Gateshead Pub Wins PETA Vegan Food Award for Best Pie
Gateshead Pub Wins PETA Vegan Food Award for Best Pie
Gateshead, Tyne and Wear – Winner, winner, (vegan) chicken dinner! The results are in for PETA’s 2024 Vegan Food Awards – the 12th annual celebration of delicious animal-free offerings – and this year’s winners span everything from crispy fried “chicken” to a first-ever guest judge–awarded innovative dairy-free cheese.
Picking up the award for Best Pie is Gateshead pub The Fog on the Tyne for the succulent vegan steak and ale pie served up with crushed potatoes, peas, and gravy. Produced in Northumberland by plant-based pie crafters Magpye, the pies feature plant-based steak in a rich stout and onion gravy nestled within handmade shortcrust pastry and crowned with cracked black pepper. The pies can also be ordered directly from Magpye’s website.
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Other winners include Fortnum & Mason for its Free From St James Christmas Pudding (Best Christmas Pudding) and London-based Chick’N’Sours for its Vegan MK2 (Best Vegan Chicken) – a true flavour explosion featuring a crispy “chicken” patty served with green slaw, ginger miso, kimchi, and sriracha mayo.
“Animal-free fare is growing in quality and popularity as consumers increasingly choose cruelty-free, healthy, sustainable foods with no compromise on taste,” says PETA Vice President of Vegan Corporate Projects Dawn Carr. “From high-end to the high street, PETA’s awards show that it’s easier than ever to choose vegan.”
In today’s meat, egg, dairy, and fishing industries, cows are forcibly separated from their beloved calves, chickens’ throats are cut while they’re still conscious, piglets’ tails are docked without painkillers, and fish are cut open while they’re still alive. PETA notes that vegan foods have a smaller carbon footprint than animal-derived foods and the meat and dairy industries are top producers of the greenhouse gases driving the climate catastrophe. Eating vegan also lowers a person’s risk of developing heart disease and certain types of cancer.
Rounding out the winners are Oato’s Barista Whole (Best Milk), La Fauxmagerie’s Brixton Blue (Best Cheese), Strong Roots’ Veggie Masala (Best Ready Meal), One Planet Pizza’s Tex Mex (Best Pizza), M&S Café’s Very Veggie Toastie (Best Sandwich), Cake Box’s Vegan Speculoos Bliss Cake (Best Cake), Crave’s Sugared Ring Dodoughs (Best Doughnuts), DÁPPA’s Soft Serve (Best Ice Cream), Knoops’ 38% Oat M*lk Hot Chocolate (Best Chocolate), The Shortbread Company’s Vegan Maple Pecan (Best Luxury Product), Hedgerow Café’s VG Poached Egg (Best Vegan Egg), and Lurpak’s Plant Based (Best Butter).
PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – offers a free vegan starter kit. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow the group on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.
Contact:
Jennifer White +44 (0) 20 7837 6327; [email protected]
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