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Shopping for the Holidays? ‘Fake Meats’ Makes It Easy to Get the Vegan Goods

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:

Tofurky Plant Based Roast

Vegetarian Plus Vegan Whole Turkey

Vegetarian Plus Vegan Turkey Roll

Field Roast Celebration Roast

May Wah Vegan Half Chicken

Pig-Friendly Ham Roasts

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:

Vegetarian Plus Vegan Ham Roll

May Wah Vegan Imitation Ham

Tofurky Plant Based Ham Style Roast with Amber Ale Glaze

More Animal-Friendly Holiday Staples

Fake Meats also sells whatever else you might need to make your meal perfect. You can find ingredients to make your own vegan roast from scratch, including vital wheat gluten, nutritional yeast, and animal-free bouillon. Don’t forget some Dandies mini marshmallows for topping your sweet potato casserole, or try the peppermint variety in your vegan hot chocolate. Here are some other goodies you might want to add to your cart:

Bob’s Red Mill Egg Replacer

Seitenbacher Mushroom Gravy

Road’s End Organics Quick Gravy

Daiya Cheddar Style Deluxe Cheezy Mac

Gift Baskets Galore

If you’re shopping for a vegan foodie or just for someone who loves to try new things, Fake Meats’ gift baskets, monthly subscription boxes, and gift combo packages are sure to be a hit.

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:

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Animal Shelter Crisis Prompts PETA’s Push for Breeding Ban, Open Shelter Doors

Following the release of leaked photos evidently revealing dogs caged in their own waste and a cockroach infestation in San Angelo’s animal shelter—and the city’s response of closing the shelter’s doors to lost and homeless animals—PETA sent a letter today to Mayor Brenda Gunter and the members of the San Angelo City Council, calling on them to pass a total ban on breeding and selling animals and require that the shelter accept all animals. PETA points out that while the shelter is turning animals away, anyone who pays a nominal fee can circumvent the city’s spay/neuter law and breed animals, inevitably adding to the flood of homeless ones.

PETA notes that many of the animals who are turned away by the shelter will end up abandoned on the streets, where they may be hit by cars, infected with diseases, or hurt by cruel people. Those who reproduce will also add to the city’s homeless-animal population, increasing the burden on the taxpayer-funded shelter. The city’s recommendation that laypeople with no animal control expertise take on the city’s responsibility of capturing and housing stray animals could also pose a safety risk if frightened stray dogs react aggressively toward the people trying to help them.

“Closing a shelter’s doors during a homeless-animal crisis is like shutting down a fire station during wildfire season, and churning out more litters of animals is throwing gasoline on the fire,” says PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch. “PETA is calling on San Angelo’s leaders to keep the shelter open and stop the breeders and pet store sales that are fueling this crisis.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

PETA’s letter to Gunter and the city council follows.

November 4, 2022

The Honorable Brenda Gunter, Mayor of San Angelo

Members of the San Angelo City Council

Dear Mayor Gunter and City Council Members:

In September, we wrote to you about the reportedly deplorable conditions at the city’s animal shelter, which were documented in photographs shared by the media and which resulted from “no-kill” policies at the facility (attached). On November 2, it was reported that the city’s public animal shelter would no longer accept animals from residents who have found lost and homeless animals in need of refuge or have animals of their own they are unable or unwilling to care for. We’re writing today to urge you to pass an emergency citywide ban on breeding and selling animals in order to assist ones who are now in crisis and to require the city shelter to protect animals and the public by accepting every animal taken to it.

Astonishingly, residents are reportedly now being asked to house stray animals for the city, a plan that’s dangerous for animals and residents alike when untrained laypeople try to do the job of trained animal care and control professionals. Please take note: Recently in North Carolina, an 8-day-old baby was killed by a stray dog the family had taken in just days before; in Oklahoma, a 7-year-old boy was killed by a stray dog taken in by his family; in Nebraska, a young man had to be hospitalized after he was attacked by a stray dog he had taken into his home; and in Fort Worth, a woman was killed by a stray dog who had been taken into her home by a resident who was looking for the animal’s owner.

Shirking the city’s responsibility and obligation to protect animals and residents is not a solution to animal homelessness. The current crisis demands emergency action and legislation to ban the breeding and sale of all animals, and the city shelter must be required to accept every animal taken to it.

PETA, our San Angelo resident members and taxpayers, and all kind people urge you to act today. Our organization stands ready to provide draft legislation and professional animal shelter policies or other assistance. Please let me know what we can do to help.

Thank you for your consideration of this urgent matter.

Very truly yours,

Teresa Lynn Chagrin

Animal Care & Control Issues Manager

Cruelty Investigations Department

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See Your Worldwide Impact for Animals and Meet the Rescuers Who Risk It All

See Your Worldwide Impact for Animals and Meet the Rescuers Who Risk It All

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The Last 9 Healthy Dogs From Texas A&M Muscular Dystrophy Lab to Be Freed

Texas A&M University has confirmed that it will release the nine healthy golden retrievers it had betrayed by transferring them from its notorious canine muscular dystrophy laboratory to the veterinary school. This momentous news comes after PETA’s hard-fought campaign that began with our shocking exposé of the school’s horrendous laboratory. Our relentless pressure ended its cruel breeding of dogs to develop this crippling disease and led to the release of more than 50 canines. Now these nine dogs will be in loving homes by the end of the year.

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30+ Bull Defenders Speak Out for Lima’s Bulls

On October 30, PETA Latino and Acho Sin Toros made their voices clear in Lima, Peru, to defend bulls at the Plaza de Toros de Acho, the city’s most famous bullfighting ring. Over 30 bull defenders gathered to put on a striking, peaceful protest—dressed in black, some wore bull masks and held signs and others lay “dead” in the silhouettes of bulls on the concrete beneath them, with prop evidence markers revealing what bulls endure so that humans can watch the twisted blood sport.

With live music, red smoke grenades, and lively speeches, the demonstration reached plenty of engaged members of the public, who observed, took pictures, and talked with the activists.

Bullfights aren’t actually “fights.” They’re archaic, ritualistic murder, in which several humans mutilate confused, maimed, psychologically tormented, and physically debilitated bulls over two hours. The events are always staged on unequal footing: The bulls are often disabled before the fight. They leave the ring paralyzed but not dead.

Lima: Play by the Rules and Ban Bullfighting

Carlo Angeles, a member of the Lima City Council, participated in the protest—as an outspoken anti-bullfighting activist, he has debated the practice on live television. PETA Latino and Acho Sin Toros are urging Lima’s new mayor, Rafael López Aliaga, to respect the city’s rules: City Council Agreement No. 288 (Acuerdo de Consejo No. 288) established that Lima won’t allow any property under its jurisdiction to be used for animal torture.

You can help bulls in Peru today by signing PETA Latino’s petition demanding that bullfighters and their cohorts not be enshrined as artists, under new Peruvian legislation, but be seen for the wicked murderers they really are.

Thanks to PETA Latino, condemnation of cruel and deadly bullfighting is only growing in the Latine community. The Mexican states of Coahuila, Guerrero, Sinaloa, and Sonora have imposed bans on the so-called “sport,” and—after PETA Latino, supporting Animal Heroes, and other local animal rights defenders spoke out—Quintana Roo banned bullfighting, too, as well as cockfighting and horse-drawn carriages. Now it’s time for Lima to step up.

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