I’m sure this critical decision will help us.
Should name products made from animals as they are: spherical gassed pig after a short, miserable life without ever seeing daylight. Or: salty fat from methane burping cows that could also have fed their killed off offspring.
Investing time and money into producing meat alternatives for the growing market share of vegans and vegetarians? Hell no, better throw our money on a dumpster fire of lobbyism and denial.
Just out of spite i will from now on refer to milk as cow drink.
Milk is filtered blood
To support Netherlandish and Danish pig farm dynasties.
Easy to get behind the reasoning behind their batshit behind this.
From the eu Parliament document: *3. ‘Meat products’ means processed products resulting from the processing of meat or from the further processing of such processed products, so that the cut surface shows that the product no longer has the characteristics of fresh meat. Names that fall under Article 17 of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 that are currently used for meat products and meat preparations shall be reserved exclusively for products containing meat.
These names include, for example:
- Steak
- Escalope
- Sausage
- Burger
- Hamburger
- Egg yolk
- Egg white*
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-10-2025-0161_EN.html Use ctrl+f “burger” to find it in the text.
This not only affects vegetarian food, but also salmon steak for example. It’s a populist political move that doesn’t seem to be backed up by any linguistic science, as if mystery sausages haven’t been a thing for centuries. As long as it looks like a sausage, it is a sausage imo. It’s also not law yet, the member states still have to approve those amendements.
Ps, this gave me an idea for possible vegetarian branding: names like “not a burger” seem to still be allowed, so a line of foodstuffs called “not a sausage” etc might be fun.
Ps, this gave me an idea for possible vegetarian branding: names like “not a burger” seem to still be allowed, so a line of foodstuffs called “not a sausage” etc might be fun.
That’s definitely gonna happen, there’s already a plant drink brand named “this is not m*lk” (including the censoring) in Germany, as here a similar ban is already in effect for the word “milk” to exclude soy milk / oat milk / …
Which is really funny because soy milk, oat milk, and almond milk have existed as such for literally hundreds of years.
And etymologically cow’s milk actually takes its name from those, not the other way around.I was apparently misremembering something. It’s still a fact though that the word milk has been associated with alternate plant based versions for literal centuries.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/almond-milk-obsession-origins-middle-ages
And etymologically cow’s milk actually takes its name from those, not the other way around
Source? That seems unlikely
Yeah I was misremembering something saw at some point. The other point still stands though.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/almond-milk-obsession-origins-middle-ages
They should just change one or two letters or make them phonetically similar. Such as borgir, sossich, wurzt and stek.
Edit: Been having issues with Lemmy today. That’s probably why it triple posted my comment.
In Germany I’ve seen some vegan restaurants replace some letter with “v” for vegan.
Like “vurst” instead of “wurst” (sausage) or “vleish” instead of “fleish” (meat).
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Looking forward to “extruded logs” hitting the shelves
It’s going to be fun to watch how this completely backfires on these idiots. People are not at all confused when they pick up plant-based meat alternatives. And they’re going to be even less confused now that those meat alternatives don’t use those bullshit terms. It’s going to be even easier to choose a meat-free option in the EU going forward. Which is clearly what people want.
I can’t wait to hear these whiny ass farmers bitching and whining that nobody’s buying there death meat.
Veggie burgers have been around since the 1940s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veggie_burger
The Morningstar ones are damn good too. I think they’re black bean based.
Much better than the Impossible to eat burger.
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When will they ban the name of the Hungarian dessert “Bird Milk” for being made of cow milk, sugar, vanilla extract, and eggs, instead of milk from birds?
Milk comes from women’s breasts.
Legally, it should be named cow water.
Bovine drippins
representing the people once again 😌🙃
Does anyone have a link to who voted how? I wanna see which MEPs to be angry at.
Would also love to see a visual representation, but I believe this (point
2.222.19) should be the result in text form (please correct me if I’m wrong).Point 2.19 355 vs 247
Wow, more than half of CDU/CSU voted against it including Axel fucking Voss.
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You sure it’s 2.22? Awfully many yay-sayers among Eurogreens.
Another comment pointed out it’s 2.19, I’ll edit my comment.
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What a great Democratic organ taking care of the true problems of the days /s
It’s not like they can’t do several things at once. Small things add up.
Bullshit. I’m not paying 50% taxes so a bunch of idiot can whine about “fake meat”.
That’s not how it works. You don’t pay 50% taxes to have that.
I understand you think it’s not something you’d like the EU to spend money on, but this whole “I pay loads of taxes For This?!” is just making the discussion become quite low level IMO.
Why would vegans want things named after meat products? Hmmmmmmm.
This stinks of (rotten) meat lobby.
I hope the meat substitute industry comes up with some kind of ‘it’s not meat’ marketing campaign to counter this.
It worked for oat milk. I’m buying “no milk” all the time 😅
NOT M!LK :)
I hope the meat substitute industry comes up with some kind of ‘it’s not meat’ marketing campaign to counter this.
Well, honestly it would be fucking time they come out with some name that not mimic the meat products name.
Another shitty lobby demand became regulation just like that. Besides, protecting the label „burger“? Really? You know what I‘ll just call them sandwiches from now on. Fuck that.
There’s at least two more votes at different levels before this becomes regulation.
