Divine Treasures’ ‘Divine Kingdom’ Wins National Chocolate Box Award
Valentine’s Day Delight: PETA Honors Local Candy Store for Delicious, Dairy-Free Assortment in Animal Shapes
For Immediate Release:
January 31, 2019
Contact:
Moira Colley 202-483-7382
In time for Valentine’s Day, PETA has selected the Top Vegan Chocolate Boxes from stores across the U.S., and Manchester’s Divine Treasures has secured a sweet spot on the list, thanks to its Divine Kingdom treats. The award-winning assortment features six animal-shaped truffles, including a chocolate, caramel, and rice-flakes cat; a chocolate-caramel hen; and a peanut butter and chocolate mouse.
“Divine Kingdom truffles are a heavenly way to celebrate an animal-friendly Valentine’s Day,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA encourages people to have a heart this February and opt for vegan chocolates that show a little love for everyone.”
Not only are vegan chocolates and other desserts free of saturated animal fat and cholesterol, they also spare animals immense suffering. In the dairy industry, calves are torn away from their distraught mothers shortly after birth. Male calves are often sent to the veal industry, while females endure the same fate as their mothers: repeated artificial insemination in order to produce a steady supply of milk until their bodies give out and they’re slaughtered for cheap meat.
Other chocolate boxes on the list are from Harbor Candy Shop in Ogunquit, Maine; Ethereal Confections in Woodstock, Illinois; No Whey! Foods in Lakewood, New Jersey; Rose City Chocolatier in Martinsburg, West Virginia; UliMana in Asheville, North Carolina; Vegan Treats in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; and Sjaak’s Organic Chocolates in Petaluma, California. The companies with winning boxes will each receive a framed certificate.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—also offers free vegan Valentine’s Day dessert recipes on its website along with a selection of sweet gifts from the PETA Catalog.
All the winning boxes can be ordered online. For more information, please visit PETA.org or click here.
