Mars, Twix, Snickers and Maltesers no longer OK for vegetarians

Overheal

Popular chocolate bars Mars, Bounty, Milky Way, Snickers and Twix, as well as Minstrels, Maltesers choclate sweets, will no longer be suitable for vegetarians, because Masterfoods the company who make the products, said it had started to use rennet, which comes from the stomachs of calves.

Masterfoods say this has happened because they changed the sourcing of the ingredients used, however, the Vegetarian Society said the move was "incomprehensible" and that they are "extremely disappointed" by this news.


Masterfoods admit they began using rennet from 1 May 2007, and non-affected products had a "best before date" up to 1 October.

Rennet, which curdles milk, is used in the production of whey, and the ice cream versions of all Masterfoods' chocolate bars will also no longer be suitable for vegetarians.

Paul Goalby, corporate affairs manager of Masterfoods is reported to have said: "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."

.....................why?

omg Mr. Goalby has as much sense as the Sony PR that accused Wii of being a novelty item.

MagicMarker

Overheal wrote: »

.....................why?

Because vegetarians are a shower of bastards who don't deserve choclatey goodness. I for one, spit in their general direction.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

oh well

monkeyfudge

Red smarties have insects in them... don't they?

Ruu_Old

Smarties have ants blood under the hard shell.

watna

Ruu wrote: »

Smarties have ants blood under the hard shell.

and the blue ones get their colour from crushed beetle shells!

I am also not a big fan of vegetarians. Bring on the meat!

Tar.Aldarion

Overheal wrote: »

.....................why?

omg Mr. Goalby has as much sense as the Sony PR that accused Wii of being a novelty item.

Hey, this is no longer the case, they changed them to be no longer vegetarian, we dealt with them, a few weeks later they were back to being vegetarian.

bbc wrote:

Mars said it became "very clear, very quickly" that it had made a mistake.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6673549.stm


Yes, smarties, M&Ms etc have crushed insects in the them.

Chiaki

im not a vegetarian/vegan. i love meat esp good steak but to be fair, i would like to be informed when im eating cow stomach?! its basically tripe being added to it

Guy:Incognito

Meat ftw.

Jim

Yea, this is fairly old, they changed their policy back but batches of the chocolate up to a certain date had the ingredient in them. All should be ok now.

Crushed beetle shell in Danone Actimel!

Kold

Haha, I'm gonna offer so many vegetarians a minstrel on Monday.

thefinalstage

Kold wrote: »

Haha, I'm gonna offer so many vegetarians a minstrel on Monday.

Beatings will be forced on you.

super_furry

If we were supposed to be vegitarians, aniamls wouldn't taste so good.

boneless

The cows and sheep I eat are vegitarians!! That's enough for me.:p

johnny_ultimate

Man = Omnivore
I for one am disgusted these chocolate bars will not be containing any meat. IMO all food should have at least 50% meat content, vegetables in particular.

emeraldstar

Kold wrote: »

Haha, I'm gonna offer so many vegetarians a minstrel on Monday.

Didn't you read the thread?

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Chiaki wrote: »

im not a vegetarian/vegan. i love meat esp good steak but to be fair, i would like to be informed when im eating cow stomach?! its basically tripe being added to it

Rennet is a bacterial culture used to make more or less all forms of cheese

pretty-in-pink

Red lipstick also has crushed beetles in it- saw a factory where its made. Also the pink bit of a battenburg cake is coloured from some sort of crushed bug.

Venom

Seemed like an insane thing for Masterfoods to do tho. Driving away customers is just bad business sense as lost income from veggies has to outway the extra cost in sourcing a supplier that is veggie friendly.

Jim

People need to read the thread.

Guy:Incognito

Is there any food that doesnt have crushed betles in it? They must be the tastiest thing on the planet.:D

Genghiz Cohen

I think we all need to get some of these shirts.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

hahahaha

awesome, there's my christmas present to myself

Overheal

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

I think we all need to get some of these shirts.

We have a winner! Nice Ghengiz!

Gauge

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

I think we all need to get some of these shirts.

Oh my God, how original.:rolleyes:

Tar.Aldarion

Sean_K wrote: »

Rennet is a bacterial culture used to make more or less all forms of cheese

There are severl different types, I eat vegetarian rennet for example.

That t-shirt is as old as the internet.

beaushalloe

MagicMarker wrote: »

Because vegetarians are a shower of bastards who don't deserve choclatey goodness. I for one, spit in their general direction.

each to their own dont ya think?

they dont 'spit' at you for eating dead animals

Terry

I once ate a vegetarian chick out.
Tasted like chicken flavoured tofu.

thefinalstage

Terry wrote: »

I once ate a vegetarian chick out.
Tasted like chicken flavoured tofu.

Em, yeah.... What breed of chicken was it?

Dun laoire

I guess it's just as well i like eating dead animal

Tar.Aldarion

I'd eat human if I could get my hands on it, hard enough this time of year.

super_furry

beaushalloe wrote: »

each to their own dont ya think?

they dont 'spit' at you for eating dead animals

That's only because their pasty, frail bodies can't spare the saliva.

Seth Brundle

Stekelly wrote: »

Is there any food that doesnt have crushed betles in it? They must be the tastiest thing on the planet.:D

Tesco's Finest Crushed Beetles doesn't contain any beetles (crushed or otherwise).

Incidentally, some outlets in the powerscourt centre were till recently serving beetles - www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/1204/breaking29.html?via=mr

Setun

Ruu wrote:

Smarties have ants blood under the hard shell.

smarties are made from snail's shells afaik.

And re the OP, my gf won't be happy.
Well, she won't be happy for about a half hour til she gets a chocolate craving and eats a twix anyway

Sam Vimes

super_furry wrote: »

If we were supposed to be vegitarians, aniamls wouldn't taste so good.

and they wouldn't be made of meat

Capt'n Midnight

Microbial rennet has been around for a very long time and IIRC it's cheaper and more consistant in quality than the calf version.

just to make that clear adults don't have rennet, it does NOT come from cows
Rennet comes from CALVES, with the real cute eyes that look at you with wonder and curiousty

look at the that shiney thing the man has, I want to see it, he's coming here, oh look he's putting it on my head, it's cold, I wonder what's fo... </calf>

microgirl

Sean_K wrote: »

Rennet is a bacterial culture used to make more or less all forms of cheese

Nope, *vegetarian* rennet - a more modern invention - is a product of recombinant (read: genetically engineered) bacteria. Traditional/original rennet, still used in certain artisan cheeses (such as Parmesan) is an enzyme extracted from the stomach of a calf (so the other poster who said calves stomach/tripe was being added to the chocolate is technically incorrect aswell )

I remember this change back when it happened, and my understanding at the time (as the onmivorous girlfriend of a strict vegetarian I was paying attention) was that it wasn't rennet that was going to be used in the chocolate (it's not needed) but that the whey they were going to be using - which is a by-product of cheese manufacture - was no longer going to be guaranteed to come from vegetarian-friendly cheese production. So there wouldn't necessarily be any animal product in the chocolate itself (which is why some vegetarians may not have had a problem) but that one of the ingredients was going to be a by-product of a process in which animal product had been used.

Just like most/many vegetarians happily eat white sugar, as there is no actual animal product in it, but vegans won't touch the stuff, as it's refined using ground-up animal bones.

That was my understanding anyway. I may stand corrected

axer

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

look at the that shiney thing the man has, I want to see it, he's coming here, oh look he's putting it on my head, it's cold, I wonder what's fo... </calf>

There you go. The calves dont feel a thing. They dont even understand. Down with vegetarianism!

Genghiz Cohen

axer wrote: »

There you go. The calves dont feel a thing. They dont even understand. Down with vegetarianism!

Up with mini-skirts!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Meat

Tar.Aldarion

Penis doesn't count ... much

thefinalstage

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Penis doesn't count ... much

Yes it does. Your killing (and perhaps ingesting) millions of sperm!

Tar.Aldarion

thelastangryman wrote: »

Yes it does. Your killing (and perhaps ingesting) millions of sperm!

Don't worry, they live on in special machines I have made.