After hearing from PETA and more than 20,000 of our members and supporters—all in one single day—travel company Journeys International removed all elephant camps from its tours. Even though the company had agreed to remove elephant rides more than a year prior, it still offered trips to exploitative facilities that chained elephants, hit them with … Read more »
In a landmark victory for dogs, Florida has just voted to ban greyhound racing! The state’s 11 dog tracks will shut down, saving thousands of greyhounds from being caged for 22 to 23 hours a day, given performance-enhancing drugs—including cocaine—and forced to run to the point that many sustain broken legs, develop heatstroke, or suffer … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Flowers Foods—one of the largest producers of packaged bakery foods in the United States and the maker of numerous brands, including Wonder, Tastykake, and Nature’s Own—established a progressive public policy banning animal testing (which it did not previously conduct or fund) and posted the new policy on its website.
After hearing from PETA and nearly 115,000 of our members and supporters about SeaWorld’s long history of animal mistreatment—including how the company crams orcas into tiny, barren concrete tanks in which they gnaw on metal gates in frustration and often die decades short of their natural life expectancy—Air Canada stopped selling SeaWorld tickets. The airline … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Molson Coors Brewing Company—one of the world’s largest brewers and the maker of many beer brands, including Coors Light, Molson Canadian, and Blue Moon—established a progressive public policy banning animal testing (which it did not previously conduct or fund) unless required by law and posted the new policy on its website.
PETA made huge progress toward ending the cruelty inherent in big-cat cub encounters. In addition to filing a lawsuit against Wildlife in Need over its abuse of big cats, we sued the roadside zoo’s veterinarian, Dr. Rick Pelphrey, for mutilating big cats by declawing them. PETA secured a first-of-its-kind consent judgment that creates a legal … Read more »
After more than 11 years of PETA-led protests, shareholder resolutions, in-person meetings, and pressure from supporters, luxury brand Coach announced that it’s joining the fur-free movement, admitting that “it’s the right thing to do.” The brand joins hundreds of other retailers—including Burberry, Versace, Michael Kors, BCBG, and Gucci—in turning its back on an industry that … Read more »
Bevel, LovelySkin, The Good Liver, Phoenix Shaving, Royal Brush Manufacturing, and Silver Brush Limited are the latest compassionate companies to confirm that they’ve banned badger hair! Badgers suffer from untreated wounds and go insane in isolation inside tiny cages on badger-hair farms. PETA’s exposé revealed that a slaughterhouse worker bludgeoned a screaming badger on the … Read more »
PETA Germany—advised by PETA scientists—has persuaded St. Elisabeth and St. Barbara hospital in Halle, Germany, to stop cutting open pigs’ chests in deadly surgical-training exercises and instead embrace sophisticated, non-animal teaching methods. The hospital offers an annual thoracoscopy skills training course, during which surgeons operate on live pigs before ultimately killing them. Thanks to the … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, premium global chocolatier Lindt & Sprüngli has established a progressive public policy banning animal testing used to make health claims—which it did not previously conduct or fund—and posted the new policy on its website.
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. sponsored—and presented information at—a workshop to push government regulators and vaccine companies to end the killing of an estimated 50,000 to 70,000 mice each year in rabies vaccine tests. One company has already succeeded in using a non-animal approach in Europe and—as a result of the workshop—it and others … Read more »
Grocery chain Hy-Vee has pulled its “humane” meat marketing claims after hearing from PETA that such terms mislead consumers into believing that animals are treated humanely—when in reality, all animals used for food are subject to painful mutilations and confined to disease-ridden, cramped housing before being cruelly slaughtered, sometimes while fully conscious.
After discussions with PETA, McCain Foods, the world’s largest manufacturer of frozen French fries and other potato items, agreed to end tests on animals used to make health claims about its products. Many years ago, the company conducted and funded cruel experiments that involved locking pigs in cages, feeding them potatoes, and analyzing their feces. … Read more »
Dove—one of the world’s most widely available personal care–product brands—has banned all tests on animals anywhere in the world and been added to PETA’s Beauty Without Bunnies cruelty-free companies list! In addition, Unilever—which owns the Dove brand—has banned all tests on animals not required by law for the rest of its products and has been … Read more »
