Mars is off the list

[rhionnach]

I think they ought to have let us know before they started using animal rennet in their products. I wonder what their definition of "strict" and "less strict" vegetarian is.

This ought to help me in losing weight.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6653175.stm

Comments

[brewhexe.livejournal.com]

That webpage is from 2007! As my daughter is a veggie she keeps up to date on this stuff.

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

(Dated just 3 days after - consumer power does work).

[rhionnach.livejournal.com]

That's weird. I followed the link from reading something else on the BBC website and never noticed the date. It's in the most popular stories now list. No idea why.

[psychochicken.livejournal.com]

Happens a lot actually. An old story gets passed round and all of a sudden it's in the most popular list. It takes surprisingly little to make that list, especially at weekends.

[wolfette]

at least there's a "use by" date that lets you know if what you have is before or after the point when they started.

[psychochicken.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of people who are vegetarians becuase they simply don't enjoy meat. I know a few. Those people will probably continue to eat chocolate bars which contain rennet.

Vegetarians who are such for ethical reasons probably wouldn't want to eat such chocoalte bars. Fact is that not every vegetarian is so for the same reason.

Conceivable

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

The Vegetarian Society in the UK mounted a campaign to get Mars to go back to synthetic rennet back in 2007.

The term 'vegetarian' does have one correct technical meaning, even if there are many colloquial and self-identification variants: http://www.vegsoc.org/info/whatis.html

"We define a vegetarian as someone living on a diet of grains, pulses, nuts, seeds, vegetables and fruits, with or without the use of dairy products and eggs. A vegetarian does not eat any meat, poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea, or slaughter by-products."

Animal rennet is a 'slaughter by-product' (as is gelatin(e)).

I understand that true Parmesan cheese is never vegetarian for this reason, because it always uses dead calf stomach lining.