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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.

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.

Congrats to the meat-farmers and -industry! It shows you are “winning” the game against vegetarians and vegans. Now you can finally stop your usual whining about subsidies and the like - everything solved eh?

EU parliamentarians are so far up their ass, they can’t even see the big ass VEGAN logo that is on every vegan meat replacement product

IIRC they suggested "tube" instead of "sausage". So I guess we are now renaming them to tube dogs.

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.

Wait till they learn how long peanut butter has existed

What a great Democratic organ taking care of the true problems of the days /s

Good only cucumber shaped meats can be called sausage!

The gods knows the horrors that would fall upon humanity if plant based foods could be called the same as plant shaped meats.

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.

It’s only a burger if it comes from the municipality of Cheeseberg.

Thank you EU for working on the things that truly matter! Not since the fascists "tramezzino" have we had such useful policing of words.

On the upside, now I can confidently avoid anything labelled burger and sausage.

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?

This is just stupid. Make it clear the product doesn't have meat in it. It's not that hard. Surely people can't be confused by veggie burger vs burger?

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.

Fucking idiots. Almost nobody is able to decipher the ingredients including E numbers, but people are confused by "burger"