Our main reason for being a vegan company is that animals suffer and die to make dairy ice cream. There really is no way to get around that. Forced pregnancies for the life of a female cow is nothing we want to be associated with. It's called rape among humans and we see it no differently with animals. Male babies are thrown into the veal industry and females are circled right back into the places of their mothers. It's a brutal industry that has, unfortunately, done a great job of marketing.

Because these people need "ice cream" too! And who can they trust? Not too many other manufacturers. MOST OTHER NON-DAIRY "ICE CREAMS" ARE MADE ON SHARED DAIRY EQUIPMENT! (For example, Soy Delicious is now manufactured at Edy's dairy plants.) 11 million Americans have food allergies. At the present time, there is no cure for food allergies; strict avoidance of the food is the only way to prevent a reaction. These reactions lead to 30,000 emergency room visits and 150 to 200 deaths each year. We want to provide a product that gives people an option and lets them feel safe. Trust that we will never contaminate your favorite flavors!

We guarantee DAIRY-FREE, EGG-FREE, TREE NUT-FREE, and PEANUT-FREE

Sure are. Check out our certification papers here OR

on the Chicago Rabbinical Council's website: Chicago Soydairy on www.crcweb.org

We have three (3) Fair Trade Certified^TM products. Chocolate, Coffee, and Green Tea. In our opinion, these are the main Fair Trade Certified^TM commodities in the world right now. We have no idea why the other non-dairy frozen dessert manufacturers haven't followed our lead to use FTC products. Ethics are #1... and everything we have that is FTC is certified by TransFair USA and is audited quarterly.




A little history on Fair Trade from the TRANSFAIR USA website:
Fair Trade Certification, begun in Europe 16 years ago and growing in importance in the United States, is a way for coffee drinkers to channel more dollars to coffee farmers, as well as to encourage sound environmental and social practices. Fair Trade coffee is bought from farmer cooperatives at $1.26 a pound ($1.41 for organic coffee), with individual farmers and cooperative social programs sharing the premium. More than 85 percent of Fair Trade coffee sold in the U.S. is certified organic.

Fair Trade Certification proved a godsend to small farmers as coffee prices fell to an all-time low of 45 cents a pound in 2002. While prices have more than doubled since then, a bumper crop this year could send them down again.

TransFair USA (www.transfairusa.org) is the third party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States, and the non-profit organization makes sure farmers and farm workers are paid a fair, above-market price and that sound socioeconomic criteria are met, using increased Fair Trade revenues.

TransFair, based in Oakland, Calif., says that in addition to providing price support, Fair Trade Certification ensures fair labor conditions for all workers on the farms; freedom of association for farmers and workers; lines of credit for cooperatives and environmental standards that restrict use of agrochemicals.

We try to use all organic and local/regional. The corn maltodextrin we use is obviously regional to us (being in Illinois) and is made from corn that although not organic, IS planted using non-gmo seeds... The company that manufactures it, however, says that there is a cross contamination rate, although low, that makes it impossible to certify the final corn material as being 100% non-gmo. Unfortunate, but the closest organic corn maltodextrin comes from Europe... then you get into the arguement of fossil fuel usage to ship that product across the ocean, etc... We're staying local with this ingredient for now.

Sometimes color varies batch to batch, so when two different batches get into the filler at the same time, you may see some "streaking"... usually only happens in the strawberry and the peach cobbler. It looks pretty cool... consider yourself lucky, but without the million dollar prize that comes with winning the lottery. Sorry.

All containers are filled to approximately the same weight (fill by weight, not by volume!)... But on occasion, our filler may deposit too much (and rarely too little) cookie dough into a tub... When the amount of cookie dough is rediculous, we call that a 'repeat customer' (RPC) tub... we apologize if there's not enough in yours. It just means that someone who bought the container next to yours is loving life a little more. We ALWAYS suggest buying multiple tubs to cover your bases.

For you, sure. Especially if it sells a tub or a pint. Some of us are, some of us aren't. For those of us that aren't, you should come and babysit so we can go out and have some fun.

Guess what? Here you go:

"Wow! Your ice cream is awesome. My 8 year-old is not easily impressed. She is allergic to dairy and has had every bad version of dairy-free ice cream there is. She says you are the best. I will be telling my other dairy-free friends about your ice cream today. My daughter would also like to know if you give tours of your factory. She also wants to know if the funny guy with the leaves up his nose gives them. Thanks for making this ice cream. You Rock!!!" Christina

Hopefully everywhere. If not, you need to print off the spreadsheet on the frontpage and bring it in to your local store. Word. We stopped having a page that showed the stores that carry us because it was too hard to keep up..We're a bare-bones staff here and don't have a web-lackey to keep up with that. I suppose. we're too busy making product to keep this web page 100% up to date (sorry!). Really, just have your local store bring it in... that's easiest for all of us.

Here's the deal: We're ALWAYS looking for activist groups who want to do outreach. Temptation non-dairy frozen dessert makes giving up dairy ice cream easy. We do on-the-street demos in the summer and hand out anti-dairy literature. It works great and you make some good friends. Please email us immediately at info@welovesoy.com to help!!!

The only thing we ask is this: We need people to do IN-STORE demos. Usually, the stores in your area just need a body to serve some product and they'll have everything you need to do it. If they don't, we will (especially if you're in a big town and want to do it often..).

We'll send you coupons for free ice cream and some "cents-off" coupons for the customers. It should be enough to do an in-store demo AND on-the-street outreach. You'll HAVE to take a picture of the demo and the outreach (demo so we can justify doing this)... or we'll find you, beat you, and leave you. Please email us immediately at info@welovesoy.com to help!!!

NOTE: In some places, you have to get permits to serve food on the street (even though you're not selling it). Sometimes, cops won't care. Legally, we just have to tell you to look into this and all the responsibility lies on YOUR shoulders. Okay? Now get out there and let's save some cows!!!

The mascot is an ironic figure... How could something so guilt-free and cruelty-free be evil? It's being read into by a few people. Do people think that the little red-devils that adorn hot sauce bottles are a sign of evil? Nope. We have an ironic, blue mascot... it's funny.

A female demo-coordinator of ours wrote this explanation as a feminist viewpoint.

Any woman that takes offense to the logo being female is reading too much into their argument. Feminism is a diverse collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies. Many focus on analyzing what they believe to be social constructions of gender and sexuality. Now while there are deplorable acts committed against women everyday (bride burnings in India, unequal pay in the workforce, sex-trades, etc...), one must sit back and ask themselves...does an Ice Cream cartoon logo that has absolutely no direct-effect on people's perception of women (I dare say not even subversively) really warrant me NOT supporting their product? As the famous saying goes, "Sometimes a Cigar is just a Cigar." Sometimes a female devil cartoon, is simply a cheeky female devil cartoon. No more no less. The energy spent attacking the base-semantics of a cartooned ice-cream logo, in a sense, CHEAPENS the Feminist Ideal.
By reading too much into it, you're really just giving it more value than it truly has. Thusly, the issue then lies with you and not the maker of the product or the illustrator of the cartoon.

Any woman who feels "demeaned" by something that resembles an entity more akin to a Tele-tubby than an actual female, needs to think really hard about the value they're placing into things outside of themselves. If the logo was of a woman in chains being FORCED to eat the ice cream, then yeah...we would have a problem on our hands (we guarantee you won't see anything like that, ever).

The definition of Temptation is: an act or object that looks appealing to an individual.

Which is exactly what the ice cream is. It's appealing to the individual, it's appealing due to the ethics involved, appealing to those who usually can't (either by choice or design) EAT ice cream.

Some Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, etc... GIVE power to images (like a cartoon devil) by placing more value into them than what they are worth. Sometimes you just have to let things go and say, "you know what...it's JUST a cartoon devil with a play on words." By getting worked up over something that has very little (if any) effect or influence on religion, you're MAKING it more important than what it is (or should be). This is why vapid musicians like Marilyn Manson have managed to formulate a career... unfortunately.

I don't feel exploited or offended or up-in-arms about anything having to do with the Tempation logo. In fact, I think it's cheeky and cute. Does this make me less of a feminist? No. Does it make me question any belief or moral stance I have in a higher power? No. Does it mean I feel exploited by the men of Chicago Soy Dairy? No. Why? Because I don't need outside validation for any moral or ethical belief I have, and whatever beliefs I *DO* have aren't going to be affected by a silly cartoon logo.

If you try hard enough, you can be "offended" by anything. By reading too much into baseless things, you nullify your overall argument. You want to change the logo to a robot? Robots can be sexy! What if it was a sexy female Robot? Would that mean that women are just here to be sex machines? What if it was a male robot? Does that mean that only men possess higher mathematical processing abilities? Robots represent science! Science is often at odds with religion. Then we'd be answering Darwin versus Creationism emails, and who has time for that? We've got Ice cream to make!
Make the logo a tree? Then we'd have to answer letters about Wicca and the subversive Freudian messages in our phallic logo.

Moral of the story: You can't please everyone. Some people will just be offended by everything. Temptation ice cream was created by a COMPANY WITH OUTSTANDING MORAL AND ETHICAL values. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if they do or don't share the same religious or cultural values as you do. Of the thousands of people who consume the product, I highly doubt we ALL share the same moral, ethical, or spiritual beliefs. But it's a company with a conscience and a desire to not only make a good quality product, but a cruelty and allergy free one as well. And if the only thing you can focus on is the silly cartoon logo, you're missing the point entirely.

(isn't Dawn amazing?)