Snickers and others to contain animal products
 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1774


Vegetarians plan to boycott Mars bars after their recipe changed to ******* animal products.

Other big brands from the same company -including Snickers, Galaxy, Twix, Bounty, Milky Way, Maltesers and Minstrels - are also affected.

From this month, chocolate manufacturer Masterfoods has started using rennet - an enzyme taken from the stomachs of newborn calves - to make whey for its products.

It had previously been relying on a readily available - but more expensive - vegetarian alternative to rennet.

The firm makes three million Mars bars a day in its factory in Slough.

Vegetarian Society spokesman Liz O'Neill said: "People will not like the idea that you cannot make a Mars bar without killing a calf.

"We have had no good, clear answer from Masterfoods why they have to use animal products when all these items were previously produced using vegetarian alternatives.

"But we can no longer describe any of them as suitable for vegetarians."

Any bar with a 'best before' date after October 1 this year is now no longer classed as vegetarian.

The firm is offering a refund to anyone who has bought a bar but does not wish to eat it.


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I usually go for local chocolate anyway, but every once in awhile a Snickers can really hit the spot. :(

I eat meat and that sounds disgusting! Animal by-products in my twix bar...wtf?

Thanks for that :)

now ill buy a snickers with my next burger so i can take care of the entire family

That sounds gross! I know we all sorts of crazy things and that's fine, as long as I don't know about it!

yeah that's kind of a relief in a way


i wonder what else a mars bar is made of?..........

You mean like those maggots in your Chef Boyardee's?

Anyway, everyone should click the link provided by Xteenmachine. Long story short: vegetarians boycotted, and they've revoked their plans. Snickers are still safe to eat! Hurrah.

You know, there is such a thing as an ingredients list. They usually put these handy little things on the back of a product's packaging. You should check it out sometime.

"ingredients: sugar, milk, food coloring, cow"

oh man when are they going to come out with a steakpop

I got your steakpop right here, Trotsky

rennet is in so many kinds of cheese

it's about fucking time!

Yeah, and salad dressings, pasta sauces, etc. They throw that shit around like it's confetti on New Year's Eve.

the ingredients list on the back of my orange juice bottle says its made from 'reconsituted orange juice'

unfortunately they don't mention what they reconstitute it with........

usually semen from people who like orange juice with pulp

OJ with pulp. Blech!

man the picky princess over here

i like my oj grovestand, motherfuckerzzzzzzzzzz

Who me? Yeah right.

it's just an enzyme that makes some reaction related to creating whey go faster, the actual enzyme is not IN the mars bar itself you stupid pricks.

oh i didn't read the article. well you're all pricks anyway

Regardless, Dean, a lot of people are concerned with the means in which such an enzyme is attained.

so where do you go to find out if these products are actually from animals? i've never heard of rennet before, and if i saw it on an ingredients list i wouldn't think it was from an animal.

in front of traffic

yeah of course, i just got the impression that some people here thought that this meant that the mars bars contained bits of cow

:rofl:



Kristin, I'm surprised you've never heard of rennet before. It's a really common ingredient in a lot of products. Some products will outright say rennet, but others will sometimes just say enzymes. The cheese I buy says "vegetable enzymes" on the ingredients, so I figure it's safe to say if it doesn't list "vegetable" paired with "enzymes," it's probably no good.

Oh, I think those people were just taking the piss. Thanks for your concern, though.

oh i think you're really overestimating some things here avian chaos, but thanks for the concern

well i don't generally look on the back of packages very often, but there are plenty of ingredients that sound like they wouldn't come from animals that do. i was just wondering if there was literature or a website out there with some type of listing for this stuff. pretty slim pickings on junk food there.