JetBlue Adds Vegan Creamer to Beverage Service Following Push From PETA
For Immediate Release:
August 19, 2024
Contact:
Nicole Perreira 202-483-7382
JetBlue Airways is the latest airline to add vegan creamer to its in-flight beverage menu. After receiving more than 10,000 e-mails from PETA supporters requesting a vegan creamer option, the company confirmed to the group that it’s adding Oat in a Stick creamer to its new fall menus. JetBlue is the fourth major U.S. airline to begin offering vegan creamer in just the past year. PETA awarded Delta Air Lines and Alaska Airlines for being the first to widely offer oat milk options last year, and United Airlines added oat milk creamer last month. PETA encourages compassionate people everywhere to contact Southwest Airlines and urge it to do the same.
The demand for vegan milks is soaring as consumers learn that cows used for dairy are forcibly inseminated and their beloved calves are torn away from them so that the milk meant to nourish their babies can be sold to humans. Once mother cows’ bodies wear out after repeated pregnancies, they’re sent to slaughter. Animal agriculture is a leading cause of greenhouse gas emissions, species extinction, deforestation, and other environmental disasters, and millions of Americans—including an estimated 95% of Asian Americans and 80% of Indigenous and Black Americans—are lactose intolerant.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness as well as free vegan starter kits. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
