After hearing from PETA, Edgewell Personal Care—which owns Schick, Wilkinson Sword, Jack Black, and many other brands—agreed not to use badger hair again! This is wonderful news for badgers because the industries that use their hair in paint, shaving, or makeup brushes pay people to catch them in painful traps or breed them on farms … Read more »
After learning about PETA Asia’s exotic-skins investigations—which revealed that snakes in Vietnam are confined and then killed by being inflated with compressed air and that crocodiles are electroshocked, stabbed with a metal blade, inflated, and then likely skinned alive—the Samuel Hubbard Shoe Company confirmed that it no longer buys or uses exotic skins. Raising and killing exotic animals for … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and viewing undercover footage from our investigation into the alpaca-fleece industry, outdoor retailer Lands’ End has banned alpaca fleece! It joins the growing list of companies and designers who have made the compassionate decision to stop sourcing this vile material. Please urge Anthropologie to join Lands’ End and drop alpaca fleece … Read more »
After PETA shared a first-of-its-kind investigation into the alpaca-fleece industry, L Brands confirmed that it has banned alpaca fleece from its Victoria’s Secret brand—the only clothing retailer it owns. Victoria’s Secret joins UNIQLO, Overstock, Valentino, Marks & Spencer, ascena retail group, and many other brands in banning alpaca fleece. Please urge Anthropologie to follow suit … Read more »
After more than a decade of pressure from PETA, the urging of nearly 185,000 of our supporters, and help from our friends at the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade, retailer Alice + Olivia banned fur and removed fur items from its website! We’re pleased that the company will no longer fund the cruel fur … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and nearly 80,000 of our supporters, personal-care brand Baxter of California banned badger hair. And now, its parent company, L’Oréal Group—the largest cosmetics and beauty company in the world—has banned badger, goat, and all other animal-hair products from its global brands. L’Oréal Group is among the nearly 100 cosmetic, paintbrush, and … Read more »
American Vintage has banned angora! This great news for rabbits comes after almost two years of campaigning by PETA entities worldwide against its use of angora wool. We bombarded the company’s social media posts with comments, urged supporters to call its headquarters and customer service line with complaints, protested outside its stores in major cities … Read more »
Following conversations with PETA and with help from our friends at Animal Defense League Southern California, designer and retailer Monique Lhuillier confirmed that it has banned fur! The company removed mink- and fox-fur items from its website. We’re delighted that it’s joining the hundreds of fur-free designers and retailers—including Giorgio Armani, Gucci, and Prada—and will … Read more »
Iconic brand Karl Lagerfeld banned exotic-animal skins after learning from PETA that workers in the exotic-skins industry nail fully conscious snakes to trees and cut open their bodies, ostriches are electrically stunned and their throats are slit, and metal rods are jammed down crocodiles’ spines while they’re still alive. Karl Lagerfeld joins Jil Sander, Chanel, … Read more »
After meeting with PETA, luxury shoe brand Alexandre Birman confirmed that it will no longer source exotic skins beginning on January 1, 2021. The news follows a ban on exotic skins by PVH, the parent company of Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein. Raising and killing exotic animals for “luxury” fashion items can increase the risk … Read more »
After hearing from PETA that workers slammed alpacas onto tables, tied them by all four legs, forcibly stretched them out, and violently and carelessly sheared them as they cried out and spit in fear, ascena retail group, inc., and its brands—Ann Taylor, Loft, Lou & Grey, Lane Bryant, s, Cacique,—banned alpaca fleece. Please urge Anthropologie … Read more »
After years of massive pressure from PETA and other activists—including after hearing from more than 90,000 of our members and supporters worldwide—the department store chain Winners, which is owned by TJX Companies, is going fur-free. This latest ban marks TJX Companies’ transition to being 100% fur-free at all of its 4,500 locations around the world. … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, the Columbia Sportswear Company—one of the largest outdoor and active-lifestyle apparel and footwear companies in the world—has banned alpaca fleece across its brands! It joins UNIQLO, Overstock, Valentino, Marks & Spencer, Maison Numen, Smith & Caughey’s, and ESPRIT in banning alpaca. We’re urging everyone to take action for alpacas right now … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, Dermstore, which is owned by Target, has stopped selling fur eyelashes. Madame Madeline, Glad Girl, Coco Mink Lashes, and Lurella Cosmetics have also banned the sale of mink lashes after hearing from us. These are huge wins for minks and other animals who would otherwise be tormented and killed on fur … Read more »
After meeting with PETA, online retailer Carbon38 banned fur, including from the brand Canada Goose! This means that it’ll no longer pay the cruel fur industry to crush gentle animals in painful steel traps or confine them to small, filthy wire cages for their entire lives, before gassing or electrocuting them so that companies can … Read more »
