After hearing from PETA, Walmart stopped selling dog-breeding stands! These vile devices are used to forcibly restrain and sexually abuse female dogs. Nobody should be breeding companion animals when there are around 70 million homeless dogs and cats in the U.S. at any given time. We urge other retailers to follow Walmart’s compassionate and responsible … Read more »
After learning from PETA that in the down industry, conscious ducks’ legs can be cut off—even at “Responsible Down”–certified operations—Ascena Retail Group confirmed that it no longer uses down across all its brands: Ann Taylor, LOFT, Lane Bryant, and Cacique. Please help us urge Title Nine to follow Ascena’s lead by nixing down.
The Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) finalized a regulation that removes animal testing recommendations for companies wanting to make human dental health claims for marketing their food and beverage products. The testing included feeding rats sugar water and bacteria that caused dental decay, swabbing their mouths, feeding them the test food products, killing them, … Read more »
For the third year in a row, PETA received confirmation from a senior Thai military official that Cobra Gold, a joint multinational military exercise held in Thailand and attended by the U.S. military, would not involve any animal killings during its survival training drills. These drills were known to be barbaric, cruel, and potentially illegal, … Read more »
A California court of appeals ruled in PETA’s favor that the Monterey Zoo had failed to establish that its use of canes to poke, prod, and control elephants as a stand-in for bullhooks somehow arises from activity protected by the First Amendment. The ruling means that we can move forward with our lawsuit alleging that the … Read more »
PETA Science Consortium International e.V. joined the International Collaboration on Cosmetics Safety (ICCS), a global initiative of more than 35 cosmetic manufacturers and suppliers, industry associations and animal protection organizations. The ICCS aims to advance animal-free methods for testing cosmetics products and ingredients through research, education and regulatory engagement. The group will fund scientific evaluation … Read more »
After hearing from PETA that marine parks like SeaWorld confine highly intelligent, social animals to tiny, barren tanks and force them to perform meaningless tricks, vegan detergent brand Earth Breeze acted quickly to pull an ad featuring captive dolphins! To prevent such images from being used again, the company developed a compassionate marketing policy that … Read more »
Virginia legislators considered a dangerous bill, HB 2331, that would have threatened the welfare and safety of exotic and wild animals kept captive at unaccredited roadside zoos by impeding law enforcement and delaying help. PETA and other animal protection groups lobbied against it and rallied local advocates, and the bill was ultimately defeated.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit handed an important win to PETA and our co-plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s “ag-gag” law, ruling that conducting undercover investigations and whistleblowing are considered newsgathering activities protected by the First Amendment. PETA and a coalition of public interest groups had filed the lawsuit challenging … Read more »
Prompted by PETA’s damning 18-month investigation into a decrepit laboratory in Colombia, a local environmental agency and the Colombian Office of the Attorney General (OAG) seized 108 monkeys in poor health from the filthy facility, which is bankrolled by the National Institutes of Health. Our investigation found that the monkeys had been forced to live amid … Read more »
PETA fired off a letter to clothing company Naadam, calling for it to stop falsely advertising the cashmere it sells as “cruelty-free” and sourced “without cruelty.” Less than an hour later, Naadam’s CEO confirmed that the false claims had been removed from the company’s website!
There’s another nail in the exotic-skin industry’s coffin: Following talks with PETA, Macy’s confirmed that it no longer sells exotic skins! This is exciting news, because PETA exposés have revealed industry workers’ abuse of animals, including decapitating live lizards in Indonesia, hitting terrified ostriches in the face in South Africa, repetitively shooting alligators in Texas, … Read more »
The cruel act known as Castle’s Bears, which forced muzzled brown bears to perform humiliating stunts by yanking them around on a leash in front of crowds and amid deafening music, no longer has the U.S. Department of Agriculture license required to exhibit. PETA is relieved that this notorious act has been shuttered, but we … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and over 40,000 of our supporters, Cue Health made the compassionate decision to stop sponsoring the cruel Iditarod. Another healthcare company Greenbrook TMS was also removed from the dog-sled race’s sponsorship page after they heard from our supporters. More than 150 dogs have died during the Iditarod, and hundreds are forced … Read more »
Marion, Ohio, radio station WMRN-AM hosts an annual Groundhog Day event, and for years it used a live groundhog (known as Buckeye Chuck) supplied by Kokas Exotics—which is only licensed to breed and sell animals, not exhibit them. After PETA and nearly 20,000 of its supporters alerted the station that harassing a groundhog in a … Read more »
