GREEN MONDAY IS PETA ASIA’S 2019 COMPANY OF THE YEAR

Company Recognized for Healthy, Delicious Vegan Pork Option Sweeping Asia

For Immediate Release:
December 26, 2019

Bangkok — For saving millions of pigs’ lives with OmniMeat (also known as OmniPork), a meatless pork made from pea protein, non-GMO soy, shiitake mushrooms, and rice, Green Monday has been named PETA Asia’s 2019 Company of the Year.

Just this year, You&Mee restaurant at Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok added OmniMeat, created by Green Monday’s food-tech venture Right Treat, to its menu. Diners can enjoy pad kaproa moo prepared with the vegan pork as well as several other meaty meat-free dishes. Baan Thai Family Recipe Restaurant also added the pork substitute, and OmniMeat’s retail pack is available at Tops Thailand and Central Food Hall—so everyone can cook with the vegan meat at home.

“The philosophy behind Right Treat is that we believe achieving long-term win-win-win among the planet, mankind and animals is possible,” says Green Monday cofounder and CEO David Yeung.

Restaurants in Thailand that have added three or more vegan dishes to their menu can sign up to receive professional support from Green Monday, including menu consultation. Some of the restaurants that have already signed up include Sizzler, Tapas Vino, Mei Jiang at The Peninsula Bangkok, Coffee Beans by Dao, BBCO at JW Marriott Hotel Bangkok, One Ratchada World Restaurant at Grand Mercure Bangkok Fortune, Voilà! Restaurant at Sofitel Bangkok Sukhumvit, The SQUARE restaurant at Novotel Bangkok IMPACT, and more.

“Green Monday knows that eating pigs and other animals is cruel, harmful, and completely unnecessary,” says PETA Asia Senior Vice President of International Campaigns Jason Baker. “PETA Asia is recognizing this compassionate company for inspiring people to choose vegan options—which is the best thing that everyone can do for animals and the environment.”

OmniMeat, which is also offered in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Macau, Singapore, and Taiwan, will be available in Japan, the U.K., and several other countries in 2020.

PETA Asia—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—notes that in the meat industry, mother pigs are squeezed into narrow metal stalls barely larger than their bodies and kept almost constantly pregnant or nursing. Pigs’ tails are chopped off, their teeth are cut with pliers, and males are castrated—all without painkillers. At slaughterhouses, they’re hung upside down and bled to death, often while still conscious.

Each person who goes vegan saves the lives of nearly 200 animals every year and significantly reduces his or her own carbon footprint, as animal agriculture is a leading cause of climate change.

PETA opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview that fosters violence toward other animals. For more information, please visit PETAAsia.com.

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