If you find the typical life cycle of a dairy cow in the UK unethical, you may want to double-check the ownership of some of the vegan bands you buy.
Below is a table of vegan brands we have found to be owned by non-vegan companies:
Vegan Brands | Product type | Owners | Meat/Dairy brands |
---|---|---|---|
Alpro, Follow Your Heart, Provamel, Soya Soleil, Silk, | Plant based milks and yoghurts | Groupe Danone | Danone; Oykos; Activia; Danonino; Silk; Actimel; Prostokvashino (Russia); International Delight (contains traces of dairy) |
Cauldron, Quorn | Meat alternatives | Monde Nissin | Nissin; Dutchy Mill; Quorn (contains small amounts of egg and dairy in some products); Voice and Bingo; Monde; Lucky Me!; Voiz; Mama Sita's; Dutch Mill |
Linda McCartney | Meat alternatives, plant milks | Hain Celestial | Yorkshire Provender; Cully & Sully; Hartley's jelly; New Covent Garden Co. |
Pure dairy free spread | Vegan spread | Kerry Group | LowLow; Cheestrings, Dairygold, Charleville Cheese |
Swedish Glace, Vegetarian Butcher | Meat-free alternatives | Unilever | Ben and Jerry's; Wall's; Hellman's; Magnum |
Vitalite, Sheese | Vegan spread, vegan cheese | Saputo Dairy (formerly Dairy Crest) | Cathedral City; Davistow; Clover; Country Life; Utterly Butterly; Willow; |
Violife | Vegan cheese | Upfield (owned by KKR) | KKR invests in pharmaceutical companies which test on animals and a company that produces meat products; Upfield sells dairy brands (e.g. Flora) |
Mozzarisella | Vegan cheese | Frescolat | Frescolat also sells dairy products |
Vivera, Richmond sausages, Fridge Raiders | Meat alternatives | JBS | Richmond, Wall's, Fridge Raiders, Moy Park (huge chicken producer in Northern Ireland). Also owns Tulip Ltd: Tulip; Danepak bacon; Adam's; Cherry Tree Farm; Alf Turner; Spam; Stagg Chili |
Gosh! | Meat alternatives | Sonae | Food, fashion and electronics |