Mars bars get veggie status back (UK)

[wakeme2008]

Source: BBC

Sunday, 20 May 2007, 00:31 GMT 01:31 UK

Mars bars get veggie status back


Mars has abandoned plans to use animal products in its chocolate, and has apologised to "upset" vegetarians.

The firm had said it would change the whey used in some of its products from a vegetarian source to one with traces of the animal enzyme, rennet.

The Vegetarian Society organised a campaign against the move, asking members to voice their concerns to parent company Masterfoods.

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

In just one week, more than 6,000 people bombarded the company, which produces the Mars, Snickers, Maltesers and Galaxy brands, with phone and e-mail complaints.

Forty MPs also signed a petition to voice their opposition.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6673549.stm

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first rule do not mess with Chocolate!!!!!

And yes protests do work...

[hlthe2b]

1. This is the UK controversy: in US, Mars is pushing for FDA

to allow them to label as "chocolate" products that substitute vegetable oils for cocoa... I'm out the door shortly, but perhaps someone could dig up a link from recent posts on the issue.

This is an equally egegious move, IMO.

[mcscajun]

3. Don't Mess With Our Chocolate - FDA Comment Period Extended Until June 25th

http://dontmesswithourchocolate.guittard.com

Older press release with details:
http://dontmesswithourchocolate.guittard.com/documents/ToEditors-chocolateadvisory-Apr11.pdf


Another item at risk of going down the memory hole: the Taste of Real Chocolate

...she felt in the pocket of her overalls and produced a small slab of chocolate. She broke it in half and gave one of the pieces to Winston. Even before he had taken it he knew by the smell that it was very unusual chocolate. It was dark and shiny, and was wrapped in silver paper. Chocolate normally was dullbrown crumbly stuff that tasted, as nearly as one could describe it, like the smoke of a rubbish fire. But at some time or another he had tasted chocolate like the piece she had given him. The first whiff of its scent had stirred up some memory which he could not pin down, but which was powerful and troubling. -- Chapter 2, "1984" by George Orwell

[HuskiesHowls]

2. They have to do something with the left-over wheat gluten!!!

From the Mars website:

"Mars provides pet care products, snacks, treats and complete diets for cats, dogs, cage birds, aquarium fish and horses. Our brands include PEDIGREE, CESAR, WHISKAS, SHEBA, KITEKAT, TRILL, AQUARIAN and WINERGY."
http://www.mars.com/global/What+do+we+do/Petcare.htm

If you're a pet owner, you've recognized some of these names, from the cans and bags you've been dragging back to the store. What they don't tell you, is the companies that they own majority percentages of....such as Royal Canin. It took a lot of time and searching, but I did find out (because of personal interest) that they own 56% of Royal Canin.

[ForPeace]

4. Mars Bar is a vegetable?

I thought the headline meant they could count a Mars bar as a vegetable in school lunches - like ketchup under Reagun. Now that would be a shocker!

[Raine]

5. They better not try using animal products

in chocolate here in the US either. :mad: