Go Vegan
The vast majority of animals that suffer and die in the United States are raised and killed for food: about 10 billion land animals and many more sea creatures. Farmed animals live in intensive confinement and suffer horrible abuse and neglect. By eliminating animal products from your diet, you will likely spare around 90 animals per year from this misery. Visit the Why Veg page on Veg-a-thon.com for links to more information on vegetarianism.

Don't Wear Animal Skins or Fibers
Animals suffer terribly for fur, leather and wool. Animals such as mink, sable and fox range for miles in the wild and carefully groom themselves. Yet on fur farms they linger alone in tiny filthy wire cages until they are killed by such painful methods as anal electrocution and gassing. Sometimes they are even skinned alive. See FurIsDead.com for more information.

Most wool comes from Australia, where sheep are subject to painful live mulesing: the cutting of chunks of skin from young sheeps' hindquarters without anesthesia to prevent flystrike, often unsuccessfully. At the end of their lives, most Australian sheep are packed onto ships in high densities and shipped to the Middle East. It's a grueling journey, which many of them do not survive. The slaughter that awaits them at their destination is far from "humane." See SaveTheSheep.com for more information.

Boycott Animal Acts and Exhibitions
Animals in Circuses are not willing performers. They are prisoners, coerced into doing tricks by violence and forced to endure grueling travel and inadequate care and conditions. Animals in many zoos also suffer from abuse and neglect, especially
roadside zoos. Many of the animals in circuses and zoos have been captured from the wild. Others are bred irresponsibly to keep a supply of cute babies for spectators, contributing to a surplus of unwanted older animals. See Circuses.com for more information.

Help Stop The Overpopulation of "Pets"
An estimated one million animals are killed each year for lack of homes. By adopting rather than buying animal companions and making sure they are spayed and
neutered, you can help stop the killing. See HelpingAnimals.com for more information.

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