Secret Deodorant has joined PETA’s Global Beauty Without Bunnies Program. As the latest Procter & Gamble brand to be added to the group’s list of companies and brands that don’t test on animals, Secret will soon feature PETA’s cruelty-free bunny logo on its website and eventually on its packaging.
Secret’s parent company, Procter & Gamble, has collaborated with PETA for many years to help end animal testing in the beauty industry across the world. The company is also working with PETA scientists on ways to replace the use of animals in deadly toxicity testing.
“As a pioneer in animal testing alternatives, we are thrilled to add Secret to the list of P&G brands that are part of PETA’s Global Beauty Without Bunnies program,” says Kelly Vanasse, Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer, Procter & Gamble Global Beauty, Grooming and Health Care. “Being cruelty-free is important for Secret. It provides people with the assurance they’ve come to rely on when choosing their personal-care products.”
“Compassionate consumers who want to do good while they feel and smell good can now find Secret on PETA’s trusted list of brands that do not test on animals,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “Procter & Gamble is committed to ending all animal testing, and PETA encourages other industry giants to follow its lead in embracing modern non-animal research methods.”
Procter & Gamble’s work with the PETA International Science Consortium includes co-authoring a paper describing non-animal approaches to assess respiratory toxicity and participating in a consortium that works with the Food & Drug Administration to gain regulatory acceptance for non-animal tests.
The company will continue to work with PETA to ban animal testing globally.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or Secret.com.
About Secret
Secret was the first antiperspirant brand designed specifically for women, and for the past 60 years, it has been in the forefront of women’s lives, leading with innovation designed to provide superior odor and wetness protection. Through the years, the brand has proudly supported women’s advancement and equality through its campaigns and communications. Its latest campaign, “All Strength, No Sweat,” is a continuation of this commitment to women, celebrating those who boldly challenge the status quo, push through barriers, and stand up for what they believe in, without “sweating” the obstacles that may come their way. Secret challenges women everywhere to be all strength, no sweat.
In her book Animalkind, PETA President Ingrid Newkirk shares discoveries about animals that will help anyone be more compassionate. These sheep facts facts are just a few examples showing the intelligence and relationships of animals. Grab a copy of Animalkind to continue learning more about the surprising ways we can relate to our fellow animals.
Lambs use a special signal when they want to play—they kick their back legs into the air! Playful lambs chase and head-butt each other. They also love to cuddle with other sheep and their favorite toys.
2. They’re Picky Eaters Who Only Eat Their Vegetables
Only the best vegetation is good enough for sheep. These picky eaters use a groove in their upper lip called a philtrum to help them pick out their favorite plants.
3. Sheep of a Feather Flock Together
Isolation can cause depression in many animals, including sheep. Studies have shown that sheep’s heart rates increase when they can’t find their family or are approached by strangers. That’s why sheep like to stick with their flock. They also leap into the air with excitement when they see their friends and family. They can remember about 50 faces for more than two years!
4. Are Sheep Secretly Ninja Warriors?
Sheep aren’t afraid to stand up for their friends or young in dangerous situations. They also have excellent eyesight, with a 270- to 320-degree field of vision. This advantage allows them to see predators sneaking up on them.
5. For Sheep, Love Wants What Love Wants
Did you know that 8% of domestic rams prefer other male partners? They’re one of a few known species that have lifelong same-sex preferences. Female sheep (aka “ewes”) usually stay in their maternal groups for life. Male sheep sometimes join flocks with other males.
6. How Does That Make Ewe Feel?
Not only can sheep express emotions such as happiness, boredom, and sadness, they also feel complex combinations of emotions. It’s been proved that they respond to their environment with a variety of emotional responses because of the way their brains are organized. They can also detect anxiety in another sheep by looking at their face.
7. Being a Natural ‘Pharmacist’ Runs in the Family
When sheep in their natural habitat of hilly plains are sick, they seek out plants to make themselves feel better. They can tell if they’re deficient in a nutrient by “smelling” with their eyes and feet, and they’re able to find plants that can treat specific ailments or prevent disease. Sheep even teach their young this ability, so you could say that being a “pharmacist” runs in the family.
8. Mama Sheep Are Great at Running Nurseries
In nature, female sheep live with their young in nursery flocks with five to 100 total members. Lambs recognize their mothers after only one day, and they can identify each other by their individual bleats. Meanwhile, as noted above, male sheep live in bachelor flocks. They spend their time challenging each other for higher social ranks—it’s the ultimate fight club.
9. Sheep Can Be Optimistic Even When Things Look Bleak
The grass is always greener on the other side! Sheep have swum across lakes and rivers to seek out greener pastures. And although they have powerful memories, they’ve been shown to be optimistic even after stressful or scary situations.
10. Their Wool Doesn’t Naturally Need Shearing
Because of today’s breeding and farming, sheep grow much more wool than they would naturally—which would be just enough to protect them from the weather. When farmers shear sheep prematurely, they frequently cause them to freeze to death. Their unnaturally thick coats in the summer can also cause many to die of heat exhaustion.
11. Sheep Die for Wool—and Some Die on Their Way to Slaughter
Sheep on farms can die from infected wounds, flystrike, and other conditions. And the remaining sheep are always slaughtered. Why? Because once they’re no longer producing enough wool to be profitable, they’re killed. Every year, millions of sheep are exported from Australia to the Middle East and North Africa. They’re forced to endure weeks in cramped, unsanitary quarters aboard ships. According to the Australian government, it’s acceptable for around 2% of sheep to die in transit. In 2012, 19,407 sheep died during live-export journeys, and in 2018, around 2,400 died on filthy ships, many of heatstroke.
These Facts About Sheep Should Make You Hate the Wool Industry, Too
Although Australia is the largest exporter of wool in the world, PETA and our international affiliates have published 13 exposés of 116 wool operations on four continents. During these undercover investigations, eyewitnesses have caught workers punching sheep in the face and throwing them to the ground. Violence runs rampant on farms, including when workers stomp on sheep’s heads, twist their necks, and stitch up gaping wounds without providing them with any pain relief.
Clothes made of wool sold at stores such as Forever 21 come from places like the one shown above, which separate families, force sheep into barren holding pens, and traumatize them for their entire lives before violently killing them—all for a quick buck.
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Because the Numbers fire is threatening Douglas County and evacuations are underway, animals must be kept indoors and will die if abandoned.
Residents in areas affected by smoke and falling ash should keep animals indoors and avoid all outdoor activities, such as running with dogs. If visibility is less than 5 miles, smoke has compromised the air quality and reached unsafe levels. Anyone who sees animals in distress and is unable to help, should note their locations and alert authorities immediately.
Trapped horses and other animals can’t outrun wildfires. They should never be locked in their stalls or confined in any way, unable to flee.
Animals must never be left behind. Anyone who evacuates and intentionally abandons animals to fend for themselves may be prosecuted.
PETA has released a wildfire-preparedness public service announcement featuringDean Winters. Make plans to ensure the safety of animal companions in advance of trouble in order to avoid being caught unprepared. PETA also offers a video about keeping animal companions safe during fires. For more information, visit PETA.org.
Following recent reports that a dog was abandoned in the heat in Williamsville and had to rescued, PETA is issuing an urgent warning about the importance of never leaving animals outdoors in extreme heat or in hot vehicles. Six dogs have already died this year from heat-related causes, and because dogs are being taken to protests and COVID-19 is prolonging store wait times and errands, PETA is concerned that this summer could see an unprecedented number of hot weather–related animal deaths.
On a 78-degree day, the temperature inside a parked car can soar to 100 degrees in just minutes, and on a 90-degree day, the interior temperature can reach as high as 109 degrees in less than 10 minutes. Dogs, who don’t sweat and can cool themselves only by panting, can rapidly succumb to heatstroke, even if a vehicle is parked in the shade with the windows slightly open, which has little to no effect on lowering the temperature inside.
Anyone who leaves animals outside to suffer in severe weather may be prosecuted for cruelty. With protests currently sweeping the country, this reminder is especially important for dogs, who need to rehydrate frequently and may quickly overheat and burn their paws on hot pavement.
The following tips will help keep animal companions safe in hot weather:
Keep animals indoors, and leave them at home when it’s hot outside. Unlike humans, dogs can sweat only through their footpads and cool themselves by panting, so even brief sun exposure can have life-threatening consequences. Anyone who sees animals in distress and is unable to help should note their locations and alert authorities immediately.
Never leave an animal inside a hot vehicle. Temperatures can quickly soar in parked cars, and a dog trapped inside can die from heatstroke within minutes—even if the car is in the shade with the windows slightly open, which has little to no effect on lowering the temperature inside the car. PETA offers an emergency window-breaking hammer for help with intervening in life-or-death situations.
Avoid hot pavement. When outdoor temperatures reach the 80s, asphalt temperatures can climb to 140 degrees, causing pain, burns, and permanent damage to dogs’ paws after just a few minutes of contact. Walk dogs on grass whenever possible, and avoid walking in the middle of the day. Never run with dogs in hot weather—they’ll collapse before giving up, at which point, it may be too late to save them.
Alameda-based Cost Plus World Market—which is owned by Bed Bath & Beyond—has banned Chaokoh coconut milk after the brand’s supplier was implicated in PETA Asia’s first-ever undercover investigation into the use of monkeys in Thailand’s coconut industry. The investigation reveals that monkeys are chained, confined to cramped cages, and forced to climb trees and pick coconuts in Thailand to be used in products like coconut milk.
PETA Asia’s eyewitnesses visited four “monkey schools,” eight farms, and one coconut-picking competition, in which chained monkeys—reportedly illegally captured as babies—were forced to climb palm trees and pick coconuts for export around the world. When not being forced to pick coconuts, the animals were kept tethered, chained to old tires, or confined to cages barely larger than their bodies. At the facilities, monkeys displayed stereotypic repetitive behavior indicative of extreme stress. One monkey in a cage on a truck bed shook the cage repeatedly in a desperate, futile attempt to escape, and a screaming monkey on a rope frantically tried to run away from a handler. An investigator learned that if monkeys try to defend themselves, their canine teeth may be pulled out.
“These curious, highly intelligent animals are denied mental stimulation, companionship, freedom, and everything else that would make their lives worth living, all so that they can be used to pick coconuts,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA believes virtually all coconuts from Thailand are picked by abused monkeys and is calling on kind people to buy coconut products that are sourced elsewhere.”
Cost Plus World Market will stop selling Chaokoh products in its 276 stores nationwide as well as its online store. Walgreens Boots Alliance has agreed not to stock Aroy-D or Chaokoh products or sell any own-brand coconut food or drink products of Thai origin in its 9,277 Walgreens and 250 Duane Reade stores in the U.S. and its 2,758 Boots stores in the U.K. and Thailand. Ahold Delhaize and its 2,000 U.S. store locations and distribution centers (including Giant Food, Food Lion, Stop & Shop, and Hannaford) have also committed to not stocking or selling any coconut products sourced from suppliers that use monkey labor.
Photos from the investigation are available here, and broadcast-quality footage is available upon request. 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, please visit PETA.org.
