Cruelty Free Food Brands?!
- Instant Coffee (Folgers>bad, Nescafe>bad?, Maxwell?)
- Cereal (Kellogg's?, General Mills?)
- Peanut Butter (Skippy>bad, Peter Pan?, Smuckers?)
- Salad Dressing (Wishbone>bad, Kraft?, Pfeiffer?)
- Frozen Pizza (any cheese-free, meatless brands?)
- Canned Soup (Campbells?, Progresso?)
- Juice (V8?, Ocean Spray?)
- Margarine (Land-O-Lakes?, Fleishmann's?)
- Plastic Products (Glad>bad, Ziploc>bad, Reynold's?)
Please tell me which brands are good and if there are alternatives that are easy to find in regular stores (Safeway/Giant/CVS/RiteAid or Whole Foods/ HarrisTeeter), I do not buy online, and I would like products in the same price range.
Any suggestions welcome. Thank's a lot.
Answers: I am currently working on changing all products in my household to cruelty-free brands, I need help with the following food/kitchen items:
- Instant Coffee (Folgers>bad, Nescafe>bad?, Maxwell?)
- Cereal (Kellogg's?, General Mills?)
- Peanut Butter (Skippy>bad, Peter Pan?, Smuckers?)
- Salad Dressing (Wishbone>bad, Kraft?, Pfeiffer?)
- Frozen Pizza (any cheese-free, meatless brands?)
- Canned Soup (Campbells?, Progresso?)
- Juice (V8?, Ocean Spray?)
- Margarine (Land-O-Lakes?, Fleishmann's?)
- Plastic Products (Glad>bad, Ziploc>bad, Reynold's?)
Please tell me which brands are good and if there are alternatives that are easy to find in regular stores (Safeway/Giant/CVS/RiteAid or Whole Foods/ HarrisTeeter), I do not buy online, and I would like products in the same price range.
Any suggestions welcome. Thank's a lot.
I can understand where you are coming from but there is not a simple answer to your question.
The problems is that whilst some companies make products for vegans and by definition if it is vegan it is made without animal products so will be cruelty free. Those same companies can also be making products on another production line that is full ingredients not cruelty free. There are very few truly cruelty free companies and it would be difficult to buy all your groceries with only these products.
So, short of hours of research on every corporation that puts a brand out on our supermarket shelves we have to decide what our definition of cruelty free is.
For myself, I try to buy from ethical based companies but also from the major brands as long as the product itself is cruelty free. This is a great question and one that is an ongoing struggle for me to reach a conclusion. I buy all my toiletries from my local health store where the vegan logo is displayed. I get my vegetables delivered from a local delivery system that sources from local farms. For the rest I just read the ingredient labels very carefully.
Does that help at all?
http://www.peta.org/accidentallyVegan/
I don't support PETA, but I find this website useful. =]
The way I look at it, if you ONLY buy from companies that are strictly vegan, you aren't making it known there's a demand for vegan and animal friendly products. Hell, even Boca is owned by Kraft. The more vegan-friendly products out there, the easier it is for one to go vegan, and the less water the "but it's haaaaaaaaaaaard" whine holds.