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Re: France bans veggie ′steaks,′ ′sausages′ to describe vegetarian products

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We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and for using HN primarily for flamewar and ideological battle. Also, we don't allow single-purpose or agenda-driven accounts here, which it looks like this one was. But the greater infraction was how you were flaming and attacking others. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

A warning would have been welcome, because from my point of view I was interacting mainly with other single-purpose, agenda-driven accounts that flamed me incessantly. Early on in this there was even a very creepy attempt to dox me or something similar and there was no obvious reaction to that from the site. Anyway, sorry for causing you to ban the account. Edit: I created this account not to break HN rules with, but…

> Early on in this there was even a very creepy attempt to dox me or something similar and there was no obvious reaction to that from the site.

I don't know what you mean by "from the site", but if you mean from the site moderators, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't know about it. We don't let users attack others that way (see for example https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...) though of course I'd have to see the specific example to say anything specific.

Re: France bans veggie ′steaks,′ ′sausages′ to describe vegetarian products

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Ah, the “you’re holding it wrong” argument re-contextualized as “you’re just shopping wrong”. Unfortunately that is not always the case. I don’t know about the parent but I accidentally bought a “Chick’n Burrito” that was right next to the meat burritos. It did not taste like chicken. Could it have been avoided had I been more careful? Sure! On the other hand vegan dishes taste better than fake meat dishes and I real…

"chicken" and "butter" have good PR? The whole point of these lawsuits is to damage vegan alternatives which are growing in popularity.

Of course butter and chicken have good PR: they’re delicious, nutritious and widely popular. They’re so pervasive in fact that you hardly notice their presence and if you don’t know what someone likes, chances are butter and chicken are a good starting point.

Re: France bans veggie ′steaks,′ ′sausages′ to describe vegetarian products

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The vegan community in France already uses names like "Faucisse" and "Fauxmage" based on "Faux + Saucisse" and "Faux + Fromage". I believe there's also "Vromage" (Vegan + Fromage).

Businesses probably don't like including the word "faux" in their product names.

Then they shouldn’t be in the faux product business.
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