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    Lebensmittelunternehmen fordern Europa auf, die Bezeichnung Nichtfleischprodukte als „Würstchen“ nicht zu verbieten

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    1. yahoonews on

      [The Guardian reports](https://uk.news.yahoo.com/food-firms-urge-europe-not-000129447.html): Companies including Linda McCarney Foods, Quorn and THIS have signed a joint letter calling on commissioners to “let common sense prevail” ahead of a debate on the proposed ban, which they say would cause “unnecessary confusion” for customers “without helping anyone”.

      A ban would mean, for example, bean burgers sold in Europe having to be relabelled as “patties” or “discs”, while the Welsh breakfast staple Glamorgan sausages – made of cheese and leeks – would probably become Glamorgan “tubes”.

    3. TegenaireEnPelote on

      A sausage is a sausage. The meat industry doesn’t own words and doesn’t get to decide how they are used

    4. DejourPeach on

      If you are too dumb to distinguish a meat sausage from a vegetarian one, you shouldn’t be allowed to shop for food without adult supervision.

    5. Pleiadez on

      The definition of a sausage is a round thing you bake and eat. It isnt associated with a particular ingredient but i guess some people believe differently. Its like you could have a extremely processed meat sausage or a artisan organic meat butcher sausage. They clearly arent the same thing right? But we both call it sausage.

    6. _fafer on

      Come to think of it, this would also affect Erbswurst.

      I’m not a fan of mislabeled products, where the package is just missing a letter, etc. In Germany, I once bought a „Tunfisch Wrap“ and was mildly surprised by the consistency. I survived. But burger or sausage, are shapes or methods of preparation, these terms don’t signify ingredients to me.

    8. TeamPach on

      Does that mean the German „blutwurst“ (blood sausage) must be renamed as well ?

    9. xbikester on

      The whole burger ban is so fucking dumb. Burger is a shape not ingredient sausage is a shape not ingredient.

    10. NatseePunksFeckOff on

      If vegan plant-meat was cheaper and more common, I’d go vegetarian 100%. I’m a meat eater, but these plant meats are fucking amazing (most of the time) these days. Burger patties usually suck IMO tho

    11. HeinHangbuikzwijn on

      There are like a thousand solutions where you can make clear it’s not meat while keeping terms like sausage/burger/etc.

    13. jcrestor on

      I hope they succeed.

      In the last ten to twenty years it was always right-wing parties that warned of left-wing parties regulating speech. But they never did pass any laws for this. And now a majority of right-leaning parties are actually trying to push this through. Was it always just projection?

    14. lichtblaufuchs on

      If people aren’t drinking baking soda, they’re not mistaking plant based products for meat (and if they did, that would be a positive effect)

    16. Professional_Gene_63 on

      The lobby is so strong in this one, represents the Europe we do not want to identify with. Protecting meat producers, one of the least wholesome industries at all ( and I’m not a vegetarian ).

    17. AnnualAdeptness5630 on

      Well, it will probably end up in naming products sausage-like or sausage-shaped which will be just as stupid as the „proposition of serving“. Why do we have to lower standards to stupid people?

    18. PrincessRea on

      Nice vested interest you got there in the meat industry. Surely you want that to upkeep food quality and not to stifle veggie-based alternatives, right?

    19. Tman11S on

      In all fairness, does anyone really know exactly what they’re eating when eating a sausage?

    20. TheStruttero on

      To me, „sausage“ is a form, a cylindrical food product comprised of a skin and content, if that skin is made from intestines or a non-animalistic substitute (or I guess no skin at all) and if the contents are based on pork, beef, Mushroom or something else shouldnt really matter imo

      Its like saying you cant name a vegetarian alternative for meatballs „vegoballs“, as if the word balls in a culinary sense is dedicated to meat products

      The same goes for Burger/patty

      Or schnitzel

      Or rolls

      In Sweden, a turd is called „bajskorv“ which translates to „shit sausage“. Its just really really weird to try to protect the word sausage

    21. Mean_disclosure_69 on

      i always thought sausage is a shape

      and now some levity:

      Europe now bans Dackel from being called Sausage dogs.
      And that other Sausage you make? Cant call it that.
      The forrestry union is already vying to register „log“ too.

    22. zauraz on

      Its just so moronic. Sausages are not devalued, nor are they necessarily only pork. This is just stupid lobbying.

    23. Will297 on

      I mean there’s pork sausages, chicken sausages, turkey sausages, usually written on the packet. I don’t get why just putting something like veggie sausages is so bad, it’s a sausage, with veggie stuff in it

    24. Ozryela on

      This kind of obvious and open corruption – where an industry can just bribe the EU into passing absurd legislation whose only purpose is to bully the competition – is so frustrating to have to watch. We as Europeans really need to find a way to stop this kind of corruption. Because if we don’t we’ll inevitably end up as a second USA, where billionaires control everything.

    25. bob_nugget_the_3rd on

      Tbf there’s maat sausages that I’ve questioned if there meatbin it, but I’ve never been confused by ‚huurr that cylindrical shaped food, it must be made of meat because I’m allergic to vegetables and would feel conned if I eat it‘

    26. PinkestMango on

      Why do people care about this? A sausage is a shape. Why would a vegan sausage not be sausage or plant milk a milk? 

    28. hamatehllama on

      I see no problem with veggie sausages. I always read the contents anyway to check if there are any spices I don’t like or what the meat content is in the product. Most people associate sausage with the shape, not with meat. Here in Sweden we have plenty of non-meat sausages including plastic „sausages“ filled with porridge.

      This lobbying campaign is silly. We need common definitions in the union but the process of establishing standards risk being hijacked by special interests trying to tilt food standards in their favour.

    29. drLoveF on

      At least in Sweden, a sausage (korv) is a shape as well as a food item. No one would think to eat my sleeping bag even if I rolled into a sausage.

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