How strict is your vegetarian?
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‘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.
Source: BBC News
Masterfoods has gone temporarily insane. Actually, I suspect it’s a less than temporary measure, as it’s a cost-saver, but it is nonetheless very disappointing, and that quote from Paul Goalby, above, shows just how little the company understands what vegetarianism is about.
The company has made the decision to start using calves stomachs in its products - specifically Mars Bars, Bounty, Twix, Snickers, Milky Way and Malteesers. How they can think that ‘less strict’ vegetarians would continue eating them, I don’t know, since the whole idea of being a vegetarian is that you don’t eat animals, not just that you don’t eat them if the bit you’re eating still looks like a liver or rump (or, in the case of burgers, an eyelid, scrotum or spleen).
So, if you boycott Nestle because you don’t believe its activities in the developing world are ethical (and so don’t eat KitKat, After Eight, Crunch, Smarties, Quality Street, Lion Bar, Drifter, Yorkie, Animal Bar, Walnut Whip, Toffee Crisp, Milky Bar, Caramac, Rolo, Munchies, Toffo, Black Magic, Dairy Box, Matchmakers, Polo, Fruit Pastilles, Breakaway, Blue Ribband or the new ‘Heaven’ range), then you may as well drop chocolate altogether and start a lifelong Lenten fast.
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May 15th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
I agree with your point but that still leaves me Cadburys, Green & Blacks, Montezuma’s etc
May 16th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Surely you can be quite happy with Green & Blacks?
February 21st, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Hi, i would just like to say, that recently, my mum bought some Nestle, Quality Streets, and i didnt really want to eat one incase it contained any animal products which were not dairy, as i believe that i am a very strict vegetarian and try to just eat foods which label ’suitable for vegetarians’. So i surfed the web tonight, and so far have experienced a balanced argument of whether Nestle is a veggie friendly company or not, and now mars, galaxy etc…I am quite confused to whether they are infact vegetarian or not, but as i have just looked on this website, I shall believe that they are not for now, and will not eat the Quality streets which are sitting right by me! but i agree, that You can still eat Cadbury’s! Hallelujah for Cadbury’s being vegetarian, else without any chocolate, i probably wouldnt be able to survive! And yes there is green blacks etc… and some sweets are vegetarian like dib-dabs! x Lots of love to all the Vegetarians out there who have to suffer for chocolate as well ! x (: