On March 2, 2017, we filed a complaint alleging that the city of Arcadia violated the California Environmental Quality Act when it adopted a program to trap and kill coyotes without first assessing the environmental impact that such actions would have. On April 4, the City Council rescinded its prior adoption and allocation of funds … Read more »
In advance of planned performances by the notorious Garden Bros. Circus in Maine, PETA informed state authorities at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife of the circus’s long history of putting animals and the public at risk, and we asked them to stop the circus from bringing elephants into the state without first … Read more »
Union Arena officials asked Garden Bros. Circus to perform without animals after learning from PETA that a whistleblower had reported that the circus’s manager, Zachary Garden, habitually beats animals and withholds food from them and has refused to provide injured and dying animals with adequate veterinary care.
After learning that the Haai Shark Encounter was planning to harass gentle nurse sharks at the International Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon, Georgia, PETA told festival organizers that trucking sharks thousands of miles around the country so that someone can pull on their fins and tails in front of screaming children is not educational—it’s cruel. … Read more »
After hearing from more than 125,000 people who watched PETA’s investigative footage, the government of Israel pressured Paraguay to set a deadline of the end of 2017 for eliminating the horrifically cruel “shackle and hoist” method of kosher slaughter. Paraguay supplies about 40 percent of Israel’s beef.
March 21, 2017 Animals and members of the military in Virginia are safer since John Hagmann—the sexual predator and twisted mind behind the military’s cruel trauma training program, in which thousands of live animals are shot, stabbed, dismembered, and killed each year—will not be allowed to reinstate his medical license. Two years ago, the Virginia … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, the city of Norfolk, Virginia, denied Garden Bros. Circus permits to exhibit animals at its shows at the Ted Constant Convocation Center because of its and its elephant exhibitor’s records of public-safety and animal-welfare violations.
Following a meeting with PETA, Dutch—the parent company of labels Joie, Equipment, and Current/Elliott—agreed to ban fur. The material was removed from its websites and stores, and none of the existing fur items in China will be shipped to the U.S. Dutch’s products are available in premium department stores and specialty shops in more than … Read more »
After the last remaining beluga whales at the Vancouver Aquarium died, PETA and other animal rights groups urged the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation to ban cetacean captivity (i.e., imprisoning whales, dolphins, and porpoises) at the facility, where 100 percent of such species born there have died short of their natural life expectancy. After … Read more »
March 2, 2017 Nearly two years ago, the Kentucky attorney general ruled against the University of Kentucky, confirming that the school violated a state open-records law by refusing to release records related to the use of animals in classroom experiments that PETA had requested. The university fought back and appealed the attorney general’s decision, but … Read more »
After hearing from PETA about the record of public-safety and animal-welfare violations of Garden Bros. Circus—as well as that of its elephant exhibitor, Carson & Barnes Circus—Hall County Animal Services in Georgia barred the circuses from exhibiting elephants during the Garden Bros. shows at the Chicopee Woods Agricultural Center in Gainesville.
In March 2017, three black bears formerly on display at The Mobile Zoo started new lives. Following months of negotiations that were prompted by PETA, the roadside zoo’s operator was arrested on 28 charges of cruelty to animals, and the bears were confiscated and transferred to The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado.
