Pflanzliches „Burger“-Label im EU-Parlament gegrillt

Idiotic decision by the patliament. No fucking way that consumers in any meaningful number gets confused by terms like „veggie burger“.

In fact, these days, my biggest concern is whether the burgers served in the European Parliament are plant-based.

Every now and then I also think about the Fascist-Based MPs, but that comes second.

I see lobbying and bribing in the European Parliament is still a profitable business.

Have they really nothing better to do? What’s next, suing beefsteak tomatoes because they’re not actually beef?

Not a vegan, but I find the decision stupid.

No one is confused by „plant burgers“ or „veggie steaks“. It’s a non-problem. Nothing in the word „steak“ explicitly points to the specific product it’s made of: you have beef steaks, pork steaks, bird steaks or even fish steaks. No one orders a tuna steak and then complains about getting „confused“ with it not being beef. There are mushroom steaks, ffs, made of portobello mushrooms – they have existed for a while and no one was confused by them.

It would have been a problem if products were sold as „vegan beef“ or „vegan pork“ – that indeed could confuse some people. Luckily, that is already solved, and it’s illegal in the EU (that’s why we don’t have „crab sticks“ anymore, unless they are actually made of crab). But this? This is just silly.

All this achieves is the need to make up new, more confusing names for simple products, because some people want to argue semantics instead of worrying about actual problems.

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„This is in order not to confuse consumers!!“ They say.

Meanwhile people who are trying to lower their environmental footprint and eat in a way that causes a lot less animal death and suffering go to the vegan section and then they have to read every single ingredient list to figure out if „organic soy block spread“ is vegan butter, vegan cream cheese, vegan sour cream, or whatever the fuck else. Get fucked.

I propose a new rule that anyone making the „it confuses consumers“ argument is required to produce a number of actual consumers that are willing to publicly admit that they are confused by it.

My frankfurters lack frankfurt.

Am I not to be rectified?

Who are these idiots who look at packaging, read „vegan sausages“ or „plant-based sausages“ or „tofu sausages“ on the label, and think those must be sausages made of meat, because it says sausages on the box?

Do they also regularly put hand cream in their coffee since it says „cream“ on the box?

Legend states Byzantine monks debated on the sex of angels just before the Ottomans took the city. Likely never happened, right?

Such a thing surely couldn’t happen, when an all-powerful out of touch group of people discuss worthless semantics while crises grip their domain.

The far-right is surging all over Europe and Russia threatens to nuke us every other week and this is what they’re talking about in the EU parliament? I wouldn’t even spend three minutes on this.

i will henceforth refer to my veggi products as *milk*, *nuggets*, *burgers* and *sausages* ostentatiously

I love how this is gonna make the EU stronger against russian aggression and US import tarifs, while it also tackles the housing crisis that is going on in many EU member states and solves a major cause of climate change.

I don’t see the problem in naming them „burger-style“ or „burger-like“ or simply „veganburger“. It must be obvious that it’s not meat if using meat-dish names imo. Same rule is applied to Döner in Germany, since most Döner locations don’t fulfill the requirements to name their dish Döner (they use too much minced meat and not sliced meat) they have to call it „Drehspieß“ which translates to rotisserie.

I don’t have to eat meat every day, but I always hated the ultra-processed vegan/vegetarian alternatives that mimic meat. There is so much vegetarian/vegan food out there, I’d never buy an ultra-processed vegan Schnitzel, Currywurst or Steak.

This is pure insanity 

So what happens with chicken burgers now? Or was this all about excluding the “veggie” part..

I don’t understand why change the labels. When someone ask me what I eat I can even list the veggie version too and they know what I’m saying.
Why chicken salad and stuff like this it’s accepted, instead veggie burger, etc not?

Why the double standards?

A classic Danish traditional vegetarian dish is Selleribøf(literally Celery steak), can’t be named that, even it is a dish that been around since at least WW2. Can’t wait for them to discover mock turtle soup doesn’t contain turtles or something.

What a waste of everybody’s fucking time – who the fuck is getting confused by this shit, what a weak excuse.

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