm–style pens, CruiseExperts Travel—an excursion company that operates Alaska Shore Experts—removed all dogsledding activities from its offerings. CruiseExperts joins Jack Daniel’s, State Farm, Wells Fargo, and many others in ending its support for … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and more than 160,000 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 expectancies—WestJet removed all references to the marine … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, global meat manufacturer NH Foods and international sugar company Ensuiko Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., both agreed to stop conducting and funding animal experiments used to make dubious health claims about their products. Both companies had previously conducted experiments in which mice were fed ingredients, their was blood taken, and then they … Read more »
