“Denies that the company had proprietary recipes” in response to lawsuit SAN FRANCISCO, California––Vegan cheesemaker Miyoko Schinner, in her newly filed response to the Miyoko’s Creamery lawsuit against her for allegedly stealing trade secrets, “denies that the Company has any true ‘trade secrets,” and “denies that the company had ‘proprietary recipes.’” Fired in June 2022 […]
Starring Miyoko Schinner in “The Decline & Fall of the Dairy Empire”
The Romans imagine they are still in charge while the Visigoths & Ostrogoths fight over the spoils of conquest SAN FRANCISCO, California––Imagine the U.S. dairy industry as the Roman empire, Miyoko Schinner as Alaric the Visigoth, who sacked Rome in 410 A.D., and the venture capitalists who ousted her from Miyoko’s Creamery in a recent […]
What Miyoko’s Creamery lawsuit alleges Miyoko Schinner did
& what a few other good lawyers think of the case SONOMA, California––Perhaps the most surprising part of Miyoko’s PBC vs. Miyoko Schinner, the lawsuit filed on February 16, 2022 by Miyoko’s Creamery against the ousted founder of the company, is the demand for a jury trial. As a legal ploy, that makes sense: […]
Miyoko’s Creamery sues Miyoko Schinner for allegedly stealing recipes
Would Miyoko’s Creamery exist without Miyoko Schinner’s recipes? SONOMA, California––Perhaps the only dairy product for which Miyoko’s Creamery founder Miyoko Schinner, 65, never tried to develop a vegan alternative was bullshit. Post-Miyoko, however, the Miyoko’s Creamery management team who ousted her appears to be moving fast to corner the market on vegan bullshit. On […]
Canned Miyoko: the ballad of Jon Blair & Miyoko Schinner
Dog-eat-dog is not vegan (See also How Miyoko Schinner got the same shaft as Paul Watson.) SONOMA, California––Miyoko’s Creamery founder Miyoko Schinner, 65, on February 16, 2023 officially got the unceremonious boot from the vegan cheese company she started in 2014 as Miyoko’s Kitchen and built into a $260-million-per-year non-dairy food-making empire. Of course the […]
How Miyoko Schinner got the same shaft as Paul Watson
With vegan grease (See also Canned Miyoko: the ballad of Jon Blair & Miyoko Schinner.) The recent ouster of Miyoko’s Creamery founder Miyoko Schinner from the vegan food company she founded in 2014 will come as no surprise to longtime Australian vegan activist Phil Wollen. Indeed, Wollen, also a former Sea Shepherd Conservation Society crew […]
Veguary re-introduces Afro-Americans to plant-based eating
“Prominent throughout the African Diaspora for centuries” BALTIMORE, Maryland––Afro-Vegan Society founder Brenda Sanders on February 1, 2023 commenced the organization’s third annual Veguary campaign, “providing culturally relevant content on plant-based eating during Black History Month. “Throughout the month of February,” Sanders explained, “the Afro-Vegan Society will host free programming that includes daily social media content, […]
Nellie Saiom Shriver, 80, introduced Alex Hershaft to vegan activism
Eccentric midwife to the animal rights movement AKRON, Ohio––Nellie Saiom Shriver, among the most dynamic early orchestrators of the late 20th century animal rights movement, died on January 12, 2023 at the Copley Nursing Health Care Center in Copley, Ohio. “I don’t know how much time I have,” Nellie Shriver, Saiom to friends, emailed to […]
Patty Bonney, 92, quietly did more for animals than most activists
Behind-the-scenes person for ANIMALS 24-7, & that was perhaps the least of all she did Patricia “Patty” Bonney, 92, suffered terminal heart failure on October 22, 2022 at the converted stable in Beaverton, Oregon, that was her home since 1960. Never known or self-described as an activist, Patty nonetheless contributed endless volunteer effort throughout her […]
Animal advocacy “Robin Hood” Gil Michaels dies at 80
Michaels put $40 million into animal causes, but was convicted of toner cartridge scam that netted more than $126 million, according to the federal Department of Justice. VAN NUYS, California––Gilbert N. Michaels, 80, founder of the Compassion for Animals Foundation and Animal Guardians, died on August 19, 2022, while on compassionate release from a four-year […]
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