Long Island Community Food Group’s Vegan Hunger Relief Work Wins PETA Award, Holiday Roasts

For Immediate Release:
December 16, 2025

Contact:
Hannah Nelson 202-483-7382

With families struggling to cope with rising grocery costs, PETA is recognizing Community Solidarity—ahunger relief program that organizes food distributions across Long Island and Brooklyn—with its Vegan Compassion in Action award for helping the community and animals by serving free, healthy, and humane vegan meals to families and individuals in need. And to assist the group, ahead of the holidays, PETA has donated 100 vegan ham roasts for Community Solidarity to distribute during its upcoming Christmas food share and toy drive, while NYC-based grocery store Lily’s Vegan Pantry has provided hundreds of tasty meat-free drumsticks for the event.

Where:           At the intersection of Horseblock Road & Woodycrest Drive, Farmingville

When:            Thursday, December 18, at 7 p.m.

Credit: PETA

“Community Solidarity shows empathy for all by serving nutritious vegan meals that help humans and don’t harm a hair on any animal’s head,” says PETA President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is delighted to support this compassionate program with a donation of vegan holiday roasts that fill stomachs and hearts.”  

PETA points out that pigs recognize their own names, chickens form complex social structures, and cows develop friendships over time—but in today’s meat, egg, and dairy industries, the animals are raised in filthy, crowded conditions, trucked to slaughterhouses through all weather extremes, and violently killed.

In addition to sparing nearly 200 animals every year, each person who goes vegan also bolsters their own health, as vegans are less likely to suffer from cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. PETA’s free vegan starter kit and Vegan Holiday guide can help anyone looking to make the switch.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—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.