Maybe you’ve gone vegan, shed your animal skins, and made your bathroom cabinet cruelty-free. Great! But there’s still more to do. Animal rights is more than a personal choice – it’s a revolution, and animals are depending on us to get others on board. So print out this list, stick it on your refrigerator, and get started today!
My Vegan Goals
- Put an animal rights bumper sticker on the back of my car, rental car windows (they peel off), and laptop.
- Order PETA’s “Vegan Strong” T-shirts and wear them on my daily run – or daily coffee run.
- Order copies of PETA’s cruelty-free shopping guide, and leave them in drugstore cosmetics aisles.
- Contact tour companies and travel agencies that offer elephant rides and “swim with dolphins” programs, and ask them to stop.
- Throw a vegan dinner party and wow my meat-eating friends and family with great recipes, or treat them to a fabulous vegan meal out.
- Make a plan to help animals through my will.
- Leave 20 vegan starter kits in my doctor’s waiting room or in a magazine rack at the gym.
- Update my voice mail message with an animal rights fact.
- Stick PETA’s “warning labels” on packaged meat to remind people that they’re buying a decomposing corpse.
- Buy cruelty-free soap for my office restroom, stock the kitchen with vegan creamer, and tell my boss and coworkers why.
- Assemble an animal rescue car kit (or buy an inexpensive one from PETACatalog.com) to keep in my car so that I’m ready to help stray or injured animals.
- Share PETA videos from PETA.org/Facebook with my Facebook friends.
- Retweet PETA’s tweets and share other animal videos across all my social media channels.
- Take a gift basket of cruelty-free baby wash, shampoo, wipes, diaper cream, and sunscreen to a baby shower. For ideas go to PETA.org/BeautyWithoutBunnies.
- Leave PETA leaflets in library books and in magazines at the store.
- Use PETA’s “I Am Not a Nugget” water bottle from PETACatalog.com to send a message with every sip.
- Place “Fur Is Dead,” “Animal Testing Breaks Hearts,” or other stickers from PETA.org/Stickers in restroom stalls, in bus stops, on supermarket shelves, or in any other highly visible places.
- Donate two animal rights books to my local library or book box (PETACatalog.com has good options).
- Hold a yard sale or vegan bake sale and donate the proceeds to PETA’s spay/neuter program to sponsor an animal whose guardians can’t afford it.
- Order reusable tote bags with animal rights messages from PETACatalog.com to take with me every time I shop!
- Complain to management if I see cruel glue traps anywhere and suggest PETA.org/GlueTraps for humane rodent control methods.
This article originally appears in our magazine, PETA Global. To begin your subscription, become a PETA member today!