Singapore’s Umami Bioworks Adopts New Pro-Animal Pledge Earning PETA Praise

Singapore — Locally-based cultivated fish innovator Umami Bioworks, which grows fish flesh from cell cultures without harming fish, receives kudos from PETA today for signing on to its new “Eat Without Experiments” program that helps shoppers identify food and beverage companies that don’t test on animals. The company has never experimented on animals and is making its commitment public and permanent by joining PETA’s program.

The program’s website features a database of food and beverage companies categorized by their policies on animal experimentation, from those that test on animals to those, like Umami Bioworks, that have signed PETA’s pledge never to do so unless explicitly required by law.

Visitors to the website can also take action urging Oreo-maker Mondelēz International—which also owns Cadbury, Honey Maid, and several other well-known brands—to stop tormenting and killing animals in tests that do not apply to human health.

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“Umami Bioworks is leading the way on this powerful initiative to get animal experimentation out of the food and beverage industry,” says PETA Vice President Jason Baker. “PETA calls on Oreo-maker Mondelēz International to take inspiration from Umami Bioworks by ditching cruel and antiquated animal tests and joining Eat Without Experiments.”

Mondelēz International has force-fed human feces to mice and junk food to rats, then killed and dissected them—even though regulatory agencies in the U.S., Canada, and the European Union require that studies on humans, not other animals, be used to verify health claims about food products.

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

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone.  For more information, please visit PETAAsia.com or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.

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