After hearing from PETA and receiving nearly 150,000 e-mails from our supporters, American Airlines—the world’s largest airline by daily flights—agreed to offer a vegan creamer option on its in-flight beverage menu, starting in November 2024! Demand for dairy-free foods and beverages is soaring, as consumers increasingly want options that are kind to animals, better for … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, Albanese Candy, Smarties, and Colombina agreed not to partner with SeaWorld in the future. When we learned that the abusement park was hosting a Halloween Spooktacular event, we reached out to all the participating candy companies and asked them to reconsider. Both Albanese and Smarties sympathized. More than 40 orcas and … Read more »
H&M—the second-largest clothing retailer in the world—confirmed to PETA that it would no longer source new down for any of its brands worldwide, a move sparing ducks and geese a lifetime of misery and a painful and frightening death. As part of a process taking flight to eradicate the use of all down, no matter … Read more »
Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi confirmed that it no longer subjects animals to the cruel and useless forced swim test. The announcement follows a campaign by PETA entities worldwide that included outreach from our scientists and more than 440,000 e-mails from members and supporters. The statement on the company’s website reads, “Sanofi does not use the Porsolt … Read more »
After hearing from PETA repeatedly over three months, Victoria’s Secret announced that its fall 2024 fashion show would feature only faux feathers! Previously, the brand reportedly used up to 620,000 feathers from chickens, Chinese pheasants, and ostriches for its “angel wings” in a single show. This compassionate decision will prevent thousands of birds from enduring … Read more »
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which publishes guidance on the chemical tests used by its 38 member countries, published an approach that PETA scientists coauthored with other experts that assesses the cancer risk of pesticides without force-feeding them to mice or rats for their entire lives, sparing hundreds of animals each time this … Read more »
Charles River Laboratories, a multibillion-dollar company and the largest importer of monkeys into the U.S., buckled under pressure from PETA and Brazoria County, Texas, residents and scrapped its plans to build what would have been the largest monkey warehouse in the Western Hemisphere. The prison was to have caged up to 43,000 primates, all destined … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and thousands of our supporters, AELF FlightService’s Maleth Aero airline stopped stuffing sensitive monkeys into tiny wooden crates, locking them in cargo holds, and flying them around the world to be used in cruel and pointless experiments. The airline’s representative admitted to PETA that they were shocked when nearly 115,000 PETA … Read more »
The University of Washington (UW) decided to euthanize a monkey who, weeks after being irradiated nearly to death by UW experimenter Fritzie Arce-McShane, lost all quality of life. Arce-McShane willfully and repeatedly violated her approved protocol and deceived veterinary staff. This decision follows PETA’s request to the university to stop the study. The other six … Read more »
After PETA contacted fair management and tipped off local media, the Western Idaho Fair closed an apparently unlawful otter exhibit run by Karen and Gregg Woody. The Woodys hadn’t had the federal license legally required to exhibit animals since two months prior to that, yet they’ve continued to conduct regulated activity. In addition to operating … Read more »
PETA Science Consortium International e.V. awarded researchers free equipment and human cell–based tissue models that can be used to study the effects of substances on human lungs instead of using animals in deadly inhalation tests. The Science Consortium also won an award for a presentation at an international conference, shining a light on how researchers … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, top U.S. airline JetBlue Airways Corporation added oat-based creamer on its flights! The company quickly confirmed the news to us after it received over 10,000 e-mails from our supporters. Cows are gentle, sensitive individuals—and those exploited by the dairy industry are eventually violently killed. Calves are ripped away from their mothers … Read more »
The National Mango Board will no longer support starving, killing, and slicing open animals in cruel, pointless experiments. This decision follows a high-pressure campaign from PETA, which included letters, thousands of e-mails from our supporters, and public advertisements calling out the board for funding the torment of mice and rats apparently just to boost mango … Read more »
Massachusetts joined a host of other states by banning circuses and other traveling acts from cruelly exploiting elephants, big cats, primates, giraffes, and bears. PETA supporters in the state repeatedly showed up big by urging their elected officials to pass this law, which takes effect on January 1, 2025. Join us in keeping the momentum … Read more »
Following a long-standing campaign by PETA entities and many thousands of e-mails from animal advocates around the world, Max Mara Fashion Group proclaimed that fur has no place in its future collections! This is yet another nail in the coffin for the cruel, outdated fur industry, which confines, poisons, gasses, electrocutes, and skins sentient beings … Read more »
