Local Cedar’s Foods Pledges No Animal Tests, Earning PETA Praise
For Immediate Release:
March 2, 2026
Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Cedar’s Foods, a family-owned brand based in Ward Hill that makes authentic hummus and more, 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 Cedar’s, that have signed PETA’s pledge for no animal testing.
“Cedar’s statement of assurance will give it a leg up with consumers who want to support businesses that do not test on animals,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA thanks Cedar’s for making it easier for consumers to make compassionate choices and urges other food companies that fund cruel and useless tests on animals to take note.”
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.
Cedar’s is one of many companies—including Ferrero International, Bacardi Limited, Amy’s Kitchen, Heineken, and Unilever—that have already signed PETA’s Eat Without Experiments pledge.
Visitors to the Eat Without Experiments website can urge Wegmans Food Markets to stop funding experiments on animals and support only superior, non-animal research methods. Wegmans sponsors the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Food Research Institute, which has funded numerous experiments on animals, including force-feeding pregnant monkeys whipping cream contaminated with listeria, before cutting them open and dissecting their babies.
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.
