If you’ve read parts one, two, and three of this four-part series explaining how PETA is helping farmed animals, you know that we reach people by holding colorful demonstrations, hosting vegan food tastings, conducting informative interviews and workshops, unveiling star-studded advertisements, distributing provocative videos and helpful literature, posting shareable content on social media, and much more.

And that’s not all that PETA does to promote vegan living and save lives.

We also negotiate behind the scenes with major corporations and work with lawmakers to ensure that animal abusers are held accountable for their cruel actions.

Here are just a few of the long and involved projects that PETA has worked on in recent months to bring about historic change for animals:

• We added Dean Foods—which controls more than one-third of the fluid milk supply in the U.S.—and top-selling yogurt brand Chobani to the list of companies that we’ve persuaded to move away from cruel dehorning. As the only animal-protection group actively targeting the issue of dehorning, PETA has already persuaded numerous top companies—including General Mills (which owns Yoplait and Häagen-Dazs, among other brands), Dannon, Baskin-Robbins, Harris Teeter, and Kroger—to pressure their dairy suppliers to end this cruel mutilation.

• Following PETA’s public requests—and regular behind-the-scenes communications—Ben & Jerry’s released a delicious vegan ice cream.

• We continue to work to stop—and overturn—seemingly unconstitutional “ag-gag” laws, which make it illegal to record video on farms and in slaughterhouses. The state of Idaho was ordered to pay PETA and other plaintiffs nearly $250,000 in attorneys’ fees following a court case. We have also filed lawsuits to overturn similar laws in North Carolina, Utah, and Wyoming. A New York Times editorial condemning “ag-gag” laws included a link to PETA’s lawsuit against North Carolina’s inhumane law.

PETA’s campaigns are also helping more and more consumers understand that there’s no such thing as humanely produced meat, milk, or eggs, and we’re working successfully to increase vegan options in schools, supermarkets, restaurants, and more. As this series illustrates, PETA’s work to help animals used for food—in addition to animals used and abused for clothing, experimentation, entertainment, and other purposes—is extensive and multifaceted. You can help simply by going vegan and supporting PETA’s lifesaving work. Thank you for caring!