After hearing from PETA and more than 177,000 of our members and supporters, travel company World Spree removed all captive-elephant camps from its itineraries! The company had stopped offering elephant rides more than a year ago but continued to offer visits to exploitative camps that force elephants to paint pictures, perform in shows, and even … Read more »
Bloomberg News solicited and published a historical review of PETA’s role in revolutionizing chemical testing over the past two decades. In this informative article, PETA’s head of regulatory testing looks back at our initial efforts to bring changes to a field that kills many millions of animals but which no other group was willing to … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. teamed up with biotech company Epithelix to award innovative researchers free 3-dimensional models of the human respiratory tract. These models, which are made from human cells, can be used to test cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals, pesticides, and household products without using animals. After receiving applications from around the world, … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Milwaukee-based Sensient Technologies Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of flavors and fragrances and the world’s largest manufacturer of certified food colors, has enacted a new policy banning all animal tests that are not required by law. Prior to this, in 2018, Sensient contributed to experiments in which 64 mice were injected … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and nearly 100,000 of our members and supporters, the “Dickens of a Christmas” event in Chestertown, Maryland, will skip a cruel monkey act originally scheduled for this weekend. The event will now celebrate Christmas the right way—with compassion and kindness, not cruelty—by leaving wild animals off the agenda. PETA calls on … Read more »
After learning from PETA that goats in the mohair industry are dragged by the horns, legs, and tails and their skin is cut off during shearing, Fast Retailing—which owns Theory, Helmut Lang, and J Brand, among others—and Lacoste banned mohair! More than 340 brands have turned their backs on the cruel mohair industry, in which … Read more »
In a monumental victory for animals, Chanel announced that it had banned fur and exotic skins—including crocodile, lizard, and snake skin! This move follows decades of pressure from PETA and means that countless animals will be spared a miserable life and a painful, violent death. Chanel joins Armani, Burberry, Coach, Donatella Versace, Gucci, John Galliano, … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Nagase & Co.—a trading firm based in Japan that deals in a wide range of products, including cosmetics and functional food ingredients—has agreed not to fund, conduct, or commission tests on animals for the purpose of making health claims about its food products unless explicitly required by law to do so. … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, global retailers Qurate Retail Group – which owns QVC, HSN, zulily, among others – and Williams-Sonoma– which also owns Pottery Barn and West Elm – made the business-savvy decision to ban mohair! They join more than 340 brands worldwide that have ditched the cruelly-obtained fiber once they learned that shearers-who are … Read more »
In response to a complaint made by PETA, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation cited Wild World of Animals exhibitor Grant Kemmerer for five violations of state wildlife laws, including three for allowing members of the public to have direct contact with big cats during parties at a private residence. The agency fined … Read more »
After hearing from PETA about the cruelty inherent in using live reindeer in holiday displays, Stauffers of Kissel Hill—a home and garden store with locations across Pennsylvania—confirmed that there will be no live reindeer in its displays this year and that it doesn’t plan to use them again in the future! These captive exotic animals … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Kirin Holdings Co., Ltd.—the second-largest alcoholic-beverage manufacturer in Japan and the ninth-largest one in the world—has agreed to end all experiments on animals not required by law. Since 2015, the company—which is best known in North America for Kirin Ichiban—had funded numerous such experiments, including ones in which animals were force-fed … Read more »
After PETA sent a letter pointing out that the notorious Garden Bros. Circus failed to obtain the required permit to perform with elephants during its shows at the St. Lucie County Fairgrounds in Florida, county officials responded by directing the circus to make its scheduled performances there elephant-free.
The PETA International Science Consortium presented its Early-Career Scientist Award at an international conference to a toxicologist developing a 3-dimensional model of the human liver to replace the use of rats in liver-toxicity testing. And a researcher from Argentina won this year’s award to attend a prestigious toxicology workshop where she’ll receive training to help … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Morinaga & Co.—Japan’s largest confectioner and maker of HI-CHEW candy, which is sold in the U.S.—ended all tests on animals to establish health claims about its products. During deadly experiments not required by law that were published by the company starting in 2016, nearly 100 mice and rats were force-fed, starved, … Read more »
