{"id":12344,"date":"2007-05-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/05\/20\/mars-bars-get-veggie-status-back\/"},"modified":"2007-05-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T12:00:00","slug":"mars-bars-get-veggie-status-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/05\/20\/mars-bars-get-veggie-status-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Bars Get Veggie Status Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/6673549.stm\">news.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">UNITED KINGDOM, May 20, 2007: Mars has abandoned plans to use animal products in its chocolate, and has apologized to &#8220;upset&#8221; vegetrians. 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 organized a campaign against the move, asking members to voice their concerns to parent company Masterfoods. Mars said it became &#8220;very clear, very quickly&#8221; 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. &#8220;The consumer is our boss and we had lots of feedback from consumers who were unhappy about the change,&#8221; Ms. Dawson said. &#8220;There are three million vegetarians in the UK and not only did we disappoint them, but we upset a lot of the consumers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Vegetarian society had called the move by Mars &#8220;incomprehensible&#8221; and &#8220;a backward step&#8221; at a time when consumers were increasingly concerned about the provenance of their food. Dr. Annette Pinner, chief executive of the Vegetarian Society, said she was pleased Mars had been &#8220;honest enough&#8221; to admit it had &#8220;made a mistake.&#8221; &#8220;A Masterfoods representative has made contact with us, and we are very pleased that they now recognize the importance of integrity to all their customers, especially vegetarians,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, May 20, 2007: Mars has abandoned plans to use animal products in its chocolate, and has apologized,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}