Free Stuff Friday: peta2 Button Packs! July 18, 2008

Posted by Patricia at July 18, 2008 12:47 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 196 ) | TrackBack

What better way to support your fave cause than by wearing your thoughts on your sleeve, bag, hoodie, what have you, and that's where free peta2 buttons come in!

Photo courtesy of LBP Productions

Sportin' some peta2 flare is a great way to speak up without actually having to say a word and we've got a button for pretty much any issue you can think of. And since we want you to get out there and spread the word every chance you get, we thought we'd give some buttons away!

It was tough to decide which buttons to include in the packs because all of the issues are important to me, but these are some of my faves, so here goes. Each pack will have one of the following:

Boycott KFC, Cut Class, Not Frogs, Powered by Tofu because, well, because I love fried tofu, and the classics I Am Not a Nugget, and No Fur.

Want to get your hands on one of three free peta2 button packs? Just comment below telling me which peta2 campaign is nearest and dearest to your heart and why? Simple, right?

This contest ends August 1, 2008 and the winners will be chosen and notified by August 8, 2008.

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Good luck!

xox

Patricia

Cut Class Not Frogs Winners! October 25, 2007

Posted by Lara Sanders at October 25, 2007 12:46 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 1 ) | TrackBack

There were so many amazing entries for our "Cut Class Not Frogs" t-shirt contest, that I decided to pick not one winner, but three! Check out my favorite of the winning comments...

By Crystal:
Dissection?

What is there to say? Well, other than no.

You see, Dissection is defined as cutting something open to study it closer. This verb can be used in many ways at school. We dissect words, (taking apart the prefixes, suffixes and root word) the school lunches (who knows what that is?) and in some very sad cases, animals.

Our teachers tell us we do this to get a closer look at the internal organs of the creatures around us. They also tell us that we have to do it to pass. They even give the proper instructions on how to do it. But, who tells the whole truth these days? What are they not telling us?

What the teachers don't speak of is the killing of a living thing, the life that it once lived and the other alternatives there are to dissection.

I didn't dissect a frog in Biology, nor did I dissect the worm. I don't need to brag about that though. I heard alot that day, as I sat and looked out the window while my peers were busy doing their lab. Students were laughing, giggling, gossiping, metal scraping; Girls were screaming, and boys were whooping. None of which sounded like a learning experience.

So now it is your turn, you can choose your fate. Do you choose to be similar to the ignorant freshman my year in biology; Or do you choose to talk to your teacher see what she can do for an alternative assignment, or maybe just having to tell her that you will have to crush your grade with an F?

The choice isn't hard, but it isn't easy. It shows morals and goes against the cookie cutter shape that society has made up. Stand up for yourself, and the ones without voices.

Don't dissect.

You guys are awesome!

xoxo-Lara

P.S. If you didn't win, you can still get some great "Cut Class Not Frogs" merch here !

Forgive Me Froggy, For I Have Sinned October 14, 2007

Posted by Pulin Modi at October 14, 2007 6:36 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 3 ) | TrackBack

When I was younger I was real big into science. I wanted to eventually be a brain surgeon, in fact! So I tried to do really well at math and biology in school. I'll be modest, but tell you I wasn't too shabby. I got pretty decent grades, read the "Science Times" section of The New York Times every Tuesday, and all sorts of stuff like that.

Being the particularly motivated person I was, I decided to take some extracurricular course to pursue my interest in science and biology. Oh yes, here's where it gets nasty. So every Saturday or Sunday (I forget which, but surely a non-soccer game day) for a few months I would wake up early, have my parents take me to some nearby school, and partake in a dissection course! I was probably like ten years old, but somehow found it exciting to wake up early and cut up dead animals!

I clearly remember the gagging stench of formaldehyde, the alien feel of latex gloves on my fingers, the sound of the scalpel cutting into animals' flesh, and the way the t-pins stretched the incisions in the skin to reveal some poor creature's organs. I remember the worm, the frog, the squid whose ink sack I cut open, the shark whose eyeball I cut out and rolled around the table, and the tiny piglet—all of whom deserved a life of their own.

As much as I remember all the gross things about the course, I can honestly say that I cannot remember learning a single useful thing about biology. I didn't learn to respect life. I didn't learn anything about the lives these animals would have led. You know what, I had even converted to vegetarianism by then, but hadn't made the connection yet that these animals had to be killed for me to slice open. These were carcasses of once living animals, and my desire to study and respect life was not at all consistent with helping to fund their deaths.

While I still read the "Science Times", love learning about biology, and genuinely have an interest in studying animals, I'm at a point where I can look at dissection from my experiences and admit that I made a huge mistake. And now I don't want anyone else to make the same mistakes as I did.

Don't get me wrong, even if someone is at the university level, the alternatives are really astounding and easy to get. Just click here to see what I mean if you're in college or worried about having to dissect after high school.

Please pledge not to dissect. Please spread the word to your friends. Please watch this video.

To all the poor froggies and other animals who I have cut up as a student, please forgive me.

The future of science is in learning with humane, cutting edge alternatives and then working through internships, residencies, and such hands-on learning experiences with professionals in the field when the time is appropriate. I am trying my best now to tell other students to choose alternatives rather than cruel animal dissections. I want the animals to rest in peace.

-Pulin

Win a Cut Class Not Frogs Tee! October 3, 2007

Posted by Lara Sanders at October 3, 2007 10:54 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 42 ) | TrackBack

When I was in high school, I remember dreading the unit in my biology class where we had to dissect a worm and a frog. Back then, I didn't know anything about animal rights, but still felt something was wrong with what we were doing. I really regret not having spoke up for what I believed in.

Now that I know better, I speak my mind about dissection every chance I can get. In fact, sometimes I even rock peta2's "Cut Class Not Frogs" tee to let people know exactly what I think.

To celebrate Cut Out Dissection Month (being October), peta2 is giving away that very tee!

The person that leaves the best comment about dissection wins!

Contest ends October 23rd 2007, and the winner will be notified by October 30th.

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Also by commenting, you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions.

xoxo,
Lara

P.S. Don't make the same mistake I did! Get involved with getting alternatives to dissection in your school now!