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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

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Post by underseacables »

hoppyhoppy2 wrote: post #15
mc32 wrote: post #2

I 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.

Are "soy milk" and "almond milk" and "oat milk" off-limits, too? Since none of them are actually female mammal secretions, what should we call them instead ?

Soy, almond, and oat, artificially thickened beverage.

Re: Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels

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Post by fmakunbound »

mc32 wrote: post #6
arblomp wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Except that’s not how language evolves. Good luck with that though.

Re: Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels

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Post by bg4 »

mc32 wrote: post #6
arblomp wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Beef like product? Worked for cheese wiz.

Re: Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels

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Post by superkuh »

This is good legislation getting ahead of the inevitable problems when actually good tasting textured vegetable proteins become cheaper than meat. Once it's cheaper than meat it will be used to replace meat to cut costs in anything at all packaged or processed. The labeling requirements will be needed for consumer protection.

It seems like it's a broken legislature being right twice a day kind of thing. They're proposing it for reactionary reasons but it will address a real consumer rights issue in the future.

Re: Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels

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Post by geofft »

underseacables wrote: post #19

They have a point. Almond milk is not milk, that is a fact, but by including the term “milk” it allows then to get into the dairy section of grocery stores, and piggyback on milk as a product. Same here with plant based food.

Eggs are not milk either, that is a fact, yet they are also found in the dairy section of grocery stores. Our government should put a stop to this un-American behavior.

Re: Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels

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Post by Ekaros »

hoppyhoppy2 wrote: post #15
mc32 wrote: post #2

I 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.

Are "soy milk" and "almond milk" and "oat milk" off-limits, too? Since none of them are actually female mammal secretions, what should we call them instead ?

They should be as should butter too. Terms like fat, oil or margarine could be used as well with those.

Re: Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels

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Post by hoppyhoppy2 »

Ekaros wrote: post #29
hoppyhoppy2 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are "soy milk" and "almond milk" and "oat milk" off-limits, too? Since none of them are actually female mammal secretions, what should we call them instead ?

They should be as should butter too. Terms like fat, oil or margarine could be used as well with those.

You're saying we should rename the popular nut spread (the one that pairs well with jelly) to something like "peanut margarine"?
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