PETA entities have also made tremendous progress for monkeys, thanks to another eye-opening exposé that showed millions of people the chaining and abuse of captive monkeys forced to toil in Thailand’s coconut industry. To date, more than 30,000 global outlets have stopped selling Chaokoh coconut milk, a product of monkey labour – and recently, Umamicart became the first Asian retailer to make this compassionate decision.

When PETA Asia released horrifying footage this spring of snakes being inflated to death and crocodiles being crudely electroshocked for “luxury” exotic-skin accessories, activists around the world jumped into action for reptiles – online and on the streets. Costumed “crocodiles” crawled to the storefronts of luxury brands like Hermès – and to Paris Fashion Week! – protesting the violence inherent in the global exotic-skins trade.

After PETA UK released a shocking exposé documenting dismal conditions, mutilations, and corpses left to rot among living hens at farms supplying the Happy Egg Co, we urged authorities to hold the company accountable for misleading consumers about its treatment of hens. We’re making progress and showing diners that the only truly humane label is “vegan”: upon hearing from over 13,000 PETA supporters, community running group parkrun ended its sponsorship deal with the Happy Egg Co.

Thank you for powering PETA’s work to spare animals abuse and make the world a kinder place.

Very truly yours,

Mimi Bekhechi
Vice President, International Programmes