PETA’s First-Ever Vegan BBQ Week Urges Firing Up the Grill Without Burning up the Planet
PETA’s First-Ever Vegan BBQ Week Urges Firing Up the Grill Without Burning up the Planet
London – To entice meat-eaters to go vegan, empower businesses to promote vegan food, and inform people about the meat and dairy industries’ role in the climate crisis, PETA is kicking off its inaugural Vegan BBQ Week from 2 to 11 July, the peak of the summertime barbecue season. The group is collaborating with several leading brands and retailers for the event:
- Dragonfly Foods is giving a 20% discount on its “mixed case”, which includes the brand’s popular smoked tofu and a variety of tofu burgers.
- Gauthier Soho’s bespoke Gauthier Home x PETA Vegan BBQ Box of gourmet dishes from the iconic restaurant has already sold out.
- Rudy’s Vegan Butcher has a BBQ box featuring a selection of vegan meat cuts and a bottle of wine.
- VBites’ VBQ Party in a Box is brimming with burgers, sausages, bacon rashers, and more.
- Chefs Áine Carlin, Day Radley, Ella Mills (Deliciously Ella), and Neil Rankin have all provided delicious vegan BBQ recipes.
Other brands taking part to encourage everyone to enjoy a vegan BBQ include ALDI, Goodlife, Bute Island, Tiba Tempeh, and Vivera.
“Featuring everything from bangin’ vegan beef burgers to animal-free bacon, PETA’s Vegan BBQ Week will satisfy even the most discerning grill master,” says PETA Senior Corporate Liaison Dr Carys Bennett. “We’re delighted to partner with major brands and chefs to show everyone how easy and tasty it is to choose sizzling vegan options that are kind to animals and the environment.”
PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – notes that vegan barbecues are reportedly 43% healthier than meaty ones, and producing and barbecuing a single beef burger releases enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to fill more than 60 party balloons, compared with eight for a vegan burger.
Every person who goes vegan saves the lives of nearly 200 animals a year. Cows in the meat industry are often confined to filthy factory farms and may spend their entire lives indoors. At the slaughterhouse, workers shoot them in the head with a captive-bolt gun, hang them up by one leg, and cut their throat
PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. The group offers a free vegan starter kit full of recipes, tips, and more. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow the group on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
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