Following a widespread public outcry after PETA released a video of callous students dancing with dead cats slated for dissection, top-ranked Harding Charter Preparatory High School in Oklahoma City has ended cruel cat dissections. Through its educational grants program, PETA has offered to donate humane teaching tools, such as digital dissection software, that have been … Read more »
June 1, 2015 PETA scientists and the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. intervened to appeal a European testing case in which the lives of 1,300 animals were at stake. The appeals board ruled in our favor and set a new standard by requiring that all existing data be considered before requiring animal testing. This change … Read more »
June 1, 2015 After PETA suggested a ban to prevent animals from entering Beaufort County, South Carolina, to the county attorney, the county quickly moved to prohibit anyone from bringing in exotic animals. This prevents Jeff Lowe, owner of Beaufort Liquidation, from moving additional big cats into the county. Lowe had a ramshackle roadside zoo … Read more »
May 2015 Following repeated requests from PETA and PETA Asia, Japan Airlines announced that it will no longer ship monkeys to laboratories or laboratory suppliers. The announcement came after PETA notified the company that a Japanese animal-experimentation trade journal had reported that Japan Airlines was actively involved in the transport of monkeys from the Philippines … Read more »
May 29, 2015 The Thea Bowman Leadership Academy’s science department is now cruelty-free, thanks to a software donation from PETA. The kind decision to replace crude animal dissection will spare the lives of countless frogs, save the school money, and provide students with a more effective and humane learning experience. Studies have repeatedly found that interactive … Read more »
May 6, 2015 The Islip, New York, Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs opted to ban Cole Bros. from performing as part of a fire department fundraiser after hearing from members of PETA and Long Island Orchestrating for Nature about the circus’s long history of animal abuse. Cole Bros. doesn’t even have a license … Read more »
May 1, 2015 The Caroline County, Virginia, Board of Supervisors enacted an emergency ordinance to ban the possession of wild animals after learning that wild-cat exploiters Gretchen Mogensen and Paul Malagerio sought to enter the county with a tiger, two mountain lions, and other wild cats. After learning about the planned move from concerned Caroline … Read more »
April 2015 In a resounding victory for animals and freedom of information, Wisconsin legislators have killed a sneaky proposal that would have allowed the University of Wisconsin (UW) to exempt the records of its cruel experiments on animals from open-records laws. The bill died shortly after state lawmakers began receiving hundreds of e-mails opposing the … Read more »
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 »
