AHRG!

[emony]

Mars starts using animal products

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".

I am quite, quite, quite LIVID about this!

Comments

[cedara]

I knew there was a reason I preferred stuff from the natural food store, regardless of how expensive it is...

BTW, do the need to declare the use of rennet on their ingredients list?

[emony.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to avoid all Mars products now, and switch over to Cadbury's, which is still safe, afaik.

I believe they will have to list it, yes, and they won't be able to say that it's vegetarian on the packet any more, which most things do these days if they are safe. Still it's mightily annoying. I wouldn't even have checked, if I hadn't found this link on the BBC website. You don't expect things to go backward like that.