WASHINGTON -- This week's segment of Going Green featured Sticky Fingers, a vegan bakery in the Adams Morgan community that makes pastries and sweets without any animal products.

Owners Doron Peterson and Kirsten Rosenberg are both vegans and animal rights activists who believe that raising animals for their parts is ethically and environmentally wrong.

"The waste produced by growing all the animals for human consumption is tremendous and pollutes the environment," said Peterson. "If you are about the earth and are about the animals, it's important to make a choice that encompasses all that."

Peterson has a degree in food science from the University of Maryland. She started deconstructing eggs and milk and butter to figure out how to get the same chemical reaction with plant food.

"We use oat flour. It's naturally fatty, has great flavor and makes things taste a little buttery, so that's what we use in the cookies," said Peterson.

Using 100 percent vegan ingredients, the pair can concoct a variety of desserts such as muffins, cupcakes, cheesecake, birthday cake, sticky buns, oat bars, and peanut butter fudge cake.

"There's health food baking, and then there's fun baking, and we wanted to attract everyone," said Peterson.

"It's naturally cholesterol-free, no animal products, diary and egg allergies, we're a bakery for everybody," said Rosenberg.

The American Dietetic Association reports that vegetarians have lower risk of heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and cancer.

Sticky Fingers bakery hopes to quietly introduce people to the vegan philosophy. A small sign asks customers to check their fur at the door. Bakery owners have also named a cookie after Cowvin, a baby calf who was rescued before becoming a plate of veal.

After three years, Sticky Fingers has outgrown its space and is looking for a bigger location.

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