BBC NEWS | Business | Mars starts using animal products

Mars will now be using animal products in their chocolate bars - rennet which is extracted from the stomach lining of calves will be using in their products from now on?!!

Seems like a very stupid move, and hardly good publicity - who fancies are Mars bar?!....

 

Any ones with expiry date pre Oct 07 should be fine for veggies; but if you brought one which you don't fancy eating, Mars will refund you..

hmmm... I suspect Mars will see a nice drop in sales, and envelopes full of chocolate landing on their front door mat.. great move MasterFoods - how long i wonder before they revert back?

 

Nae fussed on mars bars anyway bro. I much prefer Marathons theyre awesome. Whit ever yoo enjoy tho bro. I did nae cry wen i first had one, wich is a first for me bro

Ameen tae thae n peace oot bro

 

Veggies are an abomination and an insult to Nature anyhow... We're top of the food chain for a reason.

 

Cant see how it will affect sales as veggies are malnourished pale lentil eating hippies who cant afford mars bars anyway
Seriously though I am sure a company sooo massive will have weighed up the costs saved by using calves stomach lining against the loss of hippy sales and decided it would be a good business move...

 

Its not just mars bars its the whole range of the chocolate they sell.

 

moses, marathons are made by mars as well and will probably be affected.

 

mars have been in trouble for a long time, the G/F worked for masterfoods last year and saw quite a bit of behind the scenes stuff.


the whole healthy lifestyle we all try to live now is crippling them.

the decision is probably based on cost TBH

 

is this moses??

added to the ignore feature

 

You DO realise this is somebody parodying moses, don't you?

 

Good grief, the scots looney's back.

Alcazar

 

I despair

 

actually this thread reminds me of a corker story

G/F was down in Reading for the year working for masterfoods, i travel down, the keys have been hidden behind the catflap or something, i dump all my gear in the bedroom and find this "milky bar croissant" thing on the bedside table.

thinking it was a gift for me i chomped that ****** down although i did wonder why there was no english text on the wrapper

whoops


was quite nice tho, although i did "get wrong" for eating it when it was supposed to be eaten in controlled conditions or something PMSL


did the same with a "flyte" chocolate drink last year when the G/F went away for the weekend, found 2/3 of them at the flat, "oooo never seen these before" scoffed one, then got wrong when she came back as they were the pre production ones she helped launch and would be worth something someday LOL

 

Me too, first time i've used it.

 

So, the peanuts in a Snickers will kill people witha a peanut allergy.

Rennet is not going to kill a veggie, so what's the problem??? Wine gums have the same stuff in them too. Vive le Gordon Ramsay... he know's how to treat veggies Check him out with Girls Aloud

 

So there might be a slight chance that the products may have traces of animal by products in them ?

You would probably get more meat from breathing in cooking fumes.

Sometimes I wonder whether it is actual concern for animals is at the root of it or even just revulsion at meat, sometimes I just think its a 'look at me thing', I mean, getting all upset about a meat you cant see or taste.

what about these nutters.

Fruitarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

It's not Moses, it's someone else who lives in Disnaeworld.

 

I can tell you who it is..............via paypal

 

i'm a veggie(not through choice)

 

To be honest, doesn't sound any more bonkers to me than being a veggie or a vegan.

 

Amen. Anyone offended by this move should have a pork chop and get over it.

 

 

So mars are including meat in our snacks for free? bargain!

 

 

Bro i nae care anyway, i'll still eat loads of them i luv em bro i swear.

p.s i nae moses bro. i luv him like a bro tho bro.

Ameen tae thae n peace oot.

 

Another Veggie overhere (but through choice). Definitely a no go for me to buy Mars products in the future.
Very stupid move by them! Funny comments from most of you nevertheless...

 

Errrr...how do you think they make cheese, or indeed pretty much any curdled product.

With Rennet

PS I am a vegetarian and I am not a hippy or a poor
PPS OK, I might be a hippy

 

There is a non-animal rennet, I believe.

 

There is and mostly they do not use it unless it is marked on the packet.

This is a pragmatic observation rather than a political statement as I will happily eat cheese, I just don't eat lashings of meat

PS Cheap tools are a false economy

 

I'm a veggie wierdo too but it'd take a little bit more than rennet to put me off chocolate, shame really as I'd like to be cured of my chocoholism

As for the meat thing, I just don't like it so don't eat it.