PETA’s Victories and Accomplishments

Adidas pledged never to use the skins of exotic animals such as lizards, crocodiles, snakes, sharks, and fish in its product line.

Elephants will never again bear the blow of a bullhook while in Fulton County.

June 2011  After the death of an elephant keeper at the Knoxville Zoo, where employees were put in danger by the zoo’s continuing practice of free contact, PETA and other animal rights groups sent complaints to the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration (TOSHA). TOSHA cited and fined the zoo.

PETA convinced yet another ad agency to sign the Great Ape Humane Pledge!

Cruel sheep decompression experiments stopped at UW-Madison.

Oregon school ends classroom frog dissections.

DMVs agree to put information in their driving manuals or on their websites about the dangers of leaving dogs in hot cars.

Up-and-coming advertising agency Barton F. Graf 9000 pledged never again to feature great apes in its advertisements.

Florida teacher removed from school for violating code of ethics.

BBH, a top 75 ad agency in the U.S., signed PETA’s Great Ape Humane Pledge.

Naval Medical Center San Diego ends cruel cat lab.

Thanks to PETA’s persistent efforts, 180LA is now part of a collection of companies and ad agencies that have vowed to sign the Great Ape Humane Pledge.

Following a meeting with PETA, HOPSports agreed to end its partnership with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus.

Capital One removes its chimpanzee ad and agrees to never again use non-human primates.

PETA contacted University of Texas at Dallas about their cruel outdated animal experimentation on rats, the school later on removed it from their curriculum.