Every product on this page carries the Leaping Bunny certification and ranks among the highest for ethics in books & media. Independently scored on certifications, sourcing, packaging and brand practices.

Kook & Kruid
A softcover cookbook featuring 60 vegan, seasonal recipes from Belgium and the Netherlands — from stamppot to stoofperen — photographed on location. Printed on FSC paper in the Netherlands.
TL;DR
The best Leaping Bunny books & media in 2026 is The Low Countries Cookbook: 60 Plant-Based Seasonal Recipes from Belgian & Dutch Kitchens by Kook & Kruid, scoring 80/100 on our ethics index while holding Leaping Bunny certification.
Leaping Bunny is a third-party standard, so it cannot be self-awarded. We only apply it here when the certification is verifiable at brand or product level. On top of that mark, each product carries our composite 0–100 score across ingredient or material safety, supply-chain transparency, packaging sustainability and brand-level conduct — so a certified product with a poor parent-company record still ranks below a cleaner one. We never accept payment for placement.
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Scoring methodology →The Low Countries Cookbook: 60 Plant-Based Seasonal Recipes from Belgian & Dutch Kitchens by Kook & Kruid leads our Leaping Bunny books & media ranking with an ethics score of 80/100, verified against the Leaping Bunny standard plus our sourcing, packaging and transparency checks.
Leaping Bunny is a third-party standard, so a brand cannot self-declare it. We only apply the Leaping Bunny label to a product when the certification is verifiable at brand or product level — marketing language that merely echoes the standard does not qualify.
No single mark covers every ethical dimension. Leaping Bunny addresses part of the picture, which is why each product here also carries a composite 0–100 score across ingredients or materials, supply-chain disclosure, packaging and brand-level conduct.
Positions recalculate whenever a score changes — a certification lapses, a controversy is documented, a formula changes, or a brand is acquired by a parent with a different ethics record.