According to the BBC, some of the UK’s favourite chocolate bars, including Milky Way, Bounty, and Minstrels, will now be made using animal rennet, and will so be unsuitable for vegetarians.

But wait, it’s OK! Paul Goalby, corporate affairs manager for Masterfoods, said, “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.”

Oh, you mean the type of vegetarian who’s not really that bothered, would prefer not to eat beef, but is quite happy to tuck into a bowl full of calves’ stomachs? Yes, you get a lot of those, don’t you Paul?

I’m not a vegetarian, but I do think it’s bizarre that products previously made without animal rennet are now being made with animal ingredients, due to it switching the sourcing of its ingredients.

Probably a cost-cutting exercise.

Though I do eat meat, I don’t think it’s a great idea to be loading up lots of products with animal fat and other ingredients when it’s perfectly possible to make them without. There are health benefits to cutting back on this type of product, whether or not you choose to become wholly vegetarian or not.

The Vegetarian Society is ‘extremely disappointed’ and I’m not surprised.

Bizarre.