What PETA Accomplished in 2025
It’s been a monumental year of accomplishments for animals worldwide, and we’ve worked tirelessly to fight for every single animal languishing in a laboratory, on a factory farm, in a marine park, and other horrific situations.
Watch our 90-second end-of-year video to see just some of this year’s highlights:
Helping Animals in Laboratories
One of PETA’s highest priorities is ending experiments on animals, and 2025 brought many victories. PETA scientists helped spare hundreds of animals from an archaic chemical test that, under EU law, must only be conducted as a last resort.
We took huge strides towards ending horrific near-drowning experiments. The forced swim test – during which experimenters place mice and other small animals into a cylinder of water, forcing them to swim for their lives – was ditched at the University of Bristol after PETA flooded the university with more than 100,000 letters and appeals from influential celebrities and politicians. The University of Bath soon followed suit.
PETA is also working to end cruel and ineffective sepsis experiments on rodents. And the University of Kent became the first institution to confirm to PETA that it will not use animals in any future sepsis research.
Following input from PETA scientists, the UK government took a historic first step toward ending cruel experiments on animals by publishing the world’s first strategy to end all types of experiments on animals.
Putting a Stop to Mega-Farms
In our work to save animals from being abused for food, our vigorous campaigning stopped development plans for two intensive mega-farms in Norfolk, sparing around 48,000 pigs and 6.7 million birds a year from a life of misery and a terrifying death. In Suffolk, PETA helped scrap plans for a massive chicken factory farm – thanks to 24,000 compassionate supporters who urged the council not to go ahead with it. An egg farm in Maidstone was also rejected thanks to PETA and our supporters.
Mega farms are vast factory farms that confine up to hundreds of thousands of animals at a time – monstrosities that we will continue to fight. We also launched BritishFarming.org, which raises awareness of the cruelty of animal farming.
Restaurant Ditches Foie Gras
Following a PETA campaign, Winchester restaurant Margaux Lounge dropped foie gras from its menu, joining a growing number of UK eateries are turning their backs on this horrific ‘food’ for which ducks and geese are force-fed grain to swell their livers up to 10 times their natural size livers.
Dairy-Free Milk Got Even More Mainstream
After a short-lived campaign, we successfully urged GAIL’s to stop charging extra for vegan milk. From oat flat whites to soya lattes, more people than ever are choosing cruelty-free and delicious plant milks.
Car Interiors Ditched Leather
The automotive industry’s days of using animal skin are numbered: vegan materials are kinder, more sustainable, and often far better quality. Following conversations with PETA and growing consumer demand, Renault committed to eliminating the use of animal leather interiors across its entire range of vehicles by the end of 2025. The French car company will use recycled textiles and recycled plastic waste in place of skin – signalling a new, kinder, more eco-conscious era for the company.
Exposing the Cruel Wool Industry
We’re exposing the cruelty animals endure for the fashion industry and encouraging designers and consumers to shun animal skins. We released a new exposé into farms and shearing sheds that supply ZQ-certified wool, which claims to be “the world’s most ethical wool brand,” revealing workers beating and kicking terrified sheep, stomping and standing on their necks, and violently throwing the animals down chutes.
PETA Launched Plant Wool Month!
From this year on, November will be known as Plant Wool Month! PETA launched its first-ever month dedicated to kind and sustainable plant wools – like bamboo, linen, cotton, and even orange peel and potato! We are urging brands to stop supporting the horrific wool industry – where sheep are beaten, cut, and killed – and instead choose one of the many high-quality, planet-friendly plant wools.
The Fashion World Moves Away from Animal Skins
The British Fashion Council, which organises London Fashion Week, banned wild-animal skins from its catwalks. Ibiza Fashion Festival also took a stand against the gruesome feather industry by banning real feathers from its runways. Many corporations and decision-makers have recognised that animals should not be exploited for entertainment, thanks to PETA’s advocacy.
Cracking Down on Animals Used for Entertainment
After hearing from more than 12,000 PETA supporters about the abuse camels and horses face when forced to give tourists rides at the Pyramids in Egypt, UK-based travel company Aero Travels dropped camel and horse rides from its tours. Travel companies Expat Explore, Flash Pack, and Red Savannah also confirmed that they will not offer or promote camel rides or horsedrawn carriages.
Helping Animals in Ukraine
This year, in war-torn Ukraine, PETA’s Global Compassion Fund helped rescue more than 22,000 donkeys, dogs, cats, horses, goats, pigs, ducks, rabbits, and chickens, and provided monthly food deliveries to feed around 2,500 hungry animals each day. A drone defence system – financed by PETA’s Global Compassion Fund – helped protect a van full of rescued animals from a spray of bullets.
Rescuing Animals from Critical Situations
PETA’s Global Compassion Fund supported the rescue of animals in critical situations:
- Seven camels in Baramulla, India, who were reportedly being sold for sacrifice ahead of Eid.
- A sick and injured puppy named Carla, who was abandoned in freezing temperatures in Romania
- Promise, a homeless dog in the Philippines.
Spay and Neuter Programmes
PETA entities are running robust spay/neuter programs around the world:
- Clinics supported by the Global Compassion Fund spayed and neutered 257 dogs and cats in Peru.
- In Mexico, 655 dogs and cats were spayed and neutered, including Baja, a chihuahua seized from a neglectful owner.
- PETA Asia helped spay and neuter thousands of cats and dogs this year, as many as 600 animals during a single clinic!
Other Wins from PETA’s Global Compassion Fund
PETA’s Global Compassion Fund supports work around the world to help people better understand animals.
- In India, Animal Rahat’s Sangli Sanctuary hosted an all-female visitors’ day. Women groomed bullocks, horses, and camels and saw them living as they should: free of tight tethers, socialising with their friends, and enjoying plenty of food and water.
- In Romania, PETA Germany is working closely with authorities and politicians to change laws, expose cruelty to animals, and establish ethical management of homeless animals.
- In Petra, Jordan, where animals are forced to work at the ancient ruins, the Global Compassion Fund helped the Petra Veterinary Clinic provide free veterinary care for [###][PF24.1] animals. For many of these animals, it was the only medical care they ever received.
- In Maharashtra, India, the annual “Chinchali Fair” can involve days on the road as villagers push bullocks and ponies to exhaustion. This year, with help from the Global Compassion Fund, Animal Rahat provided four animal rest areas and veterinary treatment camps along the route. Vets and staff treated 790 animals on the journey there and 810 on the way home, many of whom suffered from painful lameness due to bumpy, rocky roads, dehydration, and muscle tears from overloaded carts.
Please help support PETA’s Global Compassion Fund to help animals in critical situations all over the world.
PETA’s Christmas Advert Reminded Viewers Who They’re Eating
Just in time for the holidays, thousands of cinema goers across the UK were encouraged to have a vegan Christmas through our big screen advert that showed the individuals behind beef Wellington centrepieces.
We Stood Up for Animals All Year
PETA continued our headline-grabbing actions this year – inspiring the public to stop and think about how animals are used and abused all over the country.
We grabbed attention for crabs and lobsters by appealing to the annual Cromer Crab and Lobster Festival to replace the World Pier Crabbing Championships with Crab Appling Championships, where no terrified crabs are yanked out of their homes.
After a baby orca was born at Loro Parque, a cruel marine park in Tenerife, Spain, a PETA supporter and her baby dressed as orcas outside the TUI Holiday Store in Cardiff to blast the travel company for selling tickets to the abusement park.
We continued to remind consumers that the only skin they should wear is their own. On London’s Regent Street, we reminded Coach store customers that each skin bag comes from a once-living animal and highlighted the cruelty of cashmere at Burberry’s flagship store.
Find photos of our other actions in the gallery below:
See You in 2026!
PETA was bold, fearless, and determined to improve the lives of animals in 2025 – let’s make next year even bigger! Thank you to each and every who joined our campaigns, refused to look away or stay silent while animals suffered and helped secure all these victories for the animals – we couldn’t have done it without you.
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