{"id":31633,"date":"2025-03-12T21:02:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T21:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/paul-mccartney-supports-peta-campaign-against-peets-vegan-milk-surcharge\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T21:02:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T21:02:40","slug":"paul-mccartney-supports-peta-campaign-against-peets-vegan-milk-surcharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/paul-mccartney-supports-peta-campaign-against-peets-vegan-milk-surcharge\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney supports PETA campaign against Peet\u2019s vegan milk surcharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-03-12\/Getty_PaulMcCartney_031225.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Jim Dyson\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong> is lending his support to a new PETA campaign that\u2019s trying to get Peet\u2019s Coffee to stop charging extra for plant-based milk options.<\/p>\n<p>Peet\u2019s currently charges 80 cents extra for vegan milks. McCartney, a longtime vegetarian, is speaking out, sending a letter to Peet\u2019s Coffee President and CEO <strong>Eric Lauterbach<\/strong> to try to get him to change his stance on the charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI must say this [vegan milk upcharge] surprised me as I understand that your company is committed to reducing methane emissions and water waste, yet cow\u2019s milk significantly contributes to them,\u201d McCartney wrote in his letter. \u201cI would like to politely request that you consider dropping the upcharge on plant milks, just as Starbucks and Dunkin\u2019 have recently done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;I sincerely hope that for the future of the planet and animal welfare you are able to implement this policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the letter, McCartney is set to appear in a nationwide PETA campaign against the Peet\u2019s upcharge, launching March 17. He\u2019ll also be featured in a billboard going up outside the Peet\u2019s location in Oakland, California, which just happens to be near the Peet\u2019s corporate headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Dyson\/Getty Images Paul McCartney is lending his support to a new PETA campaign that\u2019s trying to get Peet\u2019s Coffee to stop charging extra for plant-based milk options. Peet\u2019s currently charges 80 cents extra for vegan milks. McCartney, a longtime vegetarian, is speaking out, sending a letter to Peet\u2019s Coffee<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/paul-mccartney-supports-peta-campaign-against-peets-vegan-milk-surcharge\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}