2017: Australian Surgeons to Stop Mutilating Live Animals

Following an extensive, nearly four-year campaign by PETA, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) announced that it’s ending its use of animals for trauma training. This means no more cutting holes into the throats, chests, or limbs of live pigs and sheep. Thousands of people sent e-mails to RACS officials through PETA’s online action alert, more than 100,000 people signed a PETA Australia petition, and thought-provoking ads and protests featured numerous outspoken “pigs.”