Following a long-standing campaign by PETA entities and many thousands of e-mails from animal advocates around the world, Max Mara Fashion Group proclaimed that fur has no place in its future collections! This is yet another nail in the coffin for the cruel, outdated fur industry, which confines, poisons, gasses, electrocutes, and skins sentient beings … Read more »
After thousands of PETA supporters sent e-mails voicing outrage to the River City Fair for scheduling the inherently cruel Banana Derby, the Richmond, Virginia, event announced that 2024’s entire fair was canceled. Join us in contacting other events that plan on exploiting wild animals.
In a historic win for PETA, free speech, and government accountability, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) violated the First Amendment by blocking criticism of animal testing. The decision comes in response to a lawsuit brought by lawyers at the PETA Foundation, … Read more »
After hearing from PETA that endangered macaques are chained, whipped, and forced into a lifetime of labor picking coconuts in Thailand, coconut milk producer Chef’s Choice Foods Manufacturer Co. stopped sourcing coconuts from farms in Thailand and switched to importing them from other countries. It makes the brands Chef’s Choice and Nature’s Charm, both of … Read more »
In a huge win for animals and government transparency, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled in PETA’s favor and ordered that Louisiana State University (LSU) can’t keep public records about Christine Lattin’s deadly experiments on sparrows hidden. The university has fought PETA to keep Lattin’s records secret since 2019, saying that it had no records or … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, global accessories retailer Claire’s confirmed that it would no longer source real feathers! Feathers used in fashion come from terrified birds who may be painfully live-plucked and killed for their flesh and skin. By banning feathers from its nearly 3,000 stores worldwide, the company will spare birds a lifetime of suffering. … Read more »
After pressure and complaints from PETA, a sleep fragmentation experiment that University of Massachusetts–Amherst experimenter Agnès Lacreuse had moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Wisconsin National Primate Research Center ended. UW-Madison had received approval to subject 32 marmosets to 24 nights, over two months, of loud, blaring noises to wake them repeatedly. Instead, six marmoset … Read more »
Following outreach from PETA, KevaWorks—an amusement industry consulting and managing service that has coordinated more than 5,000 events as of the time of this victory—compassionately pledged to no longer book Banana Derby at future events that it manages. Banana Derby is an inherently cruel traveling act that ties capuchin monkeys to the backs of dogs … Read more »
Following pressure from PETA, high-end outerwear brand SAM. confirmed that it no longer uses real animal fur! This exciting news means that fewer animals are being forced to live on fur factory farms in cramped cages, where they frantically pace back and forth, gnaw on the bars, and mutilate themselves out of extreme stress and … Read more »
In a major turning point in how the government funds scientific research, one of the biggest funders of sepsis experiments on mice announced at a recent conference that it would stop funding the most common types of these experiments on animals and instead shift resources toward superior, human-relevant methods. The move by the National Institute … Read more »
Michele Basso was removed as director of the Washington National Primate Research Center just two months after we provided the University of Washington Board of Regents with evidence of her failings and called for her dismissal. As the face of the primate center, Basso embodied the inhumanity, arrogance, and sheer incompetence of the institution. She … Read more »
Following a push from PETA and actions from over 60,000 of our supporters, Palace Tours—a premier leisure travel company—committed to no longer selling tickets to the Running of the Bulls after learning that the same bulls who are chased through the streets in the morning are stabbed to death in the bullring that night. A … Read more »
In a rare move, the U.S. Department of Agriculture levied a $1,000 penalty against Hainan Airlines after confirming our complaint that the company had violated the federal Animal Welfare Act in August 2022 by flying 720 monkeys more than 8,000 miles from Cambodia to Chicago—without being registered with the agency as required. We’ve confirmed that … Read more »
Progress: Following a relentless PETA campaign, which included more than 250,000 e-mails from our supporters, eye-catching protests at circus shows and other Shrine events, creative ad placements, and outreach to sponsors—which led to the recent loss of former top sponsor GLOCK Inc.—the 2024 Yaarab Shrine Circus didn’t exploit elephants or any other wild animals! For … Read more »
A paper coauthored by PETA Science Consortium International e.V. and published in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology shows how differences in the respiratory tracts of humans and rats make tests on rats an unreliable predictor of what happens when humans inhale a substance—and why non-animal tests should be used instead. The paper will be referenced around … Read more »
