Bad Week for Veggies

It's not been a good week for vegetarians. First it was announced that Mars bars are to have the animal product rennet added to the mix, then it transpires that loads of other apparently veggie-safe foods are also contaminated with animal bits and bobs. The Guardian has put together a great list of nine products to avoid. Here are the highlights:

* Kellogg's Frosted Wheats - unless you want a beefy breakfast avoid these as they contain gelatine

* Tango Orange - not bad on the mammalian front but watch out for the fish gelatine

* Sacla Classic Pesto - chock full of Parmesan which in turn contains rennet made from calves' stomachs

* Guinness - lots of Isinglass, a form of collagen which hails from the swim bladders of fish apparently

* Muller Light yoghurts - yet more yummy gelatine

* Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce - contains anchovies

* Smarties - contains E120 cochineal "produced by extracting the red body material from pregnant scale insects of the species Dactilopius coccus", says the Guardian

* Snickers - more rennet

* Bovril - went veggie a year ago but is now back on the beef extract

And that's all for now folks. I'm off home stopping only very briefly to pick up a nice big kebab.