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Originally posted by Implosion
Originally posted by AccessDenied
What! I'm a chocoholic! I don't want to eat something from a calfs stomach in my chocolate bar! Thats disgusting!
I'm guessing you don't want to know what's used to colour m&ms red then.
I was too late.
Originally posted by Shar_Chi
I'd also point out red M&Ms contain a pigment obtained from the juice of dead beetles. Enjoy. en.wikipedia.org...
[edit on 16/5/07 by Implosion]
Originally posted by yeahright
I'll have a beer.
Originally posted by Cug
They always used rennet, They just switched to using natural rennet instend of one that was a genetically engineered monster.
This is good folks!
Besides what is a vegetarian doing eating milk chocolate anyway
Originally posted by djohnsto77
Originally posted by Kacen
Wait, firstly, can someone please explain to me why this applies to Muslims and Jews? Last time I checked, Muslims and Jews could eat products made from cows. Its pigs they can't eat.
I think the problem with Jews is mixing meat with dairy.
Not sure why this would affect Muslims though, unless they have the same restriction.
Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
I'd be happy to go back to eating meat if the industry stopped factory farming and feeding animals things they should not be eating, and let them graze and eat what is natural to them. Otherwise, I'll stick with Quorn.
Originally posted by Cug
Wait a minute, wait a minute, I have to find my soapbox... ahhh there it is...
What? whooooaaa Boom!
I just fell off my soapbox
Originally posted by yeahright
How many people out there are familiar with castorium? It's contained in some perfumes and used as a food additive in some soft drinks. Usually lumped in with other ingredients as "artificial flavors".
Castorium is derived from the anal glands of beavers. Makes rennet sound pretty good, eh? Drink up.
I'll have a beer.
Deep-frozen stomachs are milled and put into an extracting solution – in this solution the enzymes are extracted. The crude rennet extract is then activated by adding acid – the enzymes in the stomach are produced in an inactive pre-form and are activated by the stomach acid
Originally posted by desertAlso, would it now be possible to eat a chocolate bar with rennet from a calf infected with mad cow disease?
Or will the rennet come from China...beware the additives to the additives...
Originally posted by Byrd
BTW, this appears to be a global decision and to apply to every Mars product.
implying that it only concerns uk products (or possibly that the rest of the world's products already contained the rennin). im sure plenty of people would like this clarified in & out of the uk
From 1 May in the UK, Mars products became unavailable to vegetarians, as the company started to use animal rennet as an ingredient. The Vegetarian Society asked UK vegetarians to register their protests with Mars and the story generated a lot of press.
Originally posted by CthulhuRising
Just saw on SkyNews UK that after receiving a petition signed by 6000 people including Government MPs they have decided to go back to using the non-animal product...So much for the big industry ignoring the people comment...