Free Stuff Friday: Teese Vegan Cheese Giveaway! October 9, 2009

Posted by Tiffany Wright at October 9, 2009 9:29 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 243 ) | TrackBack If you haven't seen the video from PETA's investigation into a Pennsylvania Land O' Lakes supplier, watch it now. The cows at this dairy factory were living in the most disgusting conditions. I'm talking living and sleeping in their own feces and suffering from serious health problems like pneumonia, skin infections, and parasites to name a few. Severe infection of the teats and pus-filled pockets, or abscesses, were also common—some even burst and oozed pus as the cows were being milked! If you didn't believe the kind of funk lurking in that gallon of milk before, see for yourself.

Thank goodness for soy! This week, you can win a pack of dairy-free Teese Cheese—Mozzarella-style. Teese Cheese, made by the Chicago Soydairy, has a taste and texture that makes it one peta2's favorite vegan soy cheeses and it's trans fat and gluten free! That's right my friends—we give you nothing but the best.

For your chance to win one of five packs of the uber popular Mozzarella-style Teese Vegan Cheese, all you got to do is comment below with what you'd make with the cheese if you won. The five people whose comments sound the most delicious, will be chosen as our winners. Comments must be received by October 16 and the five winners will be notified on October 19.

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Land O'Lakes Supplier's Owners Charged With Cruelty September 29, 2009

Posted by Marta at September 29, 2009 7:27 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 9 ) | TrackBack

The following is a guest blog from PETA's Alisa Mullins. Please take a look and then make the pledge to try veganism.
-Marta

At a news conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, today, PETA unveiled footage from our five-month undercover investigation of a filthy factory dairy farm in Pennsylvania that supplies milk to St. Paul-based Land O'Lakes, the largest seller of branded butter in the U.S.

Undercover Footage Shot Inside a Land O' Lakes Supplier

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Our investigator documented abuse and neglect of cows and calves at the facility, including that cows who were in terrible pain and resisted standing were electro-shocked and jabbed with the blade of a pocket knife in an effort to force them to move and that sick and injured cows were left to languish—often so weak that they couldn't even get out of their own waste—for days and even weeks without veterinary care. In one case, workers were told to wrap an elastic band around a cow's gangrenous, infected teat in order to "amputate" it. The cow's condition deteriorated for 11 days before she finally died.

It's a violation of Pennsylvania law to neglect animals, deprive sick and injured animals of veterinary care, and deny animals clean and sanitary shelter. Charges against the farm's owners have been approved and filed by a local magisterial district judge. The factory farmers are innocent until proven guilty, of course, but they would face up to 90 days in jail and $750 in fines if convicted.

We have also called on Land O'Lakes to buy milk only from farms that meet our 12-point animal welfare plan, which would prevent much of the suffering we documented at this farm.

For those of you who can't stomach the thought of eating butter after watching that video, take a minute to tell Land O'Lakes to implement our 12-point animal welfare plan. Then check out one of the many vegan butter alternatives that are widely available. My personal favorite is Earth Balance margarine. It's 100 percent vegan and free of trans fat, and it tastes even better than butter, at least to my taste buds. Best of all, it's also 100 percent free of cruelty to cows and calves—as well as pus.

-Alisa