Did you know that many of the day-to-day decisions we make can help reduce the suffering of animals? By adopting simple animal-friendly choices, and refusing to financially support animal-abusing industries, we can lodge our most important vote against animal cruelty, and show others how easy it is to lead a compassionate lifestyle.

At the Supermarket

• Lodge your vote against animal cruelty every time you shop. Don’t buy factory farmed products. Instead try one of the many delicious mock-meats or other vegetarian alternatives—such as mock bacon, meatless schnitzel, veggie sausages and tempeh—available at most supermarkets.
• If you eat eggs, avoid buying cage eggs, which come from battery hen farms where stressed birds are condemned to tiny cages, unable to express any natural behaviours or even spread one wing for their entire 'productive' life. Always look for 'free range', or find a local supplier where you can verify the birds' living conditions.
• Encourage your supermarket manager to reduce their stock of factory-farmed meats and battery cage eggs in favour of more humane alternatives.
• Millions of animals suffer immensely in needless product testing experiments. Look for household cleaning products and cosmetics that are not tested on animals. For more details visit Choose Cruelty Free

Out and About

• Give people something to think about at the traffic lights: slap a bumper sticker on your car!
• Or, wear your message on your sleeve.
• Look up the telephone numbers of your local animal rescue centres, and keep these handy in case you encounter injured wildlife. If you find a dead or injured kangaroo or wallaby by the roadside, remember to check whether there is a joey in her pouch.

Entertainment

• Pick a family outing that is kind to animals. Avoid supporting events such as rodeos, animal circuses and horse races—which behind the scenes force animals into a life of suffering and intense confinement. Try visiting an animal-free circus, farm sanctuary, or go to the movies or the museum instead!

What to Wear

• Did you know, that the fur industry relies upon people being unaware of how animals are reared and killed, and on people unknowingly buying real fur from cats, dogs, rabbits, foxes and other animals? Animals who are skinned for their pelts are often gassed, electrocuted, beaten, poisoned or have their necks broken. Some are even skinned alive. So always buy faux, or go fur-free for the animals!
• Millions of other animals who are farmed for human clothing (such as cows and sheep) are routinely subjected to painful procedures such as branding, de-horning, castration and mulesing, which are conducted without pain relief in order to keep costs low. Animal-free alternatives (such as fake leather, cotton, linen and synthetics) are not only often cheaper, they will mean less pain for animals too.

School / University Students

• If possible, pick a project topic that allows you to write about the suffering of animals at the hands of cruel animal industries. It's an easy way to spread the word of compassion among your teacher and classmates. Check out our campaigns and videos for ideas.
• Ask your school cafeteria to not purchase factory-farmed products and to provide cruelty-free options.
• Object to animal dissection. No State Education Department in Australia has made dissection compulsory, and there are many effective alternatives. Animals raised for dissection suffer greatly, and it is your right not to support this cruel and outdated practice.

Companion Animals

• Over 200,000 healthy but unwanted cats, dogs and other companion animals are killed in Australia each year because there aren't enough homes for them. You can save a life by rescuing a needy animal from your local animal shelter rather than buying one from a pet store.
• Have your companion animal is desexed. The pet overpopulation crisis is largely caused by people who have neglected to dexex their animals. This important procedure will save many lives (and deaths).