Mars starts using animal products: resources from claves' stomachs. YUCK
Reference: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6653175.stm
Some of the UK's best-selling chocolate bars, such as Mars and Twix, will no longer be suitable for vegetarians.
Also affecting brands such as Snickers and Maltesers, owner Masterfoods said it had started to use animal product rennet to make its chocolate products.
Masterfoods said the change was due to it switching the sourcing of its ingredients and the admission was a "principled decision" on its part.
The Vegetarian Society said the company's move was "incomprehensible".
Masterfoods said it had started using rennet from 1 May and non-affected products had a "best before date" up to 1 October
Rennet, a chemical sourced from calves' stomachs, is used in the production of whey.
It will now also be found in Bounty, Minstrels and Milky Way products, and the ice cream versions of all Masterfoods' bars.
"If the customer is an extremely strict vegetarian, then we are sorry the products are no longer suitable, but a less strict vegetarian should enjoy our chocolate," said Paul Goalby, corporate affairs manager for Masterfoods.
The Vegetarian Society said it was "extremely disappointed".
"At a time when more and more consumers are concerned about the provenance of their food, Masterfoods' decision to use non-vegetarian whey is a backward step," it said in a statement.
"Mars products are very popular with young people and many will be shocked to discover that their manufacture now relies on the extraction of rennet from the stomach lining of young calves," it added.
For a second i thought they were importing animals from earth to mars lol... im so lame i know :P... I dont really like mars. Not the chocolate nor the planet... the aliens freak me out (or transformers after watchin the movie)
It's always the small things that make big differences.
Same website you got the original information, just a few days later.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6673549.stm
syamsat...there is no need to pull in comments on society... it complicates issues further.... just say it simply....
I know there is a chemical composition equalant to Rennet. The same will be used to make cheese from milk. If there is a chance to save an animal, they should do it. (I know I am talking in a society where animal killing is not a big deal)
so.. are they still using the chemical or no???
They always used to do this, it was only 2 years ago they stopped doing it...now they are going back to the good old stuff!
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Old news. This was retracted quickly as so many people were up in arms. They went back to the vegetarian recipe within a few weeks.
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huh... does that mean vegetarians will not eat those choc's again... and seriously its sounds disgusting..