Tell Your Friends to Be Sweet to Animals

Each year, millions of animals are tortured and eventually killed just so that people can wear fur, leather, and wool garments. The holidays are a time to get together and exchange gifts, but the dead skin of abused animals doesn’t belong under the Christmas tree, now does it? This year, we want you to help convince your friends and family to be kind by not buying clothes made out of animals’ skin.

Minks, rabbits, foxes, and other animals on fur farms are crammed into filthy wire cages where they are deprived of everything that is natural and important to them. Some are still conscious when they are bashed over the head and skinned alive. Cows are hacked into pieces and their skin is ripped off so that they can be made into leather coats and shoes. Sheep raised for wool in Australia have huge chunks of skin and flesh cut from their behinds, and many are shipped off to the Middle East, where they are slaughtered in the most horrific ways imaginable. With so many lovely and warm faux fur, leather, and wool clothing options available at almost every major retailer, there’s simply no reason not to buy cruelty-free gifts this Christmas.

Here's how you can help us convince your friends and family members—and even a few strangers—to have a cruelty-free holiday:

1. Click here to download a sheet of "Be Sweet to Animals" tags.
2. Print out a few sheets, then cut each tag out separately.
3. Using a rubber band or some tape, attach the tags to candy canes (you can buy a few dozen for cheap at your local drugstore).
4. Give the candy canes to your friends, put one in your mom's stocking, hand them out at school, or go down to the nearest mall and give them to people as they walk in to do their holiday shopping. Be creative!

 

If you don't celebrate Christmas, be creative—put the tags on gifts you're giving this holiday season.

Once you’ve handed out your candy canes, rush back home and send a report to StreetTeam@peta2.com to let us know how it went. We’ll give you 1,500 Street Team points for handing out the treats with tags on them, and we’ll even give you a 750-point bonus if you include a picture with your report. Does it get any sweeter than that? (Get it, “sweeter” … because it’s candy?) If you aren’t on the Street Team, sign up now and start earning free peta2 merch for helping animals.

Happy holidays!