Austin’s Better Sour Pledges No Animal Tests, Earning PETA Praise

For Immediate Release:
March 10, 2025

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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

Locally based Better Sour—a popular purveyor of vegan gummy candies in exotic fruit flavors—receives kudos from PETA today for signing on to a groundbreaking new “Eat Without Experiments” program 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.

Better Sour 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 Better Sour, that have signed PETA’s pledge never to do so.

Visitors to the website can 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.

“Better Sour is showing the way on PETA’s powerful initiative to get animal experiments out of the food and beverage industry,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA calls on Oreo-maker Mondelēz International to take inspiration from Better Sour and stop force-feeding human feces to mice and junk food to rats before killing them.”

Mondelēz International has funded puzzling and deadly junk food tests on animals—even though regulatory agencies in the U.S., Canada, and the European Union require studies on humans, not other animals, to verify health claims about food products.

Better Sour 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 and offers free Empathy Kitsfor people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.