Tofurky’s ‘Animal Hero’

Animal Hero Kids, Inc., a global charity promoting kindness and empowering youth to be compassionate, surprised local Tofurky founder, Seth Tibbott, last week with an Animal Hero Kids Compassionate Entrepreneur award. “I am humbled and appreciative,“ he said. “Seth is a compassionate innovator,” said Animal Hero Kids founder and author, Susan Hargreaves, middle right, who flew from Florida with Animal Heroes educator Ronnie V. Cow to surprise Tibbott “for his years of helping all beings” by founding the vegan-products company and championing it from a time when non-animal-based agriculture products were not as widely accepted as they are now. “He has made it easy to choose kind-to-animals products,” said Hargreaves, adding that Tibbott joins past recipients Russell Simmons, Paul McCartney and Ellen DeGeneres. To nominate or learn more go to animalheroKids.org.