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10 Simple Things
(that you can do to help stop the suffering of animals.)
1) Buy Cruelty Free
2) Don't buy from Pet Stores
3) Don't visit Animal Circuses!
4) Be fashionable without cruelty
5) Teach kids kindness to animals
6) Object to dissection at school
7) Report Animal Abuse
8) Get your pets desexed
9) Go Vegan!
10) Join Animal Activism Queensland
1) Buy Cruelty Free
Many household items are tested on animals. Animals die painfully every day through cruel animal tests for chemicals, household cleaning products, cosmetics and more.
Luckily, there are a many household products on the market found in most supermarkets that are free from animal testing. Animal Test-Free products are easily identifiable* and are often more friendly on the environment (due to ethically conscious producers). Read the fine print and buy cruelty free!
*Products that ARE tested on animals will not indicate so on the packaging. Refer to our list, rely on confirmation of animal test-free product packaging, or contact the manufacturer..
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2) Don't buy from Pet Stores
The overpopulation crisis of unwanted pets means that every day, innocent domestic animals are discarded and must be euthanased at animal shelters that are filled to capacity.
Animals kept in pet stores often live in confined spaces and suffer fear and boredom from lack of physical and mental stimulus.
Adopt a companion animal from an animal refuge, gain a loving friend and save a life! See Say No To Animals In Pet Shops for more information.
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3) Don't visit Animal Circuses!
Behind the costumes and dazzling lights, animals used in entertainment often live their lives in cramped, alien environments, and suffer abuse through violent training and disciplinary techniques.
Wild animals are at home ONLY in the wild. Many cities throughout the world have banned animal circuses, while the best circuses in the world rely solely on human talent such as Cirque du Soleil.
Visit www.circuses.com for more information.
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4) Be fashionable without cruelty
Each year fashion changes, some years rabbit fur or leather might be 'in'. Fur and leather are integral to the profitability of the factory farming industry, possibly the biggest perpetrators of cruelty in the world. Farmed fur animals are confined to small cages all their lives and then anally electrocuted. Leather for shoes, handbags etc, is the leftovers of meat production.
See Cows are Cool for more info
You don't have to condone suffering to be stylish! Many non-animal options now exist.
Visit Vegan Wares and Roots of Compassion
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5) Teach kids kindness to animals
Too often children grow up without having learnt that animals have feelings and suffer just like us. Teaching your kids to be kind to animals at a young age will help them develop compassion towards human beings too in later life. Encourage your child's school to teach about both sides of the animals story - animals are more than just food - and challenge the perception that the rest of life on earth is there for our use.
Visit Compassionate Kidz and Share the World (teachers kits)
The QLD RSPCA also offer guest speakers on Humane Education for your school
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6) Object to dissection at school
If you're a high school or university student you need to know that you don't have to dissect animals to pass. You have a right to conscientiously object to anything you are morally opposed to and the teacher must provide learning alternatives.
Contact the Human Education representative of Animals Australia for help
Read "An Interview with Andrew Knight" - a vet student who fought Murdoch University to be compassionate.
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7) Report Animal Abuse
If you see cruelty - report it. The RSPCA states that they will only investigate a farm/circus/rodeo/ekka or other animal related event if visitors complain. Don't just get angry, get active!
The RSPCA cruelty complaints line: 1300 852 188
Cruelty to animals is often a sign that domestic violence is occurring in a family. Report domestic violence and animal cruelty to police.
Visit and Australian Feminists for Animal Rights
and the Humane Society US: First Strike Initiative
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8) Get your pets desexed
The RSPCA destroys tens of thousands of cats and dogs every year. get your pets desexed and know you are not contributing to unwanted and potentially dumped pets.
The RSPCA now has a mobile desexing unit. Visit the QLD RSPCA's site
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9) Go Vegan!
Going vegan is the most effective measure you can take in your every day life to help prevent suffering of animals, help the environment, fellow beings and help yourself!
visit www.goVeg.com for your FREE vegetarian starter kit!
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10) Join Animal Activism Queensland
it cost nothing and we will notify you by email of all our upcoming events so you can show your solidarity with our animal kin.
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