The PETA International Science Consortium has teamed up with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine to organize a series of webinars on new approaches for testing chemicals without using animals. The first webinars have reached hundreds of scientists and government regulators, and more webinars are planned in this ongoing … Read more »
After nearly a year of discussions with PETA, Nippon Suisan Kaisha Ltd. (Nissui Group)—Japan’s second-largest fish-seller and the owner of U.S. maker of “Fish Sticks” Gorton’s Inc.—has established a new policy against using laboratory tests on animals in order to make health claims about its food products and ingredients for marketing purposes. From 2016 to … Read more »
After more than a decade of PETA-led protests, runway takeovers, in-person meetings, and pressure from supporters, Prada announced that it’s joining the fur-free movement to meet the demand for ethical fashion. The brand joins hundreds of designers and retailers—including Coach, Burberry, Gucci, Versace, and Giorgio Armani—that we’ve pushed to ban fur, most of which comes … Read more »
Following a campaign by PETA and Long Island Orchestrating for Nature (LION) that included spirited protests, appeals to town officials, support from Alec Baldwin, and testimonies at town board meetings, sordid mall aquarium chain SeaQuest withdrew its application to open an aquarium inside the Westfield Sunrise mall in Massapequa.
Local residents—including PETA members and supporters—of Topsfield, Massachusetts, voted to ban circuses and traveling shows with wild animals from ever setting up shop in the town again. R.W. Commerford & Sons has schlepped elephants to the Topsfield Fair, where they’re exhibited and forced to give rides, for more than 30 years—but thanks to compassionate residents … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, DSM Nutritional Products—which manufactures ingredients used in nutritional supplements and personal-care products—has confirmed that it will no longer use the widely discredited forced swim test, in which small animals are placed in inescapable beakers filled with water and made to swim to keep from drowning. DSM previously subjected over 200 mice … Read more »
After hearing from PETA that sheep in the global wool industry are systemically beaten, kicked, thrown, cut, and mutilated and that they experience horrific deaths, Avocado Green Mattress made the business-savvy decision to introduce a vegan mattress, its first-ever one without wool! The company is now certified to use the “PETA-Approved Vegan” logo for this … Read more »
After hearing from PETA that fish suffer when confined to small, barren bowls and that many die in the commercial pet trade, GrandLife—the company that manages New York’s Soho Grand Hotel and The Roxy Hotel—ended the hotels’ goldfish-rental program, in which live fish were delivered to guests’ rooms upon request. The 21 fish already being … Read more »
After learning from PETA that the Miami Seaquarium keeps an orca named Lolita in the smallest, oldest orca tank in the world, Metro Ford of Miami ended its partnership with the cruel abusement park. Lolita is often referred to as “the World’s Loneliest Orca,” as she hasn’t seen another member of her species since 1980—when … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, Reebok replaced the leather pieces on its otherwise vegan Cotton + Corn shoes with vegan leather. In recognition of its efforts to make kind and sustainable footwear, PETA is praising the company with an Innovator for Animals Award for the shoes, which are bio-based, petroleum-free, and fully vegan, thereby sparing cows … Read more »
After learning from PETA that wild animals used for photo ops are ripped away from their mothers prematurely and often trained through violence and coercion, Must Do Travels agreed not to promote interactions with wild animals! The travel giant, which has more than 8.5 million followers on Facebook, had previously posted a video showing a … Read more »
After PETA explained to Rossy that small animals caught in glue traps often struggle for hours or days before finally dying from shock, dehydration, asphyxiation, or being crushed to death under piles of garbage, the company confirmed that it won’t sell these cruel devices again! The discount chain, which has nearly 80 locations throughout eastern … Read more »
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. collaborated to publish a paper showing that the agency can confidently assess the risk of pesticides to humans and the environment without poisoning birds in a cruel test. This test involved feeding birds pesticide-laced food for days and then monitoring them for … Read more »
