Red Mango introduced its new Fro-No line of vegan probiotic frozen treats, starting with two flavors: Caramelized Pineapple and Blood Orange. The frozen-yogurt chain already offers great vegan Skinny Sorbettos, and we had encouraged it to expand its vegan offerings.
Online grocer FreshDirect has added three Hodo Soy products—Sichuan Mapo Tofu, Five Spice Tofu Nuggets, and Thai Curry Tofu Nuggets—making it the only large grocer in the Northeast U.S. to carry them. (Usually, you’ll find them in only small natural-food stores.)
After learning that the Banana Derby—a “monkey rodeo” that chains and tethers capuchin monkeys to dogs’ backs and races them around a track—was coming to the Northport Firemen’s Fair in Northport, New York, PETA and Long Island Orchestrating for Nature (LION) urged the village’s fire department to cancel the cruel act and took to the … Read more »
After nearly 80,000 PETA members and supporters wrote to the management of an Oklahoma City mall where a storefront called Neon Jungle sold inherently cruel and dangerous “playtime” with tiger cubs and other juvenile exotic animals, the exhibitor moved out of the mall—and out of the city. PETA also submitted a complaint to the city … Read more »
After the suffering elephant Nosey was spotted outside two Tractor Supply Company stores in Ohio, PETA sent a letter to a company executive explaining that the animal’s notorious exhibitor, Hugo Liebel, has been cited for nearly 200 animal-welfare violations, most of which have been related to mistreatment. The company quickly banned him from using its … Read more »
After meeting with PETA and learning that animals caught in glue traps’ adhesive may struggle for days, tearing flesh, breaking bones, and becoming increasingly entangled, The Home Depot agreed to prohibit the use of glue traps in all of its more than 2,200 stores nationwide.
When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) attempted to circumvent requirements to reduce and replace animal use, PETA scientists pushed back, testifying in hearings, submitting official comments, and contacting various agency officials, and the EPA canceled its plans. See here.
After five dogs died during just one week of the 2017 Iditarod—a cruel and abusive race that’s killed more than 150 dogs since it began—PETA urged State Farm to stop sponsoring it and called on our supporters to help. After hearing from more than 95,000 PETA supporters, the insurance company confirmed to PETA that its … Read more »
For decades, PETA has led protests calling on New Yorkers to stay away from UniverSoul Circus, the now-defunct Ringling Bros. circus, and other traveling shows that use and abuse elephants, tigers, and other wild animals—and the New York City Council has now prohibited all traveling circuses from bringing wild animals into the city. Among the animals … Read more »
After learning from PETA that Carson & Barnes Circus has racked up more than 100 violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act, the members of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) chapter in Taos, New Mexico—which hosted the circus at LULAC Field in the spring of 2017—pledged not to host Carson & Barnes … Read more »
