Have you all heard what there doing to mars bars and bountys ?!
Have you all heard what there doing to mars bars and bountys ?
and all there other chocolate bars made by that company ! there putting animal rennet in them !! and im vegatarian its not fair !! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6653... :(
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Revolting. Thanks for the warning.
Paul Goalby can kiss the underside of my bollocks.
thats sick- i won't be eating them again!! thanks for telling me, why is this the first i've heard of it though? its disgusting
Yes this is old news. I don't think its fair in the sameway as the ban on Fox hunting isn't fair to hunters.
wow The PC crew is in full force today. Honest answerers you have been warned.
All chocolate has lard (<
This seems sheer stupidity to me. Surely they will lose a significant number of sales over this? Presumably using animal rennet makes the product cheaper to make.
yeh big deal, get over it!
If god wanted us to be veggie he/she wouldn't have invented steak!!
"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.
this is just crazy!
well thats a growing section of the market they just lost.
for fellow veggies, i recommend montezumas and green and black's chocolate. much better than all the mars/ cadburies rubbish anyway.
on the subject of cadburies, i have it on good authority that they have been using eggs known to contain salmonella since 2001.
Let's face it, they're doing us a favour. There's plenty of other good chocolate around and all it will do is reduce their sales. No meat eater is going to buy more because of this but we'll all be buying a lot less.
God what a dilemma I am now faced with . I have been a vegetarian 20 years but Mars bars out of all the chocolate bars are my favourite .
Will be yummy trying all those that don't have animal rennet in though .
I know, it seems a really regressive step to take. I'm not vegetarian, but at the same time I don't want to eat unneccesary animal fat either. Boo hiss to masterfoods.
Ummmmm! But aren't most chocolate bars made with MILK chocolate? What's the difference between eating one animal product and another?
I don't mean to be rude, but as a non-vegetarian I have trouble understanding the comparison.
they haven't just started putting it in they've just decided to publicise the fact.
most chocolate has some form of animal product in it be it rennet, fat or geletine.
there are companies that don't use any animal products in their chocolate, you should try them.
Vegetarian
Green & Black’s
Organic Milk Chocolate
Organic White Chocolate
Oxfam
Organic Masca Milk chocolate (100g) 32% (FairTrade mark)
Organic Masca Orange (100g) (FairTrade mark)
Organic Masca Cappuccino (100g) (FairTrade mark)
Cadbury’s
Bournville
Bournville fruit and nut
Buttons (Creamy white & milk chocolate varieties)
Dairy Milk, various sizes
Flake
Golden Crisp
Mint Crisp
Nut Crisp
Old Jamaica
Raisin and Biscuit
Tiffin
Time Out
Twirl
Wispa
Rowntree/Nestlé
After Eights Mints
Milky Bar
Vegan
Plamil
Plain, Mint, Hazelnut
(No whey, butterfat, cow’s milk, animal emulsifiers, or release agents)
Martello bar
Organic Plain, Orange, Mint, Organic chocolate drops
Green & Black’s
Organic Maya Gold Dark (FairTrade mark)
Organic Dark (70%) (FairTrade mark)
Mint Dark Chocolate
Hazelnut and Currant 70% Dark Chocolate
Oxfam
Organic Masca Plain (100g) 59%
Cadbury’s
Fry’s Orange Cream
Fry’s Peppermint Cream
Terry’s 1767 Bitter Bar
Rowntree/Nestlé
Jelly Tots
Polo Fruits
Fox’s Glacier Fruits and Mints
(Sources of information: The Vegetarian Society (UK), www.earthfoods.co.uk.gbs2.html... www.plamilfoods.co.uk )
So what? They're already made with non-vegetarian sugar, and you've been eating them anyway. How is it not fair? Obviously, you buy into capitalism by buying products like these. In a capitalist society, businesses can do whatever they please to increase profits. This particular company doesn't find it profitable to cater to vegetarians. If they notice a drop in sales after introducing rennet into their products, you can bet that they'll take it back out soon enough. If sales remain the same, it'll stay in.
Wow... lots of thumbs down for telling the truth, hey? Sorry, but if you consume dairy (especially the kind of dairy Masterfoods sources), you're obviously okay with the mistreatment of cows, so why does rennet bother you?
Yep, i was just coming in here to post the same thing:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6653...
Oh well, guess i'll just have to eat more Green and Blacks.
Why automatically remove 5% of your market ?.....how shortsighted of them.
don't forget to write and tell them what you think:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From:
To: contact@policies.mars.com
Subject: Mars non veggie
Date: 14 May 2007 13:11:42 +0100
Hi,
I'm curious as to why Mars have chosen to use animal rennet in thier Mars brands and remove 5% of the market ?
Are you sure your share holders really want you to automatically reduce your sales by 5% ?
Seems very strange business behaviour to me.
Any you would be wise to get Paul Goalby to learn about vegetarianism before commenting it like this:
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.
What nonsense ! There is no such thing as a "strict" or "less-strict" vegetarian. People are either vegetarian or not. Its so simple. Has Mars any clue as to the derision his comments and your decision have created on the internet. You have to laugh really, how can such a large corporation get something so wrong.
Shame Mars have no clue in this regard.
Personally, i look forward to trying out all those vegetarian chocolates now, maybe you have done us all a favour.
thanks for that opportunity !
Michael xyz
We are meant to eat animal products. Its part of the natural food chain.
This is great news!!! I don't understand why all the negativity around this!
Atleast it isn't going to waste, and there is a use for it!
Fantastic! News!
And this isn't anything out of the ordinary, Rennet has been used in the making of cheese, ice creams, etc...
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That is so incredibly backwards, considering the way vegetarian/vegan and organic foods are becoming so popular. It really boggles the mind.
If this gets enough publicity then yes, we should be able to expect them to lose 5% of their market as Michael H says... but we need to make sure word gets out, as so many veggies are clueless about the hidden sources of animal products and may carry on eating it without even knowing.
EDIT- So, to these people having a go at us because "there's already milk in it", do you think there is no point in being vegetarian if you're not going to be a full vegan? How much animal suffering would be prevented if everyone took that view, and said "f**k it, I don't want to give up dairy so I'll just carry on eating bacon etc"? In fact, haven't we all met someone who would like to go vegetarian but won't because they refuse to give up one type of meat, so they carry on eating the rest as well? Do you respect these people more than the ones who are willing to go veggie but not vegan? I understand that the vegetarian lifestyle is not quite so perfect as the vegan, but it's still better than the majority of the population and we still have a right to express our views without being accused of hypocrisy. We have a diet we have chosen, and we want to stick to it.
that's why i eat godiva chocolate and none of that cheap crap chocolate. atleast they use fine ingredients...pure coco and other natural products (you definitely get what you pay for!), unlike that crap which uses chemicals and animal products.
so it's ok for you to eat milk chocolate (ie made from an animal product) but not to eat this other animal product? Besides you've probably ate LOADS of other chocolate products which have lots of animal prouducts in them without knowing. Flavourings and additives which have just numbers assigned to them can contain ANYTHING including animal products not suitable for vegetarians
I'm with dansolo2 on this one. Whether a product contains animal rennet or milk is pretty much the same thing.
Unless any product is marked as "suitable for vegans" you can bet your life that some poor suffering animal is involved in the making of it. The suffering of cows in the dairy industry is horrendous - free range eggs are a joke - have you ever wondered what happens to all the male chicks who are obviously no good for the production of eggs.
Most vegetarians are quite happy to wear leather goods - mainly shoes - the barbaric cruelty involved in the rearing and slaughter of the animals whose skins are turned into leather doesn't appear to bother vegetarians. The vast majority of leather comes from animals reared in countries like India and Pakistan where the suffering they endure is indescribable. Mind you, they don't fare a whole lot better in the UK.
stupid dudes arnt they lol stuff them though mars bars and bounty's suck!galaxy and cadbury are better!