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Today, we’re thrilled to share with you the remaining four sections of our brand-spankin’ new “100 Ways to Change the World for Animals”! For those of you who missed part one, we’ve compiled into one ever-growing list virtually all of the ideas for changing the world for animals that various activists have shared with Our Hen House over the years. Never before has it been so easy to get inspired and get active for animals!
The final four sections of the “100 Ways” list include making art that doubles as advocacy, organizing events and other activism efforts in your own community, volunteering for and donating to different sorts of animal advocacy organizations, and putting the pen to paper (or the fingers to computer keyboard) in the name of animal rights.
You can find the full permanent list here!
Make Art
- Create a piece of performance art that raises awareness about animal exploitation.
- Create interactive social media that sheds light on the plight of non-human animals.
- If you’re graphically design-inclined, create visuals that shed light upon the exploitation of animals.
- If you’re musically inclined, write music that sheds light upon the plight of non-human animals.
- Launch an animal rights/vegan podcast.
- Make art that doubles as advocacy.
- Make vegan-friendly crafts and sell them on Etsy.
- Put the animal rights message into your stand-up comedy.
- Self-publish a zine.
- Write and perform an animal rights-related play/one-(wo)man show.
Organize
- Become a certified plant-based health coach through an online program and launch your own coaching program.
- Bring the animal rights message to Pride Parades.
- Bring the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition’s free presentations to your community.
- Collect related vegan/animal rights videos and curate them on a YouTube channel.
- Create and guide walking tours of your city that center on the roles of animals in our lives.
- Create a vegan mentorship program in your community.
- For all you law students, take classes in animal law.
- For all you teachers, become a certified humane educator.
- Get involved in legislative action for animals.
- Go on a virtual book tour – you don’t even have to be an author!
- Hold vigils to honor the billions of farmed animals slaughtered every year, like the folks at Toronto Pig Save.
- Host an animal rights speaker or documentary screening on your college campus/in your community.
- Host a pay-per-view in your community.
- Host a vegan/animal rights Twitter chat.
- Host a vegan dinner & a movie event.
- Host a vegan pop-up in your community.
- Host a vegan-themed costume party.
- Host a vegan tour of a grocery store.
- Host a vegan wine & cheese tasting.
- Host an event or organize an action for World Day for Farmed Animals.
- If you’re governmentally inclined, lobby for lawmakers to reform subsidies on animal agriculture and other policies.
- In hot weather, figure out where transport trucks will pass by, wait for them to come to an intersection, and give the animals water through the holes of the truck.
- Land a spot on the food committee for a party that your work, school, etc. is organizing.
- Open a vegan bed & breakfast.
- Organize a feed-in at your school/college or in your community.
- Organize a Veg Fest in your town.
- Organize a vegan book drive.
- Organize an event for U.S. VegWeek.
- Organize a vegan “Iron Chef” battle in your community.
- Participate in or organize a protest.
- Participate in the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale.
- Set up an information table during community events and gatherings—anywhere that there are people to talk to about animal rights.
- Start a Meatless Monday campaign at your school, workplace, or even town.
- Start a petition for an animal rights cause.
- Start a vegan/animal advocacy hotline.
- Start a Veganize My Town campaign in your town.
- Start a vegan food truck in your community.
- Start a vegan meal group.
- Start a vegan meetup group, such as Vegan Drinks, in your community.
- Start an animal rights-themed book club in your community, or join an existing book club and suggest an AR book to read.
- Start an animal rights/vegan club at your school or college.
- Start or get involved with a Food Not Bombs chapter near you.
- Use Facebook as a jumping-off point for more direct forms of activism – what are you doing online that could be concretized?
- Work with local restaurants to implement vegan options on their menus.
- Work with local restaurants to offer a special vegan menu for a night and make an event out of it
- Work with your local public parks to start a wildlife task-force.
- Work with your school/college cafeteria to add vegan options.
Volunteer & Donate
- Adopt a companion animal from a shelter, or rescue one yourself!
- Donate old fur coats to animal shelters and wildlife rehabilitation centers.
- Donate to animal sanctuaries and/or advocacy organizations.
- For all you multi-linguists, provide free or low-cost translation services to animal organizations so that their literature can reach a wider audience.
- For all you runners, participate in VegRun.
- Foster a companion animal or animals until they find a forever home.
- Hold a yard sale, vegan bake sale, or car wash, and donate the proceeds to an animal rights group.
- If you own a business, consider donating a portion of your profits to animal organizations.
- If you see an animal in trouble, reach out to help them, or find someone who can.
- Participate in Farm Sanctuary’s Walk for Farm Animals.
- Photograph shelter animals to aid in their adoption.
- Promote companion animal adoption with “social pet-working“.
- Sell tchotchkes for high-ish prices and donate the money to animal organizations.
- Sew dog beds and other crafty items to sell, then donate the funds to animal charities/organizations.
- Spend your summer as a vegan camp counselor.
- Sponsor an animal at a sanctuary – ask your local sanctuary if they have a sponsorship program.
- Stack cages in your storefront window to raise awareness for the Beagle Freedom Project or other liberation organizations.
- Support animal rights/vegan crowdfunding campaigns (or start your own!).
- Volunteer at your local Whole Foods to give out samples of Just Mayo, Kite Hill cheese, and other vegan products.
- Volunteer (or intern!) at an animal sanctuary, shelter, or advocacy organization.
- Work as an undercover investigator for an animal advocacy organization.
Write
- Hone your writing skills to write well and often on animal issues.
- If you’re a student, include animal rights themes in your class assignments.
- Pitch an animal-related piece to a non-vegan/animal-related publication – and do it well!
- Sign up with the Vegan Pen Pals Project.
- Start an animal rights/vegan blog – try to come up with a unique point of view, because there are already tons out there!
- Submit animal-related op-eds and letters to the editor to your local newspapers.
- Submit a relevant animal rights-related academic paper to a non-animal-related conference.
- Write a letter for Animal Writes.
- Write fiction that doubles as advocacy.
- Write letters to major and/or local environmental organizations asking them to take a public stance on animal agriculture.
- Write letters to your local, state, and federal representatives regarding animal issues.
- Write to cooking shows and food magazines requesting that they feature more vegan food.
- Write to your local TV station asking that they air vegan cooking shows/animal rights-related shows (like Our Hen House!).