The Happy Nugs wins PETA’s Best Vegan Meat award

CHENNAI: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India has named the winners of this year’s

PETA India

Vegan Food Awards. Actors Riteish and Genelia Deshmukh’s Imagine Meats nabbed

Best Vegan Meat

for its tasty “chicken” nuggets,

The Happy Nugs

.

PETA India also announced a special recognition and awarded spiritual leader and humanitarian Brahmarishi Mohanji the title of Most Influential Vegan for enlightening his followers on the suffering of mother cows and their calves for milk. The awards were announced ahead of World Vegan Day, which falls on November 1. The month of November is observed as World Vegan Month.

Other winners include:

Best Plant-Based Milk: Hershey India’s Sofit Soya Drink Kesar Pista

Best Vegan Cheese: Katharos Foods’ Gooey Pizza Cheeze

Best Vegan Online Store: Vegan Dukan

Best Vegan Mithai: Haldiram’s Soan Papdi (Orange Flavour)

Best Vegan Egg: PlantMade’s Vegetarian Anda

Best Vegan Spread: Grabenord’s Vegan Chipotle Mayonnaise

Best Vegan Ice Cream: The Brooklyn Creamery’s Vegan Chocolate & Coconut

Best Vegan Ghee: Live Yum’s Premium Ghee

Best Vegan Buttermilk: Happy Calf’s Peanut Colada (Curry Leaf)

Best Vegan Chocolate: MilkinOats’ Chalet Almond Crunch

Best Vegan Snack: Urban Platter’s Perfectly Plant Based Cheese Balls (Cheddar Style)

“From creamy, dairy-free chocolate ice cream to meat-free chicken, all these innovative foods are making it easy for people to treat their taste buds without harming animals,” says PETA India vegan foods and nutrition specialist Dr Kiran Ahuja. “PETA India is recognising these winners for dishing up delicious vegan fare and Brahmarishi Mohanji for making the country a kinder place.”

In addition to sparing animals’ lives, eating vegan reduces the risk of suffering from cancer, heart disease, diabetes and obesity; helps fight climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions; and even helps prevent future pandemics. Covid-19 is largely believed by experts to have stemmed or spread from a live-animal meat market, and SARS, swine flu, and bird flu have also been linked to confining and killing animals for food.


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