Merit Food Products Pledges No Animal Tests, Earning PETA Praise

Merit Food Products Pledges No Animal Tests, Earning PETA Praise

Chonburi — Locally-based Merit Food Products—maker of MeritO and Native Forest coconut milk—receives kudos from PETA today for signing on to a groundbreaking new “Eat Without Experiments” programme that helps shoppers identify food and beverage companies that don’t test on animals.

Eat Without Experiments highlights that just as one would never test dog food on a child, testing human food on other species is a primitive holdover from a less enlightened time.

Merit Food Products—which was named PETA Asia’s 2024 Company of the Year for eliminating monkey labour from its supply chain—has never experimented on animals and is making its commitment public and permanent by joining PETA’s programme and posting a formal policy on its website.

The programme’s website features a database of food and beverage companies categorised by their policies on animal experimentation—from those that test on animals to those, like Merit Food Products, that have signed PETA’s pledge never to do so. Visitors to the PETA US website can also take action urging Oreo-maker Mondelēz International to stop tormenting and killing animals in tests that do not apply to human health.

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“Merit Food Products is showing the way on PETA’s powerful initiative to get experiments on animals out of the food and beverage industry,” says PETA Senior Vice President Jason Baker. “PETA calls on Oreo-maker Mondelēz International to take inspiration from Merit Food Products by ditching cruel and antiquated tests on animals and joining Eat Without Experiments.”

Merit Food Products is one of many companies—including Ferrero International, Bacardi Limited, Heineken, and Unilever—that have already signed PETA’s statement of assurance pledging never to test on animals.

PETA points out that every animal is someone. For more information about PETA Asia’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETAAsia.com or follow PETA Asia on X, Facebook, or Instagram.

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