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Our stickers have gone wild! Order a free Vegan Sticker Action Pack, and we’ll send you some of our favorite stickers—including our “vegetarian hotline” decal. These are the perfect things to stick on the pay phones of animal-friendly businesses.
Donate Animal Rights Videos to Video Rental Stores
People often tell us that watching this video convinced them to go vegetarian. Ask your local video store if it will accept a free copy of “Meet Your Meat” and then make it available as a free rental. If the store agrees, e-mail your address to us, and we’ll send you the video so you can give it to the store.
Promote Veganism With Every Gift You Give
Even nonvegans appreciate vegetarian cookbooks, vegan chocolates, and fancy cruelty-free clothing. Here are a just a few great gift ideas:
- Shop the PETA Mall, where every purchase helps animals.
- Give a gift certificate that’s good for use at a local vegetarian-friendly restaurant.
- Order delicious vegan chocolates from Chocolate Decadence and mouth-watering vegan baked goods from Simple Treats. (Try the Mint Double Fudge Brownies.)
- Compile your favorite vegan recipes into a cookbook or buy one of our favorite cookbooks.
- Give a vegetarian gift basket that’s full of either delicious animal-friendly food items or cruelty-free cosmetics. Check out Pangea’s beautifully arranged baskets.
 Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve With Pro-Animal T-Shirts and Buttons
Today, compassion is in fashion, and the PETA Catalog has plenty of pro-animal attire that will help you make a statement every time you leave the house. Don’t squander an opportunity to speak out—the animals who are abused on factory farms need your support more than your local sports team does, so give your old sports T-shirts to charity and stock up on animal rights gear instead. Check out PETA’s selection of apparel and our pro-vegetarian buttons. You can find some of our other favorite items at Animal Rights Stuff.
Ride in Style With Animal Rights Bumper Stickers
If you’re like many Americans, you spend a large portion of your day on the road. Hundreds of people see the back of your car each month as you drive in front of them or sit next to them in traffic. Give your fellow motorists something to think about with a bumper sticker that advocates for animals. Our catalog carries great stickers like “Boycott KFC” and “Proud to Be a Vegetarian American.”
View our full selection of bumper stickers.
Advertise Our Free Vegetarian Starter Kit in Your E-Mail Signature or on Your Web Site
Are you addicted to e-mail? Consider using this in your e-mail signature: “Receive a FREE vegetarian starter kit and a FREE DVD at VegetarianStarterKit.com.”
You can also display our “Free Vegetarian Starter Kit” banner on your Web site! To download the banner on your PC, just position your mouse over the image, right click on it, and select the “Save image as” option. On a Macintosh computer, position your mouse over the image, click and hold the image, and then select the “Save as” option. Please encourage all your friends to place this banner on their Web sites, too!
View all of PETA's vegetarian Web banners.
Leave a Trail of Animal Rights Leaflets Wherever You Go
Leave a trail of animal rights leaflets wherever you go. Carry literature with you and leave it in public places—at the gym, at the laundromat, in waiting rooms, on the bus, in the seat pockets of trains and planes, at your place of worship, and in dressing rooms, bookstores, and coffee shops. If someone asks you about your animal rights T-shirt, don’t just tell them why you’re vegan—give them a vegetarian starter kit that they can read later (we’ll send you a stack to carry in your backpack or briefcase). Tack our “Vegetarian Celebrity” leaflets and “Free Vegetarian Starter Kit” cards on every bulletin board you pass. It can’t get any easier!
Are you low on cash but need more leaflets? Check out PETALiterature.com and then use our online form to send us your name, your postal address, and a list of the materials that you need and how you’ll use them, and we’ll send you the materials for free.
 Encourage Restaurants to Add More Vegan Options to Their Menus
Restaurants across the country are tapping into the demand for vegetarian menu items by serving more cruelty-free foods. Major national chains like Burger King and Ruby Tuesday now have veggie burgers on their menus, and delicious faux meat dishes and other tasty vegan entrées are beginning to appear on other menus everywhere.
The next time you’re in a restaurant that lacks animal-friendly choices, politely ask the manager if he or she would consider offering vegan foods. Be sure to mention why offering vegan foods is important: A vegan option is a good way to reach out to health-conscious and vegetarian diners, people who are allergic to eggs or dairy products, or anyone with religious dietary restrictions. Also, be sure to direct the manager to VegCooking.com for recipes and tips on how to work with vegan products.
In Washington, D.C., local volunteers have worked with more that a dozen restaurants to add vegan items to their menus. Faux chicken sandwiches, spaghetti with soy meatballs, burritos with veggie-burger crumbles, faux chicken marsala, soft-serve vegan ice cream, soy cheese pizzas, veggie “chicken” teriyaki, veggie dogs, and burgers are just a few of the new vegan items seen on these menus!
If you know a restaurant that you think may be interested in increasing its vegetarian offerings, please send us an e-mail message with the name and contact information of the restaurant manager. Please remember to always be polite and friendly when speaking with restaurant managers (or anyone else, for that matter) about vegetarianism.
If you’re looking for delicious, healthy recipes, you should head to VegCooking.com, where you’ll find hundreds of tasty and humane dishes—there are options for every occasion!
Enclose an Animal Rights Leaflet With Every Bill Payment You Send
This is about as simple as it gets when it comes to animal rights advocacy. Every time you pay a bill through the mail, simply include a pro-vegetarian leaflet with your payment—we recommend our “Vegetarian Celebrity” leaflet, which is by far the most successful vegetarian leaflet we’ve ever used. Using PETA checks is another great way to make a statement when paying bills. These checks have great animal designs, and each set that you purchase supports PETA.
Are you low on cash but need more leaflets? Check out PETALiterature.com, and then send us an e-mail message with your name, your postal address, and a list of the materials that you need and how you’ll use them, and we’ll send you the materials for free.
Turn Your Refrigerator Into an Animal Rights ‘Billboard’
Magnets, posters, and stickers on your refrigerator tell guests that there are no dead animals in your kitchen. Check out some of PETA’s pro-animal magnets by visiting the PETA Catalog.
Get other cool magnets at Animal Rights Stuff.
Distribute PETA’s Vegetarian Hotline ‘Business Cards’
Order a stash of PETA’s vegetarian hotline “business cards” and leave a few wherever you go—health clubs, waiting rooms, laundromats, health food stores, restaurants, hotels, etc. Ask local doctors, coffee shop managers, and bookstore owners to place a stack of the cards on their counters. If they agree, call us at 1-888-VEG-FOOD, and we’ll send you a free, unlimited supply of cards and some snazzy cardholders! Simply give us your name, your postal address, and your telephone number, and tell us how many cards and cardholders you need and where they will be placed.
 Request Vegan Foods at the Grocery Store
Your local grocery store manager can’t read your mind—tell the manager that you want more humane options in the grocery aisles. Whether you want faux chicken nuggets or Tofutti Cuties, just ask! Check out some of the new cruelty-free products that you can ask your local grocery store to carry.
Ask Your Local Coffee Shop to Carry Soy Milk
Everyone is switching to soy—if your local coffee shop doesn’t offer it, ask to speak with the manager. Mention that people are switching to soy milk because it’s good for human health, and it’s good for animals. Point out that even Starbucks promotes soy milk as a healthy, Earth-friendly, and delicious choice.
Do you have friends who still believe that cow’s milk is good for people? If so, your friends apparently haven’t heard about the studies that show a link between dairy products and breast cancer, prostate cancer, and diabetes. As if that weren’t bad enough, the dairy industry is notoriously cruel to the cows it exploits. Order “What’s Wrong With Dairy?” leaflets and distribute them to your friends and relatives. Find out why drinking soy milk is so much healthier than drinking cow’s milk.
Learn more about how Starbucks promotes soy milk.
Use Your Connections
If you belong to a civic club or other community organization, encourage your group to offer vegan choices at all its functions. If you belong to a house of worship, tell your congregation about the exploitation and abuse of animals on factory farms and show the “Meet Your Meat” video at congregational gatherings. Be sure to send letters about animal rights to the editors of all the magazines to which you subscribe (especially if the magazines feature fur advertisements). Ask local businesses to display animal rights literature and vegetarian “business cards.” There are so many things you can do in your daily life that won’t take much time or effort but that will make a huge difference for animals. Read our suggestions for effective advocacy.
 Ask Local Humane Societies and Animal Shelters to Serve Vegetarian Meals at Their Fundraisers
There is no doubt that good shelters make a huge, positive difference for companion animals in need. (If you haven’t thanked your local shelter employees and volunteers recently, please do so!) Shelters frequently hold fundraisers to sustain their important operations. Please encourage your local shelter to sell only vegan and vegetarian foods at these events so that all animals are protected. The two programs below may be able to help you in your efforts. You can also direct shelter employees to tasty vegan recipes at VegCooking.com.
Animal Place’s ‘Food for Thought’ Campaign
California sanctuary Animal Place operates a “Food for Thought” campaign, which “encourage(s) SPCAs and humane societies to become consistent in their compassion and behavior toward all species.” The site asks all animal welfare organizations to “adopt a vegetarian or vegan policy for all their events.” For more information about how to implement this program in your area, visit the Animal Place Web site.
Compassion Over Killing’s ‘Campaign Humane’
Washington, D.C., animal rights group Compassion Over Killing maintains a community program called “Campaign Humane,” which helps “humane societies, animal shelters, sanctuaries, and rescue groups extend their compassion not only to dogs and cats, but to the animals killed for human consumption as well.” Organizations may endorse “Campaign Humane” by pledging to serve only vegetarian meals at all of their functions. They may also place “Campaign Humane” endorsement posters in their offices. To date, 57 organizations have endorsed “Campaign Humane.” Find out how you can help.
Spread the Word with PETA’s ‘Vegan Recordings’
Your friends and loved ones may not have time to read a lot of literature or watch a video, but they probably listen to music while they are driving to work or riding the bus. Give them one of our recordings about veganism to listen to instead—you may change their lives and help save the lives of thousands of animals. We don’t copyright anything, so feel free to make copies of our CDs and cassettes to pass along to all your family and friends.
‘Vegetarianism in a Nutshell’
Recorded by PETA’s director of vegan campaigns, Bruce Friedrich, “Vegetarianism in a Nutshell” explains the ethical argument for veganism in a short and accessible manner. Bruce discusses the cruelty, the human misery, the environmental degradation, and the health problems caused by the consumption of animal products and makes a powerful argument that a vegan diet is the only acceptable choice for ethical people. Purchase a copy of PETA’s “Vegetarianism in a Nutshell.” You can also read the essay and download the audio recording (part 1, and part 2) for free.
‘Christianity and Vegetarianism’
With powerful analysis of the cruelty, the environmental degradation, and the health problems associated with meat production and consumption, Fr. John Dear, S.J., makes the case that Christians should be vegetarians. Dear states, “I am convinced that society will look back on human arrogance and cruelty toward other animals with the same horror and disbelief that we presently reserve for atrocities committed against human beings.” Purchase a copy of “Christianity and Vegetarianism” or download the audio recording for free.
‘Judaism and Vegetarianism’
Dr. Richard Schwartz argues that adhering to Jewish values means following a vegetarian diet. Dr. Schwartz discusses Judaism’s requirements that its followers protect their own health, respect the environment, show compassion for animals, promote peace, and eradicate poverty, and he shows how each of these requirements is incompatible with any diet that relies on animal products. Purchase a copy of “Judaism and Vegetarianism” or download the audio recording for free.
Speak Loudly So Everyone Can Hear Your Voice
Within earshot of other shoppers in the grocery store checkout line, talk with a friend about the television special you saw on factory farming. Have loud conversations on the subway or on the bus about how great it is to be a vegetarian or a vegan. Be sure to carry animal rights literature with you so that you can give people instant information when they ask you questions. People eavesdrop all the time—why not take advantage of that to help animals?
 Ask Your Friends and Family to Watch Our DVDs
“Chew on This” and “Meet Your Meat” are now available together on a new DVD. Ask your friends and family members to watch these extremely powerful documentaries with you, and tell them that it will take less than 20 minutes. Order a free copy of this DVD.
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