PETA’s Victories and Accomplishments

Following a PETA Asia campaign and eyewitness exposé of the King’s Cup Elephant Polo Tournament in Thailand and a campaign that persuaded a dozen sponsors to drop their support, Minor International PCL founder and Chair William E. Heinecke has announced that he’s “fully supportive” of the recent decision by the Thailand Elephant Polo Association—the main … Read more »

After PETA shared with companies a horrifying video exposé of China’s badger-brush industry, retailers Caswell-Massey, The Vermont Country Store, and Floris London all made the compassionate decision to ban badger hair! PETA Asia’s eyewitness investigation revealed that badgers whose hair is used for shaving, makeup, and paint brushes are often captured using snares and other … Read more »

After hearing from PETA, burger chain Shake Shack has called off plans to offer a burger topped with foie gras—which is made from the fattened livers of ducks and geese who are violently force-fed—at one of its locations for a special event.

After a years-long push by PETA for it to go fur-free, luxury clothing brand Diane von Furstenberg (DVF) confirmed that it will no longer be using fur or angora in its designs, and it has also committed to no longer producing goods using exotic-animal skins. The brand joins hundreds of other fur-free retailers—including Burberry, Versace, … Read more »

When PETA submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for inspection photos showing dozens of goats horrifically suffering in violation of the law at antibody producer Pi Bioscientific, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) refused to hand them over on the grounds that the facility would be “embarrassed.” That’s not a legal basis for keeping … Read more »

Following a request from PETA, Stumptown Coffee Roasters has eliminated the surcharge on all its dairy-free milks.

At a series of important scientific meetings, PETA scientists presented their work to prevent hundreds of birds each year from being fed pesticide-laced food in government-required tests, the results of a project to replace the use of animals in eye-irritation tests, and details of a project to end the use of rats for inhalation testing, … Read more »

After learning from PETA that gentle badgers are beaten with crude instruments, cut open, and left to die in the badger-hair industry, personal-care company Olivina Men and Penhaligon’s—a U.K. fragrance brand that holds the royal warrants to provide Prince Charles and the Duke of Edinburgh with goods and services—agreed to ban badger-hair brushes. Now, we’re … Read more »

After discussions with PETA, Megmilk Snow Brand Co., Ltd., a major food company based in Japan, agreed to end animal tests used to make dubious health claims about its products. Previously, the company had funded and conducted cruel experiments on mice and rats, including one in which experimenters injected mice with a protein that causes … Read more »

After a PETA protest and more than 100,000 e-mails to the fair board president from our members and supporters, the Mesa County Fair in Grand Junction, Colorado, confirmed that it has no plans to bring wild animals back next year! The fair hosted the cruel and dangerous bear show A Grizzly Experience in July—even though … Read more »

Grocery operator The Save Mart Companies—which owns the Save Mart, Lucky, Lucky California, FoodMaxx, S-Mart, and MaxxValue store brands—has agreed to end its sale of live lobsters after hearing from PETA that these animals are kept in cramped, barren tanks and killed by being cut up or boiled alive, often taking minutes to die.

After PETA shared with them a horrifying video exposé of China’s badger-brush industry, The New York Shaving Company, Bonanza, Beau Brummell, and Procter & Gamble’s The Art of Shaving all made the compassionate decision to ban badger hair! PETA Asia’s eyewitness investigation revealed that “protected” badgers are illegally captured in the wild using snares and … Read more »

Verbum Dei High School, a Catholic school in Los Angeles, agreed to remove its official dress code requirement that students’ belts be made of leather after PETA contacted its administration. This policy change is an example of Christian mercy that will no doubt inspire other schools around the country to make similar compassionate changes to … Read more »

Thousands of rabbits and even more horseshoe crabs are used in painful tests each year to test drugs and medical devices for contaminants that cause fever. The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. worked with government and testing-standards agencies to organize a workshop at which government and industry researchers brainstormed the best way to replace these … Read more »

After hearing from PETA scientists, South Korea spared hundreds of dogs by joining Japan, the U.S., the EU, and Canada in dropping its requirement that dogs be subjected to a yearlong pesticide poisoning test.