non halal chocolates

[Basicofislam]

:salam2:
All the below Masterfood Company Chocolate Products (Mars) are no longer Halal. They started using Animal product rennet(pork) in it for products that have expiry date after 1 st of October 2007.

Check this article from BBC News
http://news. .bbc.co.uk/ 1/hi/business/ 6653175.stm
And this from the Vegetarian Society
http://www.vegsoc. org/news/ 2007/mars. html

· Bounty
· Celebrations
· Dove Chocolate
· Flyte
· Galaxy
· Kudos (North America)
· Lockets
· M-Azing (North America)
· Maltesers
· M&M's
· Mars Bar
· Mars Delight
· Milky Way
· Minstrels (UK only)
· Mars Planets (newly inroduced in UK)
· Skittles
· Snickers (The top-selling candy bar in the United States. Known in the UK as Marathon until 1990.)
· Starbur st (Originally Opal Fruits in the UK .)
· 3 Musketeers ( North America )
· Topic
· Twix
· Snicker's Marathon Energy Bar
· AquaDrops

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Mars starts using animal products

Masterfoods' brands are household names
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".

'Extremely disappointed'

Masterfoods said it had started using rennet from 1 May and non-affected products had a "best before date" up to 1 October.

Masterfoods' decision to use non-vegetarian whey is a backward step

Vegetarian Society

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

It will now also be found in Bounty, Minstrels and Milky Way products, and the ice cream versions of all Masterfoods' bars.

"If the customer is an extremely strict vegetarian, then we are sorry the products are no longer suitable, but a less strict vegetarian should enjoy our chocolate," said Paul Goalby, corporate affairs manager for Masterfoods.

The Vegetarian Society said it was "extremely disappointed".

"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.

"Mars products are very popular with young people and many will be shocked to discover that their manufacture now relies on the extraction of rennet from the stomach lining of young calves," it added.

 

[Mahzala]

Assalamualaikum



Dear Sister, as beneficial at it is, your links are distorted and do not work. I am sure there are many, as I am, curious to read these articles, so when you get the chance just fix the links. May you be rewarded Insha Allah.

Mars is my favourite chocolate!!! Not Fair!!!

Assalamualaikum

 

[q8penpals]

Assalam aliekum

This is the article from about 2 weeks after the original post (which is well over a year old-news now anyway - May 2007). One might wonder why the vegetarians made such a fuss and were able to sway the company - and why no Muslims made such a large effort?

Lana





Mars bars get veggie status back


Sunday, 20 May 2007

Mars has abandoned plans to use animal products in its chocolate, and has apologised to "upset" vegetarians.
The firm had said it would change the whey used in some of its products from a vegetarian source to one with traces of the animal enzyme, rennet.

The Vegetarian Society organised a campaign against the move, asking members to voice their concerns to parent company Masterfoods.

Mars said it became "very clear, very quickly" that it had made a mistake.

In just one week, more than 6,000 people bombarded the company, which produces the Mars, Snickers, Maltesers and Galaxy brands, with phone and e-mail complaints.

Forty MPs also signed a petition to voice their opposition.

Fiona Dawson, managing director of Mars UK, said the company had listened to customers and decided to reverse its decision.

"The consumer is our boss and we had lots of feedback from consumers who were unhappy about the change," Ms Dawson said.
"It became very clear, very quickly that we had made a mistake, for which I am sorry.

"There are three million vegetarians in the UK and not only did we disappoint them, but we upset a lot of the consumers."

'Principled decision'

The Vegetarian Society had called the move by Mars "incomprehensible" and "a backward step" at a time when consumers were increasingly concerned about "the provenance of their food".

Mars replied that, by admitting its products were no longer suitable for "extremely strict vegetarians", it was making a "principled decision".

Now it insists it will begin changing its recipes back immediately.

Dr Annette Pinner, chief executive of the Vegetarian Society, said she was pleased Mars had been "honest enough" to admit it had "made a mistake".

"A Masterfoods representative has made contact with us and we are very pleased that they now recognise the importance of integrity to all their customers, especially vegetarians," she added.

Rennet is extracted from calves' stomachs and was to have been used in the ice cream versions of all Masterfoods' bars too.

 

[Shahram123]

ewwww! Why is such disgusting thing needed to make food or treats?

Now I thought that all foods that are Kosher are also Halal, because the rules are similar, but that Halal foods may not necessarily be Kosher. Is my understanding correct? This would lead me to beleive that most western food should be Halal because So many brands try to keep Kosher for the large Jewish community here. I thought it was a side benefit of Kosher foods (aside from the tax). I would be surprised to learn that any American food company would do anything to make a food unpalatable to the Jewish community, we know they don't care about Muslims or vegetarians.

 

[irish_muslim_08]

Asalamualeykum,

Since reading this post, I have been trying to find more vegetarian chocolate, thank you for the post. Vert useful, but slighty depressing...all my favourites!!!!

Wasalam