PETA’s Victories and Accomplishments

The city of Hannibal’s plans to poison birds was cancelled after bad press caused by PETA supporters joining the fight.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has banned the cruel practice of swimming with captive alligators!

The Yellville “Turkey Drop”—a part of the city’s annual Turkey Trot Festival, in which private planes drop flightless wild turkeys to their deaths from about 1,000 feet above the town—was stopped.

Markwins has been restored to our list of companies that do not test on animals.

After meeting with PETA, Ann Taylor decided that in addition to sourcing mostly “nonmulesed” wool and banning all real fur, it would implement a policy against exotic skins!

After reviewing evidence collected and submitted by PETA, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reprimanded the University of Colorado–Denver (CU) for repeatedly violating federal animal welfare guidelines in its laboratories!

Ameriprise Financial, the 20th-largest financial institution in the country, confirmed that it doesn’t use glue traps in any of its locations worldwide!

After hearing from a panel of medical experts, the U.S. military withdrew a lawsuit requesting permission to use animals for military trauma training exercises

After hearing from PETA, Millennium Partners Sports Club Management adopted a policy prohibiting the use of glue traps in all its facilities—in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Miami, and Washington, D.C.

After hearing from PETA, People’s United Financial, Inc., confirmed that none of its locations use glue traps as a form of rodent control.

Following a request from PETA, Washington, D.C., Public Schools adopted a progressive dissection-choice policy!

After talking to PETA, American Airlines no longer offers foie gras on any of their flights.

New York Community Bancorp confirmed with PETA that it never uses glue traps as a form of rodent control in any of its locations.

A group of 110 federally “owned” chimpanzees, currently locked in a laboratory, were finally given a reprieve when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would be permanently retiring them from experiments.

First Niagara Financial Group, one of the top 50 financial institutions in the nation, instructed its pest-control vendors to discontinue the use of glue traps for rodent control in all of its locations!