La Jolla’s Own Solely Fruit Snacks Adopts New Pro-Animal Pledge Earning PETA Praise
For Immediate Release:
February 3, 2025
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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Locally-based fruit snack maker Solely receives kudos from PETA today for signing on to the new “Eat Without Experiments” program that helps shoppers identify food and beverage companies that don’t test on animals.
Solely has never experimented on animals and it 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, such as Solely, that have signed PETA’s pledge never to do so.
Visitors to the website can also take action urging Mondelēz International—owner of Cadbury, Honey Maid, Oreo, and several other well-known brands—to stop tormenting and killing animals in tests to “advance fundamental knowledge in nutritional science” that does not apply to human health.
“Kudos to Solely for leading the way on this powerful initiative to get animal experimentation out of the food and beverage industry,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “Now PETA calls on Oreo-maker Mondelēz International to ditch cruel and antiquated animal tests and join Eat Without Experiments.”
Mondelēz International has force-fed human feces to mice and junk food to rats, then killed and dissected them—despite that regulatory agencies in the U.S., the European Union, and Canada require that studies on humans, not other animals, be used to verify health claims about food products.
Solely is one of many companies—including Dr. Praeger’s Sensible Foods, Tofurky, 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.
