Tofurky Earns PETA’s Praise for Early Adoption of New Pro-Animal Pledge
For Immediate Release:
November 18, 2024
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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Locally based Tofurky is receiving kudos from PETA today for being among the first brands to sign on to a revolutionary new program aimed at helping shoppers identify food and beverage companies that don’t test on animals.
PETA’s “Eat Without Experiments” website features a database of companies categorized by their policies on animal experimentation—from those that test on animals to those that have signed PETA’s statement of assurance guaranteeing that they don’t test on animals and never will, the latter of which now includes Tofurky.
Visitors to the website can also send e-mails and 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 make dubious marketing claims about their products’ effects on human health.
“Kudos to Tofurky 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. “PETA calls on Mondelēz International to take inspiration from Tofurky 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., the European Union, and Canada require that studies on humans, not other animals, be used to verify health claims about food products. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s regulations specify that “[animal] studies do not provide information from which scientific conclusions can be drawn regarding a relationship between the substance and disease in humans” because “[t]he physiology of animals is different than that of humans.”
Tofurky is one of several companies—including Dr. Praeger’s Sensible Foods, Monde Nissin, 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.
