Cross Roads’ All Y’alls Foods Pledges No Animal Tests, Earning PETA Praise

For Immediate Release:
February 26, 2025

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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

Locally-based All Y’alls Foods—a popular purveyor of vegan jerky and other proteinaceous animal-free snacks—receives kudos from PETA today for signing on to its new “Eat Without Experiments” program that helps shoppers identify food and beverage companies that don’t test on animals. The program points out that just as you would never test your dog’s food on your child, testing human food on other species is a primitive holdover from a less enlightened time.

The company has never experimented on animals and 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 All Y’alls Foods, 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.

“All Y’alls Foods is showing the way on PETA’s powerful initiative to get animal experiments out of the food and beverage industry,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA calls on Oreo-maker Mondelēz International to take inspiration from All Y’alls Foods and stop force-feeding mice human feces and junk food to rats before killing them.”

Mondelēz International has funded puzzling junk food tests on animals 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.

All Y’alls Foods is one of many companies—including Ferrero International, Bacardi Limited, Amy’s Kitchen, Heineken, and Unilever—that have 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.