If you’ve ever lost a family member or close friend to heart disease, cancer, a stroke, or diabetes, as I have, this should piss you off: Some of the most common diseases are largely preventable! And even though it can seem like you’re helpless when someone you love is sick, you’re not.

These diseases all have something in common: They’re linked to our consumption of meat, eggs, and dairy products. Study after study reveals the truth about eating animals.

This week, don’t just raise awareness about diseases—raise awareness about how to prevent and fight them by encouraging your family and friends to stop eating animals with our DIY hospital wristband mission!

Here’s what to do: 

• Create a DIY hospital band (Google for examples or check out the pics above). 
• Wear it to school all this week, and when someone asks you if you’re sick, tell them that you’re not but that millions of people die every year of diseases that can be largely prevented by following a vegan diet!
• Need deets on nutrition to back up your claim? Check out peta2′s vegan diet infographic.
• Snap a photo of your wristband and submit it for points by clicking “Get Points” above.

- Rachelle from peta2