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    Etichetta “hamburger” a base vegetale grigliata al Parlamento europeo

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    1. Fastluck83 on

      Heh, I am not a vegan and I personally don’t eat substitute meat products of any kind, but this is a strange decision.

      I mean, in Germany we have Wurstsalat (sausage salad) and Fleischsalat (meat salad) and you can buy them ready-made in every super market.

      Should these products also get different names because a salad, as most people understand it, isn’t actually meat-based?

      This just seems like the stronger lobby won, and not like a decision that was made for the customers.

    2. bklor on

      Idiotic decision by the patliament. No fucking way that consumers in any meaningful number gets confused by terms like “veggie burger”.

    3. Typical_Surprise7684 on

      Canine committee complain that Hot Dogs don’t in fact contain dog meat!

      With all the things going on in the world, get a fucking life!

    4. python168 on

      In fact, these days, my biggest concern is whether the burgers served in the European Parliament are plant-based.

      Every now and then I also think about the Fascist-Based MPs, but that comes second.

    6. TukkerWolf on

      I see lobbying and bribing in the European Parliament is still a profitable business.

    7. Funambulia on

      Yeah I’m sure that’s the most pressing matter at the moment and not *check list* (climate change, daily russian drones and threat of war, rise of facism, USA trying to transform us into puppet state and plunder us, american Big Tech saying they will not respect our rules and do as they wish,…)…haha nevermind. Get this veggie sausage’s ass bois

    8. Vyslante on

      Have they really nothing better to do? What’s next, suing beefsteak tomatoes because they’re not actually beef?

    9. ErikT738 on

      You know what? I can’t even blame the writer for using “grilled” in the title. I’d have done it too.

    10. Mediocre-Sundom on

      Not a vegan, but I find the decision stupid.

      No one is confused by “plant burgers” or “veggie steaks”. It’s a non-problem. Nothing in the word “steak” explicitly points to the specific product it’s made of: you have beef steaks, pork steaks, bird steaks or even fish steaks. No one orders a tuna steak and then complains about getting “confused” with it not being beef. There are mushroom steaks, ffs, made of portobello mushrooms – they have existed for a while and no one was confused by them.

      It would have been a problem if products were sold as “vegan beef” or “vegan pork” – that indeed could confuse some people. Luckily, that is already solved, and it’s illegal in the EU (that’s why we don’t have “crab sticks” anymore, unless they are actually made of crab). But this? This is just silly.

      All this achieves is the need to make up new, more confusing names for simple products, because some people want to argue semantics instead of worrying about actual problems.

    13. FloppyTomatoes on

      The supermarkets have their own dedicated isles for these products, where is the confusion?

    14. monemori on

      “This is in order not to confuse consumers!!” They say.

      Meanwhile people who are trying to lower their environmental footprint and eat in a way that causes a lot less animal death and suffering go to the vegan section and then they have to read every single ingredient list to figure out if “organic soy block spread” is vegan butter, vegan cream cheese, vegan sour cream, or whatever the fuck else. Get fucked.

    15. OneJobToRuleThemAll on

      As if this is going to stop me from buying my plant-based burgers….

    16. Neshgaddal on

      I propose a new rule that anyone making the “it confuses consumers” argument is required to produce a number of actual consumers that are willing to publicly admit that they are confused by it.

    17. GoodbyeThings on

      If you can’t tell that a “vegan sausage” is vegan, I think there should be a vote on education budgets instead. But I then again, higher education would hurt the conservative and right-wing parties

    18. LogicalNecromancy on

      My frankfurters lack frankfurt.

      Am I not to be rectified?

    19. ChuckCarmichael on

      Who are these idiots who look at packaging, read “vegan sausages” or “plant-based sausages” or “tofu sausages” on the label, and think those must be sausages made of meat, because it says sausages on the box?

      Do they also regularly put hand cream in their coffee since it says “cream” on the box?

    20. katkarinka on

      Glad to see we focus on really important things. In peaceful, non-eventful times like these, this is the correct approach.

    21. Betonkauwer on

      Legend states Byzantine monks debated on the sex of angels just before the Ottomans took the city. Likely never happened, right?

      Such a thing surely couldn’t happen, when an all-powerful out of touch group of people discuss worthless semantics while crises grip their domain.

    22. WingedTorch on

      Consumers are well able to distinguish meat and plant-based alternatives, they said in a joint statement before the vote. A ban would „force companies to use unfamiliar terms which significantly complicates market access and slows down innovation dynamics.”

      —> I suspect that this is the real reason. Meat industry paid some politicians so people eat less of this stuff.

    23. SethTaylor987 on

      The far-right is surging all over Europe and Russia threatens to nuke us every other week and this is what they’re talking about in the EU parliament? I wouldn’t even spend three minutes on this.

    24. SleepySera on

      Oh whatever.

      All this is gonna do is make packaging of vegan products mildly more ugly because it will now be a pointlessly longer name like “burger-styled vegan patty” instead of “vegan burger”.

      Is it dumb and pointless? Yes. But that’s all there is to it. It’s gonna give a few packaging design companies a little extra revenue and that’s about it, nothing will change. Let’s not be overly dramatic over what is ultimately a performative nothingburger.

    25. Questionsaboutsanity on

      i will henceforth refer to my veggi products as *milk*, *nuggets*, *burgers* and *sausages* ostentatiously

    26. kislakiruben on

      Oh, yes. I see real problems being discussed by the parliament. /s

    27. out_focus on

      I love how this is gonna make the EU stronger against russian aggression and US import tarifs, while it also tackles the housing crisis that is going on in many EU member states and solves a major cause of climate change.

    28. Deathchariot on

      Conservatives have nothing to offer politically so they turn to non-issues like if I can have a Veggie Schnitzel or not. 🙄

    29. Moosplauze on

      I don’t see the problem in naming them “burger-style” or “burger-like” or simply “veganburger”. It must be obvious that it’s not meat if using meat-dish names imo. Same rule is applied to Döner in Germany, since most Döner locations don’t fulfill the requirements to name their dish Döner (they use too much minced meat and not sliced meat) they have to call it “DrehspieĂź” which translates to rotisserie.

      I don’t have to eat meat every day, but I always hated the ultra-processed vegan/vegetarian alternatives that mimic meat. There is so much vegetarian/vegan food out there, I’d never buy an ultra-processed vegan Schnitzel, Currywurst or Steak.

    30. Kagrenac8 on

      They did the same shit with almond milk, which has first been mentioned 800 years ago. Absolute travesty

    32. _marcoos on

      Conservatives: Freeze peach, free murkets, no to guvmint overregulationses! Brussels should not overreach!

      Also conservatives in the EP: You are not allowed to call a plant burger a plant burger, because freedom!

    33. r13z on

      So what happens with chicken burgers now? Or was this all about excluding the “veggie” part..

    34. JoSeSc on

      I’m not vegan or vegetarian, love meat, probably eat too much, but if the plant-based label is confusing people the label isn’t the problem. This feels to me similar to the discussion about the attached bottle cap, if you’re too dense to use a bottle with the cap attached the attached cap isn’t the problem.

    35. readilyunavailable on

      Glad the EU parliament is handling the big issues.

    36. Atalant on

      A classic Danish traditional vegetarian dish is Selleribøf(literally Celery steak), can’t be named that, even it is a dish that been around since at least WW2. Can’t wait for them to discover mock turtle soup doesn’t contain turtles or something.

    37. Known-Assistant2152 on

      I see the European Parliament is using tax payer money to solve the issues that really matter. 

    38. MonsieurEpinards on

      What a waste of everybody’s fucking time – who the fuck is getting confused by this shit, what a weak excuse.

    39. BioFrosted on

      As an 8 year vegetarian, I’m looking forward to grilling me some meatless discs and tubular soy this weekend.

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