• CovfefeKills@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Isn’t that a good thing? Pretty sure it is well understood ‘plant based meat’ is absolutely terrible branding, Like extremely bad like what in the genuine actual fuck did you think was going to happen. You should recognize imitation branding as harmful to the cause. Oh is an entire ass industry protecting itself from imitation? You really need to question what are you doing when authentic labeling on food is something you are against.

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      “Plant based meat” might not be the best name, but this means you can’t have a “vegetarian burger” on your menu in a restaurant any more.

      You have 5 types of burger and then a “vegetarian sandwich in a round bun”. It is 100% stupid, and 200% a move by the meat lobby to suppress competition. They claim it is to make sure consumers are not confused but it will have completely the opposite effect.

      “Steak” I can kind of understand but “Burger” and “sausage” are a way to prepare and present food and not about the actual meat content. Fuck everybody that voted for this with a kackwurst (shit-sausage) but that word is now also illegal unless you are shiting meat…

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        “”“200% a move by the meat lobby to suppress competition”“”

        Buddy the decision to imitate meat was to suppress competition you are just choosing sides of one rich asshole over the other. You are not moral. You could be but you don’t seem to understand two wrongs don’t make a right.

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          Im not you buddy, dude.

          How is making a new product to compete with an existing product in an existiert category supressing competition? That’s the definition of competition! And burger is a word that has been used for a long time to mean things that don’t include meat. Veggie burgers are not new. They are not even from this millennia.

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            Let us iterate on the point the point here. You want incorrect food labeling. I want correct food labeling. If the plant-pulp industry didn’t build itself on mimicry there would have been nothing the meat industry could have done about their naming. Fixing the world is far more complex than a basic concept extrapolated over entirety of society so how fucking anyone thought plant-pulp calling itself meat would fucking solve absolutely anything is beyond all reason. I buy shit because it calls itself plant pulp I don’t buy shit they says it is imitation meat. Meat is gross how is imitating it a good idea from the people trying to reduce its usage. If plant pulp advertised itself as complimentary to burgers and even skip the meat this can stand on it’s own there would be no problem, plant pulp would filter into everyones diets offsetting meat usage and for a lot of people an option to replace meat. That is not just hindsight plant pulp specifically positioned itself the way it did to appeal to a certain kind of person while having the opposite effect on another certain type of person. It is specifically divisive and in this world fuck that.

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      all the poor people getting swindled by the fake meat industry, so sad

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      So long as it’s clear that it an imitation… how is that harmful? There is no chance anyone is confused whether it’s meat or not, these products usually have a big sticker telling you it’s vegan as well. I’ve never seen a product that tried to hide that it’s not meat, they literally advertise with it.

      What an absolute joke this decision is. The whole point is to provide an alternative to meat, this is so clearly lobbying to protect the holy meat industry.

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        The joke was imitation meat branding. Anyone could have anticipated the problems calling plant pulp meat instead of it’s own name like no one has a problem with Tofu and it is often used to replace meat. It was arrogance that ignored the foreseen consequences of imitation branding one of the globes biggest industries.

        The justification seems to be ‘the meat industry will be right’ seemingly acknowledging wrongdoing.

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        Are you sure you are using that right? Did someone say this to you recently and now you are using it liberally while not fully grasping what justifies such a thing? Because sharing an opinion on lemmy is exact same privilege you have. Acting like you are entitled to imitate an entire industry instead of standing on your own feet…? I can see why someone said this to you recently.