Miyoko's Creamery founder Miyoko Schinner poses in a refrigerated room full of aging cashew cheeses.
Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Media
What can food look like in a future where animals are not property? Jo-Anne has been documenting innovative companies answering this question.
One of them is Miyoko’s Creamery, founded and run by “the queen of vegan cheese,” Miyoko Schinner. Not only does Miyoko run a successful plant-based creamery and an animal sanctuary, she also recently won the legal right to use “butter,” “dairy” and “cruelty-free” in her marketing. Yes, the California Department of Food and Agriculture ordered her to stop. And lost.
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