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Other highlights of the organization's campaigns include:
*'''1983''': successfully stopped a [[United States Department of Defense]] "wound lab" which had planned to fire [[missile]]s into dogs and goats.
*'''1984''': released more than 70 hours of videotape shot in the [[University of Pennsylvania]] head-injury laboratory, showing the treatment of [[primate]]s there. The Secretary of Health and Human Services subsequently cut off all funding to the laboratory and the experiments were stopped. In the same year, a Texas [[slaughterhouse]] to which 30,000 horses were taken each year from all over the United States, then allegedly left to starve outside without shelter, was closed after a PETA campaign.
*'''1985''': revealed details of the treatment of dogs at the City of Hope laboratory in California. The government fined the center $11,000 and suspended more than $1,000,000 in federal funding.
*'''1986''': stopped the total-isolation confinement of [[chimpanzee]]s at a Maryland research laboratory called SEMA. Dr. [[Jane Goodall]] called her tour of the SEMA lab “the worst experience of my life.”
*'''1987''': stopped a plan by Cedars-Sinai, California’s largest hospital to ship stray dogs from [[Mexico]] into California for experiments. In the same year, they launched the Compassion Campaign to fight cosmetics and personal-care product testing on animals. By 1989, PETA had persuaded nearly 500 companies, including Mary Kay and Amway, to go cruelty-free.
*'''1988''': secret video shot inside [[East Carolina University]] and distributed by PETA showed an inadequately anesthetized dog undergoing surgery during a classroom exercise. The university subsequently declared a moratorium on the use of live animals.
*'''1990''': exposed the alleged beating of [[orangutan]]s by [[Las Vegas]] entertainer Bobby Berosini, who used the primates in a nightclub act. His captive-bred wildlife permit was suspended by the U.S. Department of the Interior, and his show closed. Four years later, the Nevada Supreme Court unanimously ruled in PETA’s favor and overturned a Las Vegas jury’s $3.2 million defamation award to Berosini. In the same year, the Caring Consumer Campaign succeeded in persuading [[Estée Lauder]] and 40 other companies to halt [[animal testing]].
*'''1991''': the [[Silver Spring monkeys]] case receives a unanimous, positive ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, the first time that a case involving animals in laboratories had been heard by the court.
*'''1992''': PETA undercover investigators revealed the details of U.S. [[foie gras]] production, documenting the force-feeding of geese. Police subsequently conducted the first-ever raid in the United States, and possibly in the world, on a factory farm, and many restaurants removed foie gras from their menus. In the same year, PETA testified at the first-ever U.S. congressional hearing on the use of animals in circuses, rodeos, films, and other types of entertainment.
*'''1993''': General Motors gave PETA a statement of assurance that it had ended the use of live pigs and baboons in crash tests after a PETA campaign. In the same year, L’Oréal, the world’s largest cosmetics company, signed a worldwide ban on animal testing, following a PETA campaign. PETA also revealed details of scabies experiments using dogs and rabbits at [[Wright State University]]. The university was subsequently charged with violating the Animal Welfare Act, and the experiments ended.
*'''1994''': Buckshire Corporation, a laboratory animal breeding facility, was charged with violations of the Animal Welfare Act after a 38-page complaint was submitted by PETA. A furrier is charged with cruelty to animals following the release of PETA videotapes showing a California fur rancher electrocuting a [[chinchilla]] by clipping wires to the animal’s genitals. It was the first time in U.S. history that a furrier was charged with cruelty.
*'''1999''': a [[North Carolina]] [[grand jury]] handed down the first-ever felony cruelty indictments against pig-farm workers after an undercover PETA investigator videotaped workers beating lame pigs with wrenches, and skinning and dismembering a conscious pig.
*'''2000''': successfully campaigned for 11 months against [[McDonalds]] to implement more stringent welfare standards.
*'''2001''': launched a successful campaign against [[Burger King]]. After months of vocal public pressure, the fast-food giant agreed to implement the welfare standards demanded by PETA. These standards increased the amount of cage space given to laying hens and promised unannounced inspections of slaughterhouses, among other things. [http://www.murderking.com/release.html] [http://www.bk.com/CompanyInfo/onlinepressroom/index.aspx] In this same year, the group launched a very public, but unsuccessful campaign to have the [[University of South Carolina]] change its mascot from the Gamecock. The group contended that the name promoted cock fighting, but the school stood firm and kept the mascot name, saying that cock fighting had not been legal in South Carolina for more than a century, and the mascot was a representation of the fighting power of a gamecock, not indicative of any promotion of cockfighting.
*'''2005''': PETA sued [[Feld Entertainment]] (producer of [[Ringling Brothers|Ringling circus]] and Disney on ice) saying Feld ran a spying operation on the PETA organization run by an ex-CIA employee. [http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/09/circus.spies.ap/index.html]
==Campaigns==
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