How can they put that in the chocolate?

Question

Do they use animal bones to whiten the raw cane sugar in green and blacks chocolate. I keep hearing on the internet about they use animal bones in sugars to whiten it. Is it true iam a vegan and the chocolate is for vegetarians and vegans so useing animal bones is wrong. Being a vegan is arble but i dont want to eat meat, fish, dairy cause i heard that the cows blood touches the cows milk.

Answer 1

Just make sure the labels verifies whatever you eat as "vegan", and then it is 100%.

Answer 2

I don't know about G&B specifically.Raw cane sugar may not be filtered thru bone char if it is not white.

But, white cane sugar is filtered through bone char to be white. Here is a description.
http://www.christianwalks.org/churchgodpro/sugar.htm
http://jivdaya.org/sugar_and_other_sweeteners.htm
here is another link that shows drawings but no mention of the bones used
http://www.sucrose.com/lref.html


Chocolate has usually white sugar mixed in and cow's milk (in milk chocolate). Which is the objection of vegans and why they use carob as a substitute.

Answer 3

G&B uses *RAW* sugar! It's not whitened!!!! Raw sugar is NEVER touched by bones!

And yes, there is not only blood but pus allowed in milk! The vacuum machines tend to cause sores on cows udders that then under suction ooze the stuff into the milk. Lovely, isn't it!

Edit:

Just to clarify matters; raw sugar is raw because it hasn't been through that final filtering stage! That means it should always be safe unless it's fake raw sugar (that has actually happened!).

Answer 4

This is sold as a vegetarian product, I really dont think the producers would risk the sort of bad publicity that would occur if they used animal bones and then put a vegetarian label on it.

Dont believe everything you hear. As for cows blood touching cows milk, well the milk is in the cows udders, how can it touch the blood?

The key word here is proof.

These stories are probably spread by vegans who dont want people to eat products with milk in.

Answer 5

Anything can happen. I'm allergic to bread, not the gluten, but either the bleach used to make the flour whiter, or the enzymes. Now, enzymes are made from keratin, which can be obtained from chicken feathers.
How do they get away with all the additives?
They use a particular nasty bleach to make sweets whiter.
I don't know about the blood touching cows milk, but humans have only been tolerant of lactose in cow's milk for a few hundred years. We are the only mammal to continue to drink milk as adults.

Answer 6

Anything approved by the vegan society will be vegan - green and black's is fine - I very much doubt they use animal bones to whiten the sugar - I don't think it's very many companies that do do it - if you want to make sure the sugar you buy at home isn't then buy golden sugar.

Answer 7

Many companies DO use bone char to process white sugar, but raw sugar wouldn't go through that step.

Answer 8

the Internet isn't the best place to find that stuff out, and before you buy chocolate, look at the ingredients for gelatin- that's animal bones in case you didn't know. the sugars? not sure about that. my mom is a MAJOR vegan and she looks at everything before she buys it and makes sure there is no meat, gelatin, etc. and she buys chocolate, too. i think it depends on what type of chocolate.
good luck with future♥

Answer 9

I have never heard that.
Their website certainly does not say anything about it. http://www.greenandblacks.com/uk/frombeantobar.php
I can't see why a company that bases it's who product range and sales pitch around its food being high quality, natural and organic would use cheap animal biproduct as an non-essential ingredient. It seems foolish beyond belief for them to risk their whole company on something as silly as using a cheap whitening agent.
Also animal bones are usually used as a gelling agent, they possibly would give the chocolate a chewy texture which I certainly have never noticed.

Answer 10

The cows bleed from the machines that are put on them so blood, most likely, does touch and infect their milk. I pretty much hate labels because of the hidden ingredients. Like gelatin is crushed up animal bone and lard is animal fat. They put gelatin in a lot of things as a preservative and they want you to think it's a jello like substance but it isn't.

Answer 11

When you buy chocolate, or any food for that matter, always check the wrapping for the words "Suitable for Vegetarians" or vegans. Then you'll know you can eat it. If in doubt, check the manufacturers website for details or give them a call on their customer services number. Don't believe rumours and always search the truth for yourself.