Masterfoods, who produce many of the shite sweets that make so many people in this country unhealthy, have started using animal rennet in their waxy, flavourless chocolate. I am mostly pleased about this because now I won’t have to even discuss the possibility of my daughters buying or eating this crap; there’s no way they will want anything to do with something that is extracted from the tummies of dead baby cows. The fact that the chocolate in Mars Bars, Twix, Maltesers and Milky Way was already offensive because it is made from cocoa that is the product of a ruthlessly exploitative and unethical trade that causes suffering and deprivation for many children in Africa obviously wasn’t enough for these scumbags. I suppose once evil becomes your main interest in life you just have to keep trying to push the envelope.
Someone from Mars / Masterfoods was on The BOTTOM Line on Radio 4 today saying how they’d made a huge mistake and had taken animal products out of Mars bars. Maybe I imagined that. I’ve just wasted a couple of hours watching an old Steven Poliakoff film, so everything is nothing and yet also loaded with a poignant sense of momentous change and yet everything remains the same… with fit birds.