June 2014 After talks with PETA at Quiksilver’s headquarters, the surf and snowboard company confirmed that it won’t sell any more items containing angora wool.
June 2014 After being alerted that an international carnival entertainment company was giving goldfish away as prizes, PETA persuaded company executives to stop this practice.
June 2014 In an episode of the Animal Planet series Call of the Wildman, the show’s star, Ernie Brown Jr., chases down a zebra who had supposedly escaped from a fenced-in yard and roughly wrestles the animal to the ground. PETA learned that the Grévy’s zebra—who’s protected under the Endangered Species Act—had been drugged prior … Read more »
May 2014 PETA and Animal Beta Project provided Texas authorities with evidence of a so-called “crush video” outfit producing videos of rabbits, chickens, and other animals who were being tortured. One participant was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and her alleged cohort will soon face trial.
May 2014 After PETA contacted the Bob Rohrman Schaumburg Ford car dealership, it decided to cancel the live lion exhibit that was planned.
May 2014 The fight against tests on animals for cosmetics has reached another important milestone, as India added a new clause to its Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945, officially banning all animal tests for cosmetics following an intense campaign by PETA India and work by Indian Member of Parliament Maneka Gandhi and others.
May 2014 After extensive talks and an appearance at Gap Inc.’s annual meeting, PETA convinced the worldwide retailer to ban angora sales for good and to remove the remaining angora items from its shelves.
May 2014 When PETA learned that a black bear named Boudreaux was being held in a tiny, dark indoor cage without access to the outdoors for nearly four years at the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo, we immediately filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The documents that we requested from the agency’s … Read more »
May 2014 We received calls regarding a bird deterrent net at a New Hampshire mall that had fallen into disrepair, so we contacted the property management company, and it immediately got workers out to flush the birds from the netting and repair it.
May 2014 A New Jersey high school was planning to auction a puppy as part of a fundraising event. We educated officials on the dire consequences for the animals and their new families that often result from puppy auctions, and officials agreed to cancel the auction.
May 2014 Synthetically produced recreational drugs were being sold on store shelves in New Zealand until the government announced that all the drugs would be pulled until manufacturers presented test results proving that their products were safe, which meant that many new animal tests would be conducted. Animal rights activists working to stop this contacted … Read more »
May 2014 After being contacted by PETA, Century 21 made the compassionate decision to ban angora wool.
PETA contacted the store’s CEO and manager, who made the compassionate decision to remove the poison and to use anti-roosting coils instead.
Last year, the LA City Council voted to support a bullhook ban, now the law has been drafted and formally adopted. The ban goes into effect in January 2017.
The USDA fined China Southern Airlines $11,600 for illegally shipping 1,380 monkeys over a six-month period in 2013 from breeding facilities to labs.
