A few days ago my niece Beth told me about Mars’ announcement to put rennet (an animal enzyme) in their products. Because it was National Vegetarian Week I asked her to write me a post for GGG about it.

Over to you Beth….

Veggie Rights

With recent news that Mars have decided to use animal rennet in their chocolate the Vegetarian Society have protested against this and want to know why they have done this. The vegetarian alternative is cheaper and also healthier and the sales will obviously decrease due to the amount of vegetarians who will not eat or buy it any more.

Chocolates that would contain this product are: Mars, Snickers, Minstrels, Maltesers, Bounty, Milky Way, Twix

Since Beth wrote this post Mars have changed their decision, saying they had “made a mistake”.

What I think is amazing here is the power of the consumers’ voice. Like Beth many people wrote to Mars to protest against the use of the animal product and as a result that major decision was turned around.

Whether you feel strongly about animal rights, organic cotton in high street fashion shops or plastic wrapping in supermarkets, why not make the time to write a letter to let the shop / company / local MP in question know how you feel. This kind of activity does work and we’ve seen it in action this week.

Well done Beth and the Vegetarian Society!