PETA—along with The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado—rescued a North American black bear named Dolly and three foxes who were being held at Sunrise Side Nature Trail and Exotic Park, a defunct roadside zoo in Michigan that had denied animals adequate veterinary care for at least 18 months. The rescue followed federal authorities’ confiscation of … Read more »
After PETA shared our groundbreaking investigation into the alpaca-fleece industry with Chico’s FAS, Inc., it made the compassionate and canny decision to stop sourcing alpaca fleece! The fashion retailer joins Express, UNIQLO, Marks & Spencer, and many other brands in banning the animal-derived material. Please urge Anthropologie to follow their lead.
After hearing from PETA, Dream Hotel Group, which owns nine luxury hotels around the world—including in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bangkok—will no longer source down for its bedding. This decision will prevent countless birds’ throats from being slit and the animals from being dumped into scalding-hot defeathering tanks, often while still conscious. This also means that … Read more »
PETA scientists from Europe, India, and the U.S. participated in the 11th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, a virtual conference focused on non-animal test methods that is attended by researchers and regulators from around the world. The PETA scientists chaired four sessions, presented 15 posters, and delivered two oral … Read more »
Not a single animal was killed in survival training drills during Cobra Gold 2021, a massive joint multinational military exercise held in Thailand. This victory comes after an intense campaign in which PETA and thousands of our supporters urged the secretary of defense and the Marine Corps commandant to end the freakish behavior of Marines … Read more »
After receiving a letter from PETA and PETA Switzerland urging him to prohibit the use of animals in his experiments, Jean-Patrice Keka—the founder of the Congolese aerospace company Développement Tous Azimuts (DTA)—said that he won’t send a guinea pig named Galaxionaut into space as previously planned but instead will spare him this terrifying trip. Keka … Read more »
After discussions with PETA and Taiwan-based Kindness to Animals, Lian Hwa Foods Corp.—a popular snack food company based in Taiwan and a major supplier of ready-to-eat foods to 7-Eleven stores there—banned animal tests not explicitly required by law. From 2013 to 2018, Lian Hwa conducted or funded at least five invasive and lethal laboratory experiments … Read more »
Following decades of PETA fashion runway disruptions—including our first naked protest, in 1991, with a member of The Go-Go’s handcuffed naked to a banner reading, “We’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur”—multiple pies to the face of its then–head designer, and grassroots protests around the world, fashion house Oscar de la Renta is going fur-free! … Read more »
Obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) medical residents at Aurora Sinai Medical Center in Milwaukee will no longer practice surgical procedures on live animals, following approximately four months of talks between the hospital and PETA. In response to our survey regarding animal use in OB/GYN residency programs, the hospital confirmed that it had been using three live pigs … Read more »
After more than a decade of campaigning—which included an eyewitness investigation, a news conference featuring Alan Cumming, parallel campaigns against chimpanzee-exploiting greeting-card companies Hallmark and American Greetings, and a years-long Endangered Species Act lawsuit—we rescued every remaining chimpanzee from the former Missouri Primate Foundation breeding facility. For decades, this had been the primary source of … Read more »
After discussions with PETA and Taiwan-based Kindness to Animals, Vitalon Foods Group—the third-largest health food company in Taiwan and maker of Super Supau, Taiwan’s best-selling brand of sports drink—banned animal tests not explicitly required by law. From 2005 to 2019, Vitalon and its subsidiary YEC Biotechnology Co. conducted or funded at least 12 laboratory experiments that … Read more »
After being contacted by PETA, luxury fashion house Valentino confirmed that it won’t use angora in the future, starting with its 2022 autumn/winter collection. The brand also recently announced a fur-free policy that will go into effect this year—and has previously committed to banning alpaca wool. PETA applauds Valentino’s decision to continue on its path … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, retailer Tuesday Morning banned fur from nearly 500 stores and removed all fur products! The company joins hundreds of others—including most recently Canada Goose, Neiman Marcus, and Moose Knuckles—that have banned fur after hearing from PETA that the fur industry confines animals (many of whom are injured) to cramped cages before … Read more »
Canadian outerwear company Moose Knuckles—which once claimed that animals exploited in the fur industry “deserve our compassion and humanity” while it callously sold the fur stripped from their bodies—is finally going fur-free after appeals from PETA and activists! This move will prevent countless foxes and other fur-bearing animals from being electrocuted, gassed, beaten, or killed … Read more »
In partnership with MatTek Life Sciences and MedTec Biolab, PETA Science Consortium International e.V. awarded researchers tools that can replace the use of rats and mice in tests to assess how inhaled chemicals affect the lungs. The Science Consortium also honored an early-career researcher for a poster that he presented at the European Commission’s Joint … Read more »
