Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels
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Re: Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels
#2I agree with this.
Make up your own new word for the new product. Tufu isn't "bean cheese".
People don't need "to be fooled" in order to get them to try highly processed plant products. Truth in advertising and all that.
If you're selling processed plants or insects, great, market it and label it as such. If it's yummy, people will lap it up.
Re: Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels
#3I agree with this. Make up your own new word for the new product. Tufu isn't "bean cheese". People don't need "to be fooled" in order to get them to try highly processed plant products. Truth in advertising and all that. If you're selling processed plants or insects, great, market it and label it as such. If it's yummy, people will lap it up.
The literal meaning of tofu is "bean curd".
Re: Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels
#4I agree with this. Make up your own new word for the new product. Tufu isn't "bean cheese". People don't need "to be fooled" in order to get them to try highly processed plant products. Truth in advertising and all that. If you're selling processed plants or insects, great, market it and label it as such. If it's yummy, people will lap it up.
The literal meaning of tofu is "bean curd".
But that's not what the English ear hears... and on the other hand, in Chinese Tofu is the reference whereas in English Cheese is the reference object.
Moreover, Chinese word creation clobs disconnected words together to make new words. Fire + chicken = Turkey, Fire + Car = Locomotive/Train, Fly + Machine = Aircraft, etc. So this is not out of the ordinary for Chinese word creation.
Re: Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels
#5I agree with this. Make up your own new word for the new product. Tufu isn't "bean cheese". People don't need "to be fooled" in order to get them to try highly processed plant products. Truth in advertising and all that. If you're selling processed plants or insects, great, market it and label it as such. If it's yummy, people will lap it up.
> The bill will also keep companies that produce food from...cell cultures, not slaughtered animals, from using the label “meat,”
Do we need to make up a new word for “chunks of bovine muscle tissue” if it wasn’t cut out of a whole-ish cow?
Sounds to me like it’s about entrenched farming interests throwing red tape at a perceived threat, not “truth in advertising”. No plant burger or vegan cheeze on the market is nefariously hiding their true identity. They actively market their non-meat-ness, to appeal to their main demographic of meat-avoiders, in big green letters on their packaging. There’s no confusion between their earthy/futurey brand names, versus the old-fashioned-farmer style branding of their slaughtered-animal (their words!) counterparts.
Re: Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels
#6I agree with this. Make up your own new word for the new product. Tufu isn't "bean cheese". People don't need "to be fooled" in order to get them to try highly processed plant products. Truth in advertising and all that. If you're selling processed plants or insects, great, market it and label it as such. If it's yummy, people will lap it up.
> The bill will also keep companies that produce food from...cell cultures, not slaughtered animals, from using the label “meat,” Do we need to make up a new word for “chunks of bovine muscle tissue” if it wasn’t cut out of a whole-ish cow? Sounds to me like it’s about entrenched farming interests throwing red tape at a perceived threat, not “truth in advertising”. No plant burger or vegan cheeze on the market is nef…
I agree with you on the muscle tissue grown in a lab, if it's more or less the same as bovine tissue from an ex-animal, I think it's fair to call it beef.
New synthetic materials though should find their own nouns to use and not coöpt terms with longstanding meanings.
Re: Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels
#7I agree with this. Make up your own new word for the new product. Tufu isn't "bean cheese". People don't need "to be fooled" in order to get them to try highly processed plant products. Truth in advertising and all that. If you're selling processed plants or insects, great, market it and label it as such. If it's yummy, people will lap it up.
The literal meaning of tofu is "bean curd".
Curd is not cheese
Re: Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels
#8I agree with this. Make up your own new word for the new product. Tufu isn't "bean cheese". People don't need "to be fooled" in order to get them to try highly processed plant products. Truth in advertising and all that. If you're selling processed plants or insects, great, market it and label it as such. If it's yummy, people will lap it up.
I know right?! Like all those people thinking there is butter in peanut butter, beer in root beer, and dogs in hot dogs.
Make up your own words for things those words aren’t actually describing!
Re: Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels
#9I agree with this. Make up your own new word for the new product. Tufu isn't "bean cheese". People don't need "to be fooled" in order to get them to try highly processed plant products. Truth in advertising and all that. If you're selling processed plants or insects, great, market it and label it as such. If it's yummy, people will lap it up.
I know right?! Like all those people thinking there is butter in peanut butter, beer in root beer, and dogs in hot dogs. Make up your own words for things those words aren’t actually describing!
Indeed. I like my peanut paste and frankfurters myself. Beer, on the other hand, I can understand that. It makes sense to me. On the other hand, we don't eat "chien" in Western culture, but in dire circumstances, so there is low probability of confusion with a hot-dog.
Re: Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels
#10I agree with this. Make up your own new word for the new product. Tufu isn't "bean cheese". People don't need "to be fooled" in order to get them to try highly processed plant products. Truth in advertising and all that. If you're selling processed plants or insects, great, market it and label it as such. If it's yummy, people will lap it up.
The literal meaning of tofu is "bean curd".
Not sure how curd is called in Chinese, but I think the literal meaning is closer to "rotten beans".
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%85%90 - to rot; to decay; to spoil