Frequently Asked Questions
- What types of companies will I find in the online shopping guide?
- What about fish in the wild caught by commercial fishers?
- Vegan options are more expensive than their nonvegetarian counterparts. Can I afford to go vegan?
- Eliminating all animal ingredients from the foods that I eat and the products that I use sounds challenging. What am I supposed to do?
- Don’t vegetarians have difficulty getting enough protein?
- Do peer review and animal care and use committees at universities prevent painful or repetitive studies?
- Can plants feel pain?
- Don’t we need to eat meat and dairy products to be healthy?
- If everyone turned vegetarian, it would be worse for the animals because so many of them would not even be born.
- Where can I find cruelty-free business suits?
- If we didn’t test on animals, how would we conduct medical research?
- Are there wildlife organizations that I should be concerned about supporting?
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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?” READ MORE
— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind