In 2016, a PETA fieldworker doing a routine visit to a property in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, found a dog named Krystal deceased on the end of her chain. Nearly two years later, the case was finally heard in court, and Krystal’s owner pleaded guilty to one count of cruelty to animals for starving her … Read more »
Following an appeal by PETA India, the government body responsible for overseeing pesticide registrations in India included the group’s scientists on an important committee, leading to reductions in the use of mice, birds, and other animals in pesticide testing.
PETA and Harvard University physicians published a paper in the medical journal Simulation in Healthcare urging the replacement of deadly trauma and biomedical skills training on animals for military service members, surgeons, and medical students with more effective, ethical, and economical human-simulation technology.
After more than 128,000 PETA supporters contacted venues and sponsors of the Kelly Miller Circus about its contracts with abusive animal exhibitors, the circus just couldn’t fill seats, so the previous owner, John Ringling North II, was forced to sell it and retire. Then, after PETA urged the new owner, James Kendrick Judkins, to ditch … Read more »
After years of scientific input from PETA scientists on animal-free test methods, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will accept non-animal tests to determine whether pesticides and certain chemicals cause skin allergies in humans, sparing thousands of mice and guinea pigs from painful tests.
After learning from PETA that donkeys are confined to filthy concrete pens, beaten with sticks, and struck on the head with a sledgehammer so that their skins can be boiled down to make gelatin for a traditional Chinese “medicine” called ejiao, acupuncture-supply company Wabbo has committed to banning the sale of any products containing the … Read more »
Notorious animal exhibitor Jeff Lowe was arrested on April 4, 2018, after being charged with three counts of unlawful possession of wild animals in November 2017. The November charges came after local law-enforcement officials raided his Las Vegas home and confiscated two tiger cubs and a solitary lemur following complaints from PETA. Lowe was also … Read more »
After learning from PETA about the cruelty of foie gras production, in which workers ram pipes down the throats of ducks and geese up to three times each day to force-feed them until their livers swell and become diseased, executives at Postmates agreed to stop delivering this “delicacy” of despair. The company also removed two … Read more »
G-III Apparel Group announced that it’s going fur-free in 2019! As a result, its brands—which include Donna Karan and DKNY—will no longer use the archaic and cruelly obtained material. This monumental victory follows more than two decades of PETA protests against Donna Karan, including e-mails from nearly 90,000 compassionate people urging her not to use … Read more »
Following years of pressure from PETA and U.S. Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), the U.S. Coast Guard has become the first branch of the military to end the shooting, stabbing, dismembering, and killing of animals in trauma training drills. In public records obtained by PETA, the agency confirmed the ban in writing, adding that it will … Read more »
After appeals from PETA and local activists, San Francisco became the largest U.S. city to ban fur sales, with a unanimous vote from its Board of Supervisors! This lifesaving legislation will spare countless animals the agony of being caged, bludgeoned, and even skinned alive for their fur and establishes a model of compassion for the … Read more »
Patricia Nash Designs made the compassionate and business-savvy decision to ban fur! This move comes after nearly 140,000 people contacted the company urging it to ban fur, the majority of which comes from animals who spend their entire lives confined to cramped, filthy cages, denied access even to basic necessities, such as food and clean … Read more »
