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 »
Following a joint eyewitness investigation and campaign by PETA, Animals Now, and Let the Animals Live, Israel announced that—effective immediately—no new slaughterhouses will be approved for export to the country unless they conduct slaughter with rotating restraint pens. For facilities already exporting beef to the country, it set a deadline for the installation of rotating pens … Read more »
For many years, PETA has urged VF Corporation and its subsidiaries to reduce their use of animal skins and turn their focus to vegan materials. Now, VF has announced an Animal Derived Materials Policy, which prohibits its brands from using angora, fur, or exotic skins. The company’s labels include Eagle Creek, JanSport, Kipling, Lee, lucy, … Read more »
PETA asked Overstock.com to join the hundreds of other retailers that have stopped selling angora wool—the hair removed from terrified rabbits as they scream in pain. After discussing this issue internally, Overstock told us that it would remove all angora products from its website and not sell them again.
Golden Ring Circus, which is usually animal-free, was allowing Hugo Liebel to give rides on Nosey the elephant outside its shows. Prior to one of these shows, scheduled in Florida in May 2017, PETA contacted county officials to advise them of Liebel’s extensive history of public-safety and animal-welfare violations. The county confirmed that it wouldn’t … Read more »
After releasing its eyewitness investigation of Summer Wind Farms, PETA alerted the USDA about the roadside zoo’s failure to provide two ailing tigers with veterinary care. Just one week after PETA’s complaint, both tigers were rescued and moved to the accredited Wildcat Sanctuary in Minnesota, where they’re now living in spacious naturalistic enclosures and receiving … Read more »
