Products of the popular vegan meat producer Beyond Meat and vegan cheese brand Daiya are now available in Manila, Philippines.
As the vegan movement in the Philippines grows, more and more vegan products from brands worldwide are arriving in the country to follow customer demand.
Today, local distributor Pristine Solutions Inc. announced that it partners with Green Monday Hong Kong to bring Beyond Meat and Daiya products to Manila — the heart of the vegan movement in the country.
Green Monday is a startup group that focuses on fighting climate change and global food insecurity by making sustainable living simple, actionable, and viral.
It partners with corporations, schools, restaurants, and the public to promote and enable green, healthy, and sustainable living.
Image: Instagram/Beyond Meat
Pristine Solutions Inc. offers Beyond Burgers, Beyond Sausage, Daiya Cheddar style, Daiya Provolono style, and Daiya Swiss style.
“Beyond Meat and Daiya products are available to Purchase in Manila now,” Christian Schmidradner from Pristine Solutions Inc. shared in the Manila Vegans Facebook group. “Distributor is our Pristine Solutions Inc. in partnership with Green Monday Hong Kong.”
“Currently we have Beyond Burgers and Daiya Cheddar on stock. Beyond Sausage will arrive beginning of June again.”
For now, the distributor only offers wholesale: One case (42 patties) of 4 oz Beyond Burgers is sold for 12,320 PHP including VAT, while one case (8 packs of 10 slices per case, 80 slices per case) of Daiya Cheddar Style Cheese is sold for 3,112 PHP including VAT.
Beyond Sausage, Beyond Burger 3 oz, Daiya Provolone Style, and Daiya Swiss Style will be available in June.
Image: Instagram/Daiya
Pristine Solutions Inc. is the distributor of Beyond Meat products in five-start luxury hotel Grand Hyatt Manila.
Every Monday, the luxury hotel will offer healthy plant-based options at the hotel’s The Grand Kitchen featuring two Beyond Meat products: Beyond Burger and Beyond Sausage.
“I just don’t think it’s offered enough in hotels and it’s not offered enough in different establishments around Manila. So definitely I believe there’s a market here in the Philippines,” Mark Hagan, Grand Hyatt Manila’s Executive Chef, told ABS-CBN News.
“The plant-based movement started five or six years ago, and has really taken off in the last two to three years where climate change and sustainability have become huge issues. They are a huge issue in the Philippines and you hear it more and more.”
“It’s just giving people an option to change. I don’t believe there’s enough options in the market, for people to make the change,” he concluded.
A man admitted on Reddit that he had been secretly giving dairy to his vegan girlfriend to check if it will cause acne.
Reddit user Kitchenninja11 shared on the discussion website that his girlfriend adopted a vegan diet for health reasons and claimed that it cleared her skin.
However, he explained that he grew tired of plant-based food and needed “some mac and cheese with cut up hot dogs” so he wanted to prove that the vegan diet is not the cause of his girlfriend’s clear skin.
“For the past two months, I’ve been emptying the same soy creamer container and filling it with dairy creamer.”
“I was gonna do a big reveal, like ‘Surprise! You can eat whatever you want!’ But she’s been wearing makeup both in and out of the house lately… and last night I saw her barefaced for the first time in a while and it is BAD. Like insects about to hatch out of her face bad.”
He concluded: “I feel bad but on the other hand I was doing it for her own good!”
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The Reddit user faced backlash from both vegans and nonvegans, with some saying that what he did was dangerous as people can become allergic to dairy and other nonvegan ingredients when they have been vegan for a long time.
A Reddit user said: “You also could have made her horrendously sick! If she’s been vegan for years and you gave her animal products then she could have gotten extremely ill. Please never do that again.”
“You didn’t do that for her own good. You did it so you could swoop in and be the smug know-it-all,” said another.
A vegan commented: “How about cooking for yourself if you‘re not satisfied with the vegan food she makes? I‘m living vegan too, my boyfriend doesn‘t and he is cooking his own food. I would definitely dump someone who betrayed me in that way.”
“The tifu isn’t that you gave your de facto acne, it’s that you massively betrayed her trust because you think you know what is good for her better than she does. You’re not just an ***hole, you’re actually a bit of a monster since you still haven’t realised this,” a Reddit user commented.
Another added: “Most women do a sh*t ton of research, real research, to figure out why their skin is freaking out. And you time it upon yourself to just re-introduce dairy because of what? The inability to trust your partner?”
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This is not the first time that a nonvegan caused controversy for trying to make vegans consume meat and animal by-products.
The woman said she offers vegan options to her nephew but will not say anything when the child chooses the nonvegan one. She added that her nephew “usually” picks the non-vegan option.
Even though she shows respect to her sister by providing vegan options for her nephew, her husband still thinks she’s an a**hole for not telling her sister about the situation.
The vegan mom-to-be explained on the British parenting site Mumsnet that her husband believes that she needs to eat meat to make their baby healthy, although he is aware that she has never eaten meat and animal by-products.
A Muslim woman from Derby, UK, was furious after finding that her vegetarian Cucina Lasagne Sauce from supermarket chain Aldi tastes like bacon, Derbyshire Live reports.
Rianne Ward, 39, was enraged when she “smelt something odd” about Aldi’s vegetarian Cucina Lasagne Sauce that she used to make a pasta dish for her son.
Ward, who converted to Islam seven years ago, explained that the sauce has a smoked flavor like that of bacon, which made her believe that it does contain bacon and therefore made her furious as she felt like she betrayed her religion for consuming pork.
“I just sat down and my young son said ‘Mummy, this smells like bacon’,” Ward told Derbyshire Live.
“When I ate it, it tasted just like bacon which made me feel sick. I was absolutely seething and went back down to the store.”
“I just went in with the jar of sauce and made them smell it. I thought it must have been contaminated.”
The Vegetarian Lasagna Sauce that Rianne Ward Used | Image Credit: Derbyshire Live
Ward added that even though the sauce did not contain pieces of bacon, she is still certain that it is contaminated with bacon as she is still familiar with the processed meat’s taste and smell.
“There was no bacon in it because it had a vegetarian label but a staff member kept telling me it was a carbonara sauce,” she said. “It isn’t. It’s just a white sauce but that shouldn’t explain why it tastes like bacon.”
Ward filed a formal complaint with Aldi regarding the issue and kept some of the dish inside her refrigerator as evidence.
She added that she is still hoping for compensation for what happened because the experience left her disappointed in the product and the company, still convinced that the product is contaminated.
“I’m absolutely furious. I’ve been a Muslim for years now and avoided bacon for so long,” said Ward. “Then this happens. I felt like I’d betrayed my religion. Aldi have told me they are going to test the sauce to see if it has been contaminated. It’s just not on.”
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As a response to the issue, a spokesperson for Aldi clarified that its Cucina Lasagne Sauce is vegetarian and does not contain bacon or any meat. Instead, the sauce contains smoked flavoring to mimic the taste and smell of bacon.
“We are sorry to hear Miss Ward is unhappy with this product and can reassure her the lasagne sauce is completely meat free,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
“The product is flavoured with smoked salt which gives it its distinctive taste.”
Vegan musician Miley Cyrus showed off her customized vegan leather platforms at this year’s Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Cyrus and vegan actor Liam Hemsworth both wore cruelty-free Yves Saint Laurent outfits and footwear, created by designer Anthony Vaccarello, for the annual fundraising event’s “Camp: Notes on Fashion” theme.
Sharing photos of her and Hemsworth at the gala to her 92.5 million Instagram followers, Cyrus wrote: “Thank you @ysl @anthonyvaccarello for the custom vegan faux leather platforms! (Liam’s shoes are also vegan!)”
Celebrities and fans commended the couple for choosing to be cruelty-free at the gala, with some vegans calling them their “vegan parents.”
Speaking about the vegan shoes, YouTube star Tana Mongeau joked: “Step on me with them.”
“Hannah Montana would approve,” said another.
Another fan added: “Are we gonna ignore the fact that she has the most beautiful eyes and bright smile?”
“I love when you raise your arms and all your tattoos become visible,” another fan wrote.
A fan commented: “I love how confident she is. Especially around Liam. She overshines everything and owns the whole place. That is so empowering. Go Miley!”
Although the vegan couple chose to wear cruelty-free clothing and footwear at the gala, some celebrities followed the event’s exaggerated fashion theme by wearing a lot of feathers.
“With all those privileged folks in attendance, you’d think the Met Gala could afford a little compassion for one night,” PETA said in a statement.
“This year’s event kept up with its usual extravagant fashions and runway shenanigans — but to [our] disappointment, it featured a LOT of feathers. (We’re looking at you, Jenners.)”
“The fashion world now knows how cruel it is to wear dead animals’ fur, but as far as we can tell — with everyone trying to look like Big Bird at the gala — it’s still ignorant about where feathers for those gaudy outfits come from.”
“Those feathers once belonged to living, feeling animals and were ripped out of their bodies, which were left bloody, broken, and destroyed.”
PETA encourages everyone to go feather-free as there are already many high-tech vegan materials that could replace feathers.
A Chinese vlogger was attacked on the face by an octopus she was trying to eat during a live stream, reports Daily Mail.
The woman, known as “seaside girl Little Seven” online, tried to eat a live octopus for her live stream on the popular video platform Kuaishou but ended up horrified as the octopus tried to fight desperately for its life.
In the 50-second video, the woman can be seen screaming in pain as she desperately tries to peel off the animal’s tentacles from her skin.
At the beginning of the video, the octopus has already stuck its tentacles on the vlogger’s left cheek, who does not seem to be bothered.
“She can be heard telling her fans ‘look how hard it’s sucking’ as she tried to remove a tentacle from her upper lip,” Daily Mail writes.
However, upon realizing that the octopus would not let go of her face, the vlogger started to panic and cry. She started screaming “painful” and “I can’t remove it” while using all her strength to remove the tentacles off her face.
The woman’s face became so stretched out during the process until the octopus decided to let go. Once the octopus has been removed, the woman promised to eat it in the next video.
Image credit: Kuaishou/Dan Yao Bu Ji Jun
According to her Kuaishou account, the vlogger lives in Lianyungang and loves to eat seafood. She has already eaten different types of seafood in her channel, including cooked lobsters and crayfish.
It seems that she was determined to become viral as one of her videos showed her complaining that her previous videos were not able to reach the video platform’s trending chart. However, the octopus video quickly went viral.
The vlogger has been receiving backlash not only from vegans but also from meat eaters who are concerned with animal welfare.
A vegan said: “Sucks to be attacked by the most intelligent invertebrate. But it sucks more to be seafood. Ditch eating sea creatures (dead or alive) and go vegan.”
“To eat it alive is nothing but cruelty and attention seeking,” a Facebook user commented.
Another added: “This should happen to everyone trying to harm a living creature just for the sake of popularity.”
“My pulse literally went up because I felt so bad for the octopus. The way she pulled him… humanity as it’s finest,” said another.
“Girl, your life is so boring that you are ready to hurt an animal to have attention from others??? How far are you ready to go to have more followers? … No respect,” another person commented.
“Octopus is the smartest animal in the world. So don’t try to eat it alive or you’ll getting eaten alive by them,” a social media user joked.
British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, known for “Sherlock” and “Doctor Strange,” proudly wore an all-vegan suit made with bamboo and “peace silk” at this year’s Met Gala.
Cumberbatch, who went vegan last year, attended this year’s Met Gala, an annual fundraising event for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York.
According to Daily Mail, Cumberbatch became one of the centers of attention as he arrived at the fundraising event with his wife, director Sophie Hunter.
“We spent ages talking about it and planning it for about three weeks before he flew to the U.S,” Joe Woolfe, Cumberbatch’s stylist for 10 years, told Daily Mail.
“He’s vegan, so that meant there were a lot of fabrics we couldn’t use. We ended up using an amazing English bamboo fabric from Huddersfield Fine Worsteds.”
Woolfe added that he acquired Cumberbatch’s shirt from designer Emma Willis, who dresses Prince Charles, and made sure that the silk would meet the vegan actor’s standards.
“It was silk, but peace silk, which doesn’t involve killing the worms, so it’s fully vegan and cruelty-free,” he said.
“I had to get a few for him to choose from, because I know what he’s like, and if I just give him one thing he’ll feel like he’s being cornered. But he always ends up choosing what I offered first!”
Aside from Cumberbatch, vegan musician Miley Cyrus and her husband Liam Hemsworth both made sure to stay cruelty-free at the Met Gala.
Sharing photos of her and Hemsworth at the gala to her 92.5 million Instagram followers, Cyrus said: “Thank you @ysl @anthonyvaccarello for the custom vegan faux leather platforms! (Liam’s shoes are also vegan!)”
“With all those privileged folks in attendance, you’d think the Met Gala could afford a little compassion for one night,” PETA said in a statement.
“This year’s event kept up with its usual extravagant fashions and runway shenanigans — but to [our] disappointment, it featured a LOT of feathers. (We’re looking at you, Jenners.)”
“The fashion world now knows how cruel it is to wear dead animals’ fur, but as far as we can tell — with everyone trying to look like Big Bird at the gala — it’s still ignorant about where feathers for those gaudy outfits come from.”
“Those feathers once belonged to living, feeling animals and were ripped out of their bodies, which were left bloody, broken, and destroyed,” PETA concluded.
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