The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission denied Hugo Liebel’s application to renew his captive wildlife permit, which is required for him to possess Nosey the elephant in his home state. The agency denied the permit because Liebel falsely claimed that he didn’t have a tour schedule for Nosey. He’s appealing the denial, but if … Read more »
PETA received a complaint that Young Living, a major essential oil company that sells worldwide, was using mink oil in its products. During conversations with the company, PETA explained that this oil is directly linked to the cruel fur industry and urged it to replace the oil with comparable, cruelty-free plant oils. The company looked … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. cohosted workshops and webinar series to develop replacements to using animals in inhalation toxicity testing and awarded $400,000 worth of in vitro inhalation exposure equipment to four international laboratories. See here.
Working with the company Good Clean Love, PETA persuaded the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to accept results from simple non-invasive skin tests on human volunteers instead of requiring that rabbits and guinea pigs be injected with personal lubricants. This precedent-setting ruling not only spared the lives of the specific animals who would have been … Read more »
After PETA asked officials with Hollywood Burbank Airport in California not to use glue traps, they reviewed the information that we had provided, conducted a months-long investigation of their facilities, and discussed the matter with their “pest”-control vendors. They no longer use glue traps in their facilities.
PETA recently contacted Norfolk International Airport in Virginia and asked it not to use glue traps. After learning about the traps, the airport said that its facilities staff and exterminator had collected the remaining ones and that this team will continue to look for glue traps as they perform their daily tasks. The airport’s executive … Read more »
In advance of performances by the notorious Garden Bros. Circus scheduled for Minneapolis and Little Falls, Minnesota, PETA contacted city authorities to inform them of the circus’s long history of public endangerment and animal abuse. In response, officials in both cities barred the circus from using animals in the scheduled shows.
After discussions with PETA, eco-conscious high-end boutique brand 1 Hotels agreed to start purchasing only down-free bedding for its New York hotels near the Brooklyn Bridge and in Central Park as well as its location in Florida’s South Beach. And all of its future hotels will feature down-free bedding exclusively.
For nearly three decades, Wells Fargo sponsored the Iditarod—a cruel and abusive race that’s killed more than 150 dogs since it began. After five dogs taking part in the 2017 event died in less than a week, PETA met with Wells Fargo executives, who were shocked and horrified to learn about the egregious cruelty that … Read more »
After being contacted by PETA, Global Brands Group—which controls brands like Frye, Juicy Couture, Spyder, Aquatalia, David Beckham, Jennifer Lopez, Jones New York, Buffalo, Joe’s, Rosetti, and Kathy Van Zeeland—has done the right thing for animals and consumers by joining the list of almost 300 retail giants who have already committed to banning angora wool. … Read more »
May 18, 2017 Just weeks after PETA contacted House Foods to ask it to stop conducting experiments on animals, the company ended its long-standing practice of force-feeding mice and injecting them with chemicals in order to make health claims about its products. House Foods’ animal tests date back to 1996.
May 18, 2017 Following 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 suspend the shooting, stabbing, and killing of animals in trauma training drills while it studies available human simulators and other non-animal training methods that could be used instead. The … Read more »
John Hightower, the owner of the now-defunct Mobile Zoo in Alabama, pleaded guilty to 14 counts of cruelty to animals. As part of his sentence, Hightower was subject to two years’ probation and $3,500 in restitution, and he can never own animals professionally again!
Following a widespread public outcry after PETA released a video showing that callous students “jumped rope” with intestines from cats slated for dissection, the North East Independent School District in Texas made the compassionate decision to ban cat dissection in all its schools. Through PETA’s educational grants program, we offered to donate humane teaching tools, … Read more »
