Models with Conscience strives to empower you to make humane choices that benefit you, the animals, and the environment we all share. The cruelty, misery, and degradation in our world can sometimes seem overwhelming and depressing. Taking positive actions to address these problems can not only help to improve our mood, it can help to improve our world. Below are some ideas and resources to assist you in doing precisely that. Ten simple ways to help animals, the environment, and yourself: 1. Favor a plant-based diet Benefits: Reduces the suffering of farmed animals, benefits personal health, improves environmental quality, and eases world hunger Resources: The Mail Order Catalog for Healthy Eating, The Food Revolution, The Vegan Sourcebook, etc. 2. Use cruelty-free personal care and household products Benefits: Reduces the suffering of animals used in product testing experiments and as sources for animal-derived ingredients Resources: Aubrey Organics, Tom’s of Maine, and approximately 500 more companies in Beauty Without the Beasts 3. Choose animal-free apparel Benefits: Reduces the suffering of animals who are farmed, trapped, and hunted for their fur, skin, feathers, tusks, etc. Resources: Green Marketplace, A Different Daisy, Vegan Mercantile, and more companies in Beauty Without the Beasts 4. Adopt a companion animal from your local shelter Benefits: Saves the life of an animal who may otherwise be euthanized, curbs the use of puppy and kitten mills to fill pet stores Resources: Your local pound, animal shelter, humane society, or SPCA, such as those listed at World Animal Net 5. Spay or neuter your companion animal Benefits: Reduces pet overpopulation and the euthanization of healthy, adoptable dogs and cats in overcrowded animal shelters Resources: Your local veterinarian or spay/neuter clinic, details and discount spay/neuter vouchers at Pets 911 6. View wildlife in its natural habitat, not in captivity Benefits: Reduces the suffering of animals held in zoos and marine parks, promotes wildlife conservation and eco-tourism Resources: Fact sheets at The Animals Voice, wildlife viewing travel services offered through Gaiam, etc. 7. Choose entertainment that does not involve animal abuse Benefits: Reduces the suffering of animals used in bullfights, rodeos, circuses, traveling animal acts, greyhound races, etc. Resources: Fact sheets at The Animals Voice, animal-free circuses listed in Beauty Without the Beasts 8. Speak out on animal and environmental issues Benefits: Helps animals and the environment, makes your voice heard in decision-making processes of governments and companies Resources: Action alerts from various animal and environmental protection organizations at Black Rhinoceros 9. Choose environmentally friendly products and ways of living Benefits: Preserves wildlife habitat, improves the quality of the soil, water, and air that both animals and people depend on Resources: Abundant Earth, Green Marketplace, Real Goods, Tree Givers, etc. 10. Encourage children to respect animals and the environment Benefits: Cultivates responsibility, awareness, compassion, and kindness in future generations Resources: Materials from National Association for Humane and Environmental Education and American Humane Association More ideas for humane living are in our Animals section, and additional resources are in our Products and Lynx sections. Photo above: Models with Conscience member, Robin, with her feline friend. Photo by Helen Di Luce.

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