Animal fat

[Bent_Bladi]

Thanks for sharing that email, Houda - helpful stuff.... I stopped eating junkfood a while ago just cuz I'm too lazy to research every friggin unknown ingredient in the food... life is good - just eat mama's food

Ruks - I heard that the Jews have a stricter diet than the Muslims... Like the no beef with dairy products rule. They just have more to look for, that's why it might seem that they're "meticulous" about what they eat. For Muslims, I heard two different things - 1) you can't eat any meat not slaughtered the Islamic way. or 2) you can eat from "ahl al kitab" (people of the book) when there's not halal stuff around...

[Al-khiyal]

LONDON, May 20 (UPI) -- Outraged British vegetarians have forced Mars candy to abandon a plan to use animal products in its chocolate.

It became "very clear, very quickly" that the company had made a mistake, said Fiona Dawson, managing director of Mars UK.

Mars' parent company, Masterfoods, had planned to substitute whey, a dairy byproduct, with rennet, an enzyme produced from the stomach of slaughtered calves.

The company dropped that plan a week later after the British Vegetarian Society convinced more than 6,000 people, including 40 members of Parliament, to protest the change to rennet, the BBC reported. Mars makes Mars Bars, Snickers, Maltesers and Galaxy brands.

"There are 3 million vegetarians in the (United Kingdom) and not only did we disappoint them, but we upset a lot of the consumers," Dawson said.

The Vegetarian Society had called the move to rennet "incomprehensible" and "a backward step" at a time when people are increasingly concerned about "the provenance of their food".

Mars UK scraps plan to use rennet in candy

[Cheba_Mami]

know what you eat

Mars should keep candy simply candy. just the choc and peanuts, some caramel, conservations and what else you need so dyingly hard? If these companies continue like that i will start making my OWN CANDY!!!
my future kids will appreciate the plan

[amalgamate]

LONDON, May 20 (UPI) -- Outraged British vegetarians have forced Mars candy to abandon a plan to use animal products in its chocolate.

Mars' parent company, Masterfoods, had planned to substitute whey, a dairy byproduct, with rennet, an enzyme produced from the stomach of slaughtered calves.

Mars UK scraps plan to use rennet in candy

psssst- (ahem... "whey, a dairy byproduct". aka: animal product)

I don't see what's the big fuss. They're both enzymes (whey and rennet) and they're both animal byproducts.

Unless Mars is declaring their whey ingredient is from a plant byproduct, it isn't such a dramatic change to go from using an enzyme from cow's milk (or pig's milk) to an enzyme from a calves' stomach.

[Al-khiyal]

I don't see what's the big fuss. They're both enzymes (whey and rennet) and they're both animal byproducts.

Stumbling blocks

[amalgamate]

Rennet, a chemical sourced from calves' stomachs, is used in the production of whey.
...

"At a time when more and more consumers are concerned about the provenance of their food, Masterfoods' decision to use non-vegetarian whey is a backward step," it said in a statement.



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

Ok, this makes more sense. Rennet is used for the production of whey. So I guess before, their production of whey was via a non-animal method that was vegetarian friendly.

[amalgamate]

Stumbling blocks

Ok, so in that list, they define whey as more likely to be coming from an animal byproduct. That doesn't let Mars off the hook though.

In one article it says that Mars was planning to substitute rennet in place of whey while another article says Mars was planning to use rennet to produce whey.

So then Mars apologizes and abandons their plan to use animal byproducts. Does that mean that before all the switching mess, their production of whey was via a non-animal method?


i'm confused