April 22, 2015 Mike Stapleton, who is notorious for illegally harboring tigers on his property, was hit with an official 30-day notice from the Ohio Department of Agriculture requiring that he comply with laws mandating minimum standards of care for tigers or surrender the animals to authorities. The notice followed a PETA complaint alerting authorities … Read more »
Dannon updated its position statement (under the Nature tab of its corporate social responsibility page) to include its support for breeding “polled” (hornless) cattle as a solution to dehorning. The statement reads: “Dannon believes the use of genetic breeding programs to promote naturally hornless cattle—or ‘polled’ cattle—will benefit the welfare of cows and the farmers who … Read more »
April 2015 After learning from PETA that cows on dairy farms have their horns gouged out with sharp metal scoops or their horn tissue burned out of their heads, General Mills came out in support of polled, or naturally hornless, cattle, paving the way for the elimination of the painful dehorning process in its supply chain. … Read more »
March 2015 When PETA learned that Rite Aid was selling “Teddy Tanks”—stuffed animals with tiny tanks in their stomachs, meant to hold betta fish—we contacted the drugstore chain and urged it not to carry the product, as it encourages children to treat living beings like playthings. Rite Aid agreed, and it has informed us that … Read more »
March 5, 2015 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has announced that in response to growing public concern over “how the animals are treated,” it will end elephant performances by 2018. This comes after 35 years of PETA protests against Ringling’s cruelty to elephants. PETA has caught Ringling’s abuse on video and released to … Read more »
February 28, 2015 A groundbreaking study by PETA scientists, published in the prestigious Journal of Medical Ethics, determined that animal use at leading federally funded U.S. laboratories rose by a staggering 73 percent in recent years—despite growing public opposition to animal experimentation, mounting evidence that results from animal studies are often not applicable to humans, … Read more »
February 27, 2015 A groundbreaking study by PETA scientists, published in the prestigious Journal of Medical Ethics, determined that animal use at leading federally funded U.S. laboratories rose by a staggering 73 percent in recent years, despite growing public opposition to animal experimentation, mounting evidence that results from animal studies are often not applicable to … Read more »
February 2015 After hearing from PETA about dehorning in the dairy supply chain, Round Table Pizza set the following policy for its new fast-casual concept Fresh Pixx: “Fresh Pixx opposes the practice of dehorning cows used in the dairy industry, including disbudding. Fresh Pixx asks all suppliers and farmers in our supply chain to put … Read more »
February 2015 Following talks with PETA, Inditex—the world’s largest clothing retailer—agreed to ban angora wool products permanently and donate its remaining stock to Syrian refugees through the charity Life for Relief and Development, rather than profiting from the garments. The multinational company, which owns the popular brand Zara, is sending 20,000 brand-new angora sweaters, coats, … Read more »
February 2015 In 2013 and 2014, the designated “leather-free” models of the Mercedes-Benz–engineered Smart Fortwo still included leather steering wheels. But following appeals from PETA pointing out that leather is a poor choice for a purportedly Earth-friendly car, the company has confirmed that the base model for the all-new manual transmission Smart Fortwo (C453)—anticipated for … Read more »
January 2015 Following more than three years of campaigning by PETA, PETA Foundation U.K., and local activists, the Norwegian government has, for the first time, rejected an application by the Norwegian Armed Forces to shoot, stab, and break the bones of live pigs in crude medical training exercises on the grounds that non-animal training methods … Read more »
January 30, 2015 Accreditation by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) International has long been trumpeted as being the “gold standard” of animal welfare in laboratories—even though investigations by PETA have documented miserable conditions and abysmal treatment of animals in AAALAC-accredited laboratories. In a first-of-its-kind study, PETA scientists analyzed government … Read more »
January 30, 2015 In response to complaints filed by PETA regarding the National Institutes of Health’s cruel maternal-deprivation experiments on baby monkeys, the agency made a number of adjustments to the experiments, including discontinuing stressful brain scans, painful spinal taps, and some blood draws on newborn monkeys. The agency also informed PETA that it’s planning … Read more »
January 2015 Fast-growing pizza chain PizzaRev added vegan sausage as a permanent topping at its corporate locations—which includes all stores in Los Angeles County and Bakersfield, California—and additional stores may be adding the topping to their menus as well. PizzaRev previously added vegan cheese and made all its crusts vegan-friendly after seeing great support for … Read more »
