PETA Buys Stock in Oreo Maker to Urge Board to End Cruel Tests on Animals
For Immediate Release:
May 20, 2025
Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
PETA has just purchased stock in Mondelēz International—maker of popular snacks such as Oreo cookies, Ritz Crackers, and Triscuit—and plans to use its shareholder status to ask directors and shareholders to require the company to stop using animals in cruel and deadly experiments that do not apply to human health.
The stock purchase will allow PETA to attend Mondelēz’s annual meetings, submit shareholder resolutions, and urge executives to stop funding the gruesome junk food tests—which have included force-feeding mice human feces—and sign on to PETA’s Eat Without Experiments program that helps shoppers identify food and beverage companies that don’t test on animals.
More than 59,000 PETA supporters have called on Mondelēz to join the rapidly growing list of major food and beverage companies—including Ferrero International, Bacardi Limited, Amy’s Kitchen, Heineken, and Unilever—that have already signed PETA’s Eat Without Experiments pledge. Popular Los Angeles-based company, Lunchbox Cookies, informed PETA earlier this month that it has removed Oreos from its products until Mondelēz agrees to stop supporting experiments on animals.
“Tormenting mice in laboratories to sell cookies and crackers to humans is a crummy excuse for science and a waste of animals’ lives,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “With this stock purchase, PETA is taking the fight to end these ghastly and pointless experiments straight to Mondelēz’s boardroom.”
Other purported “nutritional science” experiments funded by Mondelēz include force-feeding mice chemicals and diets high in saturated fat before killing and dissecting them. 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.
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.
