October 2014 Following a meeting with PETA, AlexandAlexa, a U.K.-based children’s clothing retailer that sells high-end labels worldwide, agreed to stop selling angora. The company put its new commitment into action by immediately removing angora products from its website and by agreeing not to sell the angora products that it had planned to market in … Read more »
October 2014 Students at New York City’s Clinton School for Writers and Artists will no longer dissect animals, thanks to a software donation from PETA. After hearing from a concerned student and discussions with school administrators, PETA donated virtual dissection software to fully replace archaic animal dissection at the school.
October 2014 Students in psychology classes at the prestigious Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru, will now learn about physiology without harming any animals, thanks to interactive simulation software donated by PETA. After receiving a complaint from a concerned student about classroom laboratories which undergraduate students were being directed to purchase live … Read more »
October 2014 Following discussions with PETA, these 19 airlines have given assurances or created formal company policies banning shipments of primates to labs: AeroMexico, AirAsia, airBaltic, Air Europa, Air New Zealand, Air Wisconsin Airlines, Aloha Air Cargo, American Expediting Company, Copa Airlines, easyJet, Fiji Airways, Iberia Airlines of Spain, Mokulele Flight Services, OHL, PenAir, Qatar … Read more »
September 2014 After hearing from PETA and learning of the undercover investigation of angora farms, retailer Horny Toad—which sells clothing to REI and Zappos, among many other retailers—confirmed that it will no longer make clothing using angora wool.
September 2014 After speaking with PETA, Piperlime, owned by Gap Inc., banned fur and pulled all current fur items from its online store.
September 2014 After PETA contacted the college and explained why having a petting zoo at its Alumni Weekend—which is scheduled for this October—would be a bad idea, the school stated that it would cancel the appearance of live animals at the event.
September 2014 After learning that a Tennessee property management group was hosting a Pocket Pets kiosk, PETA shed light on the horrors of the industry, and the group made the compassionate decision not to renew its Pocket Pets contract.
September 2014 Following a PETA exposé of mistreatment of animals in the laboratories of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Charles Rupprecht, an animal experimenter formerly at CDC, was forced to resign from Ross University, where he was Associate Dean in charge of oversight of experimentation on animals. Through a review of … Read more »
September 2014 Following PETA’s exposé of the mistreatment of animals in the laboratories of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Charles Rupprecht—a callous and negligent animal experimenter formerly at the CDC—was forced to resign from Ross University, where he was the associate dean in charge of experimentation on animals. After a review of … Read more »
September 2014 After a complainant told us that a church’s annual fair included giving goldfish away as prizes, we sent the church leaders a letter. They immediately spoke with the vendor and made the compassionate decision to end the practice permanently.
September 2014 Milkco, owned by grocery chain Ingles Markets, and Piedmont Milk Sales both severed ties with Osborne Farm after viewing PETA’s undercover investigation, which documented that cows waded knee-deep in their own excrement.
September 2014 After hearing from PETA about the cruelty inherent in keeping marine mammals captive at SeaWorld and forcing them to perform, United Airlines contacted Mark Travel, which operates United’s vacations website, and asked that all SeaWorld plugs and promotions be removed.
September 2014 After hearing from PETA, Jons International Marketplace, a regional grocery chain with 13 locations in Southern California, confirmed that it removed all glue traps from its shelves and committed to refusing to sell these vile devices in the future.
September 2014 Following discussions with PETA, the fourth largest public school district in Alabama—Baldwin County Public Schools, which serves almost 29,000 students—adopted a progressive dissection-choice policy allowing compassionate students to choose a humane science lesson instead of being forced to dissect animals. Baldwin joins hundreds of districts nationwide that have implemented similar policies.
