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Ad Council and Multiple Agencies Ban Images of Breathing-Impaired Dog Breeds

After discussions with PETA, multiple ad agencies and similar organizations—including Wunderman Thompson, Ogilvy, Leo Burnett Chicago, the Ad Council, RPA, and Sanders\Wingo—committed to not featuring images of breathing-impaired breeds (BIBs) in any newly produced advertising or marketing materials going forward, in order to avoid fueling demand for them. These types of dogs—such as English and French bulldogs, pugs, Pekingese, Boston terriers, boxers, Cavalier King Charles spaniels, and shih tzus—are bred to have drastically restricted airways that make it a daily struggle just to breathe, run, and play. PETA is calling on all other relevant organizations, companies, and institutions to follow suit. Everyone can join us in urging the University of Georgia to stop promoting BIBs.

 

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Why FIFA Should Give the Red Card to Cruelty and Boot Budweiser as a Sponsor

Following reports that Budweiser will be the official beer of the 2023 Women’s World Cup and the 2026 Men’s World Cup, PETA called on FIFA President Gianni Infantino to score a goal for equines by giving Budweiser the boot if the beer maker won’t stop amputating the tailbones of its iconic Clydesdales.

FIFA needs to give the red card to cruelty and drop Budweiser as a sponsor. There’s nothing sporting about severing Clydesdales’ tailbones.

A shocking PETA video exposé revealed that Budweiser has been severing the famous horses’ tailbones with either a scalpel or a tight band that stops the blood supply to the tail, causing most of the bone to die and fall off. This cruel practice is illegal in 10 U.S. states and many European countries, including Belgium, where Budweiser’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch InBev, is based.

Both the American Veterinary Medical Association and the American Association of Equine Practitioners condemn cosmetic tailbone amputation.

Horses need their tails for balance and to protect themselves from biting and disease-spreading insects, but Budweiser mutilates Clydesdales just so they’ll look a certain way when hitched to a beer wagon. If the company is concerned that tail hair could become entangled in a wagon’s hitch equipment, simply braiding and wrapping the tails would prevent this possibility.

Budweiser presents the iconic Clydesdales as symbols of traditional American values, but harming horses is the antithesis of what fans in the U.S. and around the world hold dear. FIFA should get the ball rolling in the right direction by dropping Budweiser as a sponsor until the beer maker does right by horses.

Join PETA in urging Budweiser to stop amputating horses’ tails:

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Special Delivery: PETA to Lob Coconuts at Whole Foods Northeast President Over Forced Monkey Labor

Whole Foods Northeast Region President Nicole Wescoe will get an unusual gift this week: PETA is sending the executive an armload of human-picked coconuts along with a letter urging her to ban Thai coconut milk from the company’s stores and supply chain.

Thailand’s coconut-picking industry is fueled by the labor of endangered pig-tailed macaques—many of whom were illegally snatched from their forest homes as babies. Handlers fit them with rigid metal collars, use chains and leashes to choke and control them, and may pull out their canine teeth so that they can’t defend themselves. Because the industry and the Thai government lie about their systemic reliance on forced monkey labor, it’s impossible to guarantee that any coconut milk from Thailand is free of it.

“Whole Foods’ decision to continue selling Thai coconut milk, including through its own 365 by Whole Foods Market brand, exhibits a willful disregard for monkeys being kidnapped and used as coconut-picking machines,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is calling on Whole Foods to stop supporting Thailand’s abusive coconut industry and get Thai coconut milk off its shelves immediately.”

One of Whole Foods’ coconut milk suppliers was implicated in PETA Asia’s latest investigation into the trade, but the company failed to act after PETA presented it with this information. PETA is sending a letter and coconuts to each of Whole Foods’ nine regional presidents.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information about PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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Special Delivery: PETA to Lob Coconuts at Whole Foods Mid-Atlantic President Over Forced Monkey Labor

Whole Foods Mid-Atlantic Region President Scott Allshouse will get an unusual gift this week: PETA is sending the executive an armload of human-picked coconuts along with a letter urging him to ban Thai coconut milk from the company’s stores and supply chain.

Thailand’s coconut-picking industry is fueled by the labor of endangered pig-tailed macaques—many of whom were illegally snatched from their forest homes as babies. Handlers fit them with rigid metal collars, use chains and leashes to choke and control them, and may pull out their canine teeth so that they can’t defend themselves. Because the industry and the Thai government lie about their systemic reliance on forced monkey labor, it’s impossible to guarantee that any coconut milk from Thailand is free of it.

“Whole Foods’ decision to continue selling Thai coconut milk, including through its own 365 by Whole Foods Market brand, exhibits a willful disregard for monkeys being kidnapped and used as coconut-picking machines,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is calling on Whole Foods to stop supporting Thailand’s abusive coconut industry and get Thai coconut milk off its shelves immediately.”

One of Whole Foods’ coconut milk suppliers was implicated in PETA Asia’s latest investigation into the trade, but the company failed to act after PETA presented it with this information. PETA is also sending a letter and coconuts to Whole Foods’ other eight regional presidents.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information about PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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