Kingston’s Vegan The Gardener Cheese Co. Adopts New Pro-Animal Pledge Earning PETA Praise
For Immediate Release:
February 5, 2025
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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Locally based non-dairy cheese purveyor The Gardener Cheese Co.—maker of popular Treeline Cheese—receives kudos from PETA today for signing on to a groundbreaking new “Eat Without Experiments” program that helps shoppers identify food and beverage companies that don’t test on animals.
The company, which has never experimented on animals, is making its commitment public and permanent by joining PETA’s program.
The program’s website features a database of food and beverage companies categorized by their policies on animal experimentation—from those that test on animals to those, like The Gardener Cheese Co., that have signed PETA’s pledge never to do so.
Visitors to the website can also take action urging Oreo-maker Mondelēz International—which also owns Cadbury, Honey Maid, and several other well-known brands—to stop tormenting and killing animals in tests to “advance fundamental knowledge in nutritional science” that do not apply to human health.
“The Gardener Cheese Co. is leading the way on this powerful initiative to get animal experimentation out of the food and beverage industry,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA calls on Oreo-maker Mondelēz International to take inspiration from The Gardener Cheese Co. by ditching cruel and antiquated animal tests and joining Eat Without Experiments.”
Mondelēz International has force-fed human feces to mice and junk food to rats, then killed and dissected them—even though regulatory agencies in the U.S., Canada, and the European Union require that studies on humans, not other animals, be used to verify health claims about food products.
The Gardener Cheese Co. is one of many companies—including Ferrero International, Bacardi Limited, Amy’s Kitchen, Heineken, and Unilever—that have already signed PETA’s statement of assurance pledging never to test on animals.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
