More than a dozen food companies have urged the European Commission not to ban the use of words such as “sausage” and “burger” for non-meat products.
Listen, I’m not a vegan, but I find this names that are bent around the bush so annoying.
Yeah, I get it , it’s not literally milk. But calling it “almond milk” is waaay smoother than “almond drink” or “almond concoction” or whatever.
Same with Malzbier.
The definition of milk literally includes plant milks. Milk has been used to describe these beverages for as long as they have existed.
I agree, but that’s not what the marketing law in Germany says. Not long ago, it was changed by conservatives to only include real cow’s milk.
What a bunch of snowflakes. Imagine that being the biggest problem in your life.
What makes it even stupider is that everyone still calls it soy- or whatever-milk.
I have seen coconut milk sold as ‘coconut drink’, even though it is not used as drink. That is stupid.
In the case of coconut there’s both the milk and the water, and coconut drink is likely the water.
It was the milk, though.
So much for my hypothesis.
i argue calling it coconut drink is stupid, because in the specific case of coconuts you should specify milk or water.
“Creamy nut juice” just didn’t do very well in the test marketing
I’m a happy meat eater and considering the number of different kinds of sausage with all different ingredients in different proportions and different textures and different herbs and spices and different skins and different sizes and different ways to prepare them I think this is absolutely ridiculous.
If tiny dried sausages with lamb and herbs in natural skin are just as much sausage as spiced up raw mince in a plastic skin are just as much sausage as precooked hot dogs with pork and salt but mostly potato filler in mysterious edible non natural skin, then a sausage with vegetable mash for filling is definitely a sausage as well.
Do hot dogs legally qualify as sausages in the EU?
I don’t know. We all have different words for “sausage” and different cultural attachments to them.
In Swedish, the word for sausage, “korv” is widely used (albeit informally) as a word describing the shape, and not necssesarily the product.
Hot dogs are in the section of sausages at least, but the meat % is almost always on the front of the packages. Which for “hot dogs” is ~34%. I don’t know who buys them. Personally I go for the 70+
Yeah sausage is at least in my eyes a form of food. Kinda like a loaf of bread can be different types of bread so can a sausage be different meat (or not even meat at all).
I couldn’t care less what you call them. You can call them vegetable dicks and I would still eat them. It’s just a ridiculous waste of resources powered by the meat lobby who have seen a portion of their market share disappear.
If it’s ground up and tubed into a thin, edible casing skin, it’s a sausage.
The German emperor’s last chancellor Bismarck, who was decently leaning on the conservative side, said famously that there are two things where you really don’t want to know how they are made: Politics and sausages.
“Die Gedanken einer Frau,
der Magen einer Sau
und der Inhalt einer Wurst,
bleiben ewig unerforscht.”Translation:
The thoughts of a woman,
the stomach of a pig
and the content of a sausage, will be forever unexplored.
I hate that a sausage comes from a “food company” instead of a butcher. (Or grocer for vegan sausage)
es geht um die wurst
alles hat ein ende…
… nur die Wurst hat zwei
That is so silly. I love pork sausage but veggie sausage is the next best one and clearly is sausage.
Same as “burger”, it is a preparation not an ingredient.
“Ground up dead body of an animal fisted into another animals anal canal”
I mean we can just call it what it is
Sure, a vegi sausage is still a sausage.
Same thing in Swiss; it’s Oat Drink, can’t be called Oat Milk. Guess the meat industry is strong in EU.
desperate dinosaurs are scrambling to protect their investments in the torment of animals, who knew
“Minced corpse in colon + antibiotics”
That is simply a delicious looking pork sword.
As idiotic calling that thing sausage is, I guess we have bigger problems than spending time on saying what can be called sausage and what can’t.
“A rose by any other name…” used to mean something. Now we don’t even know what a rose is anymore. /s
I think there’s a valid concern here. When fake meat technology inevitably becomes cheaper than real meat, companies will definitely try passing off fake meat as real meat or try to thin out real meat with fake meat, and will definitely try to be deceptive about it. However, I think the solution is to allow the terms sausage and burger, but require very clear labeling like requiring the term “plant-based” or “partially plant based” to be on the packaging in the same font size as the term “sausage” or “burger” if there is more than 20% plant matter included (number based on existing EU regulations for sausages). That said, IDK if this would fully stop it. In the US it would just have as little description as possible with “[Brand Name] Links” or “[Brand Name] Patties” if they weren’t allowed to say sausage or burger.
Oh no, are companies going to start using healthier, more environmentally sustainable products and not tell us about it?
I’m really not sure what the big deal is, so long as allergens get labeled properly.
What kind of an argument is this? Customers should always be as informed as possible about the products and services that they’re paying for.
There will always be the ingredient list you can read, so whatever is in your ‘sausage’ won’t be any more of a mystery than it already is.
