I’m really glad that we don’t have more serious problems to deal, than this.
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Good to see the parliament tackling the most pressing issues.
I'd argue that if a hamburger is not made in Hamburg, it should not be able to be named anything better than "sparkling patty disher"
Steakn't
Seems a bit idiotic to me. So what's a burger with veggie substitutes supposed to be called? Vegger?
Sure, why not
All in favor for the new vegger, say Aye
Aye
I'm a meat eater and I don't even see much point in this ruling. Basically all the plant-based steak or burger alternatives I've seen have been clearly labeled as such. Stores usually separate them from meat-based products anyway, so that vegans and vegetarians could more easily find what they're looking for.
This is EU-wide, not just how good your local options are.
Also, this would otherwise be an open door to degrade your meat-eating products. In Denmark (and I guess EU), we'd been fighting for "cheese" to only be made of 100% cheese, or "juice" being 100% fruits. If you start to allow some of these ultra-processed foods being labeled as something vaguely like meat, everyone will suffer from falling food quality, as these products will sneak their way in.
Weak argument, I don't think the labels vegerterian burger, or pea purger is doing anything like that.
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Are veggie patties really sold as "Burgers" in the EU? A Burger is technically a dish, it deppends what you put in it, as far as I understand. You can have an Egg burger, or a turd burger.
Fuck the meat industry, btw. If it's dying - time to get a "real" job. Free market and all.
Both meat and veggie patties are sold as 'burgers' in the EU. Not always of course - the naming may vary, but this one is fairly common in my area.
I'd argue those are only burgers if they have a hamburger base, ground beef. Otherwise they're sandwiches; egg sandwich or a turd sandwich.
Don't forget the
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Seems like a relatively pro-consumer policy for so many people to be upset about it. They're not banning Beyond burgers or mushroom steak. It's still going to taste the same and have the same distribution network.
They just have to alter the label. In the US a "slider", "whopper", "quarter pounder", and "baconator" are among the most popular burgers and not one of them needs the word burger in it's marketing.
Sure, it's not really solving a problem, but it's ensuring more informative labeling. Proprietary phone charging cables weren't a real problem either, but it felt like everyone was glad when the EU standardized it.
How quickly Lemmy turns on the EU when they do something you don't like. "Vegan burger" doesn't tell me what's in it. Could be fucking sawdust.
How quickly Lemmy turns on the EU when they do something you don’t like.
It's almost like a thing can be praised for its positive aspects and at the same time criticised for its negative aspects.
“Vegan burger” doesn’t tell me what’s in it. Could be fucking sawdust.
"Sausage" doesn't tell you what's in it either. Probably pork, but could be beef. Probably some amount of rusk, also. It's almost like you have to check the packaging for other words.
Could be fucking marbles. Could be fucking Legos. Could be fucking quick set drywall compound. Could be fucking grass clippings. Could be fucking old math textbooks. Could be the fucking Queen's used linens.
Except none of those make any fucking sense. You know what does make sense? Fucking vegan burger.
How quickly Lemmy turns on the EU when they do something you don’t like.
That's how democracy works. Just because something does something good doesn't mean you have to ignore and accept the bad.
Something you have to realize is that the meat lobby has been heavily lobbying for this for years. This has nothing to do with consumers. Just like with vegan cheese, this will only make the product names more confusing. There used to be products called 'vegan cheese'. Perfectly clear what it is - just plant-based cheese alternative. Now you can't legally name a product 'vegan cheese', so instead they're called 'vegan slices' (if they come in slices) or other nonsense like 'plant-based product', which tells you absolutely nothing until you read the description.
Couldn't they call it "plant based cheese alternative" instead?
I live on Brussels. I know eurocrats. Corruption is rife, industry lobbyists are honoured guest, champagne is cheap at the mickey bar (named after the funny chairs) in the European Parliament. The head of the EU expressly required an apartment inside the commission where she enjoy extraterritoriality. The police cannot search there for her multiple corruption affairs.
Meanwhile our hospitals are shit, they just spent billions in F-35. They scraped the money for homeless people to be sheltered during freezing winter.
If you thought Brussels was less corrupted than London Washington or moskow I have bad news for you
It's an outrage that they even spent a second on such bullcrap. Sawdust isn't legally food and nothings stops you for reading the ingredient list.
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"Our data shows that almost 70% of European consumers understand these names as long as products are clearly labelled vegan or vegetarian,"
How fucking stupid are your customers if "almost 70%" can work out that a vegan sausage doesn't contain meat?
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"Steek and Bergers"?
Cause the world isnt burning and you can spend time to worry about this shite
This is called the “relative privation fallacy” - where it’s stated or implied that action shouldn’t be taken on one issue because larger issues also exist. It’s like suggesting that the police shouldn’t try to catch pickpockets because unsolved murders exist.
The truth is that it’s possible for organisations to work on multiple fronts at once and that making rules around food labelling doesn’t imply that “the world is[…] burning” isn’t also something that’s being worked on.
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