No Longer Vegan:  Green and Black’s Hazelnut and Currant Dark Chocolate Bar

This used to be the best Vegan chocolate bar on the market.  It even used to say “Suitable for Vegans” on the package.  Then Green and Black’s got bought out by Cadbury and they started putting milk in everything! 

Did someone at Cadbury taste the bar shortly after acquiring the company and say “not milky enough”?  Unlikely.  This chocolate bar was delicious, and the flavour probably hasn’t changed significantly since losing its Vegan designation.

I believe the change to be symptomatic of a global food system that produces mass quantities of animal products, breaks them down into smaller components that are shifted, traded and stored in massive quantities by global companies, and funneled into processed food products not because they are tasty, nutritious, or even necessary, but because they are cheap and available.