Vegetables are delicious. I wish vegan options would lean into this instead of trying to be fake meat. IMO grilled mushrooms are tastier than grilled goop pressed into burger form.
EU lawmakers push to ban term 'veggie-burger'
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Re: EU lawmakers push to ban term 'veggie-burger'
#12This move will expand the public's belief that regulation means "a ridiculous incursion of rights," leading to greater belief that society is better off without regulation.
Re: EU lawmakers push to ban term 'veggie-burger'
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hamburger is somewhat traditional food. So it makes sense to be regulated as such - to not be able to name any crap hamburger, but only specific crap hamburger. One that is beef patty inside a bun. Having a animal derived patty by grinding is essential part of some item being called hamburger.
I think that's reasonable regarding expectations, but the flip side is you can't make a vegan patty and call it 'vegan burger like patty'. The discussed regulation smells heavily of measures to protect the meat industry rather than the consumer who is absolutely able to discern between the classic and vegetarian alternatives.
How will it protect farmers? This won't change consumer habits one bit.
Re: EU lawmakers push to ban term 'veggie-burger'
#14Some food labelling is misleading. One example I have seen ist (small) "veggie" (big) "CRISPY CHICKEN". But burger? Sure, burgers are often beef, but there have always been other kinds. "Chicken burger", "crab burger", so why not "veggie burger". The EU likes making regulations, to the point that they are killing their own industry
Ooc what did you mean by 'their own' industry? The industry of making regulations or the food industry?
Re: EU lawmakers push to ban term 'veggie-burger'
#15This move will expand the public's belief that regulation means "a ridiculous incursion of rights," leading to greater belief that society is better off without regulation.
So a net positive.
Re: EU lawmakers push to ban term 'veggie-burger'
#16Vegetables are delicious. I wish vegan options would lean into this instead of trying to be fake meat. IMO grilled mushrooms are tastier than grilled goop pressed into burger form.
So its the right move because you dont like the taste of something?
Re: EU lawmakers push to ban term 'veggie-burger'
#17Food safety and food traditions protections is one of the few areas in which EU are actually good.
This is a ridiculous move. Its just the right-wing going Trump-like anti-woke owning the liberals.
Re: EU lawmakers push to ban term 'veggie-burger'
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unsure what either of those have to do with this law
Hamburger is somewhat traditional food. So it makes sense to be regulated as such - to not be able to name any crap hamburger, but only specific crap hamburger. One that is beef patty inside a bun. Having a animal derived patty by grinding is essential part of some item being called hamburger.
When i buy a hamburger in the supermarket i dont get a bun. So clearly the thing i buy shouldnt be called a hamburger.
Re: EU lawmakers push to ban term 'veggie-burger'
#19> a regulation designed to give farmers a stronger negotiating position
Honestly, this feels like a smoke and mirrors done ahead of Mercosur agreement enrollment which may put European farmers especially the smaller ones on lost position facing competition from South America.
Re: EU lawmakers push to ban term 'veggie-burger'
#20This move will expand the public's belief that regulation means "a ridiculous incursion of rights," leading to greater belief that society is better off without regulation.
Any legislative body that sees fit to weigh in on such minutia ought not to be legislating.
"Veggie burger" as a term has been in common usage by the public long before any of the other words that convey the same thing.