Alert: Planned Site Outage Tonight: Tue. July 28th, 9pm-Midnight PST
my care2
make a difference
We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition:

Marking Vegetarian Products

Target: CEO, Unilever & Other Major Food & Body Care Companies
Sponsor: John Howley, Vegetarian Research Organization
  • Signatures: 4,456
  • Goal: 50,000
  • Deadline: 12-9-2008

Request That USA Companies Clearly Mark Food, Cosmetic & Body Care Items as Either Vegan or Vegetarian on Their Products if they are free of animal ingredients.


Enter your name:
Or log in.
Display in public list as "Anonymous"
Number Date Prefix Name
4,458 4:44 am PST, Nov 7 Ms. Stephanie Goodney
4,457 6:43 pm PST, Nov 6   tasha clarke
4,456 12:27 am PST, Nov 5   Anonymous
4,455 2:25 pm PST, Nov 4 Ms. Anonymous
4,454 9:50 am PST, Nov 4 Mr. Laurence Sherwood
4,453 4:53 pm PST, Nov 3 Mrs. MRS. CHERYL ELAINE MARTINEZ
4,452 9:43 am PST, Nov 3 Mr. Anonymous
4,451 6:24 pm PST, Nov 2 Ms. eliysha loveless
4,450 10:37 pm PDT, Oct 31 Ms. Erica McNally
4,449 4:42 pm PDT, Oct 31 Ms. deanna cook
4,448 2:44 pm PDT, Oct 30   Sammi leach
4,447 12:22 pm PDT, Oct 30   RENAULD ELDER
4,446 11:15 am PDT, Oct 30 Ms. Anonymous
4,445 2:55 pm PDT, Oct 26 Ms. Victoria Knowski
4,444 4:59 am PDT, Oct 25 Mrs. Anonymous
4,443 10:37 am PDT, Oct 23   Anonymous
4,442 9:10 am PDT, Oct 23 Ms. Anonymous
4,441 6:05 pm PDT, Oct 20 Ms. Chelsea Swick
4,440 5:20 pm PDT, Oct 20   Anonymous
4,439 3:16 pm PDT, Oct 18 Ms. Anonymous
4,438 3:40 pm PDT, Oct 17 Mrs. Anonymous
4,437 1:45 pm PDT, Oct 17   Kirsten D
4,436 11:01 am PDT, Oct 16 Mr. Anonymous
4,435 1:33 pm PDT, Oct 15 Mrs. Anonymous
4,434 1:22 pm PDT, Oct 13 Mrs. Anonymous
4,433 5:17 pm PDT, Oct 9   Anusha G
4,432 8:37 am PDT, Oct 8 Mr. Lucas Camargo
4,431 7:08 am PDT, Oct 8 Mr. Anonymous
4,430 4:53 pm PDT, Oct 6 Ms. Anonymous
4,429 8:00 am PDT, Oct 4 Ms. Anonymous
4,428 9:55 pm PDT, Oct 3 Mrs. Alice LaBarge
4,427 8:51 am PDT, Oct 3 Ms. Vanessa Wilbur
4,426 7:43 pm PDT, Sep 30 Mrs. Maria Rangel
4,425 5:32 pm PDT, Sep 29 Ms. tara mae
4,424 11:34 am PDT, Sep 29 Ms. Diana Ciccaglione
4,423 7:01 pm PDT, Sep 28   Leah VanBuren
4,422 2:50 pm PDT, Sep 28   Erika Moersch
4,421 6:19 am PDT, Sep 28 Ms. Monique Catalina
4,420 8:10 pm PDT, Sep 27   Jennifer Torquati
4,419 5:05 pm PDT, Sep 27 Ms. Anonymous
4,418 2:33 pm PDT, Sep 27   Barbara Demers
4,417 6:31 pm PDT, Sep 26   Anonymous
4,416 9:30 am PDT, Sep 26   purnima dosi
4,415 10:25 pm PDT, Sep 24 Mrs. Alicia Smith
4,414 10:21 am PDT, Sep 22 Mr. Vinit Shah
4,413 8:24 pm PDT, Sep 21   Taylor Jones
4,412 1:24 pm PDT, Sep 21 Ms. Anonymous
4,411 9:06 pm PDT, Sep 20   Anonymous
4,410 7:39 pm PDT, Sep 20 Ms. Anonymous
4,409 7:37 pm PDT, Sep 20 Mr. Ross Jacobs
4,408 7:35 pm PDT, Sep 20 Mr. Chad Early
4,407 7:43 pm PDT, Sep 19 Mr. Anonymous
4,406 4:38 pm PDT, Sep 18 Mrs. Anonymous
4,405 5:58 am PDT, Sep 18 Mrs. Anonymous
4,404 12:37 pm PDT, Sep 17 Mrs. Anonymous
4,403 9:40 am PDT, Sep 17   Angela Nelson
4,402 8:24 am PDT, Sep 17   Hayley Sandgren
4,401 1:43 pm PDT, Sep 16   Gaurav Bhasin

Marking Vegetarian Products

 

We are requesting the food, cosmetic and body care companies to voluntarily indicate on their products if they contain any animal by-products at all, that they do not contain animal ingredients except for dairy and egg products or that they do not contains any meat, fish or egg products or whether they are vegan or vegetarian.

 

Various companies mark their products as Halal or Kosher so why do they not indicate whether their products are vegetarian when millions of people in the USA have this as their extremely strong religious and personal beliefs

 

For hundreds of millions of people around the world and for millions of people in the USA it is either their strong personal belief or their religious conviction to be a vegetarian and restrict themselves from meat, fish or eggs. Therefore it would be only common decency for US companies to clearly indicate on their products whether they are free of these products. In some countries in the world such as England food companies clearly indicate that they are vegetarian, so should not also US companies follow this compassionate path.

 

Also we request food, cosmetic, and body care companies to not  indirectly lie to potential customers about the ingredients in their products by stating that they do not know what is in their products exactly, that it is not required by the FDA that they state what natural flavorings are, or that they cannot tell you if a product is vegetarian or not because of proprietary rights to protect the ingredients of their products. It is actually best for companies to be totally honest about which of their products are free of animal ingredient as any strict vegan  or vegetarian will immediately not eat any food that they are not sure of.

 

Also as many people have health problemes with meat, fish, egg and dairy products it would greatly help the public to know if these ingredient are in company products. Companies who hide these ingredients from the public or do not indicate these ingredients in their products because of technical rules should know that not only are they harming animals unnessarily but that they can often cause great health problems with human being.

 

On our website at www.vegetarian-restaurants.net we are clearly indicating what products are free from meat, fish, eggs and dairy and most companies give us this information honestly and sincerely, so it would be the next major step for food, cosmetic and body care product companies to clearly mark this on all their products.

Note: This Marking Vegetarian Products petition was submitted by John Howley. ThePetitionSite.com is a free service provided to help concerned citizens rally support for issues they believe in. The opinions expressed by this petition do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of ThePetitionSite.com or Care2.com. There is no express or implied endorsement of this petition nor any newsletter offers (except those from Care2.com) by Care2.com, Inc, ThePetitionSite.com, or our sponsors. If you believe this system is being abused, please contact customer support.

Questions about this petition? Contact the petition sponsor: John Howley.
Questions about thePetitionSite.com? Visit our FAQ Page.

Copyright © 2009 Care2.com, inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved