Dear
I HAVE JUST RECEIVED THIS EMAIL FROM A PERSON , TELLING ME THAT

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.


· Bounty
· Celebrations
· Dove Chocolate
· Flyte
· Galaxy
· Kudos (North America)
· Lockets
· M-Azing (North America)
· Maltesers
· M&M's
· Mars Bar
· Mars Delight
· Milky Wa y
· 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.)
· Starburst (Originally Opal Fruits in the UK.)
· 3 Musketeers (North America)
· Topic
· Twix
· Snicker's Marathon Energy Bar
· AquaDrops

Please forward this message to your friends.

Thanks

Check this article from BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6653175.stm
And this from the Vegetarian Society
http://w ww.vegsoc.org/news/2007/mars.html
Last Updated: Monday, 14 May 2007, 09:23 GMT 10:23 UK

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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.

if you read the last sentence, it is from young calves and not from pigs.
however, it would still be haram of course.
thanks for posting.
(i don't eat any of this stuff anyway, but it's good to know)

You don't eat chocolate?!?!

Allahu a3lem whether it's true or not, better check witht the local sheikh..

thats basicali evri chocolate under the sun written in the list lol.

Very old news.

Yes, it was true. They changed their minds (long before October) after large numbers of vegetarians complained.

duplicate post - sorry

Are you sure? So now they're not using this rennet stuff anymore?

I wonder why no Jews and Muslims complain?

Because just like now, we're not complaining. But taking in the fact, possibly with a down turned mouth (this could lead to depression due to lack of chocolate). Not one of the posts says: "We want halaal chocolates!"

Muslims are either like that or fall into the category of extremists that would probably bomb Cadbury world.

They probably did, but were less organised; the Vegetarian Society had a big campaign.

Yes. In fact they never did actually use it, the plan got dropped before it started.

Mars bars get veggie status back

NO WAY this better not be true

Ok. Thanks