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[โ€“] F04118F@feddit.nl 46 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (11 children)

Imagine people ordering a "lentil burger", "soy burger", "plant burger", "bean burger", or "chickpea burger", and receiving a vegan meal.

Can you imagine how shocked and deceived, perhaps even violated they may feel? The horror!

Luckily the European Christian Democrats protected European citizens from this huge and common problem instead of, oh I dunno, helping European industry with the energy transition or end a genocide. They have their priorities straight here.

Or maybe, just maybe, this is another attempt by a panicked industry to slow down the transition to a slightly less cruel food production system and these politicians are earning some side money?

EDITED for tastefulness of words. The only words I changed are the only ones that OP quoted and responded to below. The rest of the message was ignored. I actually learned a valuable lesson today, thanks Felix!

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[โ€“] Skasi@lemmy.world 73 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It seems the meat lobby is way too strong. ๐Ÿ™„

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[โ€“] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 45 points 6 days ago (2 children)

now i can't get dino nuggies cause there's no dinosaurs in them :(

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[โ€“] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Meat lobbyists forcing regulations on products that threaten the meat industry.

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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[โ€“] witty_username@feddit.nl 54 points 6 days ago

What a wasteful non issue. Then again, wastefulness suits the meat industry and it's lobby very well

[โ€“] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago (24 children)

Fuck the meat lobby. Plant meat is the real deal!

[โ€“] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 44 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

I was going to disagree with you based on etymological pedantry, but it turns out the Old English "mete" just means "food" so now I have to agree with you based on etymological pedantry.

[โ€“] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just like how the rules forbidding plant milk to be called milk make no sense. Plant milk has existed for many centuries.

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[โ€“] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (21 children)

When has โ€œburgerโ€ or โ€œsteakโ€ ever exclusively meant meat from an animal? This sounds like political corruption to me. Somebody is getting paid for turning this linguistic gaslighting into law.

A โ€œburgerโ€ has always been a mince patty of any kind and a โ€œsteakโ€ is a thick slab of something. The default assumption may be meat, but it has never been exclusive.

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OP appears to have a serious problem accepting facts. Itโ€™s disappointing given the number of upvotes Voyager shows for them. I suppose nobody is perfect.

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[โ€“] stoly@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

You expect this from Texas but are shocked and disappointed when it's the EU.

[โ€“] whaleross@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm throwing out the terms BURGR, SAUSGE, STEK as prior art so nobody can trademark them and everybody that produces vegetarian or vegan food can use them free of charge.

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