Mother’s Day is just two days away—this holiday is a wonderful reminder to celebrate our own moms, but it’s also a nice time to reflect on the special bond between the mothers and children of all species.
Ask Dunkin’ to Have a Heart for Animals
Dunkin’ Donuts is the world’s largest coffee and baked goods chain
serving more than three million customers daily. It offers over 65 varieties of doughnuts — including two heart-shaped specials for Valentine’s Day: Cupid’s Choice and a Chocolate Heart.
Sounds like a sweet deal, until you discover that these heart-shaped specials along every other doughnut dished out by Dunkin’ are made with egg and dairy products from
factory-farmed animals.
Quorn Launches First Vegan Product
After successfully persuading several major corporations to reduce or eliminate their use of eggs and add vegan options – including Morningstar Farms, Lightlife, and BOCA Foods – COK reached out to the UK-based company, Quorn, touted as the world’s number one brand of vegetarian meat alternatives.
Meatless Monday: Bigger Than Recycling?
Today is Meatless Monday. Tomorrow is America Recycles Day.
They’re both very important ways to protect our planet, but you’ve probably been recycling for over a decade, so let’s talk about the growing Meatless Monday movement.
Over 50% of Americans are familiar with the concept and nearly 1 in 5 are already doing it. Even your grandmother has read about it in her AARP magazine. This Meatless Monday thing? It’s BIG.
Subway Rolls Out All-Vegan Patty at Select Locations in Canada
Do you enjoy Subway’s Veggie Delight sandwich but wish you could feast on a “meatier” animal-friendly meal? We do, too — and if you live in Canada, now you can!
Compassion Over Killing’s WeLoveSubway.com campaign has been asking consumers to reach out to Subway, the world’s largest restaurant chain, urging the company to add vegan options — and we’re excited to share some good news: select Subway restaurants throughout Canada are starting to dish out an all-vegan patty, promoted as the “Totally Vegged” vegetable patty! And it’s 100% meat-, egg, and dairy-free (see ingredients below).
Bill Clinton on Heart-Healthy Eating: No Meat, No Milk, No Eggs
Looking back at his days in the White House, former President Bill Clinton is remembered for many things—his love of hamburgers and doughnuts being one of them. Fast forward to 2011, and in a one-hour special airing this Sunday on CNN, Clinton talks with Dr. Sanjay Gupta about his dietary transformation to vegan eating, explaining: “I like the vegetables, the fruits, the beans, the stuff I eat now.”
