No more cordon blur: France prepares to ban vegetarian products from using meaty language

  • Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com
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    1 year ago

    To be fair I hardly ever buy packaged meat so I’m not sure how their labels would look. Though I would expect the plant industries would try and pass their plant based product as the real thing, to trick omnivorous people on buying it instead, so they would write “plant based” or whatever as small as possible if at all (depending on food regulations in the country they are selling it in, of course).

    I guess such an assumption would base itself in vegetarian people being more careful with what they buy, compared to normal people, otherwise they’d be tricking them too.

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      1 year ago

      I am in strong favor a big prominent “contains animal products” label. It would make live so much easier.

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        1 year ago

        It would make life easier in the same way if the words used to describe meat weren’t then also used to describe plants pretending to be meat

        …you’re essentially supporting the intent behind this legislation

        • Vegoon@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          No, I am against the prohibition of common terms, I advocate for a stricter declaration of ingredients. “Milk” alone could be milk from any mammal, cow, goat, human. Steak could be a cut from any animal, that is why a the animal it is from is declared. Oat milk is called milk since centuries but now the industry fears competition and is publishing propaganda and pays lobbyism for restrictive laws.