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 »
January 2015 IKEA, which originally planned to introduce vegetarian meatballs that contained animal products, committed to offering vegan meatballs instead after hearing from PETA. The new vegan meatballs will be available at all IKEA stores beginning in April 2015.
January 2015 After talking with PETA, the NFL’s Miami Dolphins agreed not to renew the team’s partnership with SeaWorld. For the past two seasons, the Florida football team has partnered with SeaWorld in a ticket co-op and sponsored SeaWorld’s Football Family of the Year sweepstakes.
Following an extensive PETA campaign to expose and end cruel and archaic brain experiments on cats at the University of Wisconsin–Madison—which included an open records lawsuit, demonstrations, ad campaigns, federal complaints, pleas from Bill Maher and James Cromwell, and more than 369,000 protest letters from the public—the studies were ended and the laboratory closed its … Read more »
