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EU parliament votes to ban meat names for plant-based foods (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[โ€“] hakase@lemmy.zip -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Great news! Hopefully the US follows suit, and does the same for milk and cheese!

[โ€“] CXORA@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why...

[โ€“] hakase@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So that I don't have to keep spending ten minutes triple-checking packages of food every time I go shopping, ever since the time I double-checked that I was buying actual mozzarella, only to find that my cheesy bread tasted like plastic that evening due to misleading packaging and small print.

I want to be able to walk into the store, blindly grab packages that say "burgers" and "cheese" without having to take ten minutes to scour them, and not be blindsided when I get home by what I believe amounts to false advertising. Not to mention this will make it less likely that people morally or ethically opposed to meat and dairy products accidentally purchase those products.

Maybe I'm missing something, but it honestly seems like a purely positive change with no downsides whatsoever, other than to vegans mad that meat and dairy exist at all. The products will all still be available to buy, but will now be less likely to confuse consumers.

Edit: [Here's] a great example from lower in the thread. You either have to have specific cultural knowledge that "Beyond" means "no meat", or you have to check the actual ingredients.

Instead of this intentionally misleading garbage, you could have the large print actually say something like "PLANT PATTY", and then the small print say "Compare to a chicken burger patty!" or something like that.

[โ€“] CXORA@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Idk, ive never seen plant based food that's ambigious over whether or not it contains meat. Thats kind of the selling point of the product after all.

It feels like this law is just to undermine the competition.

I'm sorry, maybe your area is different and the packaging doesn't show "plant based", "soy", "oat milk" etc prominently. But that's just so far outside my experience I can't imagine it.