PETA Names Company of the Year that Beat the Egg Industry in 2025
For Immediate Release:
December 16, 2025
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Nicole Perreira 202-483-7382
As bird flu ran rampant through the egg industry’s filthy factory farm sheds this year, leading to a nationwide egg shortage, Eat Just, PETA’s Company of the Year 2025, met the moment with its delicious, nutritious, and easy-to-use vegan Just Egg—and now, vegan egg sales are growing five times faster than the chicken egg market. PETA has named Eat Just its 2025 Company of the Year for demonstrating that choosing eggs made from plants is not just easy, but helps save hens from a lifetime of suffering on factory farms and—bonus—contains zero cholesterol, unlike the cholesterol bombs it replaces.
Since launching in 2019, the plant-powered pioneer’s Just Egg line has sold the equivalent of 500 million chicken eggs, and the company is now set to crack the European market following the rollout of a vegan egg made from the mighty mung bean.
In another massive win for birds, Eat Just debuted its vegan Just Meat Chicken in August, which blew away its meaty competition in a head-to-head consumer taste test. Eat Just also signed on to PETA’s Eat Without Experiments Program—ensuring that no animals are being harmed to create or develop its products by pledging not to test on animals.
“PETA didn’t have to scramble to search for this year’s winning company because Eat Just is not only just as good, but tastier and better than those cholesterol-bomb chicken eggs,” says PETA President Tracy Reiman. “Eat Just is PETA’s Company of the Year for helping to create a kinder, healthier world in which animals are left in peace.”
Chickens form complex social structures, dream when they sleep, and worry about the future, just as humans do. But hens used for egg production are crammed together inside crowded, filthy sheds where they don’t even have enough room to spread their wings without hitting the sides of a cage or other birds. Once their egg production drops, they’re sent to slaughterhouses, where mechanized blades slit their throats—often while they’re still conscious—and many are scalded to death in de-feathering tanks.
Bird flu has only increased their suffering: Since the outbreak began, more than 180 million birds have been killed in horrifying ways, such as being smothered to death with foam, in an attempt to contain the disease. PETA’s free vegan starter kit 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 Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
