After hearing from PETA, Scooter’s Coffee—a top U.S. coffee chain with over 800 locations —dropped its upcharge on all vegan milk, including almond, oat, and coconut! Now, compassionate consumers can enjoy their coffee with cruelty-free vegan milk without paying an extra cent. Scooter’s Coffee joins Starbucks, Dutch Bros, Blue Bottle Coffee, Gregory’s Coffee, Panera Bread, … Read more »
Kewpie Corporation, Asia’s largest producer of mayonnaise, has strengthened its ban against experiments on animals after hearing from PETA. The company’s previous animal testing policy only banned experiments on animals to establish dubious “health claims,” but the company contributed to curiosity-driven tests too, including injecting mice with cancer cells and chemicals before slicing them open. … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and food and beverage companies that we convinced to avoid animal testing, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Food Research Institute has created a new fund that allows corporate sponsors to support research that is entirely animal-free. The fund, titled the “Food Research Institute Programmatic (Non-animal) Support Fund,” has a stated purpose to … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Tim Hortons—one of the largest coffee chains in the world—confirmed that it eliminated the upcharge on vegan milk for all beverages in the United States and Canada. It is now the third major coffee chain to drop the extra fee for almond, oat, and other vegan milk in the last three … Read more »
Following requests made by more than 50,000 PETA supporters, Mysterious Circus has confirmed that it has gone animal-free. The venue sparked outrage last year when it used an elephant named Okha in its lineup of spectacles. Okha—who was supplied by Brian Franzen, a disgraced exhibitor whose violent history toward animals includes striking an elephant in … Read more »
After meeting with PETA, Airbnb stopped selling tours and experiences that include camel and horse rides at the Giza Pyramids, acknowledging that these offerings violate its animal welfare standards. Since PETA’s latest investigation became public, other travel companies—including Black Tomato, Shore Excursions Group, ToursByLocals, Under30Experiences, and World Travel Holdings—also committed to stop offering rides at … Read more »
Based on information PETA provided after exposing the Caucaseco Scientific Research Center in our 18-month damning investigation, two respected journals have taken rare action against the research conglomerate. The journal PlosOne retracted an article by Caucaseco experimenters due to lack of proper permits. And the journal Infection and Immunity of the American Society for Microbiology … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, Insight Vacations—a global luxury tour operator offering more than 100 itineraries across Europe, North Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Latin America—removed visits to an Iditarod musher’s kennel from its Alaskan tours and pledged not to promote the race again. Part of The Travel Corporation umbrella, alongside major brands like Trafalgar, Contiki, … Read more »
In a significant win for animals, food distributor Andre Prost—the owner of the popular coconut milk brand A Taste of Thai, is no longer using Thai coconuts following PETA Asia investigations revealing that endangered monkeys are chained, whipped, beaten, and forced to spend long hours picking coconuts from trees. Andre Prost will now only source … Read more »
A high-pressure PETA campaign has convinced the National Watermelon Promotion Board to stop starving, suffocating, killing, and slicing open animals in experiments to promote the sale of watermelons. In letters to its leadership, PETA called out the board for bankrolling the deadly tests on mice and rats. PETA supporters sent 18,000 e-mails urging a ban … Read more »
Tribe 9 Foods, a Madison, Wisconsin-based specialty food company, has stopped funding cruel and pointless experiments on animals at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Food Research Institute after hearing from PETA. Tribe 9 withdrew its support of the institute after PETA informed it that the institute was using the company’s donations to force-feed mice parasite-infested feces, … Read more »
Evansville, Indiana-based company AmeriQual Group—the largest supplier of Meals, Ready-to-Eat to the U.S. military—has stopped funding cruel and pointless experiments on animals at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Food Research Institute after hearing from PETA. AmeriQual and multiple other major food and beverage companies withdrew their support of the institute after PETA informed them that the … Read more »
Two federal lawsuits that cited evidence provided by PETA—one filed by the Department of Justice and the other by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)—have barred the Mt. Hope Auction from holding its triannual exotic-animal auction. After PETA first put the horrific auction on the government’s radar in August 2022, the USDA cited Mt. Hope … Read more »
In India, PETA scientists presented at and helped organize an annual international conference where attendees discussed the latest non-animal toxicity testing approaches. More than 100 attendees from government, industry, research institutes, academia, and animal protection groups participated in discussions. In Germany, another PETA scientist and resident ecotoxicologist presented methods for assessing the toxicity of pesticides … Read more »
Global candy maker Ferrero International—owner of Ferrero Rocher, Nutella, Tic Tac, and more—and North American dairy giant Agropur Cooperative are abandoning cruel experiments after hearing from PETA. The companies made the compassionate commitment by signing PETA’s new Eat Without Experiments pledge, assuring that they “[do] not and shall not conduct, fund, commission, or allow any … Read more »
