peta2 Wants To Do Your Homework! Really, We Do. January 21, 2009

Posted by Rachel-O at January 21, 2009 11:03 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 42 ) | TrackBack

Summer vacation is just around the corner!

Okay, not really. But while you're suffering in class, why not make it worth it? Chances are you probably have more than a few classmates that just don't get it. They always have something to say about your peta2 shirt or your sweet decorated locker—and they think yelling "People Eating Tasty Animals" is just hilarious. Well, we were all ignorant (to the facts of course!) at one point right?

So let's forget how boring your math teacher is, and remember that school is about learning. Whether it's the connection between human and animal exploitation, or the fact that factory farming is the number one cause of global warming according to the United Nations—animal rights issues are some of the most important faced by our generation, and also some of the most overlooked.

Other than obvious topics of cruelty to animals on factory farms, fur farms, in laboratories or in circuses, here are a list of topics and some resources you should choose this upcoming semester!

• The history of human exploitation and the link to animal exploitation and abuse. Check out the Animal Liberation Project.
• Meat is not the natural human diet—humans are natural herbivores. You can find extensive research and fact sheets on this subject here.
• Meat is the number one cause of Global Warming—can we say this enough? And it's not just us saying it, it's a little group called the United Nations. You can find out more about the impact of factory farming on the environment and find a link to the UN report here.
• If you eat meat or drink milk, you're ingesting drugs. Roughly 70 percent of the antibiotics used in the U.S. each year go to animals raised for food. Where do you think those drugs end up when you eat animals? Click here
  to get more information.
• Animal testing, class B dealers, pound seizure and the link to school dissection. Don't know what this means? Think unwanted shelter animals sold to research labs to be tortured or to your school to be cut up. Yep, there are people that make money off of this. You can read more here and at BanPoundSeizure.org.
  

And for you more artistic students, check out our DeviantArt page and try working in animal rights with your art projects! We love these a lot—and we might even feature it in a blog! Check out this one that was sent in by one of our amazing Street Teamers:



Check out our class projects page for a whole set of articles, fact sheets and sources for your work! And if you have any specific questions you can't find answers to, write us at peta2@peta2.com—we're kind of experts. You'll also get 500 Street Team points for sending us your paper at StreetTeam@peta2.com once it's complete, and make sure you let us know how you did! We're pretty confident that you're going to teach everyone—including your teachers—a thing or two. Have fun!

peta2 Does Your Homework For You! September 4, 2008

Posted by Ryan at September 4, 2008 2:50 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 7 ) | TrackBack

Homework has got to be the single most depressing part about returning to school.

All those nights that could be spent chatting it up on the peta2 message boards or posting our new Meat's Not Green video all over MySpace, instead spent trying to find a way to legally list Wikipedia in your bibliography and peppering your boring essays with lines like "...and that's why geology totally rocks."

Well no longer!

We've posted our new "Homework Help!" page, complete with dozens of properly cited factsheets, scientific articles, and recommended resources to help make your assignments put everyone else in the class to shame!

All you have to do is select the topic you want to research, and we'll pull up all of the info you could possibly need (including all sources and documentation to support your argument)! Pretty cool, right?

So go ahead, show your teacher what a Smarty McNerdpants you can be! You can thank us later.

- Ryan McNerdpants!