After hearing from PETA, Moda Operandi confirmed a ban on fur and exotic skins! We had sent the company footage of horrific animal suffering—including animals pacing and mutilating themselves inside cramped cages on fur factory farms and workers electrocuting and ramming rods down crocodiles’ spines, bludgeoning pythons in the head with hammers, repeatedly shooting alligators, … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, PETA Australia, and Humane Research Australia, the University of South Australia decided that the forced swim test won’t be approved for any future research projects. Experimenters at the school had published about conducting the bogus test as recently as January 2021.
PETA scientists and experts from regulatory agencies, academia, and companies coauthored a groundbreaking paper that presents a new approach to assessing whether chemicals cause cancer. The approach is already being used to spare mice and rats tests in which they’re fed pesticides every day to see if tumors develop.
Following discussions with PETA and our partner organization in Taiwan, Kindness to Animals, AGV Products Corp.—a major company licensed by Nestlé to produce, distribute, and market its Nestea products in Taiwan—has banned animal tests not explicitly required by law. AGV previously conducted or funded at least 12 cruel experiments on animals between 2006 and 2020 in … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, Kikkoman—the world’s largest Japanese-style soy sauce manufacturing company and a sponsor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Food Research Institute—told the institute to stop using its funding for tests on animals and instead to allocate the company’s donations to educational programs, special meetings, and administrative expenses only. Kikkoman, which has donated at … Read more »
The state of Quintana Roo, Mexico—one of the top tourist areas in the country—has prohibited wildlife exhibitions in public areas, which will prevent many wild animals from being forced to pose for photos with tourists. This success was the result of a combined effort led by PETA Latino and Mexican animal rights group Animal Heroes.
Following a massive public outcry over the cruel Banana Derby at the Broward County Fair, the city of Margate, Florida, adopted an ordinance restricting the display of animals for entertainment and prohibiting the use of federally protected species in such displays.
After receiving more than 80,000 e-mails from PETA supporters and a PETA delivery of humanely picked coconuts to the company’s CEO, grocery wholesaler Associated Food Stores has ended its sales of Chaokoh brand coconut milk, for which monkeys are chained, caged, and forced into a lifetime of labor picking coconuts. The company joins over 35,000 … Read more »
Following communications from PETA, national wholesale food distributor Performance Food Group has stopped selling the Chaokoh brand across its more than 150 distribution channels. Performance Food Group joins over 33,000 companies that have rejected coconut products linked to monkey labor in Thailand. This action will help phase out the use of monkeys in this industry. … Read more »
PETA released a disturbing whistleblower report of suffering ducks at Culver Duck Farms, a so-called “humane” company in Indiana. The whistleblower’s video footage and photographs showed injured and dying ducks, others who were suffocated and buried alive, and dozens of ducklings who were ground up while fully conscious. After hearing from PETA, Southeastern Grocers (the … Read more »
After hearing from PETA that more than 150 dogs have died during the Iditarod, global software company Nutanix quickly cut ties with the race. It joins dozens of companies that no longer support the cruel Iditarod, including Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, ExxonMobil, Jack Daniel’s, Millennium Hotels and Resorts, and Wells Fargo. Join us in urging the … Read more »
After PETA reported an incident in which a member of the public held a juvenile jaguar at the Florida roadside zoo Single Vision, the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited the facility over that incident and dozens of other public encounters with wild animals, including adult big cats. The agency also cited Single Vision—which received nearly … Read more »
PETA Foundation lawyers and co-counsel won a precedent-setting victory in court when a motion to dismiss the class-action lawsuit against Texas-based Vital Farms Inc.—whose eggs are sold at Whole Foods, Target, Kroger, and other major grocers nationwide—was denied. The judge’s decision meant that the case—brought by consumers who were misled into buying eggs at a … Read more »
