PETA Global 2022 Issue 1

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After PETA sweet-talked Blommer Chocolate Company, North America’s largest cocoa processor and chocolate ingredient supplier, it agreed not to fund, conduct, or donate any products for animal tests. Previously, PETA had learned of deadly experiments on mice involving products that Blommer had provided. Sweet Success! Chocolate Company Ends Animal Tests USA

PETA UK has unveiled the world’s first faux bear fur, which looks and functions exactly like the real bearskin used to make the Queen’s Guard’s famous caps. PETA honorary director Pamela Anderson told the British prime minister that it would be “unconscionable” not to make the switch and save bears from being killed for a uniform. In the US, PETA rescued its 76 th bear from dingy roadside zoos. After US authorities confiscated one injured bear from Sunrise Side Nature Trail and Exotic Park, PETA secured the release of the four remaining animals – a black bear named Dolly and three foxes – who are all now living happily ever after at The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado. Take Action Now Oswald’s Bear Ranch is another notorious roadside zoo where many bears have died. Help get the animals out at PETA.org/Oswalds . And visit PETA.org.au/Bearskins to urge UK Prime Minister Johnson to go faux. Saving Bears With Faux Fur and Freedom GLOBAL

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A MESSAGE FROM Ingrid Newkirk PETA’s President

Other chocolate companies that have banned animal tests after working with PETA include Barry Callebaut, The Hershey Company, Lindt & Sprüngli, and Ritter Sport. Take Action Now Celebrate with PETA’s kitty-shaped vegan chocolates that will cat ivate your taste buds at PETA.org/Store , and help end more tests on animals by signing up for PETA’s text alerts at PETA.org/Text .

I found these two beagles spinning madly in circles inside a barren kennel at Hahnemann/ Drexel University. I had come to talk to students in their 20s who were preparing to work in an animal laboratory. My presentation arguing for modernizing science

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education had been preceded by a pro-vivisection slide show of kindly physicians healing the sick, supposedly thanks to animal experiments.

JUSTICE! Pinky Cole and PETA Dish It Out Entrepreneur and founder of The Slutty Vegan restaurant chain, Pinky Cole joined PETA in a vegan

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ASIA-PACIFIC PETA Gains Three

I asked to see the labs. This made the faculty uncomfortable. I kept pushing, saying, “Nothing to hide, I’m sure!” Finally, they decided I could perhaps see the lab housing the students’ “pet” dogs. The facility consisted of a roomwith neon ceiling lights, cement floors, whitewashed walls, and chainlink runs. No toys, grass, sunshine, or fresh air – nothing to provide any comfort or joy. “What are they used for, and do they ever get out of these cells?” I asked. I was told they were let into the aisle every day during cleaning and that they were “only used once a year, at exam time, to show students how to take blood and whatnot.” We continued talking. How could the school justify imprisoning these dogs in such bleak living conditions year-round? There were other ways for the students to learn: for example, in a veterinarian’s office, observing dogs who could go right home afterward. With persistence, I got the beagles, Linda and Kim, released. Their whirling stopped within the first week of their transfer from cement flooring to a living room couch and the soft grass of a real yard. It took three and a half years of trying to get an answer from Drexel University regarding modifying its policy on animal experiments, but eventually the chancellor wrote that the College of Medicine “has been using computer modeling and simulation rather than live subjects … for over three years.” Change was possible after all – it usually is, if you push hard enough. Let’s go!

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Big Wins for Small Animals

Sloths Saved From SeaQuest!

grocery giveaway in Atlanta’s Vine City food desert, during which Pinky served an excited crowd a variety of The Slutty Vegan’s delicious entrées to help kick off PETA’s new food justice campaign. PETA

is calling on government agencies to stop using tax dollars to prop up animal agriculture and instead to redirect those funds into providing healthy vegan food in underserved communities. Rev. Dr. Robert Turner hosted another burger bonanza at Tulsa’s Historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church, saying, “Food justice is racial justice, and I’m pleased to see PETA addressing this issue nationwide.”

Following discussions with PETA, Uni-President (Asia’s largest food company) and Swire Coca-Cola Taiwan (one of Taiwan’s leading soft drink manufacturers and bottling partner of Coca-Cola) banned all animal tests not required by law. Then, Yakult Co., Ltd. – known for its probiotic drinks – ended all of its voluntary animal tests after being formally included in the ban that its parent company, Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd., imposed after discussions with PETA. These victories will prevent countless rats, mice, and hamsters from being force-fed, forced to inhale chemicals, starved, and injected with drugs.

SeaQuest – the notorious aquarium and petting zoo based primarily in shopping malls – won’t be acquiring more sloths at its Las Vegas site, following the deaths of two sloths there in nine months. PETA asked local officials to investigate the abusive outfit and deny any future requests to obtain more sloths after records revealed that the animals – both named Flash – died under similar suspicious circumstances. And just days after PETA wrote to the North Dakota attorney general to report that SeaQuest CEO Vince Covino’s bid to open an inhumane operation in the state was based on lies, Covino backed out of his plans.

Take Action Now Never visit SeaQuest or any other business that displays animals for human entertainment. Take action against this cruel company

Take Action Now Keep the momentum going: Please visit PETA.org/Ajinomoto to tell the world’s largest MSG manufacturer that its horrific tests

Take Action Now Visit PETA.org/FoodJustice to join PETA’s initiative.

at PETA.org/SeaQuest .

on animals leave a bitter taste in your mouth.

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