PETA’s Victories and Accomplishments

After viewing PETA Asia’s graphic undercover footage taken on Chinese angora farms, Limited Brands permanently banned angora.

Following PETA Asia’s undercover investigation into cruel angora production in China, Irish clothing retailer Primark pledged never to carry angora.

British retailer Marks & Spencer banned angora following PETA Asia’s undercover investigation into the cruel angora industry in China.

ASOS pulled angora from its website and committed to banning it permanently from its label and third-party brands.

PVH Corp., the parent company of Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Van Heusen, IZOD, ARROW, Speedo, Warner’s, and Olga, pledged never to carry it again!

After more than two years of discussions with PETA—and campaigns by PETA and our international affiliates—the Polish military replaced the use of animals in cruel military trauma training exercises with medical simulation technology.

A compassionate citizen alerted PETA to two stores that were unlawfully selling baby slider turtles. We alerted law enforcement, and they seized 22 turtles and four betta fish and cited the stores’ owners.

Apple rejected an app, which would have allowed people to control the movement of living cockroaches after surgically implanting devices into them.

The German natural beauty pioneer LOGOCOS Naturkosmetik ended all sales in China to ensure that no animals anywhere are harmed for their products.

We notified pier officials about the dangers of netting, and they have fixed it so that birds won’t get stuck anymore and are also looking into our recommendation to use safer deterrents.

When concerned residents alerted us to a private rodeo involving horse tripping and running animals to exhaustion, we helped to get officials on the scene, and the event was promptly shut down.

Following PETA’s efforts to end dehorning in the dairy industry, in which calves have their horn buds burned off with no pain relief, companies have begun to pressure their suppliers to stop this cruel mutilation.

PETA and compassionate citizens sent letters to Glendale officials urging them to protect the safety of animals and the public, and this year, Glendale prohibited Ramos Bros. from bringing exotic animals into the city!

Public Storage—the number one self-storage company in the nation—agreed to discontinue its use of glue traps indefinitely!

November 2013 After receiving information from PETA about Serenity Springs—a roadside zoo in Colorado with a long history of tiger deaths—the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied the facility’s application for a permit to breed more tiger cubs and various other species because of its record of violating the federal Animal Welfare Act.