According to Spectrum News ny1 news, the 96th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade went off without a hindrance in the city with tons of new additions and old favorites.
The parade began at 9 a.m. at Central Park West and 77th Street and proceeded down a 2.5-mile route. The parade ended in front of Macy’s Herald Square on 34th Street.
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This year’s parade featured plenty of favorite balloons, but there were also several new additions, including popular children’s characters Bluey, Stuart the Minion, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and DINO and Baby DINO. A Baby Shark float also made a debut this year.
The event was also star-studded, as usual, with appearances by Paula Abdul, Sean Paul, Jimmy Fallon, The Roots, Mario Lopez, Jordin Sparks, the cast of the Muppets, and more.
Warning: When you see a stamp of approval from American Humane—the organization commonly known for the “No Animals Were Harmed” credit—viewer discretion is advised. That goes for everything the notorious organization certifies, from film and TV productions that exploit animals to deceptively labeled “American Humane Certified” meat.
While American Humane may have started off with good intentions, it’s now seemingly nothing more than a rubber-stamping committee that has repeatedly failed to protect animals in the industries it’s supposed to monitor, making its accreditation essentially meaningless.
PETA recently submitted a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission alleging that American Humane falsely and misleadingly claims that it has “set the gold standard in animal welfare,” duping customers into believing that its standards for farms, wildlife parks, television and film productions, and “pet” stores are significantly better than standard industry practices.
Here are six shocking facts that expose American Humane for the sham that it is:
1. Whistleblowers and undercover investigators have exposed egregious cruelty on American Humane Certified farms.
For example, in February 2022, a whistleblower who worked at American Humane Certified Culver Duck Farms provided PETA with video footage and photographs of workers throwing live ducklings into a grinder, mother ducks being “gang raped” as a result of intense crowding, and ducks who were suffocated and buried alive.
2. Animals have been seriously injured or even killed on “No Animals Were Harmed” accredited productions.
Three horses died on the set of HBO’s Luck; in Failure to Launch, a chipmunk was crushed to death by the animal’s own handler; 27 sheep, goats, and other animals died from dehydration, exhaustion, or drowning during the filming of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey; and a tiger nearly drowned while filming Life of Pi. These are just a few examples of animals who have suffered on productions monitored by American Humane officials.
3. American Humane certifies sham “conservation” exhibitors that exploit animals for profit.
The agency has even given its Humane Conservation Certification to notorious abusement parks like the Miami Seaquarium, which has confined Lolita to the smallest orca tank in the world for more than 50 years and is responsible for egregious animal suffering, premature deaths, and failure to provide animals with even the bare minimum necessary for their survival.
5. American Humane has opposed laws and initiatives that would help animals.
The agency opposed California’s bullhook ban and other animal-friendly legislation in the state.
Bullhooks are weapons used by handlers to hit and punish elephants in order to force them to obey.
American Humane even refused to join the “No Reel Apes” campaign—an initiative supported by Dr. Jane Goodall to protect apes from being forced to perform in film and television—despite overwhelming evidence that using these animals is detrimental to their survival.
6. The problems start at the very top.
Despite American Humane’s sordid track record, its CEO is paid a hefty $700,000 annual salary—making vastly more than the nonprofit’s average employee. And the company’s chief veterinary officer is the former vice president of veterinary medicine for Petco, who apparently failed to ensure that animals at that chain’s stores received proper veterinary care.
American Humane’s chief operating officer used to be the vice president of a PR firm that attacks animal rights, environmental protection, and other humane groups.
After you’ve finished your holiday cooking, shopping, and decorating, why not kick back with a festive beverage to celebrate the season? Whether you’re partial to cocktails, mocktails, wine, or beer, we’ll help you find animal-friendly vegan holiday drinks you can sip (responsibly) all season long.
Many holiday cocktails, wines, and beers are already vegan, but some are made with ingredients like dairy, eggs, or honey, or they’re processed using fish bladders or bone marrow. This simple guide will help you find options that are kind to cows, chickens, bees, fish, and other intelligent animals.
Vegan Cocktails for the Holidays
Lots of holiday cocktails are vegan as is, and those that aren’t can easily be made with ingredients that don’t come from animals. Instead of eggs, try using aquafaba to get a foamy top on your whiskey sour. Hot toddies can easily be made with vegan honey, maple syrup, or agave nectar instead of honey stolen from bees. And there are endless options to replace cow’s milk and cream. Plus, there are tons of vegan eggnog brands on grocery store shelves! Here are some vegan liqueurs and recipes we love to help make your holiday cocktail dreams come true:
Add a splash of Baileys Almande to your morning coffee, or serve it over vegan ice cream for a rich dessert.
How to Find Vegan Wine
Most wines are vegan, but some are filtered with “fining agents” that sometimes include animal-derived substances like gelatin from fish bladders (called isinglass), casein (derived from milk), or bone marrow. Avoid those and go for a vegan wine instead—these use plant-derived fining agents like carbon, limestone, or bentonite clays. “Natural” and “unfined” wines like pét-nats (an abbreviation for “pétillant naturel”) are usually vegan because they aren’t clarified at all.
Of course, vegan wines are wonderful when enjoyed on their own, but there are also a few festive wine-based drinks that are delicious and crowd-pleasing. Mulled wine is made with red wine that’s infused with wintery spices and served warm. Sangria is similar but served cold, and it can be made with red, white, or sparkling wine. Don’t forget mimosas, too!
Beers, hard ciders, and hard kombuchas are usually vegan, but some are clarified with fish bladders or made with lactose from cow’s milk or honey. Barnivore.com offers an easy way to check whether your favorite options are animal-friendly. Plus, it has an extensive list of vegan wines and liquors.
Non-Alcoholic Drinks and Mocktails
Tons of non-alcoholic beverages are vegan, but the same filtering concerns can still be an issue. Try the vegan versions of these popular holiday mocktails:
The “most wonderful time of the year” can be a nightmare for animals—be sure to keep them in mind during the holiday season while choosing animal-friendly drinks and filling your tables with vegan food. For more tips, check out our vegan holiday guide, and keep it going all year long by ordering a vegan starter kit:
In the cruel Thai coconut industry, many monkeys are reportedly illegally abducted from their families and homes when they’re just babies. They’re fitted with rigid metal collars and kept chained or tethered. The teeth of some who try to defend themselves are allegedly pulled out.
The Thai government and companies that make coconut products claim that monkeys are no longer used to make goods for export—but PETA Asia’s newest investigation has confirmed that rampant abuse of primates is still going unchecked, and insiders in the Thai coconut industry are deliberately hiding forced monkey labor in their supply chain.
How can you hold these producers accountable? Since the Thai coconut industry continues to lie, the best thing you can do to help the monkeys it abuses is to avoid companies that source canned coconut milk from Thailand.
To make shopping simple, we’ve compiled a list of brands* that have confirmed that they don’t source their canned coconut milk products from Thailand:
Brands That Sell Non-Thai Canned Coconut Milk
Cha’s Organics
Coco Fresh
CocoGoods Co.
Coco Lopez
Delta Coco
Fiesta Tropicale
Good & Gather
Goya
Jiva Organics
Natural Value
Nature’s Greatest Foods
Trader Joe’s
Vita Coco
Wild Harvest
*This list is not comprehensive and may be updated at any time in accordance with the findings of PETA Asia’s investigations or new information received by PETA entities.
By purchasing from brands that support monkey-free coconut-harvesting methods, you’ll be helping to end the cruel practice of exploiting vulnerable monkeys while also sending a powerful message to companies that make products from coconuts picked using abusive methods.
Take Action for Chained, Abused Monkeys
Curious, highly intelligent monkeys are denied mental stimulation, companionship, freedom, and everything else that’s natural and important to them—all so they can be forced to pick coconuts.
After learning from PETA that in the cashmere industry, goats scream in pain as their hair is torn out, online home goods retailer Overstock.com banned products made from the material. The decision is another example of its stellar record on animal protection, which also includes bans on fur, badger hair, mohair, angora, alpaca, and exotic skins. To celebrate, we gave the company a Compassionate Business Award and sent over an adorable cake! We’ve also put together a list of some of our favorite animal-friendly home goods from Overstock.com to make your space cozier than ever.
Shop these cashmere-free finds from Overstock.com:
If you prefer a more traditional vibe, Windsor Home’s Cashmere-Like Throw Blanket features a tartan plaid pattern. Both these options are made from animal-free materials that are durable and machine-washable—perfect for busy households with kids or animal companions.
Overstock.com has tons of other unique animal-free bedding materials, like this “imitation micro-mink” comforter filled with a warm down alternative—not birds’ feathers.
The online retailer is also your one-stop shop for rugs. Add this White Faux Sheepskin Area Rug to any space for a touch of warmth that no animal was killed for.
Handwoven jute is another option that adds a natural, textural element to a room. It’s available in a variety of patterns and colors, from this geometric style to this “coastal grandma” chic blue shade.
Keep animals in mind when you’re shopping for your home—look out for items made from cashmere, wool, fur, leather, down, or any other animal-derived material. With so many animal-friendly options on the market, there’s no reason to buy home decor made from goats, sheep, rabbits, cows, or any other animals.
While you’re at it, urge H&M to follow Overstock.com’s example by dropping cashmere and mohair:
Did you know that around 300 million turkeys are killed in the U.S. each year, many for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners? On factory farms, these kind, intelligent, feeling individuals endure short, stressful lives and are often unable to engage in natural types of behavior (yes, even on “humane” farms).
This Thanksgiving, make the compassionate choice to keep turkeys and all other animals off the table. To help with your search for the perfect centerpiece for your holiday feast, we’ve found restaurants, stores, and delivery services across the U.S. that can now boast about their vegan roasts. That’s because they’ve all earned a top spot in PETA’s national Vegan Roast Boast Awards. Here are the winners:
We love this savory and moist soy-free vegan roast, which features an Italian-inspired organic apple, sage, and “sausage” stuffing. The meal serves six to eight people and comes complete with an Organic Mushroom and Wine Gravy and Organic Cranberry Sauce. Just add nondairy mashed potatoes and a pumpkin pie and you’ll have your whole meal ready in no time! Three Girls Vegan Creamery even ships its holiday roast nationwide for out-of-towners to enjoy, but locals can pick theirs up until the day before Thanksgiving.
Seitan Turkey Breast with ‘Giblet’ Gravy (Green New American Vegetarian, Phoenix and Tempe, Arizona)
Green’s ThanksLIVING meal features a crispy, crusted seitan “turkey” breast with a savory “giblet” gravy, and none of it contains any ingredients that harm turkeys or any other animals. It also comes with sides like Roasted Garlic Smashed Potatoes and Fried Brussels Sprouts as well as a Winter Berry Organic Oat Granola Cobbler for dessert.
Shaved House Made Juicy Roasted Seitan Turkey (Parlor City Vegan, Binghamton, New York)
This juicy, roasted seitan turkey is part of Parlor City Vegan’s Thanksgiving Feast, which comes in individual and family sizes. You can also get some tasty vegan sides to complement the main dish (Creamy Truffle Mac & Cheese, please!). Meals are available for local delivery or store pickup on Wednesday, November 23. Add a Thanksgiving Treat Box or an apple, pumpkin, or peach pie if you really want to impress your guests.
Stuffed Holiday Roast (Love Again Local, West Chester, Pennsylvania)
Love Again Local is a vegan deli and sandwich shop offering a tasty stuffed roast that’s perfect when served over veggies and basted for extra moisture and flavor. It’s available for in-store pickup on its own with sides of your choice, or you can choose the Holiday Feast Bundle, which includes the roast, gravy, mac and cheese, and a heart-shaped pumpkin cookie cake.
Crispy Skin Turkey (The Butcher’s Son, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California)
The Butcher’s Son has various vegan offerings, including a 1-pound vegan roast, sausage stuffing, shepherd’s pie, cheesecakes, and eggnog, available for local pickup at both its Berkeley and Los Angeles locations and for nationwide shipping. Its “turkey” roast uses a soy paper wrapping that crisps up just like skin, but no animal had to die for you to enjoy it.
Nut Loaf (Lovin’ Spoonfuls, Tucson, Arizona)
Sometimes a savory nut loaf is exactly what you want for your Thanksgiving centerpiece. This cashew-based one from Lovin’ Spoonfuls uses simple ingredients packed with flavor. Plus, it’s on the regular menu, so you can enjoy it year-round.
Stuffed Turkey (The Herbivorous Butcher, Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Vegan butcher shop The Herbivorous Butcher offers this 2.5-pound sage-spiced stuffed vegan turkey roast, along with 1- and 2-pound unstuffed roasts. The store’s Turkey-Free Feast, available for free nationwide shipping or local pickup, includes other vegan meats and cheeses, marshmallows, and a gravy mix.
Smoked Tofu Chickwheat Roast (Monk’s Meats, Brooklyn, New York)
Monk’s Meats is a vegan barbecue spot that offers a special Thanksgiving menu, including its massive 5-pound Smoked Tofu Chickhweat Roast made with a proprietary blend of wheat, chickpeas, and tofu. It comes with chestnut fennel stuffing, is wrapped in yuba skin, and is rubbed with vegan sage butter before being smoked over hickory hardwood. Local pickup and delivery have been available since November 3.
Holiday Roast (Grass Fed, Rochester, New York)
Vegan butcher shop and deli Grass Fed has a stuffed and unstuffed Holiday Roast made from seitan with a mushroom, fennel, and leek stuffing. It’s also offering gluten-free Thanksgiving soy curls in a mushroom gravy, mushroom pâté, and a Sriracha-lime cheese ball for the holidays. Preorder is available with local pickup on November 17 and 18.
House Made Whole Apple Cider Basted Vegan Turkey Roast (Planted Table, Oakland, California)
Bay Area delivery service Planted Table’s vegan turkey roast is made with savory roasted apples, carrots, and celery and covered with a crispy “skin.” You can also get several delicious sides, including Mom’s Cornbread Stuffing, Risotto Stuffed Acorn Squash, and a House Smoked Cauliflower Roast. Place your order for local delivery now through November 20.
Majani’s Tofu Turkey is herb-crusted and roasted to perfection and can be ordered along with Cornbread Dressing, Mac & Cheese, Collard Greens, and a Sweet Potato Pie.
If none of these roasts are available near you, don’t worry! Most grocery stores stock vegan turkey and ham roasts for the holidays—you’re sure to find offerings from Tofurky, Field Roast, and Gardein available near you. Also, check with your local vegan or vegetarian restaurant to see if it’s offering roasts or other holiday meals for pickup.
Help animals year-round by going vegan! Order a free vegan start kit today to learn more:
Are you supporting animal suffering with your skincare routine? Everyone wants to keep their skin looking healthy and soft, and retinol is a popular option in the skincare game. But some companies exploit animals for skin-smoothing products. Make sure that the retinol products you buy are vegan (no animal-derived ingredients) and that the companies don’t test on animals. PETA put together some cruelty-free retinol choices so you can be kind to animals while being kind to your skin.
Created by a Swiss dermatologist, this PETA-approved business sells an advanced retinol serum with a proprietary time-release technology to minimize irritation. Purchase the product on the company’s website or find it on Amazon.
Handmade in Nevada, plant-based, and PETA-certified cruelty-free, Hylunia’s wrinkle-fighting retinol won’t steer you wrong. This company avoids cruelty to animals and instead tests all its products on consenting humans—its own staff!
Sustainable and developed by a dermatologist, this cruelty-free company offers a lightweight retinol serum that leaves your skin feeling velvety-smooth. Find it online from multiple retailers.
This PETA Business Friend offers a super-serum made with a popular retinol alternative called “bakuchiol” along with other vegan ingredients to help brighten and plump your skin. Get it shipped for free by ordering from the company’s website if you’re in the U.S.
This PETA-certified animal test–free company offers a line of “age-defying” plant-based retinol alternative products that can be found at Target, Whole Foods, and other stores across the U.S.
No animals were exploited for this line of retinol products—or any other product—from Acure. Find this rejuvenating line at various stores, including Whole Foods, Target, and Ulta Beauty.
This widely available makeup and skincare brand has a line of phyto-retinol–based products including a lip treatment and a night concentrate that can be found at Target, Sephora, and other stores.
This humane company offers multiple retinol-based products, from an anti-wrinkle eye treatment to an anti-aging shea body lotion. Find them online or at stores such as Target and Ulta Beauty.
This compassionate company checks all the boxes, and you can easily find its products at Target, Whole Foods, and Ulta Beauty locations all across the U.S. Its retinoid line includes face masks, creams, serums, and a face wash.
Available at Target and other stores, this company’s products are made with bakuchiol, a plant-based alternative to retinol, to give you the skin-renewing results you’re looking for—and you won’t have to worry about where the ingredients came from.
Dermelect has a number of options to choose from to brighten your skin and target fine lines, from its Skin Renewal Kit to a retinol alternative treatment. Find the brand online on its website or Amazon.
Made in the U.S., this skincare brand is free of animal-derived ingredients, synthetic fragrances, and artificial coloring. It offers a small collection of moisturizers that feature plant-derived retinol as a main ingredient to keep your skin looking fresh. Find it on Amazon.
Created by celebrity dermatologist Dr. Karyn Grossman, this vegan company plants a tree with every order placed on its website. You can also find the brand on Amazon.
Made in the U.S., this vegan skincare brand is dermatologist-recommended and a member of the PETA Beauty Without Bunnies program. The anti-aging serum is available for purchase on its site.
With so many items to choose from, there’s no reason to buy something that’s been tested on sentient individuals who can’t give consent. Animals aren’t test tubes—they’re thinking, feeling beings who deserve respect. If a brand isn’t certified animal test–free by PETA, it’s likely conducting painful and unnecessary experiments on rabbits, mice, and other animals. So next time you buy a skincare product, whether it’s retinol to keep your youthful glow or a simple moisturizer, remember to check the label to see if it is tested on animals or contains any animal-derived ingredients.
Everyone knows the holidays can be hectic, which is why making the best use of your time can be the difference between chaos and peace this season. If spending less time shopping and more time relaxing sounds good to you, Fake Meats’ one-stop shop can help. This online grocer sells all-vegan items, from your favorite meaty roasts to all the other essentials you might need to make your celebrations shine. You can find them all and have them delivered right to your front door—easy as vegan pumpkin pie!
Plus, since Fake Meats is a PETA Business Friend, you’ll be helping us continue our vital work for animals year-round. Fake Meats also teamed up with us to send Tofurky roasts to journalists across the country, so everyone has the chance to see how delicious and easy vegan holiday meals can be.
These products from Fake Meats will help you make the tastiest animal-friendly holiday meals.
Vegan Turkey and Chicken Roasts
You may love the holidays, but there’s no denying they’re a nightmare for animals—especially the roughly 300 million turkeys who are killed in the U.S. each year for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Luckily, many brands are making stunning vegan centerpiece roasts, and Fake Meats has them in stock:
Pigs are playful, smart, and social individuals. They simply want to live, not end up as part of your holiday spread. Choose one of these ham-like roasts instead:
If you’re wondering how to put together your vegan holiday parties, our Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year’s Eve guides can help. Make your list, and head to Fake Meats to place your order in time:
Vegan fashion brand NOIZE has shown the world how fashionable it is to have compassion for animals. Now, it’s teaming up with PETA to launch a new display in the heart of Montréal’s Eaton Centre, just in time for fall and winter shopping. We’re asking shoppers to say no to items made with leather, down, wool, and fur—all of which are cruelly obtained materials that animals are killed for.
Down Is Cruelly Obtained—Stay Warm With a Compassionate Option
Birds suffer immensely when imprisoned by and eventually killed in the down industry. Many geese are plucked alive—workers tear the feathers from their sensitive skin multiple times throughout the animals’ short lives. The birds shriek as they’re restrained, sometimes with a human’s entire bodyweight pressing on their delicate necks. Many brands now offer recycled polyester, down made from flowers, and other high-performance feather-free insulators that don’t harm animals.
Here’s Why Wool Isn’t Cool
Investigators from PETA entities have visited shearing sheds around the world, and no matter what those operators claimed about welfare standards, extreme abuse of sheep is rampant in the wool trade. Video footage—compiled in 14 exposés of 117 wool industry operations on four continents—shows gentle sheep being beaten, stomped on, and kicked, including in the face. We can stay warm in vegan textiles, such as organic cotton, flannel, Tencel, and even recycled plastics.
Suffering Is Never Stylish—Here’s How Vegan Fur Saves Lives
Whether it came from an animal on a fur farm or one who was caught in nature, every fur coat, trinket, and bit of trim caused an animal tremendous suffering—and took away a life. Animals on fur farms spend their entire lives confined to cramped, filthy wire cages. Fur farmers use the cheapest and cruelest killing methods available, including suffocation, electrocution, gas, and poison. Coyotes caught in painful steel-jaw traps have been known to attempt to chew off their own legs to escape. Don’t contribute to this torment—only ever buy vegan fur.
NOIZE knows how vile all of these materials are and how bad they are for the environment, so this fashion-forward apparel brand uses sustainable, animal-free options—such as eco-friendly recycled fabric, ECONYL’s reclaimed nylon, organic cotton, algae-based material, hypoallergenic vegan wool, and many more “PETA-Approved Vegan” components—instead.
You can help animals by urging fashion brands like Urban Outfitters to ban leather, feathers, wool, fur, and all other materials that are unfriendly to animals:
To celebrate the Day of the Dead, how about some delicious vegan bread? We identified the top five vegan pan de muerto locations in or near Los Angeles, and we’d like to invite you to discover them with us!
But first, here’s a bit of baking background: In Mexico, Día de los Muertos traditionally includes an array of rituals, a particularly notable one of which is the design and placement of an ofrenda or “altar of the dead.” On November 1 and 2, this sacred practice pays tribute to those who have passed and welcomes them into the afterlife. A variety of distinctive offerings are placed on the altar, such as sugar skulls, marigold flowers, seasonal fruits, tablecloths made with papel picado, photographs of the deceased, dishes and drinks that used to be their favorites, and pan de muerto or “bread of the dead.”
Celebrate alongside us by seeking out these five favorite spots:
If you’re not in or near Los Angeles, Soy Concha Bakery offers nationwide shipping.
As we send you off to these doughy destinations, take a moment to pause and ponder Paz with your pan. In his book The Labyrinth of Solitude, the brilliant Mexican poet Octavio Paz wrote a section on Día de los Muertos with two striking yet simple lines (translated here by Lysander Kemp):
Death is a mirror which reflects the vain gesticulations of the living.
Our deaths illuminate our lives.
Reflecting on our own lives while celebrating a deceased loved one provides an excellent opportunity for resolving to make more compassionate decisions. When it comes to bread or any other food, choosing vegan will always illuminate our lives, as well as saving those of animals. Some bread contains animal-derived ingredients like eggs, butter, or honey, stolen from exploited chickens, cows, and bees, respectively. Our eventual deaths will be more joyously celebrated if we gain greater awareness of other lives around us and break vegan bread.
Holiday traditions are comforting, but sometimes we have to get creative and find new ways of doing things. This is nothing new to vegans, who excel at modifying their families’ traditions and cherished recipes and creating even better versions that don’t harm animals. Most supermarkets, including Safeway and Sobeys, now stock a variety of animal-free options—from dairy-free butter to vegan chicken—so swapping ingredients is a snap.
Sometimes, our favorite foods are already vegan. We call these gems “accidentally vegan.” But there’s also a vegan version of nearly everything! Just be sure to check food labels for sneaky ingredients like honey. Here are some of our favorite easy-to-find holiday products:
Vegan Turkey and Ham
Also known as “roasts,” vegan turkey and ham options are available at most major grocery store chains across the country, including these stores: Key Food, Gelson’s Markets, Associated Supermarket Group, MOM’s Organic Market, Vallarta Supermarkets, and Price Chopper—as well as Boycemode, MamaSezz, and Veestro among meal-delivery services. Other major grocery store chains that offer vegan roasts include Whole Foods, Publix, Target, Kroger, and Trader Joe’s. They’re also available from online retailers such as Vegan Essentials.
Daiya makes frozen vegan cheesecakes that come in a variety of flavors. Claim Jumper, Marie Callender’s, and Costco all make “accidentally vegan” pies in flavors like apple, cherry, peach, and raspberry. Serve them all with vegan whipped cream!
Vegan Baking Essentials
Vegan versions of baking essentials like butter, eggs, and chocolate chips are all readily available at most grocery stores.
The dairy industry is in despair. Plant-based milks are giving it a run for its money, dairy factories are closing and reopening as nut-based milk companies, and major ice cream companies like Ben & Jerry’s and Breyers are rolling out vegan flavors galore. But what about butter and margarine? Now there are more vegan butter brands “spreading the love” than ever before, so it’s easy to help protect cows from abuse. But don’t just take our word for it—check out some of these products for yourself!
As if you needed any more proof that the vegan revolution is here, Country Crock has launched its own dairy-free and vegan “plant butter.” It comes in two forms—sticks and spread—and it’s available in olive, almond, or avocado oil varieties.
With all the demand for vegan products, it’s no surprise that I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter has released a new “It’s Vegan” spread. The new buttery spread is made with a blend of plant-based oils, purified water, and salt and contains no partially hydrogenated oils.
Organic Buttery Coconut Oil? Yes, please! Nutiva’s “butter” is made from certified organic, non-GMO plants, including sunflower, coconut, and mint. Try it melted over popcorn for a divine snack.
Check out this simple way to make your own vegan buttery spread from aquafaba (canned bean juice):
Have you been thinking about going vegan for the animals, your health, and the environment? There’s never been a better time to make the switch! Order our free vegan starter kit to help you make the transition:
Whether it’s opening a vegan hot cocoa packet, drizzling in some chocolatey syrup, or mixing cacao with nondairy milk and sugar, there are many means to getting your mittens wrapped around a mug of vegan hot cocoa.
Some hot cocoa brands are premixed with cow’s milk, but who needs that? Stop supporting the cruelty inherent in the dairy industry and choose vegan.
The Double Chocolate Hot Cocoa mix comes in single packets and also in a tin. peppermint variety is also vegan, should you prefer a minty twist to your cocoa.
Hershey’s Cocoa
Both the original and the Special Dark varieties are vegan. In fact, any cacao powder will make great hot cocoa! Simply mix with nondairy milk and sweetener of choice.
This box contains 10 single-serving reishi mushroom cacao powder packages. Reishi mushrooms are said to have qualities that help people find a sense of calm, so this drink may help your body relax.
This single-origin Ecuadorian cocoa is full of chocolate’s healthy benefits—such as antioxidants, fiber, and minerals—and it contains more flavonoids than green tea, blueberries, and red wine.
Not a cook? That’s OK! You can order vegan Thanksgiving dinner online from meal-delivery services, pick up your animal-friendly feast at a grocery store, or order takeout. Serving Thanksgiving dinner this year is as easy as vegan pie. (Oh, yeah—there’s pie.)
Order Vegan Thanksgiving Dinner Online and Have It Shipped to Your Doorstep
The Butcher’s Son
Order vegan Thanksgiving dinner from The Butcher’s Son, an all-vegan online grocery store. Impress your guests with the vegan deli’s Crispy Skin Turkey Roast, Sausage Stuffing, Classic Eggnog, and Whole Cheesecake, or make things even easier and simply order the Vegan Feast.
The Herbivorous Butcher in Minneapolis is another all-vegan delicatessen serving up some epic Thanksgiving delivery options. For $115, you’ll get the Turkey-Free Feast—including Stuffed Turkey, Portuguese Sausage, Maple Bacon, Fig Brie, Olive Havarti, and Kelly’s Croutons—delivered right to your door.
We know and love Purple Carrot for its year-round vegan meal-delivery services, but the PETA Business Friend offers a seasonal vegan Thanksgiving dinner, too. For just $75, you’ll get the Quinoa Stuffed Delicata Squash with Garlicky Kale & Golden Raisins, Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Oyster Mushrooms & Garlic Kimchi Butter, Rustic Ciabatta Stuffing with Root Vegetables & Herb Sausage, Pear Cranberry Crisp with Walnut Crumble, Cranberry Sauce, and Classic Gravy. (Note: This is a meal kit, which means you’ll save a trip to the store and enjoy family time in the kitchen using the kit’s easy-to-follow instructions.)
If it’s just a roast you need, Three Girls Vegan Creamery has you covered. In Three Girls’ own words, its “Holiday Roast is a savory, and moist roast stuffed with ‘Sausage’, Apple, Sage Stuffing of Italian culinary tradition.” It also comes with mushroom gravy. Yum! Order yours for pickup if you’re a Connecticut local, or take advantage of Three Girls’ nationwide shipping.
Everything at Karma Baker is vegan (and gluten-free), including the epic Thanksgiving PieCake, which ships nationwide. The folks at Karma combined their all-time favorite holiday dessert classics—a pecan pie, a pumpkin pie, and an apple spice cake—to create the ultimate vegan Thanksgiving dessert.
If the traditional apple, pumpkin, or pecan pie isn’t your jam, consider serving a vegan cheesecake for Thanksgiving instead. Sirabella’s offers an assortment of flavors (chocolate, strawberry, and blueberry, just to name a few) that can be ordered online and delivered right to your front door.
Order Vegan Thanksgiving Dinner Takeout From These Chains
Veggie Grill
What would a vegan takeout list be without a Veggie Grill mention? For the umpteenth November in a row, you can get your vegan Thanksgiving to go from everyone’s favorite fast-casual vegan restaurant chain. The Thanksgiving Holiday Feast for four includes butternut squash, mac and cheese, turkey Wellington with walnut-mushroom stuffing, roasted garlic mashed potatoes with porcini mushroom gravy, green beans with everything-bagel butter, and cranberry sauce. Add an optional carrot cake or chocolate spiced pumpkin cake. Preorder by November 16 for pickup on either Tuesday, November 22, or Wednesday, November 23.
Last but not least, pick up your vegan holiday meal this year from your local Whole Foods store. The best part (other than that it’s vegan) is that you have options! Choose from Cider-Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Pepitas, Chef Chloe Coscarelli’s Vegan Mushroom Roast, vegan pumpkin pie, and so much more. For an easy, all-in-one option, opt for Chef Chloe Coscarelli’s Vegan Meal for Two, complete with vegan versions of all the Thanksgiving classics.
If none of the delivery services or chains above tickles your taste buds, try asking local vegan or vegan-friendly restaurants if they offer a vegan Thanksgiving to go. If you’re in the Los Angeles area, hit up Follow Your Heart Market & Café …
Spend less time in the kitchen and more with family and friends this holiday by ordering from one of the options above. For even more selections, see what Trader Joe’s offers:
As chain restaurants continue to add vegan options, it’s never been easier to find convenient vegan food wherever you live. Some rapidly growing chains don’t serve meat and dairy at all. At these vegan chains, you can find loaded burgers, vegan chicken sandwiches, filling salads, and so much more, all made without ingredients that harm animals. Cows, chickens, pigs, fish, and other animals used for food never get the chance to live the way nature intended. Instead, they are kept in cramped and filthy cages, genetically manipulated to grow larger or produce more milk, and slaughtered by the billions each year.
Man vs Fries is a Black-owned chain known for its loaded fries, burritos, and quesadillas, and after finding success in several cities, it’s launching a vegan version. Vegan vs Fries is a “cloud kitchen” operation, so it has no storefront but instead works out of other restaurant kitchens, and its products can be ordered through delivery apps like Postmates and DoorDash. Find one of its pop-ups in a city near you.
This upscale Los Angeles–based restaurant by chef Tal Ronnen is known for creative dishes, like Spaghetti Carbonara with a vegan egg yolk, Artichoke Oysters, and even a fish-friendly Bagel Tower with kelp “caviar” and “whitefish” salad made from hearts of palm. It also has locations in Calabasas, California, and Las Vegas.
Comedian Kevin Hart’s fast-food chain features a vegan menu with signature burgers, crispy “chicken” sandwiches, milkshakes, and other tasty, animal-friendly favorites.
Vegan restauranteur Pinky Cole is the mind behind Slutty Vegan, a chain known for its saucy, stacked burgers and sandwiches. The restaurant has several locations in the Atlanta area.
This vegan chain has locations in Austin, Texas; Denver; New York; Portland, Oregon; Seattle; and the San Francisco Bay Area. Its menu features a large selection of burgers piled with options like tempeh bacon, vegan blue cheese, and crispy onion rings. We also love its milkshakes and family-style fried “chicken” meal.
With three locations in Colorado, this fast-casual restaurant specializes in tasty vegan versions of American classics. That means cow-friendly burgers, juicy chicken-free chicken, and milkshakes.
Project Pollo is a drive-through chain with—you guessed it—vegan chicken as well as burgers, milkshakes, and other treats. It also has a “Pay What U Can” menu, which combats food insecurity and makes delicious vegan food available for everyone. Find it at various locations in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and Texas.
Monty’s is a Los Angeles favorite, with four locations across the city and another in Riverside, California. It specializes in vegan burgers served on soft egg-free brioche buns, along with loaded fries and tots.
Mrs. Goldfarb’s Unreal Deli, a brand known for its vegan deli slices, is launching the nation’s first vegan sub shop chain. Its subs (including the Unreal Albuturk’y Sub, The Reuben, and the Unreal Cheesesteak) are made with the brand’s signature proteins and Only Plant Based! vegan mayonnaise, dressings, and sour cream. The locations operate out of ghost kitchens, which means they’re only open for delivery or pick-up and don’t have a storefront for dine-in service. The chain plans to expand to cities nationwide—so far, it’s opening spots in Austin, Texas; Denver; Los Angeles; New York City; and Raleigh, North Carolina.
Fast-casual chain Veggie Grill expanded with a new delivery-only chain focusing on Mexican-inspired fare. Más Veggies Taqueria offers tacos, burritos, bowls, and nachos with Tex-Mex–style taco meat, shredded jackfruit carnitas, cauliflower asada, crispy poblano “Chickin,” and crispy vegan fish. As of now, the chain has locations in New York City; Seattle; and Long Beach, Los Angeles, and Pasadena, California—and other locations are expected to open soon.
Another Veggie Grill venture, Stand-Up Burgers offers animal-free burgers, wraps, salads, fries, onion rings, and milkshakes. The chain’s first location opened in Berkeley, California, and there are plans for expansion soon.
Another Veggie Grill concept is this takeout-only spot offering better-for-you bowls and salads made with greens, whole grains, superfoods, and vegan proteins.
Veggie Grill is a fast-casual spot with locations throughout California, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, and Washington. Its menu features delicious sandwiches, salads, and bowls, including the Buffalo Chickin’ sandwich, Classic Romaine Caesar salad, and the Tuna Melt. Look for seasonal specials, too.
Meat-free since 1994, Native Foods is an all-vegan chain with modern comfort food favorites like the Gastropub Burger and chef’s specials like the French Dip. You can find locations in Colorado, Oregon, Southern California, and elsewhere.
Plant Power Fast Food has several drive-through locations in California, where it sells veggie burgers, “chicken” sandwiches, fries, milkshakes, and more. Some locations even serve breakfast, including the “Chicken” & Waffle Sandwich and “Sausage & Cheese” croissant sandwich, which can be served with a fried vegan egg.
Modern Love is a vegan restaurant with locations in Brooklyn and Omaha, Nebraska. It’s run by vegan chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz, who is known for her blog, “Post Punk Kitchen,” and her many cookbooks. Specials here include house-made versions of fast-food favorites—like the Cheesy Gordita Crunch—alongside warming comfort foods and sweet treats.
This chain serves healthy burgers, sandwiches, salads, and sweets. Be sure to try the Air Baked Fries, served with a beet ketchup, or get your greens in with the Kale Caesar, which is topped with shiitake bacon, avocado, almond Parmesan, maple croutons, and cherry tomatoes. It has 10 locations in the U.S.
One of the largest vegan chains, Loving Hut has restaurants in Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. It serves a variety of dishes, from pad Thai and chow mein to burgers and BLTs.
Cinnaholic’s gourmet cinnamon rolls can be customized with 17 flavored frostings and 24 toppings, including its brownie bites, cookie dough, and vegan caramel sauce. It also sells brownies, cookies, and scoops of cookie dough. This chain is growing quickly, with 50 locations across the U.S. and Canada.
Café Gratitude is a restaurant chain known for its upbeat, healthy vibe. Some of its signature dishes include the “I Am Dazzling” Little Gem Caesar salad, the “I Am Glorious” Blackened Tempeh Wrap, and the “I Am Grateful” Café Gratitude Community Bowl. Visit one of its five Southern California locations.
Grab some vegan grub at this Canadian chain, where you can find stacked burgers, “ChickUn” sandwiches, gyros, milkshakes, and much more. It has locations in London, Toronto, and Windsor, and more are planned.
If you’re in Philadelphia or Washington, D.C., you can find vegan goodies at fast-casual chain HipCityVeg. Its Broad Street and Dupont Circle locations even serve breakfast daily, with items like the Breakfast Maple Crispy Chick’n.
VeganBurg boasts that it’s Sir Paul McCartney’s favorite place for a vegan burger, and we’re not surprised—this joint has tons of creative and delicious options. With locations in San Francisco and Singapore, VeganBurg hopes to expand to locations across the U.S. and worldwide.
In Black communities around the world, plant-based eating has been a part of traditions and cultures for centuries. Today, awareness of animal suffering, concerns for human health, and environmental issues are inspiring a new generation of Black leaders in the food industry to create real positive changes for animals, customers, and the planet.
The story of this restaurant is powerful. The children of its founder, chef Azla, chose a plant-based lifestyle over a decade ago, and she decided to begin modifying traditional recipes to please them, without sacrificing flavor or heartiness.
Cafe Organix is owned by NBA legend, proud vegan, and PETA pal John Salley, who says his restaurant is all about “well-seasoned and tasty vegan cuisine.” It will also carry frozen packaged goods, teas, and other delicious vegan products and will host regular community events.
Today PETA was at the grand opening of Café Organix in #SanBernardino. The 100% vegan café is co-owned by four-time NBA champion, #vegan, and TV host @thejohnsalley.
Find everything from coffee and cinnamon rolls to tacos, Beyond Burgers, and more! pic.twitter.com/ncmrSmWoqx
This vegan soul food pop-up and kitchen serves classics such as gumbo, mac and cheese, and fried “chicken” with sides of collard greens, baked beans, and cornbread.
This Chicago-based eatery made its way to the West Coast with the help of co-owner and vegan influencer Tabitha Brown. PETA chose Brown as our 2020 Person of the Year for her efforts to inspire others to live compassionately by going vegan. Swing by for a loaded vegan brunch, crispy empanadas, healthful kale salads, and so much more.
After having owned a traditional Ethiopian restaurant, chef Rahel Woldmedhin made the decision to open a new establishment that offers her native cuisine with an all-vegan menu. Since going vegan, she has experienced renewed energy and improved health.
Rollin Roots is a food truck that takes inspiration from the flavors of the American South and combines them with fresh ingredients like hearts of palm, oyster mushrooms, and banana blossoms.
Fresh, natural, and 95 percent organic, this Los Angeles–area restaurant has been perfecting home-cooked vegan cuisine for over 15 years in an effort to promote health through better eating.
NuVegan’s mission is to “expose your taste buds to the undeniably refreshing and delicious nature of eating natural. Things that are made for the soul should not only nurture, but satisfy the soul.” Delicious dishes include Vegan Fried Steak, the Vegan Fish Sandwich, and Vegan Barbecue Roast with Rice, and it also offers a full brunch menu. Celebrities such as Smokey Robinson (below) and Common are often dropping in to dine.
This restaurant’s website says, “We believe that our food is our medicine and we make it our heartfelt commitment never to compromise the quality of our food. Let Lov’n It Live take you to a world where good food is actually good for you! Come to visit us and experience our delicious, organic, living cuisine.”
Owner Pinky Cole started Slutty Vegan as a food truck before opening its first brick-and-mortar location, where it serves up vegan fried chicken sandwiches and plant-based burgers that are sure to satisfy.
Good Foods merges naturopathic health and vegan soul food with delicious results. Owned by Camilla Alfred, the deli and health food store also runs a community garden.
Majani means “green” in Swahili, which is appropriate for this South Shore vegan restaurant that uses fresh ingredients from local urban gardens and farms.
Moon Meals specializes in lunch and late night deliveries of at least 10 meals. Prepared meals are also sold in the “grab and go” section of select stores in the Chicago area.
The Land of Kush provides for any diner looking for delicious, healthy food. Its website promises, “You won’t believe it’s veggie!”—and with one look at its Facebook photos, we believe it.
This soul food restaurant, which CNN called “the shiniest rising star in the vegan world,” has two locations in the Detroit area. Popular dishes include the Seitan Pepper Steak, the “Catfish” Tofu, and the Smothered Tempeh.
This delivery-only vegan chain can be found in Detroit and several other cities across the U.S. It’s known for French fries loaded with toppings, including vegan carne asada and secret sauces.
Trio prides itself on being Minnesota’s first Black-owned vegan restaurant. Owner Louis Hunter opened it after spending two years in prison for protesting the death of his cousin Philando Castile.
Sweet Art creates indulgent vegan baked goods and serves a savory menu on weekends, including the Church Basement Plate, which comes with crispy cauliflower bites, mac and cheese, greens, black-eyed peas, and a sweet potato biscuit.
This restaurant and catering service offers more than 40 dishes, such as a Spicy Falafel Tray, Coconut Rice & Peas, Fried Plantains, and Thai Vegetarian Fried Rice.
The owners of this café believe that a plant-based lifestyle detoxifies your body and spirit. We can’t say that we disagree. It offers many juice and smoothie options, along with Fried Zucchini Patties, Fried Mushrooms Nuggets, Mushroom Pie, and so much more.
Founder Laiquan Harvey-Davis opened her Jersey City bakery with the help of her two sons. After she went vegan, she modified her classic desserts to be dairy- and egg-free. In addition to vegan cheesecakes, brownies, ice cream cakes, and other sweet treats, How Delish HD offers a small deli menu.
Seasoned Vegan is owned and operated by mother and son Brenda and Aaron Beener. Menu items include Lemon Crusted “Chicken” Nuggets, Pizza Quesadilla, a Po’Boy sandwich, and more.
Francesca Chaney started Sol Sips with the goal of making plant-based food accessible to all—that’s why it offers sliding-scale brunches and free cooking classes.
Just like the city it’s in, Urban Vegan Kitchen offers food from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Here, you can start your meal with Korean BBQ Wings, enjoy a lasagna entrée, and finish it off with a Mississippi Mud Pie for dessert.
House of Vegans owners Laquana Barber and Stefan Hawkins started their business after experimenting in the kitchen and feeding their friends and family. Hawkins is a former McDonald’s employee who went vegan after seeing firsthand how the fast-food industry works. Their restaurant is the first Black-owned vegan restaurant in Harrisburg.
This eatery and elixir bar serves fresh-pressed paninis, chlorophyll-rich live foods, cold-pressed juices, and immune-boosting fruit blends (aka “smoothies”).
Chef Troy Gardner brings years of vegan culinary training to his menu, which includes chicken fried steak and pizzas made with homemade cashew mozzarella.
Vegan croque madame?! Vegan Food House in Dallas has it, plus delicious Nashville hot chicken sandwiches, shrimp pesto tacos, and even a mac and cheese–stuffed Beyond Burger.
A regular weekend vendor at the Dallas Farmers Market, Vegan Vibrationz is known for its Vegan Crunchwraps and Oyster Mushroom Po’boys. If you’re lucky, you can also try a vegan Snickers bar.
Beyond Vegan serves sandwiches, burgers, wraps, and salads along with superfood-packed smoothies, juices, and teas. Try the Chicken Waffle Sandwich with some antioxidant-packed elderberry tea.
This bistro aims to make plant-based eating “accessible to everyone—not just through our chefs making delicious food, but also through incorporating our generation’s forward-thinking beliefs and style into everything we do.”
After a year of operating out of a food truck, Twisted Plants owners Arielle and Brandon Hawthorne have settled down in a brick-and-mortar location in Milwaukee.
Word on the street is that at least three Starbucks locations in Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia are testing some brand-new vegan food options, including a chicken-friendly version of its popular sous vide egg bites. Several selections also feature vegan chicken from celebrity-backed brand Daring Foods.
It’s a good step forward for Starbucks, a company that has committed to reducing its carbon footprint. More vegan food is one of the best ways to get there, but so is dropping the unfair surcharge on vegan milk—especially since cow’s milk is the company’s biggest contributor to its carbon footprint. Customers shouldn’t be punished for choosing options that are better for animals, the planet, and their own health, which is why we’re pushing the chain to drop the surcharge as other chains have already done.
Starbucks is testing two types of vegan sous vide egg bites made with a plant-based egg. The Plant-Based Spicy Chicken Sausage & Pepper Sous Vide Bites and Plant-Based Smoky Poblano & Black Bean Sous Vide Bites are great options for mornings when you’re on the go and you want to make sure you’re choosing a breakfast that’s kind to animals.
Plant-Based Spicy Chicken Sausage & Pepper Sandwich Mini
Another option is this sandwich mini, which comes with spicy Daring chicken in a savory vegan egg patty between slices of toasted bread. It’s warm, filling, and satisfying—and it pairs perfectly with your favorite nondairy drink.
Remind Starbucks that soy, oat, and nut milks shouldn’t cost a cent more than cow’s milk—which is cruel to cows, contributes to the climate catastrophe, and is indigestible to many humans:
Convenient and delicious prepackaged vegan breakfast burritos, sandwiches, and wraps are making their way into freezer cases. It makes sense that egg-free fare would become more popular as people learn of the egg and meat industries’ cruel practices. Keeping a few of these frozen vegan breakfast products on hand is sure to come in handy on mornings when you barely have time to sip your coffee before heading out the door. Enjoy!
Alpha Foods’ breakfast sandwiches feature a fluffy vegan egg patty, savory vegan meat, a warm English muffin, and a slice of melty vegan cheddar. They’re available in two flavors: Meatless Sausage and Meatless Spicy Chorizo.
There are 23 grams of protein packed into this quick, convenient breakfast sammy, which features Field Roast’s sage and pepper flavored sausage and a creamy slice of Chao cheese. Choosing this sandwich helps spare the lives of cows, pigs, and chickens.
Vegan Eggos are here! The brand known for its frozen waffles has teamed up with MorningStar Farms for this one-of-a-kind sandwich, which features two dairy-free Belgian Liège–style waffles with crispy, juicy fried vegan chicken.
Aldi’s house brand, Earth Grown, makes a ton of tasty vegan options, including this sandwich. The best part is that no intelligent, social chickens were killed for this breakfast option.
Frozen burritos are the simple solution to busy mornings, and these ones from Alpha Foods are made with healthy ingredients that are also animal-friendly. Flavors include Bac’n Scramble, Protein Supreme, Rockin’ Ranchero, and Meatless Sausage.
Looking for a quick, gluten-free breakfast option that isn’t just oatmeal? This soft wrap is filled with perfectly seasoned tofu, hash browns, and veggies.
This is not your typical corndog—it’s a vegan breakfast sausage wrapped in a slightly sweet pancake and served on a stick. We’re fans of the innovation. (There’s also a blueberry pancake flavor.)
“Humane” eggs aren’t a thing, so start your day with something that doesn’t hurt chickens. This tofu scramble breakfast bowl is also kind to pigs and cows, since it’s made with spicy soy chorizo and topped with vegan cheddar-style shreds.
Try the traditional Tofu Scramble served with hash browns or the Breakfast Scramble, which comes with country-style potatoes and vegan sausage on the side.
Start your day off on the right foot for animals by choosing a vegan breakfast, and then keep it going with lunch, dinner, and dessert! Our free vegan starter kit will give you recipe ideas for every meal.
Ahead of Halloween, we teamed up with model and actor Joanna Krupa and vegan beauty subscription service Kinder Beauty to launch an eeriesistable set of cruelty-free products to help turn anyone into a bonea fide beauty queen.
Now available for purchase, the Mystique Box will fly off the shelves, so grab yours soon.
This limited-edition Halloween beauty box is brimming with cruelty-free skincare treats and will help you banish stress. The proceeds from each box will support PETA’s doghouse program, which provides neglected “backyard dogs” with the shelter and care they need to survive the cold winter months. Over the years, Kinder Beauty has compassionately raised enough funds to build 52 sturdy doghouses. You can help, too, by trick-or-treating yourself to a Mystique Box this year.
So what’s in Kinder Beauty’s Halloween box?
Honua Hawaiian Skincare’s Hibiscus Beauty Booster
This antioxidant beauty potion gets its blood-red color from hibiscus flowers, which—along with astaxanthin and hyaluronic acid—will keep you hydrated and glowing long into Halloween night.
Onekind’s Dream Cream Nighttime Moisturizer
As ghosts appear and witches take flight, get your beauty sleep with this night cream. It’s a fast-absorbing but miraculously nongreasy elixir that feels like a dream and delivers the ultimate in skin repair. Sugarcane-derived squalane and rosehip oil lock in moisture, antioxidants even skin tone and treat fine lines, and barley seed and chamomile extracts soothe redness and irritation.
100% Pure’s Fruit Pigmented Lipstick
You’ll have perfectly blood-red lips once this sexy, devilish, vibrant lipstick pigmented with the reddest fruits—including plum and raspberry—works its magic. Pomegranate oil provides anti-aging and moisturizing benefits with a satin or matte finish.
Moonlit Skincare’s Slumber Bath Salts
Unwind in the moonlit shadows with slumber bath salts that scare away stress. A balanced blend of soothing essential oils—including lavender, frankincense, and geranium—moisturizes your skin so that you can enjoy a hauntingly lovely bath.
Ma Soirée’s Luna Nail Wraps
The perfect manicure to evoke your celestial spirit with a different lunar phase—from crescent to full—for each finger, these nail wraps allow you to achieve an exquisite salon-quality finish in no time at all.
Inked by Dani’s Cosmic Pack
Summon the spooky and chic with these mystical temporary tattoos that let you experiment with skin ink minus the commitment. From constellations to evil eyes, all these designs are hand-drawn using vegan ink.
Plus, each box includes a special limited-edition PETA sticker sheet.
Some personal-care companies still subject animals to cruel skin- and eye-irritation tests in which chemicals are rubbed onto their skin or dripped into their eyes. And some brands that don’t test on animals still use ingredients that were cruelly obtained from bees (beeswax or honey), sheep (lanolin), insects (carmine), or others. You can rest assured that the brands in this box are all cruelty-free. (Check our database to find out if your favorite personal-care products are vegan.)
Get it before it ghosts! The limited-edition Mystique Box is expected to sell out quickly.
On October 10, PETA Director of Social Media Ashley Frohnert spoke at Vegan Fashion Week in Los Angeles about the importance of vegan fashion in the sustainability movement—because sustainable fashion is vegan fashion.
The fourth annual Vegan Fashion Week was also a collaboration with Ukrainian Fashion Week in an effort to invite people to choose compassion and highlight the impact of human activity on the planet. The Sustainability & Ethics panel included Sylven New York designer and founder Casey Dworkin; Sentient designer, founder, and CEO Jimena Suárez Ibarrola; and Desserto cofounder Adrian Velarte.
Vegan Fashion Week has been a leader in the fashion industry by bringing together both emerging and established designers to showcase innovations in animal-free fashion. Brands and designers are pushing fashion forward with everything from leather made from food waste to down made from flowers.
Animal-derived materials like leather, wool, fur, feathers, and exotic skins are all major contributors to the climate catastrophe. Cow leather has nearly 10 times the negative environmental impact of non-animal leathers, like Desserto and Piñatex. Sheep “dip”—the toxic liquid used in the wool industry to rid sheep of parasites—contaminates waterways, damaging ecosystems and killing wildlife.
These materials also come at the cost of animals’ lives. Playful cows want to live, not be killed so that their skin can be made into shoes or a handbag. Sheep don’t want to endure terrifying and painful shearing—they’d much rather spend time with their flock and chomp on tasty plants.
PETA has worked for decades to expose cruelty to animals in the fashion industry. Even now, we’re pushing companies like Urban Outfitters Inc. to do better for animals and the planet by dropping cruelly obtained materials.
World Animal Day (October 4) is an international day of action for animal rights—a day to fight speciesism, or the misguided belief that one species is more important than another.
For this year’s World Animal Day, more than 400 academics from 39 countries put together a groundbreaking proclamation of animal liberation—the Montreal Declaration of Animal Exploitation—to speak out against the pervasive cruelty and exploitation of our fellow animals all over the world.
The authors of this groundbreaking declaration—experts in moral and political philosophy—agreed on “the need for a profound transformation of our relationships with other animals.”
“We condemn the practices that involve treating animals as objects or commodities. Insofar as it involves unnecessary violence and harm, we declare that animal exploitation is unjust and morally indefensible.”
The letter goes on to point out that other sentient beings have their own interests that are no less important than those of humans. Therefore, using other animals as if they exist for us to experiment on, eat, wear, or abuse for any other reason is morally unjustifiable.
“[I]t is well established that mammals, birds, fish, and many invertebrates are sentient – i.e., capable of feeling pleasure, pain and emotions. These animals are conscious subjects; they have their own perspective on the world around them. It follows that they have interests: our behaviours affect their well-being and can benefit or harm them. When we injure a dog or a pig, when we keep a chicken or a salmon in captivity, when we kill a calf for his meat or a mink for her skin, we seriously contravene their most fundamental interests.”
“From a political and institutional standpoint, it is possible to stop viewing animals merely as resources at our disposal.”
Looking toward a hopeful future in which animals are liberated from industries that use and kill them, the letter asks its readers to denounce speciesist practices: “[T]he end of animal exploitation is the only shared horizon that is both realistic and just for nonhumans.”
Help PETA End Speciesism on World Animal Day
Celebrate World Animal Day by joining PETA in taking action for our fellow animals. Here are a few ways you can help:
Are you planning a Latin American vacation soon? Or do you live in Latin America and want to explore new places that make vegan versions of your favorite dishes? PETA Latino is here to guide you. Whether it’s a vegan vacay or a date night in your own city, these animal-friendly spots across Latin America will make it easy to find delicious, totally authentic Latine dining experiences. You may want to bookmark this page and refer back to it when your trip finally moves beyond the group chat!
Chuí (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Chuí was founded in 2021, but it really started in 2019 when four partners imagined a vegan oasis in the middle of the bustling city of Buenos Aires. The menu—designed by chef Victoria Di Gennaro—includes a rotating selection of small plates, main courses, sourdough pizzas, and desserts, the majority of which are vegan. Don’t miss the wood-fired mushroom-and-potato pizza, which features a creamy pine nut sauce.
Fast & Vegan is a fully vegan grocery store that also offers catering for lunches and other events. Many dishes are inspired by traditional Bolivian food but are made with ingredients such as beans, seitan, and vegan cheese instead of animal-derived products. Try the Milanesa and one of the daily sopitas for a satisfying, hearty meal.
Fusion cuisine attracts people to this spot, and it doesn’t disappoint. Here, you can find vegan versions of classic dishes such as mushroom ceviche, tortas, nachos, tacos, empanadas, burgers, pasta, lomo saltado, and other Latine meals. Its mission as a restaurant is to showcase compassionate food and to be at the service of the community.
Katako Vegan offers burgers, pizzas, salads, sandwiches, and so much more—all 100% vegan. The dishes vary from simple and hearty to elevated and elegant, but they’re all made with animals in mind. The restaurant also helps raise awareness of and funds for local animals in need—such as Lucy, a goat who needed a new home.
This café offers all-day vegan dining with plenty of options, including açai bowls, Buffalo cauliflower tacos, falafel pitas, portobello mushroom burgers, and more. It’s also a great place to find indulgent egg- and milk-free cakes, which are perfect for celebrations or simply a midweek treat.
This laid-back restaurant was created for people to enjoy tasty fast food free of animal exploitation. Dishes include burgers, sandwiches, burritos, hot dogs, and other filling favorites. It’s also a hub for local animal activism and information about animal rights.
Established in 2011, this Mexico City restaurant crafts delicious food using fungi and plants. Owner Mariana Blanco started her vegan food delivery services with a Mexican favorite: tacos. The vegan menu now features many selections in addition to tacos, including burgers, chilaquiles, pizza, and even ramen and Korean hot pots.
A butcher shop without animals’ bodies? Planticería opened in 2019 and since then has focused on casual fare like burgers, sandwiches, salads, and desserts. But the real star of the show here are the “plantimeats,” or vegan meats: Plantiramy, Plantillopo, Choriplanti, Plantiham, Plantiburger and Plantironi. Here, you can buy perfectly seasoned animal-friendly meats to take home or enjoy in one of the many dishes on site.
You really can’t go wrong with vegan fast food. 10 de 10 offers an assortment of comfort food classics, including burgers, mac and cheese, fries, fried chicken, hot dogs, and beers. All the dishes are made without animal-derived ingredients, which makes it easy to choose compassionate options.
Om Healthy Food offers burgers, wraps, burritos, cakes, bowls, and pizzas, and all of it is 100% handmade and 100% vegan! Its mission is to change minds in Venezuela and to show people that vegan food is rich, fun, colorful, and healthy, in addition to being good for the environment and free of pain, fear, and cruelty to animals.
If you don’t live near any of these locations or aren’t traveling there anytime soon, you can always make your own meals at home using these delicious vegan recipes. Go vegan today and start making a difference for animals, the environment, and your own health.
We all have a responsibility to make the kindest choices possible and to do our best to reduce suffering of any kind for every kind. By going vegan, we can help turn the tide of history toward compassion—and spare animals’ lives in the process.
Don’t Eat The Homies—whose motto reads, “Your voice can change the world”—has evolved from its humble grassroots origins. The company was never meant to be a clothing brand—it was initially just a form of self-expression. It was created to spread a movement for peace and to inspire awareness of and compassion for the most vulnerable beings among us.
Animals are us, and we are animals. Like humans, our fellow animals feel joy, sadness, fear, and pain. We must learn to see their suffering as an extension of our own. Our differences don’t justify cruelty—and exploiting others simply because we can or because they’re different is wrong.
Be on the right side of history.
Proceeds from the sale of this shirt will support SOS, a PETA-backed program in which young activists around the U.S. and Canada are smashing the status quo of human supremacy.
The tee is now available for purchase, but it should fly off shelves quickly!
What do the Jonas Brothers, Travis Barker, Venus Williams, and Kevin Hart have in common? They started vegan companies! Some of these businesses focus on cruelty-free beauty products or animal-friendly fashion, while others are developing delicious plant-based foods. Actors are starting wine labels, musicians are creating food brands, and athletes are starting their own protein companies.
These compassionate celebrities are putting their fame and money to good use by starting vegan companies that don’t profit off the suffering of animals:
In addition to producing albums for stars such as Mariah Carey and TLC, Grammy-winning music producer Jermaine Dupri is a passionate vegan. So it’s not surprising that he started a cruelty-free ice cream company, which makes delightfully creamy desserts that don’t require cows to produce milk until their bodies give out. You can find JD’s Vegan at Walmart along with a ton of other vegan options.
Christie Brinkley is just one of many celebrities who owns a wine label. Her line of vegan wines, Bellisima, offers Prosecco and sparkling wines as well as zero sugar still wines. All the offerings are certified vegan, so you can sip your wine knowing that you aren’t drinking something that was filtered using the body parts of once-living animals.
Drummer and longtime vegan Travis Barker started this all-natural, cruelty-free wellness business to help nurture both mind and body. Other gummy companies may use gelatin in their products, but Barker uses fruit pectin instead. Gelatin is a protein created by boiling the skin, tendons, cartilage, and bones of animals in water.
Stranger Things actor Noah Schnapp turned the vegan world upside down when he introduced this plant-based hazelnut cocoa spread from his company, TBH. To be honest, PETA is thrilled to have another animal-friendly hazelnut spread. Some brands still use milk stolen from playful cows in their recipes—which, if you ask us, is one of the stranger things companies still do. Thank goodness for celebrities who want to change the world.
These celebrity siblings fell in love with a unique popcorn recipe after a rained-out concert in 2011. Created by the father of a longtime friend, it quickly became a backstage staple on their tours. Rob’s Backstage Popcorn, named after its creator, is made using sunflower oil instead of butter. You can buy the sweet and savory snack online or at Walmart stores nationwide. Crank your favorite JoBros song and chow down on some vegan popcorn.
Model and actor Cara Delevingne and her sisters started this Prosecco company with sustainability in mind. A few wines still filter their product using various animal-derived ingredients such as casein (milk protein), gelatin (protein from boiling animal parts), or isinglass (gelatin from fish bladder membranes). But this sustainable brand uses 100% vegan processes to keep its Prosecco both eco-conscious and animal-friendly.
Actors and musicians aren’t the only ones starting vegan companies—professional athletes are jumping in, too. Tennis superstar Venus Williams switched to plant-based eating after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease in 2011. After seeing the benefits of going vegan, she decided to help others do the same.
Made with fruits, vegetables, and other superfoods, Happy Viking’s protein powder proves that you don’t need to steal the flesh of sensitive animals in order to thrive.
Entrepreneur and legendary TV personality Rob Dyrdek created a vegan superfood company with his business partner Chris “Bernie” Bernard in order to strengthen people’s minds through what they eat. Not only was this brain-boosting food company started by a celebrity, several other celebrities have also invested in it. Including ingredients such as blueberries, dates, and pea protein, the company focuses on using only the good stuff and leaves out the cruel stuff, such as dairy and eggs, both of which are stolen from loving mothers.
Vegan comedian and actor Kevin Hart joined other celebrities starting cruelty-free companies with his VitaHustle. Hart and his wife, Eniko, created a vegan superfood drink after realizing that other such drinks, laden with added sugar, just weren’t doing it for them. They use fruits, vegetables, and other vegan superfoods to make a product that has all the benefits you’d expect but without the crash. Hart also owns a vegan burger restaurant in Los Angeles called Hart House.
NBA star Chris Paul entered the game with his own vegan snack company. Its starting lineup includes Cookies N Creme Popcorn and Classic BBQ Porkless Rinds. These craveable game-day snacks don’t hurt animals and are sure to be a slam dunk at your next watch party.
In addition to starting their own vegan companies, some celebrities have become ambassadors for brands they love:
Kim Kardashian, Snoop Dogg, and Kevin Hart (Beyond Meat)
One of the most widely known vegan companies, Beyond Meat has some serious star power behind it. The list of famous financial investors is impressive, but influencer Kim Kardashian, rap icon Snoop Dogg, and comedian Kevin Hart take it a step further. All three ambassadors star in advertisements for the vegan meat brand.
Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian (Daring Foods)
Daring Foods, the company behind a growing number of vegan chicken options, is backed by many celebrities. Various celebrities invest in the company, and both musician Travis Barker and influencer Kourtney Kardashian act as ambassadors for it.
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It’s a sign of the times that celebrities are choosing compassion when creating or promoting companies—something PETA has been working for since our inception.
Animals are individuals who deserve respect. They aren’t products or machines to be exploited for profit. The vegan companies listed on this page are proof that using animals is unnecessary and that choosing kindness can save lives.
You can join these celebrities in making a difference by ditching dairy and leaving animals off your plate: Go vegan!
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Latine-owned brands are at the forefront of the vegan leather industry, and many of them use innovative technology to create animal- and planet-friendly materials and goods. You can find everything from clothing and accessories to car interiors made without using the flesh of any animal. Hundreds of millions of cows are killed in the leather industry each year and don’t live in a way that’s even remotely natural. By choosing products made with vegan leather, you’ll have a significant beneficial impact on animals’ lives and on the planet.
PETA Latino has chosen some Latine brands that are leading the way with vegan leather materials and products:
Desserto is a “PETA-Approved Vegan” leather made from prickly pear cactus, a plant that grows throughout Mexico. ADRIANO DI MARTI is the company behind the sustainable leather, and its work even earned it PETA’s Compassionate Business Award. Desserto is used by many brands, including luxury handbag brand Fossil and major fashion retailer H&M.
Father-and-son team Alex and Gabriel Moreno created Fiquetex, a “PETA-Approved Vegan” material made from the fibers of the fique plant, which grows in abundance in Colombia. The company makes a nonwoven fabric and a durable vegan leather with the fibers.
Dr. Carmen Hijosa founded Ananas Anam, the company that created the pineapple-based leather called Piñatex. The unique textile is made from the fiber of pineapple leaves, which are a byproduct of the agricultural industry, so the material is sustainable and supports local farmers. Piñatex is used by many brands for shoes, purses, and even upholstery.
NUMERO 52 began as a brand that used the skins of cows for its leather products, but it turned to plant-fiber leathers after realizing just how horrible the leather industry is for animals and the environment. Now its clothing, footwear, and accessories are made with vegan materials such as Desserto, Piñatex, and ECONYL’s nylon made from fishing nets.
Looking for new vegan shoes? Argentinian store Jo Casal has something for every look, all handmade, without harming cows, snakes, alligators, or any other animal.
El Salvadoran shoe brand Hesed makes vegan leather shoes inspired by the goth, grunge, and punk styles, including creepers, combat boots, and platform heels.
Haydé Santillán founded LAHAY while studying fashion in Spain, where she realized that she wanted to apply handiwork from her home country of Mexico to her styles. LAHAY’s boots are made by Mexican artisans with Piñatex.
Lorena and Eduardo Vázquez founded Loly in the Sky in 2013, a shoe brand based in León that focuses on creating comfortable, fashionable footwear made with vegan-friendly materials from Mexico.
Mexican brand Pulaski makes footwear with the intention of limiting its environmental impact as much as possible. Because of that, it uses vegan materials and plants a tree with every purchase.
Insecta’s vegan backpacks and accessories are inspired by the insects of the Amazon, and they’re completely animal-free. The Peruvian brand uses Piñatex and a natural latex material from shiringa trees.
This Uruguayan shoe brand has a collection of vegan footwear, including sandals, boots, and mules crafted from various vegan materials, including Piñatex, Desserto, and a material made with recycled tires.
Vegan chicken, mock tuna, burgers that “bleed”—sometimes vegan food can come so close to the “real thing” that even flesh-eaters are fooled. But what’s the point of making plants look and taste like meat? And if vegans like meaty flavors, why don’t they just eat meat? Let us explain.
Vegans Stop Eating Meat to Spare Animals Suffering and Exploitation
Most people who go vegan were raised eating animal flesh and became used to how it tastes. However, once we realized that eating meat hurts animals, the planet, and our health, that taste wasn’t worth the cost. Whether it was watching a video of one of the many cows who escaped a truck bound for the slaughterhouse or looking into the eyes of our dog and noticing they’re the same color as a pig’s, that “lightbulb moment” led us to realize that we can’t in good conscience continue eating meat, eggs, or dairy.
It’s speciesist to eat another sentient being’s flesh. Our fellow animals aren’t here for humans to eat. It’s wrong to breed them, deprive them of a life worth living, and then kill them to satisfy our urges.
For a short and sweet answer to why vegans eat food that looks like meat, check out Thee Burger Dude’s video on the subject:
Hey Vegan Twitter! I made a video for our favorite question, feel free to bookmark for the next time somebody asks you this (later today probably). pic.twitter.com/ChloapLPXw
After going vegan, people may still crave some of the animal-derived foods they’re familiar with, since our taste buds can take time to adjust. Vegan meats, nondairy milk, and other vegan products can help bridge the gap and make it easier to enjoy the same flavors without harming animals. When a Beyond Burger tastes the same as eating a burger made of cow flesh, we know there’s no reason to continue eating anything that an individual suffered and died for.
Food Brings Us Together
Food is more than just sustenance—it’s a connection. Sharing a meal can help create new bonds and bring us closer together. Think of Thanksgiving, summer barbecues, Sunday brunches, and even just family dinners—the social element is what makes them stand apart from other meals. With Beyond Burgers, Tofurky Roasts, and fakin’ bacon, vegans can enjoy a meal that more closely resembles what others might be eating at these events. Taking these foods to get-togethers can also spark a conversation, which could encourage nonvegans to rethink their reliance on meat and other animal-derived products.
To Put It Simply, It’s Fun and It Tastes Great!
Turning tomatoes into tuna, cashews into stretchy mozzarella, and banana peels into pulled “pork” is a creative culinary challenge that many vegans love to take on. We know how to completely transform veggies and fruits into something totally different. And if you’ve ever watched even a single PETA video exposé of a farm, you know why eating a burger made from beans is much more appealing than one made from the flesh of a sensitive cow.
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Want to recreate the rainbow food trend at home but not sure how to do it? You might be surprised at how far you can get with just good ol’ fruits and veggies. Brands such as Rawnice and Just Blends—which sell natural food coloring powders—are making it super-easy to tint your food vibrant hues without using ingredients that harm animals. Some foods are typically dyed with animal-derived ingredients, such as squid ink, which is obtained by killing a sensitive squid or other cephalopod and extracting the ink from inside their body. Ditch those cruelly obtained ingredients—instead, try these plant-based options that will help you color your smoothies, baked goods, and other foods some of the dreamiest shades.
Pitaya powder: This vibrant superfood is made from pitaya—also known as dragon fruit—a yummy fruit known for its neon-pink skin and adorable black-and-white polka-dotted flesh and seeds. It’s the secret ingredient in that viral “pink sauce,” so why not give it a try with this bee-friendly version of the recipe from Thee Burger Dude?
Beets: Anyone who’s cooked a beet—or even just eaten one—knows how very magenta they are and how easily they can stain your skin. You can use puréed beets or beet juice to color foods any shade from a true red to a light pink. Beetroot powder makes it even easier. Just add a bit to your cake batter or pasta dough and watch the magic happen!
Hibiscus powder: The powdered version of this beautiful edible flower can be mixed into muffins, cupcakes, frostings, and even sauces in order to create a deep red color.
Red cabbage: This is one of the basic yet magical ingredients in unicorn noodles, which are about to become your latest obsession—if they’re not already.
Butterfly pea flower powder: This magically color-changing powder goes from blue to purple, so it’s in both categories. Find out all about it below.
Ube powder: Often used in Filipino dishes, ube powder is made from dried purple yams that have a lovely, slightly vanilla taste perfect for desserts.
Butterfly pea flower powder: Yes, it’s made from a flower, ’cause we’re just a bunch of unicorn fairies over here and that’s what we dye our food with. Butterfly pea flowers are usually made into a tea, but the powder made from them turns food a brilliant blue and transforms into purple if you add something acidic, like lime or lemon.
Blue spirulina: Spirulina—it’s fun to say and even more fun for dyeing foods. This powder, derived from blue-green–colored algae, is a powerful antioxidant—as if the power to rainbow-ify your food weren’t reason enough to use it.
Matcha green tea powder: Matcha is energizing and full of antioxidants. Add it to smoothies or other foods to achieve a rich, pastel-green hue.
Spirulina: This is the regular version of the vividly colored algae, which will give a beautiful green hue—plus a health boost—to your nice cream or other foods.
Turmeric powder: You probably have some sitting in your spice cabinet right now. This super-healthy root has an intensely bright yellow color and has been used as a dye for centuries.
Mango: If you’re looking for a richly colored yellow smoothie that tastes like a creamy tropical dream, look no further than mango!
Activated charcoal: Sick of all these rainbows and ready to embrace your dark side? Activated charcoal is a super-detoxifying supplement that can turn your foods into every anti-rainbow shade of gray and black. We get it—full-time unicorn life isn’t for everyone.
Black sesame: Available as a paste, a powder, or whole seeds, this ingredient has a nutty taste that can be used in savory or sweet dishes and gives them a rich black color.
Make life more colorful—while making it kinder for animals—by going vegan today! You’ll make a huge impact on the lives of cows, pigs, chickens, fish, and all others who are used for experimentation, food, fashion, entertainment, and more.
This dreamy creation can be found at the all-vegan, family-owned Conscious Creamery in Sacramento, California. The homemade waffle cone taco shell is filled with a creamy vegan vanilla gelato striped with a fudge ribbon and then dipped in delicious dark chocolate and topped with toasted almonds. And as an added bonus, it’s already gluten-free. This blast-from-the-past treat will have you asking, “Who needs an ice cream truck?” in no time.
If you ever find yourself in Detroit on a “Taco Tuesday,” you can stop by this vegan soft-serve spot for its twists on the classic choco taco. It offers options such as Blueberry Sweet Creem and Lavender Latte for the filling, depending on the season. Be sure to ask about its vegan toppings.
This Santa Clara, California, shop specializes in choco tacos, offering a variety of vegan options. Not feeling the classic? That’s OK! This place gives you the opportunity to customize everything but the vegan shell. You can pick your vegan ice cream (flavors change seasonally) and dip choice (dark chocolate or peanut butter) and then add up to three vegan toppings to perfect your creation. Taco ’bout choices!
Or maybe you’d prefer endless customization? We’ve got you covered with these build-your-own choco taco recipes that you can make from the comfort of your kitchen.
Flora & Vino’s Dark Chocolate ‘Choco-Tacos’
A bit different from your classic choco taco, this recipe calls for an actual corn tortilla taco shell instead of a waffle cone shell. It uses dairy-free dark chocolate rather than standard vanilla ice cream for the filling. Of course, it also uses dairy-free chocolate chips for the chocolate coating. Toppings are left up to you, but Flora & Vino offers the classic crushed peanuts, coconut, or chocolate chips as good options.
Spare cows and moove on over to these vegan options that are sure to have you screaming for more from here to sundae. Trust us—after trying a vegan choco taco, you’ll realize that dairy-based desserts are udder nonsense.
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