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    EU Agriculture Committee Stimmen, um fleischige Begriffe auf pflanzlicher Kennzeichnung zu verbieten
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    EU Agriculture Committee Stimmen, um fleischige Begriffe auf pflanzlicher Kennzeichnung zu verbieten

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    1. Responsible-One6897 on

      Stupid law based on just propaganda. Consumers are not confused and also linguistically it makes little sense. For example meat in English comes from a Germanic root meaning food; Wurst means something that has been twisted, viande means (red) meat in French but vivanda in Italian has a much wider meaning.

      Moral of the story: as society changes meanings shift and no-one is confused and this whole law is bollocks.

    2. Prodiq on

      Meat is meat, and vegetarian options are vegetarian options. I always found it weird that both producers and consumers would try to label a bunch cabbage as a chop (as in pork chop or something along those lines) or a big mushroom a steak or a veggie stew a lasagna etc.

    3. CoronaSuperSpreader on

      This is good. Vegetarian food has to get it’s own identity or will always be thought off as the inferior knockoff version of the classics.

    5. KernunQc7 on

      Based, ultraprocessed slop should be banned outright. Real Meat is bad enough.

      edit. R/Europe is very sensitive about their ultraprocessed slop „food“. Enjoy it while it lasts.

    6. gwentlarry on

      I distrust the term „plant based“.

      To me, that means it contains quite a lot of plant ingredients but might also contain ingredients of animal origin.

      Just because it is plant-based doesn’t necessarily mean it’s healthy or good for the environment – glucose, palm oil, coconut oil which is 90% saturated fats, almond milk imposes a huge demand on water resources …

      What is wrong with vegetarian and vegan? Both have much clearer meanings.

      „Plant-based“ is little more than marketing to try to persuade people to buy possibly more expensive processed foods which are little different from other processed foods.

    9. John_Hater on

      Oh noes, the „I can’t believe it’s not steak“ text is going away.

    10. Beyllionaire on

      Food industry lobbies are some of the most evil organizations that exist.

    11. VigorousElk on

      Ah yes, because the big ‚Veggie‘, ‚Plant‘ etc. terms on the packaging are too confusing for the poor consumers.

      Who does this benefit other than the meat lobby?

    12. _hhhnnnggg_ on

      I find this funny, since the West is so behind in terms of vegan/vegetarian food in comparison to Asia or Africa. When I browse the vegan/vegetarian aisles, 90% of the stuff there is deep-fried, breaded food, steak or sausage. Even tofu isn’t good, you probably get better tofu in an Asian store. Like, come on, you can do better than that.

    13. IncompetentPolitican on

      That was one of the high priority votes. We had to solve this problem before anything else. Because, the meat industry was sad.

      I hope the plant based industry just changes the names to something close. Its not steak, its steack.

    14. sickdanman on

      This is just plain old corruption – or „lobbying“ – by the meat industry

    15. Incorrigible_Gaymer on

      Ah yeah, bureaucrats heroically overcome problems that no one knew existed.

    17. snowsuit101 on

      >“There is no data to support the argument that consumers are confused by plant-based burgers, sausages or any other alternative,” said Pinto. “Policymakers continue to bring up this non-issue, when it’s simply not a problem for citizens.”

      I’m pretty sure however that this is another example of data to support the argument that corporate lobbies pushing for shit nobody else wants are alive and well in the EU.

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