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.
August 2014 After PETA mobilized nearly 70,000 supporters to e-mail the Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu—which had scheduled the Moscow International Circus to perform there in October—the Moscow International Circus has pledged not to use any animals in its upcoming performances.
August 2014 A concerned complainant reported that an Ohio leisure club held an annual event in which 1,000 goldfish were poured into a chlorinated pool and children would jump in and attempt to capture them. We sent the organizers a letter of protest this cruelty, and we have confirmed that they made the compassionate decision … Read more »
July 2014 Savings.com, a leading provider of online coupons, removed all SeaWorld promotions and coupons from its site, after PETA told the CEO about SeaWorld’s mistreatment of the animals it confines to its parks.
September 2015 Following a PETA campaign, human physiology courses at the University of Colorado-Boulder replaced classroom animal laboratories in which students cut off frogs’ heads and cut open live rats in order to apply drugs to their exposed, beating hearts. More than 600 animals were used every three years for these experiments, which have now … Read more »
July 2014 Mid-America Apartment Communities, the country’s seventh-largest apartment management company, implemented a brand-new glue trap policy after hearing from PETA.
July 2014 Following discussions with PETA, the Michigan State Board of Education adopted a progressive dissection-choice policy that allows more than 1.57 million students throughout the state to opt out of cruel classroom animal dissection and instead use modern computer software and other humane methods.
July 2014 After learning of horrific undercover footage of workers dismembering lobsters alive, Delaware North, a leading food-service and hospitality provider, pulled Linda Bean’s Maine Lobster and is no longer allowing it to be served at its sports venues.
July 2014 Thanks to efforts by the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. and its members, the European Commission appears to be set to reduce the number of animals used in each reproductive toxicity test from 2,600 to 1,500, sparing more than 15% of the animals slated to be used in Europe’s REACH program—the largest animal … Read more »
July 2014 U.S. federal laws require that every batch of rabies vaccine be tested to ensure its potency. This means that large numbers of mice are subjected to extremely painful experiments, which are often so inaccurate they have to be repeated several times in order to get a meaningful result, killing as many as 70,000 … Read more »
July 2014 Following a complaint from PETA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture inspected the decrepit Mobile Zoo twice and issued 18 citations to the facility.
