Following an extensive, nearly four-year campaign by PETA and PETA Australia, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) has announced that it will stop forcing civilian and military surgeons to cut holes into the throats, chests, and limbs of live pigs and sheep during the Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) program. Instead, EMST participants … Read more »
After learning from PETA that the only way to force elephants to give rides is through violence and domination, World Spree Travel agreed to replace the elephant rides it had been offering at Amber Fort in India with jeep rides. The company also committed to not offering elephant rides as part of itineraries on any … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. organizes and funds training sessions for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on an internationally used software program that incorporates computer models (funded in part by PETA) to predict chemical hazards without using animals. See here.
Following encouragement from PETA, as well as growing public interest in wellness-focused lifestyles, Oceania Cruises launched new vegan menus—which feature more than 250 innovative, plant-based dishes—on its six ships. Two ships also have raw juice and smoothie bars.
After a PETA supporter told us that online retailer Natural Ginesis was selling glue traps, we asked the company to remove them. Within hours of learning about the anguish and torture endured by small animals ensnared in the glue, Natural Ginesis agreed to remove the traps and not sell them again.
April 11, 2017 Hundreds of animals in four developing countries will no longer be cut apart and killed in medical training courses, thanks to PETA’s donation of eight state-of-the-art TraumaMan surgical simulators, worth $200,000. This brings the total number of countries that have ended the use of dogs, pigs, goats, and sheep for crude medical … Read more »
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 On April 4, the City Council rescinded its prior adoption and allocation of funds … Read more »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 »
