PETA’s Victories and Accomplishments

Key Corp has informed all its rodent-control vendors that they can never use glue traps on Key Corp property again.

Georgia Institute of Technology students reported that cruel glue traps were set for rodents at the Ferst Center for the Arts. PETA contacted schools officials, who agreed that glue traps are inhumane, and the traps were quickly banned at the university.

The Toronto District School Board—which directs the fourth largest school district in North America, with more than 600 schools—was considering the use of glue traps until PETA contacted district officials. They compassionately agreed that rodent control need not be cruel and are taking steps to ensure that glue traps are never used.

The popular maker of premium spirits doesn’t condone cockfighting and will not allow any promotional events around the cruel sport of cockfighting.

University of Ulm permanently ends cruel pig labs.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agreed with PETA in its third high-production volume (HPV) chemicals rule that there is sufficient existing data to drop certain animal testing, sparing almost 2,000 animals from painful oral and lethal toxicity tests!

SSA officials graciously agreed to remove glue traps from all offices and switch to alternative methods of animal control.

U.S. military officials have finally confirmed that the use of monkeys in the Army’s chemical attack training courses is being discontinued.

PETA rescued two domestic turkeys and scored a great home for them.

Goldman Sachs, the fifth largest financial institution in the country, confirmed that it will no longer use glue traps in any of its buildings.

With hard work and persistence, PETA was able to convince Ally Financial, the 15th largest financial institution in the country, not to use glue traps in any of its buildings.

After PETA informed U.S. Bank, the 10th largest financial institution in the country, of the cruelty inherent in the use of glue traps, it agreed to implement a “no glue trap” policy at its 3,000 locations!

PETA met with Roll International Corporation and the company agreed never to feature nonhuman primates in future ad campaigns.

October 2011  After hearing from a concerned student about experiments at an Indiana high school in which live fish were poisoned with insulin and sugar overdoses and then died, PETA immediately contacted the high school with information on humane alternatives to the animal laboratories. After diligently following up with school district personnel, PETA received confirmation … Read more »

The school reduced the number of animals used in classroom labs by 50 percent, saving the lives of hundreds of frogs, mice, and rats each year.