After hearing from PETA, Scooter’s Coffee—a top U.S. coffee chain with over 800 locations —dropped its upcharge on all vegan milk, including almond, oat, and coconut! Now, compassionate consumers can enjoy their coffee with cruelty-free vegan milk without paying an extra cent. Scooter’s Coffee joins Starbucks, Dutch Bros, Blue Bottle Coffee, Gregory’s Coffee, Panera Bread, … Read more »
Kewpie Corporation, Asia’s largest producer of mayonnaise, has strengthened its ban against experiments on animals after hearing from PETA. The company’s previous animal testing policy only banned experiments on animals to establish dubious “health claims,” but the company contributed to curiosity-driven tests too, including injecting mice with cancer cells and chemicals before slicing them open. … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and food and beverage companies that we convinced to avoid animal testing, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Food Research Institute has created a new fund that allows corporate sponsors to support research that is entirely animal-free. The fund, titled the “Food Research Institute Programmatic (Non-animal) Support Fund,” has a stated purpose to … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Tim Hortons—one of the largest coffee chains in the world—confirmed that it eliminated the upcharge on vegan milk for all beverages in the United States and Canada. It is now the third major coffee chain to drop the extra fee for almond, oat, and other vegan milk in the last three … Read more »
Following requests made by more than 50,000 PETA supporters, Mysterious Circus has confirmed that it has gone animal-free. The venue sparked outrage last year when it used an elephant named Okha in its lineup of spectacles. Okha—who was supplied by Brian Franzen, a disgraced exhibitor whose violent history toward animals includes striking an elephant in … Read more »
Based on information PETA provided after exposing the Caucaseco Scientific Research Center in our 18-month damning investigation, two respected journals have taken rare action against the research conglomerate. The journal PlosOne retracted an article by Caucaseco experimenters due to lack of proper permits. And the journal Infection and Immunity of the American Society for Microbiology … Read more »
In a significant win for animals, food distributor Andre Prost—the owner of the popular coconut milk brand A Taste of Thai, is no longer using Thai coconuts following PETA Asia investigations revealing that endangered monkeys are chained, whipped, beaten, and forced to spend long hours picking coconuts from trees. Andre Prost will now only source … Read more »
A high-pressure PETA campaign has convinced the National Watermelon Promotion Board to stop starving, suffocating, killing, and slicing open animals in experiments to promote the sale of watermelons. In letters to its leadership, PETA called out the board for bankrolling the deadly tests on mice and rats. PETA supporters sent 18,000 e-mails urging a ban … Read more »
Two federal lawsuits that cited evidence provided by PETA—one filed by the Department of Justice and the other by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)—have barred the Mt. Hope Auction from holding its triannual exotic-animal auction. After PETA first put the horrific auction on the government’s radar in August 2022, the USDA cited Mt. Hope … Read more »
Global candy maker Ferrero International—owner of Ferrero Rocher, Nutella, Tic Tac, and more—and North American dairy giant Agropur Cooperative are abandoning cruel experiments after hearing from PETA. The companies made the compassionate commitment by signing PETA’s new Eat Without Experiments pledge, assuring that they “[do] not and shall not conduct, fund, commission, or allow any … Read more »
The 9th Circuit Court issued a landmark decision holding that members of the University of Washington’s animal experimentation oversight committee have no constitutional right to keep their identities secret. The decision in favor of PETA and the Northwest Animal Rights Network reverses a preliminary injunction granted by a Seattle-based United States District Court. This marks … Read more »
SeaQuest’s parent company, SeaQuest Holdings, LLC, filed for bankruptcy after the company reported less than $1 million in assets but over $10 million in liabilities. This development followed the announced resignation of the company’s CEO, Vince Covino, in August 2024. These changes came after years of PETA pressure on the aquarium chain and continued calls … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, the Midwest-based department store chain Von Maur has made the compassionate decision to stop sourcing fur! This exciting news means that fewer animals will be forced to live on fur factory farms in cramped cages, where they frantically pace back and forth, gnaw on the bars, and mutilate themselves out of … Read more »
After meeting with PETA, Tailored Brands – which owns Men’s Wearhouse, Jos. A. Banks, Moore’s, and K&G Fashion Superstore – committed to no longer selling shoes made from alligator, ostrich, or any other wild-animal skin. In this industry, alligators are packed on top of each other in dank pools before being slaughtered for their skins, … Read more »
After hearing from PETA supporters about the serious welfare issues with using reindeer at holiday events, the Payette Chamber of Commerce in Idaho canceled its plans to host an event featuring live reindeer. Learn more about how reindeer suffer for holiday displays and take action at PETA.org/Reindeer.
