‘Come Clean!’ Shareholder Resolution Seeks Animal Testing Transparency From Oreo Maker
For Immediate Release:
November 20, 2025
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Brandi Pharris 202-483-7382
Earlier today, a PETA supporter submitted a shareholder resolution for consideration ahead of Mondelēz International’s upcoming annual meeting in the spring, calling on leadership to stop misleading investors about the snack maker’s animal experimentation practices.
The resolution urges the maker of Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers, and other popular snack brands to release annual reports disclosing the number and species of animals used or killed in tests the company conducts, funds, or commissions that aren’t legally required.
Mondelēz publicly claims it doesn’t test its products on animals, but its current policy contains a loophole that allows it to fund “nutritional science” experiments on animals that have nothing to do with safety or regulatory approval of products. Those tests include force-feeding mice human feces, chemicals, and glass beads before killing and dissecting them.
“A snack food company should never be in the business of funding gruesome and irrelevant experiments that involve killing and cutting animals,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA joins the shareholder in urging Mondelēz to come clean and report how many animals it torments and kills in these useless tests.”
More than 63,000 people have called on Mondelēz to join the rapidly growing list of major food and beverage companies—including Ferrero International, Bacardi Limited, Amy’s Kitchen, Heineken, and Unilever—that have signed on to PETA’s Eat Without Experiments program, which helps shoppers identify food and beverage companies that don’t test on animals.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
