Hello F Fuller, Robbie here. PBN cofounder. Thank you for your comment. We here your concerns about THIS! – and to be clear they are not immune to our criticism. https://plantbasednews.org/opinion/opinion-piece/plant-based-food-mainstream-alienating-vegans/ You and read about the views one of our writers published here.

I am concerned to hear that your daughter spoke to a video editor at PBN and verbally abused.

Please could you ask her to forward the email, screen shot the conversation please to hi@plantbasednews.org so we can address this internally.

Thank you
Robbie

Absolute agree with you Nancy!

Choosing to eat vegan junk food does not harm a human in the same way eating animal foods harms the animal being killed. People are allowed to enjoy vegan junk food as part of a balanced life.

Hi F Fuller, we apologize for the late reply. Thank you for reaching out. As far we know the 2 owners of This are now fully vegan. I have brought your concerns to the management team and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

On this subject, it’s very interesting to me that PBN’s support This, a company run by 2 non vegans. Their concept was to sell vegan products even though their attitude to veganism has been openly negative. They’ve tried to make their attitude trendy. The 2 owners previously tried to set up burger joints. This failed so they too jumped on the vegan bandwagon. When they first launched my daughter contacted them because they claimed to offer vegan products but used eggs. She was told that their company was going to turn more people vegan than any other method on Earth, as an excuse to their use of eggs. Arrogant, to say the least. One of the owners then bombarded my daughter with requests to go to events etc with him.

She contacted PBN, big fans of This, to get their views and was told to ‘Fuc* Off’ by one of their video editors! Needless to say, we now see PBN as a company that will creep up to so called fashionable companies regardless of their lack of vegan morality.

Now that This have showed themselves up as a disgusting company, with disgraceful employees, who are being boycotted across the board, I wondered what PBN thought about them now?? What is more precious? Championing still a non vegan company always known to be negative towards vegans because they’re trendy, or championing vegans and their views? After all, PBN is a vegan company isn’t it?

I would have sent this as a comment had PBN given an email address to do so. I’m very interested to see if I get a reply.

However, unhealthy as the sugar, fat, and salt content in vegan fast food may be, there is still no cholesterol, no anti-biotic residue etc. in plant-based meat.

The world is not ready to go vegan any time soon. Like Nancy P. I think it is paramount to make vegan food available to non-vegans wherever possible. That way they can learn to see it as a viable option.

And yes, it would be lovely to reduce power of the global meat industry, but next best thing is making them invest into vegan options.