La Corte Europea blocca il divieto francese di etichettare la “bistecca” vegetariana
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/european-union/article/2024/10/04/eu-court-blocks-french-ban-on-vegetarian-steak-labeling_6728232_156.html
di da96whynot
La Corte Europea blocca il divieto francese di etichettare la “bistecca” vegetariana
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/european-union/article/2024/10/04/eu-court-blocks-french-ban-on-vegetarian-steak-labeling_6728232_156.html
di da96whynot
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> France issued decrees in 2022 and February 2024 restricting the use of words such as “ham,” “steak,” “sausage” and “bacon” to animal-based products. The rules were needed to avoid creating confusion for consumers, said the authorities.
“The people of France are too stupid.” – French government
>The rules were needed to avoid creating confusion for consumers, said the authorities. French livestock farmers had long been lobbying for such measures.
It is clearly stated on the packaging if a product is vegetarian. Moreover, in supermarkets it is often separate from the real meat products. Rightful decision of the EU court. Farmers should stop whining, no one receives as many subsidies as that conservative profession.
As if this labelling would create any confusion in France. French supermarkets sell hardly any vegetarian stuff, not even the biggest ones. The smallest supermarket in my home country (culinary wasteland the Netherlands) has more vegetarian stuff than the biggest Intermarché or Carrefour in France.
It literally says vegeterian, vegan etc. How can they be confused about it? It is just some goverments bowing to animal farming companies’ complaints so good decision from EU court.
While this is a single victory for common sense the whole ‘debate’ is getting really annoying tbh. I’m a veggie and I’m genuinely starting to find myself disliking the EU because of some of this b/s like blocking the use of the term ‘milk’ – driven by the dairy lobby, and mostly France.
Milk in English can be used to describe all sorts of milky emulsions , and suddenly it’s been redefined.
All it’s doing is making the EU look petty to a lot of people. They need to stop being that easily tilted by one or two countries with a bee in their bonnet about vegetarians and very powerful farmers.
It was nonsense like this that fed into Brexit btw, massively so. It was manna from heaven for the tabloids.
Literally nobody was being confused between milk and soya milk, but now is “soya drink” etc etc
https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/53405848/Boer_A_2020_EU_food_legislation_impacts_innovation.pdf
On one hand, sure. Calling vegan stuff ‘steak’ or ‘ham’ is false advertising. On the other, who tf would get confused by that?
Good, it is a stupid ban anyway.
Can we also undo the ban on calling milk replacements ‘milk’ (something that is banned in more EU countries)? I still call soymilk and coconutmilk ‘milk’ despite they’re not allowed to be labeled like that anymore.
The restaurants should sell “carrots”, medium rare
And why the fuck is Germany allowed to still insist on that bullshit?
EU should make a law that restaurants that label something as vegeterian on the menu, actually serve vegetarian meals. I’ve seen restaurants label chicken or fish as vegetarian options. Edit: Also in France
Maybe they should also spare peanut butter?
If the labeling didn’t matter no one would be crying about it. Obviously vegatarian alternatives see the advantage of using the same name for the product as their competition.