Dutch zoo customers unknowingly eat vegan krokets for three years

For the past three years, Rotterdam Zoo has been secretly taking a stand against animal-cruelty by selling vegetarian krokets to hungry meat-eaters — and zoo-goers had absolutely no idea.

The unidentifiably veggie kroket left visitors of the zoo in disbelief when told that the otherwise meaty deep-fried snack was, in fact, meat-free. 

Meaty gossip

The zoo says that the decision was entirely on purpose. 

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“We want to encourage visitors to make healthier and more animal-friendly choices. A zoo is a perfect place for that,” a spokesperson tells EditieNL, RTL Nieuws reports.

You’re one to talk

While we’re in favour of anything that saves the animals, we can’t help raising an eyebrow — is a zoo where animals are locked up for human enjoyment really the best place to argue for vegetarianism?

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Although, we’ll give them this: the zoo’s krokets probably taste far better compared with the ones that fester in the vending machines at FEBO. 😉

Will you be heading to Diergaarde Blijdorp for your Meatless Mondays? Let us know in the comments below.

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Eva Gabriella
Eva Gabriella
After calling Malaysia her home for 19 years, Eva moved to Amsterdam to study literary and cultural analysis. Well, that was the academic theory — in reality it was more like “cultural shock.” Eva’s mastery of life in the Netherlands involved initiation into the richness of nocturnal hangouts, canals, cuisine, and upright and forthright cyclists (who she now rings her bell back at.) When she is not speeding her way through books, she is winding and weaving down endless straatjes, often finding herself, not so quite by chance, in a gezellig music bar!

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