While the EU is discussing banning terms like "veggie burger" or "soy sausage", new data from Appinio provides a surprising insight: It's not the name that
According to hundreds of open-text responses, many consumers view the name debate as unnecessary or just “symbolic politics.” The majority prefer to see a focus on more urgent societal issues.
The reasoning behind the ban is supposedly to prevent consumers from accidentally purchasing plant-based products instead of meat ones…but plant-based products are often sold in their own sections and have distinctive packaging. Having “burger” or “sausage” in the name suggests what the product is intending to replace, which is helpful to people looking for alternatives to these products, especially if they have recently switched to a plant-based diet.
The issue is back to front even. Go read the ingredients on all of the products proudly procliaming themselves “plant based”, and you’ll find a significant number containing animal products, trying to tap into the vegan market without acatually making vegan products and using weasely terms to justify themselves because they never explicitly said it was “vegan”.
And it also becomes a stupid topic for those languages were words like sausage is literally just a shape like in Swedish were it can be used for poop too lol
It sounds more like this law is supposed to stop the plans based industry. Like you said it is easier for the curious ppl (like kids) to test something that they understand and know how to cook. I thought we were fighting for the environment.
The reasoning behind the ban is supposedly to prevent consumers from accidentally purchasing plant-based products instead of meat ones…but plant-based products are often sold in their own sections and have distinctive packaging. Having “burger” or “sausage” in the name suggests what the product is intending to replace, which is helpful to people looking for alternatives to these products, especially if they have recently switched to a plant-based diet.
Overall, what a non-issue.
The issue is back to front even. Go read the ingredients on all of the products proudly procliaming themselves “plant based”, and you’ll find a significant number containing animal products, trying to tap into the vegan market without acatually making vegan products and using weasely terms to justify themselves because they never explicitly said it was “vegan”.
And it also becomes a stupid topic for those languages were words like sausage is literally just a shape like in Swedish were it can be used for poop too lol
It sounds more like this law is supposed to stop the plans based industry. Like you said it is easier for the curious ppl (like kids) to test something that they understand and know how to cook. I thought we were fighting for the environment.