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Who cares?
I genuinely don’t care about the decision, what I’m mad about is that there was literally any time spent on this topic, instead of the multitude of real problems we have
At least also ban plant names for meat-based foods and be less obviously in the pockets of lobbyists.
Ikr I’m sick of taking my broccoli home only to notice that I misread the label and it’s actually Blood Broccoli™
It’s actually a real issue. There are a number of products with claims and logos on the packaging which make them appear vegan at first glance. It’s only when you flip it over and read the ingredients that you see the animal products snuck into it.
I have on numerous occasions had well meaning but ill-informed co-workers buy what appears at a glance to be a vegan food for shared lunches which are in fact not edible.
From the “sticking-your-fingers-in-your-ears-and-ignoring-cultural-progress” department.
There‘s a medieval recipe for almond milk. The EU banned that term for being misleading as if it wasn‘t deeply rooted in our culture. It‘s insane.
I understand it for terms that are unequivocally an animal product, like eggs and pork. But burgers and sausages can be made from so many things that it makes it really clear this is just a bribe for animal farmers. Even steak isn’t necessarily from cows since you can have things like tuna steak, so why would a plant steak be any different?
Last time I checked tuna was an animal.
I said it’s not a cow. Steak generally refers to cow meat but if we can use it for fish, why not plant-based foods too?
Editing to add, OP seems to just be trolling everyone in the comments on the other threads so I’m just gonna block and move on .
I said it’s not a cow.
You do realise there are other animals, right?
You never head a mushroom steak? And portobello burgers are amazing. The only difference is that it has a portobello instead of meat, but it’s obviously a burger. What should it be called?
mushroom steak
There is no such thing.
portobello burgers
There is no such thing.
What should it be called?
Heavily processed plant pulp usually does the trick.
OK, you really are a troll. But how is a full, not even cut, hat of a mushroom (which is not even remotely a plant) heavily processed plant pulp? And more importantly, I asked about the whole burger. You called a bun, mayo, fresh tomatoes, lettuce etc. a heavily processed plant pulp, but when you add a patty of minced meat and other stuff, it fundamentally changes?
you really are a troll
By “troll” you mean someone who disagrees with you? Life must be full of trolls for you, sweetie 🤣
“There is no such thing” is not an argument. Not responding to a direct question doesn’t give you any credibility either. I’m very much open to discussion, but what you do is not a discussion. Please respond to my previous questions if you’d like to continue interaction with me.
“There is no such thing” is not an argument
It is a statement of fact. You can call your own shit a “potato” but it doesn’t make it so - the same as calling plant processed pulp the same names as the real food does not make it so - and was rightly banned by European Parliament.
Yes I’m sure that decision isn’t a massive waste of tax money. I’m sure there aren’t more pressing matters at hand, like the rise of fascism, or the need to bolster Europe’s defences, or the rising cost of living. No forcing Quorn to rename their sausages to “retextured mycoprotein cylinders” or some nonsense is definitely top priority.
Not only a waste of public money, but an unfair burden on ethical food producers who now need to replace all of their packaging and marketing materials at their own cost, while flesh-peddlers are burdened with no such expenses.
Firstly food regulation including provenance, naming and packaging is very much at the core of the EU - if it wasn’t the EU would already have a free trade deal with Australia (it’s literally the only sticking point).
Secondly a parliament with hundreds of representatives can in fact (metaphorically) “walk and chew gum” at the same time. There is absolutely no reason there can’t be (and in fact there are) multiple committees looking at all sorts of things simultaneously.
I wish I could say that they’re doing something about the rise of fascism (they’re not afaict) but the presence or absence of the food regulation committee won’t change that. They are at least bolstering European defences and increasing spending, I suspect we both would like them to be doing more and faster, but they are in fact working on it as well
To add to that, consumers protection is at core of European values.
Consumer protection from what? Not noticing the massive amounts of hints that this is not meat on the packaging of such things?
Do you think the average consumer is that stupid or is it just you?
Consumer protection from what?
From deception of the plant pulp industry.
Do you think Katzenzungen actually contain cat tongues?
Can you read?
Do you think Katzenzungen are deceptive marketing?
How do you expect them to ignore all that without something to keep their hands busy!?
Once again Europe lines up behind entrenching unimaginable horror.
