Easy Summer Outreach Ideas
 It’s summertime and the living is easy—but that doesn’t mean that animals don’t need you to work hard for them! Remember that animals on fur farms and in factory farms, circuses, and zoos never get vacations from their dismal lives. Have lots of fun in the sun this summer, but please remember to help animals too! Here are some things that you can do!
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Put Your Passion Into Projects
Want to escape the heat but still make a major impact? Turn your living room into an instant theater by hosting a PETA movie screening. Showing PETA’s videos to friends and family members might be the single-most effective way to encourage compassion for animals. PETACatalog.com carries a great selection of movies with messages, including peta2’s Wake Up Screaming: A Vans Warped Tour Documentary, Earthlings, and Nonviolence Includes Animals.
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Demonstrate Your Compassion
It isn’t summer without a backyard barbecue! Not only are barbecues a great opportunity to draw people in and show them just how appetizing vegetarian food can be, but you can also “wow” your captive audience with the latest cooking techniques you picked up from VegCooking.com. Be sure you have copies of your vegan recipes on hand.
If you don’t have a flair for cooking, you can make a positive impact for animals this summer by leafleting at local festivals, fairs, and concerts. You’ll be surprised by how many people you can reach by leafleting for just one hour! If there’s an event coming to your area that you would like to leaflet at, just contact PETA’s activist liaisons and let us know the details of the event and your mailing address, and we’ll send you a stack of leaflets.
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Write Animal Wrongs
Reach millions of people by writing letters to the editor to your local newspapers about important summer-themed animal issues:
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Remind people that dogs locked in parked cars can quickly suffer fatal heatstroke and brain damage. All companion animals should have it made in the shade during the summer months, with plenty of water and shelter from the sun—and they should never be left in cars, even “just for a few minutes.”
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Describe to people in your area what really happens behind the closed curtains of the circus. Animals do not naturally ride bicycles, stand on their heads, balance on balls, or jump through rings of fire. In order to force them to perform these confusing and physically uncomfortable tricks, trainers use whips, tight collars, muzzles, electric prods, bullhooks, and other painful tools of the trade.
For even more ideas about how to get active this spring, check out PETA's monthly leafleting alert and monthly idea for activism.
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