This Mother’s Day, actor Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie, The Sopranos) and Olympic soccer player Kara Lang Romero are teaming up as fellow moms for mother cows and their babies suffering in the dairy industry. JOIN IN: Send a quick, polite Facebook message to Nestlé urging it to ditch dehorning and churn out more vegan options TODAY (see our sample message below)! …
Washington State Bans Cruel Confinement of Egg Laying Hens
This week Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a groundbreaking bill into law that will ban the sale of of eggs from caged hens. This law will phase out cruel confinement by 2023 and applies to eggs sold in the state but produced elsewhere. Washington is the latest state to ban hen cages. Several states have passed laws in the recent …
Dunkin’ Exploring Adding Plant-Based Protein to Menu
Donut and coffee chain Dunkin’ is considering getting into the vegan fast-food game by adding plant-based proteins to its breakfast offerings. “We’re going to look at plant-based proteins as well, going forward,” said CEO David Hoffmann to CNBC last week. In response to an Animal Outlook campaign, Dunkin’ started offering non-dairy milk options in 2014. Now, we’re asking the chain …
Will McDonald’s Join Vegan Competition with a Plant-Based Burger?
Germany McDonald’s restaurants have launched their first ever all-vegan menu item: a “bleeding” vegan burger called the “Incredible burger,” made by Nestlé. This is the first vegan option for the chain in Germany, but around the world, McDonald’s has been beginning to slowly roll out vegan and vegetarian options. Everywhere, it would seem, but the United States. Meanwhile, the fast-food …
Could a Vegan Subway Option Be on the Way?
This year, vegetarian brand MorningStar Farms took a big step and announced that it would be transitioning its frozen meat replacement line to become fully vegan! Though the company began reducing its usage of eggs in 2008 after urging from Compassion Over Killing and Vegan Outreach, Vegan Outreach’s continuing campaign has convinced the company to ditch eggs entirely. The line …
Tyson Foods Divests From Plant-Based Beyond Meat
Until this week, Tyson Foods held a 6.5% stake in plant-based meat producer Beyond Meat, but the meat industry leader just sold it to an unknown buyer (or buyers). This news came just ahead of the burger company’s plans to begin selling shares publicly, reaching for a market value of more than $1 billion. It is not yet known …
Qdoba To Launch Plant-Based Impossible “Meat” Nationwide
Starting on May 28, Qdoba Mexican Eats will offer plant-based protein Impossible meat in 730 locations nationwide. After testing in Michigan, the fast-casual chain decided to go full steam ahead in Brooklyn, Denver, and Los Angeles this April, with plans to expand across the country in May. Qdoba’s Impossible protein is seasoned Mexican-style with a blend of spices including tomatoes, …
Tyson Foods: Vegan “News Coming in a Few Weeks”
Tyson Foods has just pledged that more plant protein news is “coming very soon” at a food innovation forum at its Chicago office–yet it continues to ignore the extreme cruelty Animal Outlook has documented in its supply chain. At the “New Disruptors in Consumer Products: Incubators, Accelerators & Entrepreneurs” forum at Tyson’s Chicago office last week, Animal Outlook volunteer Sandi …
Through the Eyes of a Calf Born in the Dairy Industry
What a calf sees: The cruel cycle of suffering that puts dairy products on our plates Your birth is unceremonious–you are one of many coming into this world to be used and discarded. Your mother is likely just about 2-3 years old but already nearly halfway through her truncated life. She has been bred to produce large amounts of milk, …