An Animal Rights/Vegan Activists' Strategies Article used with permission from All-Creatures.org

Lauren Abercrombie shares her experience with and passion for sticker activism and provides some great resources for getting started stickering and leafletting yourself!

Sticker Activism
From Lauren Abercrombie
September 2025

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My name is Lauren Abercrombie and I have not eaten animals in over 10 years. Sticker Activism is my passion. Sticker activism is when you put animal rights stickers on things or anywhere where people might see them. Sticker activism plants seeds in people's minds and makes them think about their actions. I do sticker activism because it's the easiest form of activism and it's very fun at the same time. You are sending a message in a way for all to see. It is very easy to incorporate sticker activism and to make it a daily routine, we need to speak up for animals as much as possible.

"Sometimes people take the stickers down. The weird part is, the people who take them down are not even employees, they are customers. I find that weird, but I think they take them down because of their ego- when people have their actions questioned, some people react in a negative way and some react in positive way."

I get all of my stickers from https://www.petaliterature.com. I get my stickers for free because I email the action team at [email protected] and they send me stickers. I have been doing sticker activism for years, over those years I have had PETA send me thousands of stickers: the stickers were about not wearing fur, not eating animals, boycotting Seaworld, Vegan Qr Codes that people can scan with their phones to order vegan starter kits, they have a wide variety of stickers, they even have stickers that you can put on packaged meats at grocery stores. I have placed thousands and thousands of animal rights stickers over the years. One of my favorites are the "End Speciesism" stickers. I go to Disney Parks twice a month in Florida [Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios] and I stick them any place I can find. This is the easiest way to do sticker activism. I stick stickers on: ATM machines, bathroom stalls, gas station pumps, park benches, churches, restaurant menus, meat and seafood advertisements. I also put the stickers on letters that I mail and I put them on holiday/greeting and birthday cards. I also put the stickers on library books too, and I also put the stickers on mail that I send to companies that I am protesting, etc. All of that is why I run out of stickers so fast. I plan to continue this tradition of mine.

Besides stickers, you can also pick out which leaflets you would like from www.petaliterature.com and then you can email [email protected] on the quantity you would like. The leaflets I have gotten so far cover: Humane Meat Does Not Exist, Sea Life Are Not Seafood, Boycotting Starbucks for charging extra for non dairy milk, Going Vegan To Honor God, PETA Lamb Bookmarks to hand out to church people, Vegan Starter Kits, Guides To Going Vegan, and PETA Kids Booklets, and books about what PETA stands for. I hand them out at public crosswalks, vegan demonstrations, protests, libraries, and I will leave them inside books at the library, and I will also leave them in doctors' offices.

In the past when I went to a vegan demonstration I had one of my most favorite debates: I offered a Vegan Starter kit to a guy and he said, "No thank-you, what is all of this about?" And I said, "We are trying to save animals by encouraging people to go to a Plant Based diet. He said, "Why should we care?" And I said, "Do you like dogs?" And he said, "I love dogs!" And I said, "Why do you love dogs and eat chicken, cows, and pigs?" And he was silent. I said, "That is speciesism, you care about dogs but do not care about other animals. It is no different than caring about White people and not caring about Black people, that is racism, with animals- that is speciesism". And he was like..."Well I prefer to care about people, not concentrate on animals." And I was like, "That is speciesism, what is the difference between a human and an animal? We have the same traits, we just look different." And he was like, "Well animals do not have souls." And I said, "The Bible talks about animals being in heaven in the Books of Isaiah and Revelation, so they do have souls. Next?" And he was like, "I am leaving." And I was like, "No, let's finish this debate, why do you want to leave?" And he was like, "No, I am leaving."

Some people at the vegan demonstration said no to getting a booklet and some came back later to get one! That was a miracle!

Here are resources to get some free PETA stickers. You get larger quantities by contacting [email protected]:

https://www.petaliterature.com
https://www.petakids.com/spotlight/free-peta-kids-stickers/
https://sos.peta2.com/order-guide-to-going-vegan/
https://www.peta.org/action/warning-label-stickers/
https://www.peta.org/action/vegan-starter-kit-stickers/

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Posted on All-Creatures.org: September 23, 2025
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