The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued an order to permanently revoke the Animal Welfare Act license of notorious animal exhibitor Tim Stark and ordered him and his facility, Wildlife in Need in Indiana, to pay a total of $340,000 in civil penalties. The order found more than 120 violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act … Read more »
SeaWorld has been forced to stop treating dolphins like surfboards and will soon stop making trainers stand on their faces in demeaning circus-style shows! The company admitted that it’s ending the cruel practices in response to PETA’s latest shareholder proposal calling for the changes. Our months-long campaign also included a damning veterinary report exposing the … Read more »
Following PETA’s successful Endangered Species Act (ESA) lawsuit against Tri-State Zoological Park in Maryland, a lion named Peka and two tigers named Cheyenne and Mowgli were transferred to The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado and are recovering following years of neglect. PETA’s lawsuit alleged that Tri-State harmed and harassed two lemurs, five tigers, and two … Read more »
In a win for free speech, Texas A&M University has agreed to remove all settings blocking or filtering comments critical of its canine muscular dystrophy experiments on dogs as part of a settlement of PETA’s First Amendment lawsuit. Our federal lawsuit challenged the university’s use of a filter on its Facebook page that automatically deleted … Read more »
Officials in Port Isabel, Texas, made the compassionate decision to bar Carson & Barnes Circus from performing with animals during its shows on February 19 and 20. This circus has a decades-long history of abusing animals—which includes failing to provide them with basic necessities, such as adequate veterinary care, sufficient space, shelter from the elements, … Read more »
More than two years after Dade City’s Wild Things, a roadside zoo in Florida, hurriedly transferred all the tigers out of its facility in an illegal attempt to thwart PETA’s court-ordered site inspection and following a court battle with us over their rescue, two tigers named Remington and Luna arrived at the Turpentine Creek Wildlife … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, PETA France, and other animal rights groups, Pernod Ricard—which owns over 90 wine and spirits brands, including Absolut Vodka, Malibu, and Ballantine’s—ended its financial support of the Union of Paul Ricard Bullfighting Clubs, the largest bullfighting organization in the world.
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. co-authored a paper with a government agency that will help end the use of animals to produce antibodies—a process in which hundreds of thousands of animals each year are injected with foreign substances and then are repeatedly bled or endure needles being inserted into their abdomens to extract the … Read more »
“Joe Exotic”—the subject of the documentary Tiger King and formerly the operator of the notorious Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park and the primary supplier of big-cat cubs for the cub-petting industry—was sentenced to 22 years in prison on two counts of murder for hire and 17 counts of wildlife-related federal crimes, including killing five tigers … Read more »
Following a vigorous, months-long PETA campaign, Dillan, a morbidly obese Asiatic black bear suffering from painful and life-threatening dental disease, was rescued! He was previously held in a cramped, concrete cage at the Union County Sportsmen’s Club in Pennsylvania, where he was denied veterinary care for his advanced dental disease. Dillan was transferred to The … Read more »
The first steps of a project funded by the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. have succeeded in creating fully human-derived antibodies capable of blocking the poisonous toxin that causes diphtheria. These antibodies can end the 100-year-old method of injecting horses repeatedly with the diphtheria toxin and then draining huge amounts of their blood in order … Read more »
Following talks with PETA, Strauss Group—the second-largest food and beverage company in Israel and the parent company of the top-selling hummus brand in the U.S., Sabra—adopted a progressive new policy banning laboratory experiments on animals. In previous deadly tests on animals conducted at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, an experimenter funded by Strauss … Read more »
Following continued talks with PETA, Uno Pizzeria & Grill expanded its vegan menu further by adding a Vegetarian Cheeseburger Pizza, which comes with crumbled Beyond Burger, pickles, ketchup, mustard, and onions and can be made vegan by asking for Daiya cheese. The restaurant also added Zoodles Primavera, which includes zucchini noodles sautéed with marinated artichokes, … Read more »
