Vegetarian & Vegan Products Please Stand Up

There is nothing more frustrating than being in a hurry at the grocery store and not knowing which products are vegetarian or vegan. A petition is available and needs your signature. The petition is requesting:

“the food, cosmetic and body care companies voluntarily indicate on their products if they contain any animal by-products at all, that they do not contain animal ingredients except for dairy and egg products or that they do not contains any meat, fish or egg products or whether they are vegan or vegetarian.”

Not only does this help those of us who only want vegetarian or vegan products, but I believe it sends a message to companies not currently using vegetarian and vegan products. By asking for companies to label their products vegetarian or vegan, we are sending the message there is a market for these products. We want companies to know we refuse to harm animals for food, cosmetics and body care products. Will you please read through the petition and then sign it?

To sign this petition, please click here.

Here is the body of the petition:

Marking Vegetarian Products

We are requesting the food, cosmetic and body care companies to voluntarily indicate on their products if they contain any animal by-products at all, that they do not contain animal ingredients except for dairy and egg products or that they do not contains any meat, fish or egg products or whether they are vegan or vegetarian.

Various companies mark their products as Halal or Kosher so why do they not indicate whether their products are vegetarian when millions of people in the USA have this as their extremely strong religious and personal beliefs

For hundreds of millions of people around the world and for millions of people in the USA it is either their strong personal belief or their religious conviction to be a vegetarian and restrict themselves from meat, fish or eggs. Therefore it would be only common decency for US companies to clearly indicate on their products whether they are free of these products. In some countries in the world such as England food companies clearly indicate that they are vegetarian, so should not also US companies follow this compassionate path.

Also we request food, cosmetic, and body care companies to not indirectly lie to potential customers about the ingredients in their products by stating that they do not know what is in their products exactly, that it is not required by the FDA that they state what natural flavorings are, or that they cannot tell you if a product is vegetarian or not because of proprietary rights to protect the ingredients of their products. It is actually best for companies to be totally honest about which of their products are free of animal ingredient as any strict vegan or vegetarian will immediately not eat any food that they are not sure of.

In addition, as many people have health problems with meat, fish, egg and dairy products it would greatly help the public to know if these ingredients are in company products. Companies who hide these ingredients from the public or do not indicate these ingredients in their products because of technical rules should know that not only are they harming animals unnecessarily but that they can often cause great health problems with human being.

On our website at www.vegetarian-restaurants.net we are clearly indicating what products are free from meat, fish, eggs and dairy and most companies give us this information honestly and sincerely, so it would be the next major step for food, cosmetic and body care product companies to clearly mark this on all their products.

Please take a moment to sign this petition.

Happy Trails & Tails,

Tina