PETA AU Global 2020 Issue 2

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Rave Reviews I post positive reviews of restaurants

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A Compassionate Bookworm I belong to a book club, and we rotate who gets to choose what we read and discuss each month. When my turn came, I recommended Ingrid Newkirk’s new book, Animalkind (available at PETA.org.au/AnimalKindBook ). I hosted the meeting, providing guests with vegan snacks, and several people

of Heart When I found out a friend was fundraising for

with vegan options on Yelp and TripAdvisor, along with tantalizing photos of vegan meals. My favorite Chinese restaurant decided to feature my photo of its Kung Pao Tofu on its Yelp page with a caption noting that it’s vegan. – Rachel Stotts

the American Heart Association on Facebook, I explained that the association funds cruel animal experiments. She immediately changed

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the fundraiser to one benefitting a health charity that doesn’t fund animal tests! Learn more about animal testing and animal-friendly charities at PETA.org.au . – Amber Canavan

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Fur Is Tutu Cruel My mom and I have a holiday tradition of going to a Nutcracker

Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix shows off his copy of Animalkind .

signed PETA’s vegan pledge ( PETA.org.au/VeganPledge ).

Girl with Laptop: ©iStock.com/Prostock-Studio • Bouquet: ©iStock.com/egorr • Pig: ©iStock.com/Sonsedska

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Fight Canada Goose Cruelty I volunteered to help staff PETA’s information table at a concert in Los Angeles, and we collected more than 50 pages of signatures on Canada Goose petitions. ( PETA Global readers can sign the petition at PETA.org.au/CanadaGoose .) – Casey Kern

Reading Woman: ©iStock.com/Neustockimages • Heart: ©iStock.com/Ihor Biliavskyi

ballet performance, where we sometimes see people wearing fur. The last time we went, I wore a vintage blazer with the custom-embroidered message “Stop wearing animals,” which got a lot of attention and many compliments. – Ashley Frohnert

Driver’s Ed I’m a Lyft driver, and I

A Peacock Saves a Coyote Long Island Orchestrating for

keep a stack of PETA vegan starter kits in my car to hand out to my passengers who are interested in compassionate living. Order a supply at PETALiterature.com . – Jesse Johnson

Nature (LION) rescued a peacock who had been roaming a Long Island block for months, and I took him to a sanctuary. The reporter who covered the story was wearing a Canada Goose jacket with fur trim, so after the interview, I said, “I can tell you love animals,” and asked her if she knew how coyotes suffer in crippling traps. I told her the fur trim could be donated to wildlife rehabilitators, and she asked me to zip it off for her right then and there. – John Di Leonardo

‘Bridezilla’ Blasted

Care bnb I converted an apartment in my house to an animal-themed Airbnb rental. It’s advertised as vegan-friendly, and it’s stocked with vegan cookbooks, soy creamer, PETA literature, vegan starter kits, animal rights books, and more. It’s made an impact. One couple left a note in the guestbook saying that they are both going to try to go vegan. – Lori Kettler

When I learned that my bridal bestie planned to use live fish as centerpieces at her wedding reception, I threatened to stage a SeaWorld-worthy wedding boycott if she didn’t nix that idea. She went with flowers instead. – Maura McClure I

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Teach Kindness I’m a high school teacher, and I filmed I

myself catching and relocating a spider and posted the clip on social media with the caption “Be kind.

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Be a Savvy Traveler

Help an animal somewhere.” In response, over three dozen of my students filmed themselves helping spiders, bees, snakes, worms, and other animals! (Find humane bug catchers at PETA.org/Store .) – Dennis Yong

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I refuse to book trips through travel companies that offer donkey or horse rides in their itineraries – and I let them know that animals aren’t tourist taxis. – Jessica Wood

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Run for the Animals

I spread the vegan message to hundreds of other competitors and spectators at the Norfolk Harbor half marathon when I “amended” my race bib to read, “Go Vegan.” – Maria Reviello I

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Costumed Crusader I volunteered to dress up in a rat costume for a PETA protest at a University of Delaware Board of Trustees meeting, in which we urged the university to end Tania Roth’s cruel experiments on rats. The school president could not avoid seeing us the whole time he was giving his presentation, and as we were

Message on a Bottle Singer-songwriter Aiden James was on food stamps when he first went vegan, and it helped him stretch his limited funds further. But he stayed vegan for animals. He uses PETA’s water bottle (available at PETA.org/Store ) to send a message wherever he goes.

‘I’m Me, Not Meat’ I created a “vegan intervention flier” telling the story of a cow killed for beef and hand it out to people I see shopping at the meat counter in the supermarket. A friend took it a step further and actually taped the flier to a package of meat. – J.Z.

Never Be Silent I witnessed pigs being starved and left to die from serious injuries. I called PETA, and they contacted law enforcement and made sure the farm was investigated. You can report abuse by e-mailing Whistleblower@peta.org . – Anonymous

Fashion Statement I wore PETA’s #EndSpeciesism T-shirt (order yours at

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Buzz Cut Here’s a hair-raising idea: I shaved my head

leaving, a professor stopped to let us know that he agreed with us. It was exhilarating and took just a few hours out of my day, yet it made a difference for animals and inspired me to get more active. To sign up for exciting demo opportunities like these, go to PETA.org.au/ActionTeam . – Agustina Sosa

PETA.org/Store ) to a festival. I didn’t even make it out of the parking lot before people were asking me to tell them more about speciesism. – Ryan Hajek

with the words “GO VEGAN”! – Erika Wilkinson

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Take Action Now Get more activist ideas and opportunities by signing up for PETA’s Action Team at PETA.org/Action .

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