Two bears formerly kept on display in virtually barren cages at Tregembo Animal Park in North Carolina were rescued and moved to The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado. The roadside zoo had been cited by the USDA after failing to provide one of the bears, Ben, with adequate veterinary care for severe facial lesions. The … Read more »
After years of public protests by PETA and over 150,000 e-mails from supporters like you, Michael Kors has announced that it’s going fur-free! The new policy will cover both the luxury fashion company and its recently acquired Jimmy Choo line. This move by Michael Kors proves that change and moral progress are inevitable as decent … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. helped a multinational company appeal a testing requirement that would have meant poisoning pregnant rats or rabbits with high concentrations of a cosmetics ingredient and then killing them and their babies just before birth. The Science Consortium supported the company through the process and spoke out for animals at … Read more »
This month marks the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd.’s fifth anniversary. To see the work that the Science Consortium has done to save animals and improve science over the last five years, click here.
Longtime PETA target Yellow River Game Ranch, a roadside zoo in Georgia, closed! This is another bear-pit facility that bit the dust following decades of PETA complaints and federal citations for veterinary-care violations.
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. announced the winner of its Early-Career Scientist Award, which aims to recognize young scientists’ work in animal-free science. Highly qualified applicants from around the world applied for the award, the winner of which will attend the Institute for In Vitro Sciences’ week-long workshop on non-animal testing methods. For his … Read more »
Following many meetings with PETA, Burlington Coat Factory—a retailer with 600 stores nationwide—agreed to ban fur.
After hearing from PETA that dogfighting is an illegal blood “sport” in which two dogs are pitted against each other and forced to rip each other to shreds as a form of entertainment, H&M quickly agreed to stop selling a sweatshirt that read, “dogfight in random alley,” which glorified dog fighting.
The Denver City Council voted unanimously on November 13, 2017 to ban declawing, a painful and traumatic procedure that involves partially amputating a cat’s toes, often causing lifelong physical and behavioral issues. The new ordinance makes Denver the first U.S. city outside California to ban the cruel practice.
After PETA India’s footage from inspections of farms on which thousands of sick and malnourished horses, donkeys, and mules are used as living factories to produce antitoxins and antivenoms went public, we asked the Indian government to rescind those facilities’ licenses and to invest in non-animal antitoxin production. One facility has already been closed, and … Read more »
Officials in Lawrence County, Alabama, seized Nosey the elephant after she was found confined to a trailer, standing in feces, and without proper shelter. She was placed at The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee temporarily. There, she received daily veterinary care and had acres of rolling hills to roam, trees to scratch on, sand to dust … Read more »
The Philippines’ most popular entertainment show, Eat Bulaga!—which airs on the country’s top TV network, GMA7—has implemented a policy never to use animals on the show. The decision comes after eels and frogs were used in the “Bulagaan Olympics” portion of the show. A concerned citizen called PETA when he saw the animals being carelessly … Read more »
After learning from PETA that foie gras is made from the grotesquely enlarged livers of ducks and geese who’ve been force-fed, United Airlines quickly agreed to remove the dish from the menu at Classified, its invitation-only restaurant at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.
Notorious animal exhibitor Hawthorn Corporation—which made a business out of leasing elephants and tigers to circuses—closed! This came after years of PETA protests and lawsuits and fines for over $270,000 in penalties from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Dozens of animals died on Hawthorn’s watch, including Tyke the elephant, who was shot and killed … Read more »
Few businesses have caused animals more pain and suffering than the notorious Hawthorn Corporation, which leased elephants and tigers to groups such as Carden Circus International, Royal Hanneford Circus, and Shrine circuses. This longtime PETA target had been under fire from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for years. Dozens of tigers had died on … Read more »
