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4 Shocking PETA Investigations That Sparked Major Action for Animals in 2023
PETA celebrated many massive victories this year after blowing the lid off cruelty to animals on farms, at racetracks, and at roadside zoos all over North America and rallying our supporters to help end it.
These four PETA investigations revealed shocking animal abuse in 2023:
1. Exposed: Anheuser-Busch Amputated Budweiser Clydesdales’ Tailbones
PETA investigators went undercover at Warm Springs Ranch in Missouri (the official breeding facility for the Budweiser Clydesdales), visited Grant’s Farm, and talked to handlers who travel with teams of the adult horses.
We learned that Anheuser-Busch, which produces Budweiser beer, amputated the tailbones of the famed Clydesdales—primarily so they’d look a certain way as they pull a wagon.
Following a massive campaign in which more than 100,000 PETA supporters took action, Anheuser-Busch InBev—Budweiser’s parent company—announced that had stopped cutting the tailbones off Clydesdale horses.
This PETA victory sent a message to other companies: Animal abuse doesn’t sell.
2. Inside a Drive-Through Tourist Trap That Tore Baby Bears Away From Their Mothers
A PETA investigator worked undercover at Bear Country U.S.A., a roadside zoo in South Dakota. There, supervisors tore bear families apart, instructed staff to kick cubs, and denied elderly animals timely veterinary attention.
Acting on evidence from our undercover investigation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cited Bear Country U.S.A. for multiple violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act.
According to a USDA report, a representative of this callous roadside zoo admitted to inspectors that the facility had used fireworks to terrify mother bears while separating them from their cubs and that staff “had been recorded suggesting handling the bear cubs in an aggressive and inappropriate manner, such as ‘holding their muzzles,’ ‘pinching their noses,’ and ‘kicking or pushing them away.’”
Join us in urging this tourist trap to end its cruel breeding program and send the animals there to reputable facilities before more cubs are forced to endure horrific trauma:
3. PETA Exposé Reveals ‘100% Grass-Fed’ Water Buffaloes Suffering on Filthy Canadian Farm
Following a whistleblower complaint alleging that animals were languishing with painful ailments amid piles of manure on a farm owned by the Ontario Water Buffalo Company, PETA investigators took a scheduled tour of the hellhole and found systemic animal neglect and suffering.
Despite claiming to raise buffaloes “how nature intended,” the farm confines these animals—who are native to a tropical environment in Asia—in filthy, profoundly unnatural conditions, including in subfreezing winters, to exploit them for meat and dairy, including buffalo mozzarella and other cheeses.
After hearing from PETA supporters, grocery chain Loblaws, which had sold cheese made from these animals’ milk, reported that Quality Cheese, the company that makes Bella Casara buffalo mozzarella, had cut ties with the farm.
PETA is asking Canadian grocer Longo’s to reconsider selling buffalo cheeses made from the milk of animals like these. Please join us:
4. The Killing of Juvenile Horses at ‘Under Tack Shows’
A 2023 PETA investigation revealed that, every spring, 2-year-old Thoroughbreds are forced to sprint at breakneck speeds in “under tack shows” to impress prospective buyers and inflate sales prices at auctions.
Trainers and veterinarians agree that forcing fragile young horses—some of whom are still biological yearlings—to run in speed trials is dangerous and damaging.
PETA previously compiled video footage of injuries at under tack shows, showing how deadly these reckless sprints can be. On one occasion, our investigator was able to get onto the track and behind a screen—set up to hide what was happening—to film a horse who had endured a fatal cardiac event while sprinting in extreme heat.
No screen is large enough to hide the countless corpses of the horses who have already been fatally injured in these events. But there is a way to reduce further carnage.
PETA is offering a solution that should be acceptable to all stakeholders—and most importantly, it would protect horses. You can urge major auction companies and top consignors, breeders, trainers, and owners to agree to it:
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With your financial support, PETA’s eyewitness investigators are able to expose—and ultimately end—the cruelty that animal abusers try so desperately to hide. Donors also make it possible for PETA to provide animals experiencing emergencies with immediate veterinary treatment, transport, and humane shelter.
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Hark! Alluring ‘Angel’ to Descend on The Square to Ruffle H&M’s Feathers Over Devilish Down Sales
Last-minute holiday shoppers visiting the bustling businesses at The Square on Saturday will be met with a heavenly sight outside H&M: A PETA “angel” bedecked with huge faux-feather wings, knee-high boots, and a halo will urge passersby never to buy products made with feathers.
When: Saturday, December 23, 12 noon
Where: Outside H&M, 700 S. Rosemary Ave. (near Hibiscus Street), West Palm Beach
An “angel” outside an H&M store in London. Credit: PETA U.K.
A PETA Asia investigation into Vietnamese duck farms and slaughterhouses—which provide suppliers, including one that listed H&M as a customer, with purportedly “responsible” down—shows ducks, who were suffering from gaping and bloody wounds inside dirty sheds and on lots strewn with feces, being stabbed in the neck while still conscious. Many of the birds continued to move for more than a minute after workers slashed their necks and cut off their feet. As a result, H&M has removed the “responsible” down label from its online offerings in the U.S.—indicating that it knows the designation is a sham—but it continues to sell down.
PETA has released nine exposés of the down industry, each one proving that filth, suffering, and violent deaths are industry norms.
“Every down item is stuffed with the pain and suffering of terrified birds who died in agony,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is calling on H&M to help end this cruelty by banning down and urges holiday shoppers to extend peace on Earth to all animals by sticking to feather-free, vegan materials.”
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.
For more information, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.
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Meet Cats, Dogs, Goats, Chimpanzees, and Others PETA Helped Rescue in 2023
PETA helps as many animals as we can—including dogs, goats, cats, bears, and chimpanzees—be it on battlegrounds or in backyards. We do everything we can to rescue, treat, and comfort them.
Meet Some of the Animals PETA Helped Rescue in 2023:
- PETA’s fieldworkers rescued kitten Elmer, whose eyes were crusted shut, and nursed him back to health before working to find him a safe home.
- PETA Latino helped free severely neglected dogs Kal and Abigail from deplorable conditions and secured them a loving foster home.
- Thanks to PETA’s damning 18-month investigation, the National Institutes of Health stopped funding two horrible laboratories in Colombia, and local authorities rescued 108 owl monkeys and 180 mice from the sites, and charged the experimenters with several crimes.
- In Ukraine, Lada the dog was covered in fleas and maggots that were eating away at her damaged, infected skin. She couldn’t walk and didn’t have long to live—until a PETA-supported team came to her rescue.
- Edward and Seymour were abandoned at a dog park, but now they’ve been adopted by the purrfect families.
- As pregnant horse Maria painfully discovered when her hoof landed on an explosive device, landmines can’t tell the difference between an animal and a soldier. PETA-supported teams hurried to care for her ghastly wound, even as bombs tore apart her home.
- PETA’s work led to the rescue of four chimpanzees—April, Anna, Lucy, and Cash—from roadsize zoo Union Ridge Wildlife Center in Wilkesville, Ohio.
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- After a truck transporting thousands of chickens overturned on the I-5 highway in Portland, Oregon, a PETA staffer was able to rescue one of the birds, later named Milagros, who is now thriving.
- A PETA-supported team helped save 200 terrified animals on a farm in Ukraine from a drone attack.
- A short, heavy chain kept Simon on a concrete slab without adequate shelter before fieldworkers supported by the Global Compassion Fund (GCF) gave his living conditions a revamp.
- Wally looked more like a rhino than a puppy due to a bad case of mange. Fortunately, PETA fieldworkers were able to provide him with veterinary care and a foster home with lots of TLC. He was soon adopted through the Richmond SPCA.
- Alaska the goat had a broken leg with a ghastly abscess growing around it. She made it through an intense surgery and is the GOAT at the PETA-supported clinic for animals suffering in Ukraine.
- PETA fieldworkers found this dog wandering the streets and covered in such severely matted fur that even walking was difficult for him, as the clumps of hair painfully pulled at his skin. The team scooped him up, took him to the local animal shelter, and shaved him to provide him with some relief.
- Penny the dog was found down in the dumps—literally: This sweet girl had been abandoned at a junkyard. Fortunately, she was brought to PETA and now enjoys sniffing in a yard full of flowers.
- Arik the dog miraculously survived a missile strike 54 yards from where he was chained to the side of a house in Ukraine. When a GCF-supported team moved through the area to scoop up injured and abandoned animals, kind Ukrainian soldiers told them not to forget sweet Arik!
- Elmyra the cat was critically ill with an upper respiratory infection when fieldworkers found her. She was so sick—her eyes crusted with discharge, her nostrils bubbling over with mucus—that our staff wasn’t sure she would survive. But little Elmyra beat the odds, and after weeks of antibiotics and careful nursing in a foster home, she made a full recovery.
- The operators of Waccatee Zoo in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, can never again legally own or exhibit captive wild or exotic animals. Following a lawsuit filed by us and concerned citizens, PETA and The Wild Animal Refuge in Springfield, Colorado, rescued the remaining captive animals at Waccatee: a llama, six emus, and two bears (named Care Bear and Shortcake).
- Slurpee was infested with fleas and ear mites, anemic, malnourished, and petrified with fear, but after some veterinary care and TLC, the little cat is thriving. He has since been adopted, and this timid kitten now spends his days cuddling, wrestling, and following after his new feline friend.
- Charik and Graf were rescued from battle-torn Ukraine, thanks to support from the GCF. PETA Germany and Animal Rescue Kharkiv (ARK) will help both dogs find loving families once they have fully recovered.
- After an entire mobile home park was deserted and then caught fire, PETA fieldworkers found that more than homes had been left behind when Fuego the tabby cat trotted out from the debris to greet them. He was brought to the Sam Simon Center (PETA’s Norfolk, Virginia, headquarters), where he was provided with comfort and care.
- In Ukraine, Hamlet was struck by flying shrapnel and sustained wounds on his legs that began to fester as his health deteriorated. His guardian tearfully hugged her best friend goodbye and pled with PETA-supported ARK to save his life and find him a loving, safe home far from the war.
- When PETA’s fieldworkers met Milo, he was struggling to breathe. Like so many homeless kittens born into a harsh life outdoors, he had contracted an upper respiratory infection. Now he has made a full recovery and enjoys playing fetch—he loves to pick up his toys and carry them in his mouth, but don’t expect him to give them back anytime soon.
- Our Community Animal Project helped thousands of animals in 2023 in Virgina and South Carolina, including by helping to find homes for Fuego, Simon, and others; performing their free or low-cost spay/neuter surgeries; and providing them with food, water, and TLC.
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How You Can Help Us Rescue More Animals in 2024
PETA’s GCF helps power animal rescue work, spay/neuter programs, educational campaigns, and more in countries on nearly every continent. You can help us rescue more animals like Hamlet, Care Bear, and Charik by making a donation today:
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