Lansdale-Based Backyard Beans Coffee Company Pledges No Animal Tests, Earning PETA Praise
For Immediate Release:
August 4, 2025
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Brandi Pharris 202-483-7382
Locally headquartered Backyard Beans Coffee Company 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.
The Eat Without Experiments 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 Backyard Beans, that have signed PETA’s pledge for no animal testing unless explicitly required by law.
The move follows Backyard Beans’ compassionate decision in July, at PETA’s request, to stop funding cruel and pointless experiments on animals at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Food Research Institute.
“Backyard Beans’ statement of assurance never to test on animals unless explicitly required by law will give it a leg up with caring consumers who want to support transparent, eco-and-animal-friendly businesses,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA now calls on Oreo-maker Mondelēz International to take inspiration from this conscientious company and end its cruel and deadly tests on animals.”
Many customers spend money according to what a company represents. According to global market research, companies that don’t align with customer beliefs pay the price because 42 percent of consumers walk away, and one in five never return. A survey of 30,000 consumers found that 74 percent crave greater transparency regarding companies’ stances on important issues such as animal testing. Companies signing PETA’s pro-animal pledge forward their brands in the minds of a new wave of ethics-conscious consumers.
Visitors to the Eat Without Experiments 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.
Mondelēz misleads consumers by claiming it doesn’t test its products on animals, but neglects to say that it does fund basic and deadly “nutritional science” experiments on animals, which aren’t required by any regulatory agencies.
Backyard Beans is one of many companies—including Ferrero International, Bacardi Limited, Amy’s Kitchen, Heineken, and Unilever—that have already signed PETA’s pledge.
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.
