Chairman’s Brands, the parent company of Eggsmart and several other popular brands, is one of over 130 Canadian companies that have pledged to eliminate cage confinement for birds in their supply chains. The company joins well-known brands IKEA, The Keg, Unilever, and Harvey’s in completing their 100% cage-free transitions in Canada. 

This news is major progress for birds. Thank you for helping make it happen!

We’re making progress in Canada, but animals still need your help. Every day, hundreds of thousands of caged chickens suffer unimaginably—without room to walk more than a few steps or fully spread their wings. Learn more about the plight of birds raised for eggs and tell Burnbrae Farms, Canada’s largest egg producer, to commit to no more cages at BurnbraeHarms.ca.

Want to do more? The best thing we can do for hens and all farmed animals is to choose more plant-based foods. You can also sign up to volunteer for Mercy For Animals and become a Hen Hero today! 

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The ChooseVeg Best of Plant-Based: Coffee Shops report looks at the largest and most recognizable U.S. coffee-shop chains and analyzes several key elements that matter most to plant-based customers:

• Which coffee shops use plant-based milk as the default in some or all of their drinks?
• Which coffee shops have ample, delicious plant-based food options?
• Which coffee shops charge a fee for using plant-based milk in drinks like lattes, cappuccinos, and macchiatos? 

Read the report to see how the largest coffee chains in the country stack up! 

You can also download our FREE How to Eat Veg guide to learn more about plant-based eating!

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Halloween Mini Mummy Pizzas

These spooky snacks can be made using homemade spelt flour pizza dough, store-bought pizza dough, or even healthy bread.

Peanut Butter Apple-Lanterns

Savory and delicious, these apple-lanterns are as tasty as they are adorable. Stuffed with sweetened peanut butter and baked to perfection, they’re the perfect Halloween snack.

Graveyard Raw Chocolate Mousse Pots

This tasty dessert will be love at first bite! The recipe uses raw vegan chocolate mousse, chocolate crumble “dirt,” and cookie tombstones to create delicious graveyards.

Pumpkin Waffles

Breakfast just got a whole lot more halloweeny. These flavorful pumpkin waffles are packed with cinnamon, nutmeg, and pumpkin purée.

Red Velvet Skull Cakes

Boo! Give your friends a fright with these scary—yet decadent—red velvet skull cakes!

Easy Raspberry Halloween Mummy Pies

Not only do these Halloween mummy pies have just three ingredients, but they’re simple and fun to make!

Fried Apple Rings

The thick batter around these fall-inspired fried apple rings is made by whisking together sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, applesauce, vegan milk, and flour. Doesn’t that sound amazing?

Halloween Mummy Donuts

Your whole family will go nuts for these Halloween mummy donuts! Gluten-free and flavorful, these spooky treats are topped with both chocolate and vanilla icing.

Halloween Cookie Shake

Although it may look like an over-the-top dessert, this sneaky fall goodie has fruits and spices mixed in with the cookies and dairy-free whipped cream.

Halloween Witch Finger Cookies

What other time of year do you get to eat severed fingers? These oil-free treats are made with homemade almond butter and served with raspberry jam.

Pumpkin Mac and Cheese Bake

This pumpkin mac and cheese bake is about to become your new favorite fall recipe! It can be easily personalized by playing with the amount of cheese sauce, pumpkin, and milk.

Spooky Skull Vegan Pot Pies

Using chickpeas, potatoes, and lots of delicious seasoning, this spooky skull pot pie is as delicious as it is terrifying.

5-Minute Pumpkin Butter

This creamy spread is naturally sweetened and uses just three very simple ingredients: pumpkin purée, dates, and pumpkin pie spice.

Shrunken Head Punch

While these eerie shrunken heads are too salty to eat, they are the perfect addition to any Halloween punch.

DYING for more? Here are 17 other spooktacular vegan Halloween recipes. You can also download our FREE How to Eat Veg guide to learn more about plant-based eating!

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PhytoFat is made of vegetable oils using a special technology that gives the oils a higher melting point. As a result, Lipid’s vegan pork belly—which the company claims is the world’s first—sizzles, smells, and tastes like an animal-based pork belly. It can be sautéed, fried, or baked and is lower in saturated fat, sodium, and calories than traditional pork belly. 

“By combining PhytoFat with a unique fibrous protein alternative, we are able to create a meaty, savory, lip-smacking pork belly experience,” said Dr. Michelle Lee, Lypid’s co-founder and CTO. 

The vegan pork belly is currently available at restaurants throughout Taiwan, but Lypid plans to expand its collaboration with food service chains throughout the United States and Asia. Samples will be available at the upcoming Plant-Based World Expo 2023. 

Why Choose Vegan Pork Belly? 

Pigs suffer unrelenting abuse from the day they are born. Piglets endure a series of mutilations. They shriek in pain as workers cut our their testicles and cut off their sensitive tails without painkillers. Mother pigs spend most of their lives in tiny, filthy cages. Constricted by metal bars on all sides, they can’t lie down comfortably or even turn around for nearly their entire lives.

Mercy For Animals investigations have uncovered pigs shocked with electric prongs in their eyes, bludgeoned with metal pipes, kicked, and stabbed for minutes while still conscious.

But the good news is that people can live happy, healthy lives without harming pigs or other animals. With all the innovative plant-based products hitting store shelves and restaurant menus, eating plant-based is becoming even more effortless. 

Want to try plant-based? Download our free How to Eat Veg guide and get started today.

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1. Sweet Potato and Avocado Green Salad

This recipe looks too good.

2. Buttermilk Battered Tofu

This recipe is sure to impress.

3. Vegan Banana Cream Pie

We’re drooling. Get the recipe here.

4. Spicy Chickpea Avocado Cucumber Bites

With chipotle crema! Get the recipe.

5. Carrot Cake Muesli 

This recipe from Wallflower Kitchen is ready in five minutes!

6. Supreme Nacho Burger 

Whoa, we’re speechless.

7. My Favorite Green Smoothie 

Get the recipe here.

8. Grilled Eggplant Spring Rolls 

Yes, please. Get the recipe.

9. Vegan Puff Pastry Jam Pockets 

Get the recipe.

10. Vegan Southern BBQ Jackfruit Spring Rolls 

Wow! This recipe looks super savory!

You can get more delicious recipes, easy meal ideas, and tips by downloading a FREE How to Eat Veg Guide today.

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Oshi creates its vegan salmon using a patent-pending additive-manufacturing technology—also known as 3D printing. According to its website, the company is on a mission to “eliminate sea pollution and overfishing by crafting the world’s tastiest premium whole-cut seafood filets made exclusively from plants.” 

With its sights set on the United States, Oshi has reportedly partnered with “some of the best restaurants” in New York City to bring its products stateside later this year. Noga Bronsky, Oshi’s director of product marketing, explained:

The United States is one of the biggest markets for seafood, with salmon consumption valued at $50 billion. Oshi salmon is a delicious, safer, and more sustainable alternative that will enable consumers to have the same salmon experience, without microplastics, mercury, and harm to the environment.

On top of its U.S. plans, Oshi has also partnered with major European retailer Coop Group, aiming to distribute vegan salmon fillets in Europe in 2025. 

According to Oshi, over 70% of fish consumption around the world can be attributed to whole-cut forms, such as fillets. Replacing these cuts of fish with plant-based versions could revolutionize the seafood industry!

Fish are individuals as unique and complex as animals who live on land, yet they have largely been left out of the many hard-won improvements in welfare standards. While Oshi’s vegan salmon won’t debut in the United States until later this year, you can still stand up for fish by trying some of the many delicious plant-based seafood products and recipes already available on the market.

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NotCheese slices are classic Kraft singles reimagined, made with water, coconut oil, modified starch, and chickpea protein. The tasty new offerings are the product of a joint venture between The Kraft Heinz Company and The Not Company (NotCo). 

NotCheese slices debuted last year for a limited test run in Ohio, where they quickly became a hit. In fact, a reported 91% of shoppers interviewed shared overwhelmingly positive impressions of NotCheese. NotCo’s head of marketing and strategy, Katie Pekarek, elaborated on the test’s success:

The decision to expand nationally was based on our successful Cleveland test market that ran for 16 weeks starting in November 2022. Kraft NotCheese Slices quickly became the #1 branded plant-based slice in dollar sales.

According to Pekarek, “plant-based is one of the fastest growing segments in food and beverage, exceeding total food sales growth by three times.” This shift in consumer demand has not gone unnoticed from other major dairy brands.

Earlier this year, Babybel launched the first plant-based version of its famed wax-wrapped cheese. Bite-size and made with only a few simple ingredients, the vegan mozzarella cheese makes a delicious on-the-go snack. 

Just last year, cream cheese giant Philadelphia launched its first “vegan Philly.” Today, Philadelphia dairy-free cream cheese can be found in original, strawberry, and chive and onion.

In November of 2020, huge dairy brand Boursin released a completely plant-based garlic-and-herb cheese spread. Bob Goldberg, founder and CEO of Follow Your Heart, said then, “We’re truly delighted to see this savory treat now available to dairy-free consumers and those thinking of taking their own leap into dairy-free.”

Click here to learn more about vegan cheese, and make sure to download your FREE How to Eat Veg guide for recipes, tips, and more.

Cover Photo: Kraft Heinz

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1. The Best Vegan “Pulled Pork” Sandwich

With 17 grams of protein and only 10 ingredients, this summer favorite is sure to delight any crowd. Nab the recipe here.

2. Grilled Corn Poblano Panzanella

Originating in Italy, this colorful dish is a healthy, beautiful addition to any cookout. Get the recipe.

3. Marinated Tempeh Veggie Skewers

What’s a summer barbecue without kabobs? These beauties are marinated and then grilled to perfection. You can find the recipe right here.

4. Grilled Tofu Gyros

Grilled tofu, warm pita bread, and vegan tzatziki? Yes, please! Get the details here.

5. Easy Vegan Potato Salad

This picnic and barbecue staple is sure to make grandma smile. Load up on potatoes and get chopping! Nab the recipe.

6. Salted Caramel Apple Pie

If you think the classic apple pie couldn’t be improved on, think again! This version has gooey caramel sauce and is best served with vegan ice cream. Fall in love by checking out the recipe.

While the Fourth of July celebrates freedom, many animals killed for food live in extreme confinement. Millions of pigs, calves, and chickens spend their days in spaces so small the animals cannot even turn around.

Refuse to support this cruelty by choosing plant-based options for your summer barbecue. You can get delicious recipes, easy meal ideas, and tips by downloading a FREE How to Eat Veg Guide today.

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Darren Harris originally adopted Penny from a farm in Virginia in 2021 for his seven-year-old daughter. Since then, Penny has also been embraced by his entire firehouse and the surrounding community, who often stop by to take her picture or just say hello.

Harris’s coworker and fellow firefighter James McCourt described Penny as “easier to train than a dog.” Harris agreed with that view of pigs:

Their brain capacity, they get up to a four-year-old or five-year-old’s level in intelligence. So they’re smarter than dogs, a lot of people say.

When she’s not on duty at the firehouse, Penny spends her days relaxing in the backyard and on the deck of Harris’s home in Middletown, New York. 

Pigs truly are amazing! They have been successfully trained to play video games and have excellent object-location memory. Pigs also form strong bonds with one another. Mother pigs sing to their babies as they nurse and use individual calls for each of their newborn piglets, who recognize their specific calls and come running to their mothers. 

But pigs shouldn’t have to move into human homes or workplaces to prove that they are individuals worthy of care and respect. As the philosopher Jeremy Bentham said, “The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”

Want to take a stand for pigs and other farmed animals? Level up your breakfast with these six tasty vegan bacon brands, and download our FREE How to Eat Veg guide for more plant-based tips and tricks.

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Lars Gradel, his work partner Rebecca Zajac, and her seven-year-old son quickly stopped their car and rushed to rescue the terrified piglet. They wrapped him in a towel and put him in the car, surprised to discover he seemed relatively unharmed. Gradel said:

We assumed that he would be injured by the amount of tumbles he took on the freeway, and it was going like 60 miles per hour. But surprisingly, he was OK.

A veterinarian confirmed the piglet’s age and said that he had recently been weaned from his mother. More than likely, he had been on his way to a fattening facility where he would have been fed for six to eight months before being sent to slaughter. Instead, Lucky the pig went home with Zajac and her son, Colton, living comfortably in their backyard for the weekend until he was taken in by All Friends Animal Sanctuary. 

Lucky will spend about five months in quarantine before moving to a larger pen. While he is currently just 18 pounds, he could grow to a massive 700 or 800 pounds. Originally destined for slaughter, Lucky will enjoy quite a different life. Tara Pike, founder of All Friends Animal Sanctuary, said:

Now Lucky’s going to be wallowing in mud and rooting around in the ground and digging little holes with his snout and eating watermelon and popsicles in the summer.

While Lucky’s story is a happy one, every pig deserves to live out their lives in freedom and comfort. You can take a stand for pigs—and all animals—simply by leaving them off your plate. Download our FREE How to Eat Veg guide to get started.

Looking for more inspiring stories? Here are five brave animals who, like Lucky, risked everything to escape transport trucks. 

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