After hearing from PETA, top U.S. airline JetBlue Airways Corporation added oat-based creamer on its flights! The company quickly confirmed the news to us after it received over 10,000 e-mails from our supporters. Cows are gentle, sensitive individuals—and those exploited by the dairy industry are eventually violently killed. Calves are ripped away from their mothers … Read more »
The National Mango Board will no longer support starving, killing, and slicing open animals in cruel, pointless experiments. This decision follows a high-pressure campaign from PETA, which included letters, thousands of e-mails from our supporters, and public advertisements calling out the board for funding the torment of mice and rats apparently just to boost mango … Read more »
Massachusetts joined a host of other states by banning circuses and other traveling acts from cruelly exploiting elephants, big cats, primates, giraffes, and bears. PETA supporters in the state repeatedly showed up big by urging their elected officials to pass this law, which takes effect on January 1, 2025. Join us in keeping the momentum … Read more »
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 This is yet another nail in the coffin for the cruel, outdated fur industry, which confines, poisons, gasses, electrocutes, and skins sentient beings … Read more »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 and more than 13,000 of our supporters, watchmaker Bulova—which is owned by industry giant Citizen Watch—confirmed that it no longer sources wild-animal skins! Animals in this industry are inflated with water or air, shot, stabbed, and abused in other ways. Buying accessories, including watches, made of wild-animal skins is just as … 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 »
