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 »
After hearing from PETA, global brands PPG Industries and DSM made the compassionate decision to cut ties with the Hadi Shrine Circus, which still uses animals. Both had been top sponsors of it in 2022. Additionally, another top sponsor, The Sherwin-Williams Company, advised its local business groups to avoid these types of cruel sponsorships going … Read more »
New documents recently obtained by PETA show that the gruesome decompression sickness experiments on sheep funded by the U.S. Navy—which had been awarded more than $389,000 in taxpayer money—at the University of Wisconsin–Madison were abruptly stopped up to two years ahead of schedule, following our letter to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro and … Read more »
Scientists from state and federal government agencies received awards from PETA Science Consortium International e.V. to attend a four-day training course, hosted by a premier non-animal testing laboratory and sponsored by the Science Consortium. The awardees included scientists from the California Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Food and Drug … Read more »
A paper co-authored by PETA Science Consortium International e.V. is poised to revolutionize the field of inhalation research and reduce tests that kill millions of animals each year. The paper describes a study, funded in part by the Science Consortium, showing that frozen human lung slices work as well as fresh slices to assess the … Read more »
More than 700 people registered for a webinar co-organized by PETA scientists, the U.S. Environmental Agency and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. The webinar focused on the topic of a paper co-authored by PETA scientists that challenges the standard practice of measuring the accuracy of new non-animal methods by comparing them to flawed animal … Read more »
Following months of unwavering pressure from PETA—including appeals from more than 60,000 supporters and the bravery of peaceful protesters who were assaulted by aggressive Shriners—the Moolah Shrine announced that it would no longer feature elephant acts in its circus, which had already stopped using big cats and bears. Elephants and other wild animals used in … Read more »
Congress passed the FDA Modernization Act 2.0, removing the mandate for animal tests for new drugs and giving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to consider superior, non-animal methods instead of relying on deadly, scientifically flawed animal tests. This historic change, enacted into law when President Joe Biden signed the bill a few … Read more »
Following a push from PETA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture terminated the license of Florida-based exotic-animal dealer Jimmy Wayne Hammonds (aka “The Monkey Whisperer”), blocking him from legally selling primates for the pet trade for at least the next year. The decision stems from Hammonds’ guilty pleas to federal charges related to the illegal sale … Read more »
Following decades of hard work, the Big Cat Public Safety Act was signed into law, a historic victory for animals used in entertainment! This new law will ban private ownership of big cats and prohibit public contact with them, representing the final blow to the abusive big-cat cub-petting industry, which PETA had already virtually annihilated … Read more »
