After appeals from PETA and local activists, San Francisco became the largest U.S. city to ban fur sales, with a unanimous vote from its Board of Supervisors! This lifesaving legislation will spare countless animals the agony of being caged, bludgeoned, and even skinned alive for their fur and establishes a model of compassion for the … Read more »
Patricia Nash Designs made the compassionate and business-savvy decision to ban fur! This move comes after nearly 140,000 people contacted the company urging it to ban fur, the majority of which comes from animals who spend their entire lives confined to cramped, filthy cages, denied access even to basic necessities, such as food and clean … Read more »
City officials in Norfolk, Virginia, denied the Garden Bros. Circus permits to exhibit elephants at shows in the city and prevented the circus from using a horse with a swollen eye.
After learning from PETA that donkeys are confined to filthy concrete pens, beaten with sticks, and struck in the head with a sledgehammer so that their skins can be boiled down to make gelatin for a Chinese “medicine” called ejiao, Walmart stopped selling products containing this cruelly produced ingredient. Now, the company sells only alternatives … Read more »
After more than 315,000 PETA members and supporters told Grand Circle Corporation that they oppose the cruelty inherent in elephant rides—for which the animals are forcibly separated from their mothers as babies, tied down, beaten mercilessly, and gouged with sharp weapons—the company committed to no longer offering these rides from any of its travel companies, … Read more »
Donatella Versace—the creative director of luxury brand Versace—told Vogue that she is done with fur and doesn’t want to “kill animals to make fashion,” saying that it “doesn’t feel right.” This momentous announcement comes after decades of pressure from PETA and messages from the public urging her to ditch fur.
After more than a year of being pressured by PETA—and receiving more than 200,000 e-mails from the public—Furla announced that it’s joining the ever-growing list of fur-free luxury brands! Its CEO explained that the decision “confirms the brand’s increasing interest in the environment, with particular attention to the animal world, to which Furla is very … Read more »
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport informed PETA that it will stop using glue traps. This latest victory means that 100 airports across the nation are now glue trap–free.
The Environmental Protection Agency issued its draft strategic plan to implement non-animal chemical testing methods and took into account PETA’s extensive input.
Scientists from the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. attended the world’s largest international toxicology conference, where they presented research that the Science Consortium is funding to develop non-animal inhalation testing methods, co-chaired a symposium session, and led a continuing education course focused on ways to replace animals in chemical testing.
PETA contacted Plan de Ville to inform the company that animals in the fur and angora industries are often kept inside cramped, filthy cages—where they’re deprived of everything that’s natural and important to them—and killed in terrifying and painful ways, such as gassing or electrocution. As a result, the New York–based clothing retailer made the … Read more »
A U.S. magistrate judge issued a report recommending that a default judgment be entered against Dade City’s Wild Things (DCWT) and its owners, finding that they had violated the federal Endangered Species Act. If this report is adopted by the District Court judge in the matter and PETA is granted the relief it is seeking, … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, the Fairmont Police Department informed the Garden Bros. Circus that it wouldn’t be issued a permit to exhibit or display wild or exotic animals within Fairmont city limits for its show at the National Guard Armory.
Following communication from PETA, the Chicago Department of Aviation—the operator of O’Hare International and Midway International airports—agreed to ban glue traps. Not only is O’Hare known for its size, it’s also the third-busiest airport in the world in terms of passenger traffic.
Starbucks introduced a Hazelnut Mocha Coconutmilk Macchiato following discussions with PETA in which we pushed for more vegan syrups and sauces as well as items built with them. The Macchiato includes vegan hazelnut syrup and mocha sauce.
