PETA AU Global 2021 Issue 2

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Praying for Change

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It bears repeating: Liberate animals!

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Gray C. put posters in her car windows protesting Starbucks’ upcharge on vegan milk and parked it in front of one of the chain’s locations, leaving leaflets under her windshield wipers for passersby to take.

Tracy R. and her son, Jack, protested KFC when he was just days old – 17 years later, they’re celebrating the restaurant’s vegan chicken together! Simon K. pays for an extra order of a vegan item at any fast food outlet and asks the cashier to give it to the next car or customer. Gaby S.’s “Vegan Strong” shirt sparked a conversation with a postal worker who said he wanted to go vegan “someday.” Gaby made someday that day , by buying him vegan sweet and spicy wings. Tattoo art: © Seth Wood • Background: © iStock.com/Nayanba Jadeja • Woman praying: © iStock.com/Prostock-Studio • Trisha Bickerton: © Trisha Bickerton • Refrigerator: © Eloísa Trinidad and Power Malu/IG: @OverthrowCommunityFridge • Torn paper: © iStock.com/yasinguneysu Chrissy W. discovered that if you ask, Billy Graham prayer line staff at 1-888-388-2683 will pray with you for animals, including coyotes killed for the trim on Canada Goose jackets and alpacas hit, kicked, tied down, and mutilated for fleece sold by Anthropologie and Free People. Pay It Forward

c I always take a bag when I go for a walk on the beach or boulevard and use it to collect fishing tackle, balloons, straws, broken glass, and other trash that can injure and kill animals. c When I treat myself to a luxury – whether a vacation or a soy latte – I think of those who have no luxuries at all and pay an “animal tax” by donating 10% of the cost to PETA or to an open-admission animal shelter. (Visit PETAAU.vg/Tax .)

Spread the word about bean curd with this tofu rrific candle.

Check, Please! Money talks – and so do

PETA’s exclusive leaping bunny necklace shows everyone you’re a bunny’s honey.

c I pop into hotel lobbies and travel centers to replace SeaWorld leaflets with animal rights literature. c When someone asks why I’m vegan, instead of mumbling that it’s my “personal choice,” I explain that I’ve seen inside a slaughterhouse and won’t pay for such cruelty to animals. Then, I help the person along the same path by giving them vegan food to try. c I call in to radio shows and share facts about animal suffering in laboratories and the food, clothing, and entertainment industries. I also mention modern, humane choices, and urge listeners to boycott zoos, shop cruelty-free, or take other specific actions.

Laura S.’ checks, which are personalized

with animal rights messages. (See more at PETA.org/Checks .)

Spread the News

It’s the cat’s meow: Sponsor a cat or dog rescued by PETA’s fieldworkers.

People browsing magazine racks get food for thought, courtesy of the PETA vegan starter kits that Kara W. places prominently in front. Kristi F. and Stacy D. spotted these stickers warning people what they’re really paying for. Brianna M. started a virtual book club during the pandemic. She chose Animalkind (available at PETAAU.vg/Animalkind ) for club members to read and discuss with each other over Zoom. “Feed two birds with one scone.” Amanda S. uses her body ink to make people think. For more animal friendly idioms, visit PETAAU.vg/WordsMatter . Advocate from home, as this family did, by posting a sign in a window or on your lawn, door, or mailbox – or by writing in chalk on the sidewalk.

Turn dog walks into dog talks with an awareness-raising PETA tee and yard sign.

Rush In

The most talked-about play during the Texas A&M–Mississippi State game was made by two women who raced onto the field to protest Texas A&M’s cruel muscular dystrophy experiments on dogs.

Eloísa T. and Power M. set up a vegan community refrigerator outside a boxing gym in New York that was visited by 500 people in just one week. Cool Idea

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Anybody can be a spider savior with PETA’s humane bug catcher.

High school student Presley H. argued against experimenting on animals for a National Institutes of Health neuroethics essay contest, writing, “Science cannot progress if we continue to rely on outdated, unethical methods.” Library science student Robyn W. created an annotated

(Hair) Raising Funds

bibliography of Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation and a LibGuide (an online library resource) primer on animal rights. And if animal issues are in the newspaper, you can bet Joel F. will write about them! He has reached thousands of people with his published letters to the editor.

Trisha B. posted a video on YouTube of having all of her hair shaved off to raise money for PETA UK’s work!

Make two dogs’ day: When you buy a BOGO toy, another toy is donated to a dog in need.

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