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Ahead of National Pizza Day on February 9 and the Super Bowl on February 11 (the biggest day for pizza sales last year), we’ve rounded up a list of the top vegan pizzas for 2024. No run-of-the-mill pies here—they’re all friendly to cows, pigs, and chickens and packed with flavor that will satisfy your cravings for the perfect ’za.
Here are PETA’s picks for the top vegan pizzas of 2024:
This pizza’s taco-inspired flavors make for an exciting twist, with taco sauce, seasoned vegan beef, melty nondairy cheese, crisp red onion, salsa verde, and a vegan sour cream drizzle on a perfectly charred crust.
It’s the meatiest! This outfit’s Non Meat Lovers pizza is pield high with people’s favorite vegan meats, including plant-based sausage, meatballs, pepperoni, spicy sausage, and ground beef. Seeing is believing, but tasting is the ticket!
All the pizzas at this vegan establishment are hits, but there’s something extra special about the Balboa, which features crushed vegan meatball, cherry tomatoes, pistachio pesto, and cashew cheese, topped with a bright bite of arugula, chili flakes, and extra virgin olive oil.
Pi Vegan Pizzeria holds the title for the oldest vegan pizzeria in the U.S., and while it serves the classics, you can also get fun fusion flavors like the Thai Chik’n Pizza. It comes with a cow-and calf-friendly nondairy white garlic sauce, topped with spinach, vegan mozzarella, mushrooms, pineapple, seasoned vegan chicken, and a house-made Thai peanut sauce. Since we’re fond of chickens, we love that choosing this pizza causes them no harm.
What goes better with a cold beer than a piping hot slice of pizza pie? The vegan version at The Hop Craft Pizza & Beer is creative and fun, as bar food is at its best. The Pickle Back comes with “Udderless cheese,” a cashew-based blend created by restaurant owner Evan Byrne, house red sauce, dill pickles, soy chorizo, and a hot pepper relish swirl on a hand-tossed sesame seed crust. Wow!
Carbs on carbs are always a hit, and everyone who has had the Mackin’ Out Pizza at Veganized loves it. The handmade crust is topped with mac and cheese that’s made with a sweet potato truffle cashew cream, smoked shiitake mushrooms, roasted broccoli, and red pepper flakes.
For those who like the fragrance and taste of cilantro, Spak Brothers’ BBQ Seitan Pizza is topped with this great addition. Beneath it, you’ll find meaty seitan, red onions, and a tangy BBQ sauce. When ordering, be sure to specify that you want it made with vegan cheese to keep it cow-friendly—and add some vegan ranch on the side while you’re at it.
Red House Pizza has a huge vegan menu, including more than 30 varieties of vegan pies. It was hard to choose just one, as they’re all so tasty, but we’re highlighting the Bangkok pizza for its unique, delicious flavors. It features a creamy coconut peanut sauce base topped with vegan mozzarella, broccoli, pineapple, julienned carrots, pickled onions, jalapeños, fresh scallions, cilantro, and sesame seeds with your choice of vegan chicken or sesame tofu.
Savor tastes you grew up with and spare cows and pigs by choosing this Vegan Meat Lovers pie, which comes with nondairy cashew cheese and soy-based pepperoni, sausage, and bacon. Pro tip: Order some vegan ranch on the side for dipping!
Bizza’s cheesesteak-inspired pizza from Vegan Brotherly Love is a garlic delight, brimming with cashew cheese, drizzled with garlic, and featuring vegan steak, mushrooms, bell peppers, and onions. It’s one of seven vegan signature pies at Bizza, which are also available by the slice, if you care to treat your tastebuds to more than one.
If you don’t live near any of these spots, don’t fret! More than 50 pizza chains in the U.S. offer vegan options, including Blaze Pizza, Papa Murphy’s, and Fresh Brothers. Plenty of delicious vegan pizzas are also available in the frozen aisle of your local grocery store.
Every animal is someone, and they all deserve our consideration. Start by making the simple choice to leave them off your plate. Order a vegan starter kit to learn how you can go vegan today:
Why do bulldogs, boxers, pugs, Cavalier King Charles spaniels, and other flat-faced dogs struggle to breathe? Breathing-impaired breeds (BIB) have been intentionally bred to have deformed skulls and unnaturally flattened faces, which prevents them from breathing properly. But what does a bulldog skull look like? Is it really that different from those of dogs who aren’t BIBs? See for yourself:
Every snort, every wheeze is a plea for help. Don't be part of the demand that fuels the breeding of flat-faced dogs. pic.twitter.com/zy76KGaJYl
BIBs typically suffer from brachycephalic airway syndrome, with symptoms ranging from snorting to severe, life-threatening difficulty breathing. Many breathing-impaired breeds can’t go for a walk or chase a ball—activities that make dogs’ lives joyful and fulfilling—without gasping for air.
Despite their known health issues, BIBs are sold for thousands of dollars by breeders and pet stores. As revealed in footage captured by a PETA investigator, shops that sell these dogs know not to offer a “lifetime warranty” on them due to their health issues. Most pet stores that sell puppies, no matter the breed, obtain them from puppy mills, hellish mass-breeding facilities where dogs are typically forced to live in cramped, squalid conditions with minimal—if any—veterinary care or social interaction.
In light of all the suffering caused by breeding dogs to have flat faces, why do breeders keep doing it? Because people keep buying them. The breeding industry is a big greedy business, and if there is money to be made by breeding and selling dogs, breeders will continue to produce more—regardless of how much suffering they cause.
The solution is simple: Stop breeding and buying bulldogs, other BIBs, and all other dogs. All “purebreds” (flat-faced or not) suffer from congenital and often painful health conditions. If you have the time, money, patience, and love to care for an animal for life (which could mean more than 15 years), please adopt one from an animal shelter. If you already have a BIB, please commit to making their life as fulfilling, healthy, and comfortable as you can—but pledge never to buy another one.
Following the arrest of a teenager who allegedly duct-taped fish to ATMs and other objects across Provo, TeachKind, PETA’s humane education division, sent Provo City School District Superintendent Wendy Dau an urgent letter today, along with kindness-to-animals materials for teaching empathy and its new Language Guide, an extensive resource for facilitating compassionate communication. PETA is also arranging to send tasty fish-free fillets from Gardein to Timpview High School for students and staff to enjoy—and is running its “Try to Relate” video appeal starring Joaquin Phoenix on YouTube in Utah to help promote empathy for fish.
TeachKind’s “Empathy Now” guide for educators is among the materials being offered to local schools. Credit: PETA
Images of the fish—some with cigarettes stuffed into their mouths—duct-taped to several ATMs and even a police car were posted to a social media account along with mocking captions. A 17-year-old was arrested and charged with two counts of misdemeanor property damage in connection with the incidents, which police say occurred over a dozen times between August and October 2023.
PETA points out that fish are smart, empathetic, and playful beings with nervous systems that are virtually identical to those of mammals. They share knowledge and have long memories as well as cultural traditions. Yet they’re impaled, crushed, suffocated, or cut open and gutted by the billions—often while they’re completely conscious.
“If you can teach a child not to disrespect a fish, you do as much for the child as for the fish,” says PETA Senior Director of Youth Programs Marta Holmberg. “Compassion and empathy are especially important in these troubled times, and TeachKind is here to help young people learn that everyone, whether a carp or a classmate, deserves respect.”
TeachKind and PETA—whose mottos read, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—point out that Every Animal Is Someone. For more information, please visit TeachKind.org or follow the group on Facebook or Instagram.
Beginning on February 5, PETA will bring its eye-opening exhibit “Without Consent” to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) on one of the final stops of its national tour. The traveling exhibit explores the troubled history of experiments on animals and features almost 200 stories about animals used in these tests—including the seminal Silver Spring monkeys case, which launched PETA and led to the nation’s first arrest and criminal conviction of an animal experimenter for cruelty to animals. That experimenter, Edward Taub, has been at UAB since 1986—and while he may not be tormenting monkeys anymore, horrors continue at the university, home to a notorious, curiosity-driven xenotransplantation laboratory, in which experimenters cut organs out of animals and implant them in other species.
When: February 5 to 9, 12 noon to 4 p.m.
Where: Five Points South, at the intersection of 20th Street S. and 11th Avenue S., Birmingham
Credit: PETA
Modeled after the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, “Without Consent” will be on display locally for five days. It features 24 panels with descriptions and photographs of nearly 200 experiments on animals conducted at U.S. institutions from the 1920s through the present. Watch the trailer here. An interactive virtual exhibit is also available here.
“‘Without Consent’ tells the true stories of animals harmed and killed in experiments that they did not and could not consent to,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “Humans are only one animal species among many. Having the power to exploit the others does not give us the right to do so.”
UAB has amassed an extensive rap sheet of federal animal welfare violations for offenses including carving into monkeys’ skulls without first seeking alternative methods, as required by law; squirting Woolite laundry detergent on a baboon’s open, hemorrhaging surgical wound; employing unqualified staff; and providing suffering animals with inadequate veterinary care. Experimenters at UAB have also forced ferrets to inhale cigarette smoke for months on end; infected hamsters with a virus that caused them to suffer from a variety of symptoms, including weight loss, lethargy, and diarrhea, before killing and dissecting them; and injected a substance deep into the spinal muscles of half a dozen cats, causing agonizing pain and hypersensitivity—without providing any pain relief.
“Without Consent” also makes the point that vulnerable humans—including orphans in tuberculosis and psychological experiments, immigrant women in gynecological surgeries, soldiers in LSD and poison gas tests, and impoverished Black men in syphilis experiments—were exploited in experiments. Just as society now understands that these experiments were wrong, “Without Consent” shows that we need to let a similar moral awakening guide our conduct today by extending consideration to other nonconsenting sentient beings.
