A vegan diet is a great place to start out your journey to cruelty-free living. Beyond diet, however, lay numerous other opportunities for improving the ethics of our consumer choices.

Fashion- Animals used for fur, leather, wool and other clothes are used and abused in horrifying ways. More information is available in the Fashion section of Peta.org .

Entertainment- Animals in circuses, rodeos, aquariums, and other places of "entertainment" live in unnatural conditions and are constantly put in harm's way. More information.

Personal care- Animals are used in cruel experiments to test many household cleaners and cosmetic products. Learn about how to avoid these unnecessary horrors.