There is fantastic news for mock meat lovers who wish to forgo egg products: The Boca CO. has made the decision to eliminate eggs from their product line by 2010. The decision comes just after last month’s campaign sponsored by Compassion Over Killing teamed up with Mercy For Animals and the Animal Protection & Rescue League and a great many consumers.
The quick response from a major cooperation, in this case Boca, proves that standing as a united front on behalf consumer concerns actually works. In the wake of this momentous decision, I as a non dairy milk drinker, purpose a consumer driven campaign is which all vegetarians and lactose intolerant individuals band together in an attempt to get producers of mock meat products to eliminate cow’s milk from their product lines. We can take action my simply contacting makers of mock meat products. It seems logical to especially include the Boca Co., as it is apparent that they are open to the concerns of their consumer base.
Here is a short article highlighting Boca’s decision:
mothersson2002 (18 comments)
Just wanted to mention that I heard about Boca’s move to go egg free form the Vegan Outreach e-newsletter:http://www.veganoutreach.org/enewsletter/index.html
xetvx (29 comments)
I heard about this a couple of weeks ago and I have to say when I thought Boca burgers were the only vegan burgers on the market, it would have been nice to have more than one flavor from which to choose. Since I never cared for their boring standard veggie burger, I decided to shop around. I came across Gardenburgers- Veggie Medley- vegan veggie burgers, sold in ever supermarket in my area, and WOW. This group should really advertise more. The vegetables really pop in these burgers and the flavor is far from flat.
As for Boca’s decision to eliminate eggs in their burgers- I think their sales will hit the roof- but they better advertise cuz people like me who don’t even bother to check out boca burgers anymore, are likely not to notice the change.
mothersson2002 (18 comments)
Well,yes ,sales will likely go up due to the population of those who forgo eggs but take dairy. However, that still leaves a large would be consumer base out, that is, the non dairy milk drinkers. If eggs were eliminated from the product line cause of public outcry, then so can’t milk-It seems plausible.
xetvx (29 comments)
The reason Boca has considered to eliminate eggs from their products is because they have been asked to, since it was “well known” that the eggs which they used came from very confined, highly inhumanely treated hens.
That Boca has not considered turning all of their burgers vegan is probably to their benefit- given there are many more basic vegetarians than there are strict ones and the fact that Boca has failed to make the best tasting/best selling vegan veggie burgers on the market.
I agree that it would be nice to have more choices when it comes to truly vegan, veggie burgers but research and personal experience tell me that unless Boca revamps their entire recipe line, vegans who have already turned their backs on vegan Boca burgers will continue to do so.
AndyDREW (2 comments)
morningstar? i thought that was pretty weak for burger king, to “succumb” to peta’s demands by using morningstar which has eggs and all kinds of weird shit in everything they have.