LES ANIMAUX NE DESCENDRONT JAMAIS LES CHAMPS-ELYSEES !
1980
PETA is formed and organizes the first World Day for
Laboratory Animals protest in the U.S. and the first demonstration
against chicken slaughter at Arrow Live Poultry, which was subsequently
closed, in Washington, D.C.1981
PETA conducts an undercover investigation exposing the suffering of
the Silver Spring monkeys in a Maryland research facility, resulting in
the first-ever police raid on a laboratory1981
A PETA undercover investigation results in the first conviction of an experimenter for animal abuse and the first withdrawal of federal research funds because of cruelty to animals. 1982
PETA makes legal history by filing the first-ever lawsuit to become the guardian of animals used in experiments. 1983
PETA gets a U.S. Department of Defense underground "wound lab" shut down and achieves a permanent ban on shooting dogs and cats in military wound laboratories.1984
PETA closes down a Texas slaughterhouse operation in which 30,000 horses were trucked in and left to starve in frozen fields without shelter.1985
After PETA publicizes the gross mistreatment of animals at City of Hope in California, the government suspends more than $1 million of the laboratory's federal funding.1986
As a result of PETA's campaign, the SEMA research laboratory in Maryland stops confining chimpanzees to isolation chambers.1987
PETA stops a plan by Cedars-Sinai, California's largest hospital, to ship stray dogs from Mexico to California for experiments.1988
For the first time, PETA conducts a year-long undercover investigation at Biosearch, a cosmetics and household product testing laboratory, uncovering more than 100 violations of federal and state anti-cruelty laws. 1989
PETA persuades Avon, Benetton, Mary Kay, Amway, Kenner, Mattel, and Hasbro to stop testing on animals. Note: Many of these companies have started testing on animals again in order to sell their products in China.1990
After PETA exposes the backstage beating of orangutans by Las Vegas entertainer Bobby Berosini, his wildlife permit is suspended and his show closes. 1991
PETA's "Silver Spring monkeys" case marks the first animal experimentation case ever heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. The court gives a unanimous, positive ruling.1992
PETA's undercover investigation into foie gras production prompts the first-ever police raid on a factory farm. PETA convinces many restaurants to stop selling the vile product.1993
All car-crash tests on animals stop worldwide following PETA's hard-hitting campaign against General Motors' use of live pigs and ferrets in crash tests.1994
A California furrier is charged with cruelty to animals after a PETA
investigator films him electrocuting chinchillas by clipping wires to
the animals' genitals. In another undercover exposé, PETA catches a fur
rancher on videotape causing minks to die in agony by injecting them
with a weedkiller. Both fur farms agree to stop these cruel killing methods.1994
Less than a month after PETA supporters occupy Calvin Klein's
office in New York—an action that leads to a meeting between the
designer and a PETA representative—Klein announces that he will no longer design with fur, the first major fashion designer to do so. 1995
PETA persuades Mobil, Texaco, Pennzoil, Shell, and other oil companies to cover their exhaust stacks after showing how millions of birds and bats have become trapped in them and been burned to death.1995
PETA's efforts lead to the first-ever cruelty charges filed against a factory farmer for cruelty to chickens for allowing tens of thousands of chickens to starve to death. The president of the company ultimately pleads guilty. 1996
Following PETA's campaign, NASA pulls out of Bion—a joint U.S., French, and Russian experiment in which monkeys wearing straitjackets were to have electrodes implanted in their bodies and be launched into space.1996
PETA convinces Gillette to observe a moratorium on animal testing
after a colorful years-long campaign, including the presentation of
shareholder resolutions at Gillette's annual meetings and support from
compassionate celebrities Paul McCartney, Lily Tomlin, Hugh Grant, and
Elizabeth Hurley.1997
A PETA investigation that documented the anal electrocution of foxes leads to the first-ever guilty plea by a fur rancher to cruelty-to-animals charges.1998
PETA succeeds in getting Taiwan to pass its first-ever law against cruelty to animals after the group rescues countless dogs from being beaten, starved, electrocuted, and drowned in Taiwan's pounds.1999
Undercover investigations into pig-breeding factory farms in North
Carolina and Oklahoma reveal horrific conditions and daily abuse of
pigs, including the fact that one pig was skinned alive, leading to the first-ever felony indictments of farm workers.1999
PETA conducts an undercover investigation into the Nielsen Farms puppy mill in Kansas, which reveals extremely small enclosures and rampant sickness, abuse, and death. Our investigation leads to the closure of the facility and a $20,000 fine
from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Nielsens are also
"permanently disqualified from being licensed" by the USDA.2000
Following the group's investigation, PETA convinces Gap Inc., J.Crew, Liz Claiborne, Clarks, and Florsheim to boycott leather from India and China, countries in which leather production causes immense animal suffering.2000
After a campaign that lasts 11 months and includes more than 400 demonstrations at McDonald's restaurants in more than 23 countries, as well as advertising and celebrity involvement, McDonald's becomes the first fast-food company to agree to make basic animal-welfare improvements for farmed animals.2001
PETA persuades Burger King to adopt sweeping animal-welfare improvements, including conducting unannounced slaughterhouse inspections and giving hens more cage space.2001
Shortly thereafter, following a vigorous PETA campaign, Wendy's follows suit, announcing plans to change some of its rules regarding the handling and slaughter of the animals used for its food.2002
PETA's efforts lead to the confiscation of six undernourished polar bears from a tropical circus, in which they were underfed, whipped, and forced to perform in sweltering temperatures. 2003
Evidence submitted by PETA leads to the mandatory relinquishment of all 16 elephants used by the Hawthorn Corporation, an elephant-rental company.2004
PETA persuades chemical companies and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to drop plans for numerous painful chemical tests, sparing tens of thousands of animals.2005
Following PETA's campaign, Honda, PUMA, Keds, and other companies pull their commercials featuring great apes. Several corporations pledge never to use great apes in advertising in the future.2005
Thanks to PETA's lengthy campaign to push PETCO to take more responsibility for the animals in its stores, the company agrees to stop selling large birds and to make provisions for the millions of rats and mice in its care.2006
PETA convinces Polo Ralph Lauren to stop selling fur. The furs were pulled from store shelves and donated to those in need in Mongolia.2007
After uncovering cruel experiments funded by major beverage manufacturers, PETA convinces POM Wonderful, PepsiCo, and Coca-Cola to end all animal tests.2008
PETA elicits agreements to make major improvements in farmed-animal welfare from Safeway, Harris Teeter, and the company that controls the purchase of chickens for KFCs in Canada, which also start offering faux-chicken menu items.2008
The Ad Council signs PETA's Great Ape Humane Pledge. In 2012, it extends its pledge to include a ban on all wild animals in advertising. 2008
PETA's investigation into Aviagen Turkeys, Inc., part of the
self-proclaimed "world's leading poultry breeding company," reveals that
workers tortured, mutilated, and maliciously killed turkeys. Three
former employees are indicted on felony cruelty-to-animals charges—the first felony charges for abusing factory-farmed poultry in U.S. history—and two become the first factory farmers to be convicted of abusing turkeys. One
man is sentenced to one year in jail—the strongest penalty levied for
abusing a factory-farmed animal in U.S. history—and all three are barred
from owning or living with animals for five years.2008
PETA investigates a pig-breeding factory farm in Iowa and uncovers
horrific treatment of sows, boars, and piglets. The manager of the farm
is fired, and the evidence results in 22 criminal charges against six workers, all of whom admit guilt and are sentenced to serve up to two years' probation.2009
PETA's investigation into animal dealer U.S. Global Exotics prompts the largest animal seizure in history—more than 26,000 animals. The owner flees the country to evade federal charges.2009
After receiving the video of PETA's exposé of extreme suffering in
the trade in exotic-animal skins, Stockholm-based international retailer
H&M becomes the first retailer to adopt a policy banning products made from exotic skins in all of its 1,800 stores worldwide. 2009
After nearly a month of intense PETA campaigning against horrific combat training exercises conducted by the Bolivian military—in
which live dogs are shown in a video tied down, repeatedly stabbed, and
screaming in agony—the Bolivian Ministry of Defense ends the killing by
issuing the military's first-ever animal protection regulation,
which "prohibit[s] all acts of violence, exploitation, [and]
mistreatment that provokes the death of animals."2010
A petition co-filed by PETA leads a court to determine that University of Wisconsin–Madison staff members may face prosecution for violating state law by killing sheep in decompression experiments. 2010
After discussions with PETA, Japan's ITO EN, Ltd.—the world's largest green-tea manufacturer—institutes a new policy prohibiting all animal testing. Also after discussions with PETA, Lipton tea soon follows suit. 2010
Following a year of vigorous campaigning, NASA cancels plans for a $1.75 million study in which dozens of squirrel monkeys would have been exposed to a harmful dose of radiation.2010
Just one week after PETA releases the results of its shocking undercover investigation into Professional Laboratory and Research Services and files a complaint with the USDA, the North Carolina–based contract animal testing facility surrenders nearly 200 dogs and more than 50 cats and closes its doors. This is only the second time in U.S. history that a laboratory has been forced to surrender animals and shut down.2010
Less than six months after PETA releases its undercover investigation into laboratories at the University of Utah, Utah legislators vote overwhelmingly to amend an archaic state law so that government-run animal shelters will no longer be forced to sell dogs and cats to laboratories on demand. 2011
The USDA fines Ringling Bros. and Barnum
& Bailey Circus $270,000—the largest fine ever paid by an animal
exhibitor—for violations of the Animal Welfare Act after PETA
presents the agency with unequivocal evidence of animal abuse, including
beatings, the negligent death of a lion, lame elephants forced to
perform despite chronic pain, and a baby elephant who died during a
training routine. 2011
PETA blows the lid off Ringling Bros.' violent training methods when a whistleblower shares photographic evidence from Ringling's training compound
revealing how baby elephants are torn away from their mothers and
subjected to violent training sessions so that they will learn how to
perform tricks.2011
PETA releases video footage from an investigation showing how elephants used by Ringling Bros. are whipped, beaten, and yanked by heavy, sharp steel-tipped bullhooks behind the scenes prior to performing. 2011
In the first case of its kind, PETA, three marine-mammal experts, and two former orca trainers file
a lawsuit asking a federal court to declare that five wild-caught orcas
forced to perform at SeaWorld are being held as slaves in violation of
the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The filing—the
first ever seeking to apply the 13th Amendment to nonhuman animals—names
the five orcas as plaintiffs and seeks their release into their natural
habitats or seaside sanctuaries.2011
After intensive campaigning by PETA, the U.S. military ends the use of monkeys in the Army's cruel chemical-attack training course.2012
All the top 10 advertising agencies in the United
States—McCann Erickson, BBDO, Y&R, DDB, Ogilvy & Mather, TBWA,
Draftfcb, Grey, JWT, and Campbell Ewald - sign PETA's Great Ape Humane
Pledge, banning the use of great apes in their advertising. 2012
After meeting with PETA, apparel and accessories company Haband removes all down-filled items from among its offerings and becomes the first company to implement an official policy banning the sale of down feathers. 2012
PETA exposes disturbing video footage taken by a whistleblower during a trauma training session conducted by military contractor Tier 1 Group for members of the U.S. Coast Guard, which shows the stabbing, shooting, and dismemberment of live goats. Following an official complaint from PETA, the USDA cites Tier 1 Group for violating the federal Animal Welfare Act for failing to provide the goats with adequate anesthesia before they were mutilated.2012
After PETA donates simulators to Egypt, the country ends all use of animals for medical trauma training.2012
After two years of PETA campaigns and a lengthy lawsuit brought by PETA and local residents, the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico nixes a plan by the Bioculture corporation to set up a monkey-breeding facility and sell monkeys to U.S. laboratories. 2012
By funding scientists to train Chinese government officials in the use of non-animal testing methods, PETA launches an effort to stop China from requiring tests on animals for cosmetics and household products.
As part of its effort, PETA convinces cosmetics company Urban Decay to
reverse its decision to sell its products in China, and John Paul
Mitchell Systems pulls out of the Chinese market rather than having its
products tested on animals. 2012
PETA's exposé documenting that cosmetics companies were secretly paying for tests on animals in China and our funding of scientists to train officials there lead to that nation's acceptance, by the end of 2012, of its first non-animal tests for cosmetics ingredients.2012
Following PETA's investigations and campaign, a sweeping set of reforms is introduced and accepted by many horse-racing tracks, including softer whips and limitations on whipping, increased drug testing, and mandatory horse ambulances on the track.2012
The horse-racing industry implements its first-ever industry-supported retirement plan for thoroughbreds. 2012
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission bans the use of furosemide, or Lasix, a commonly used drug that can mask other drugs and lead to horse breakdowns. 2012
After decades of cruel experiments by BIOQUAL and
just six months after PETA purchases stock in it in order to introduce a
shareholder resolution on animal testing, the company announces that it
will end its use of chimpanzees. 2012
After two horses die on the set of the HBO horse-racing series Luck,
PETA goes public with information obtained by whistleblowers as well as
necropsy reports from the racing board revealing that older, arthritic
horses had been used in dangerous and deadly racing sequences and that
the horses appeared not to have been provided with adequate protection.
After a third horse dies on the set, HBO announces the cancellation of Luck and ceases all production on the series.2012
After a long and hard-fought battle by PETA, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, and concerned citizens, Ben the bear
is rescued from abhorrent conditions at a North Carolina roadside zoo.
FedEx transports Ben free of charge (dubbing the mission "Bear Force
One") to the Performing Animal Welfare Society's beautiful accredited
wildlife sanctuary in northern California. There, Ben will live out the
rest of his days splashing in his own pool, basking in the sun, and
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