• hotdogcharmer@lemmy.zip
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    Haha yeah awesome real problems getting solved by serious politicians here, guys! If you can actually get your hands on any real meat without paying an arm and a leg for it what the actual fuck are we doing here lads what the fuck are these fucking politicians doing???

    The world is on fire, the economy is in the shitter globally, there are multiple ongoing genocides, facism is on the rise again, and we’re wiggling our dicks around talking about whether you can call veggie burgers “burgers”? Are you serious? WHO CARES???

    Is this bring your kid to work day and they let the kids do a vote for a change instead as a treat? Is this a joke?? What motherfucker is getting into politics to make sure “hey those damn vegans better not call anything a burger”.

    These poncy little briefcase-botherers need a hobby or something because this is absolutely the biggest case of dicking around on the job I’ve ever heard of. Ridiculous. Stupid. A joke. Pathetic. Childish. Vapid. Can we get some adults in the EU Parliament please?

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      10 hours ago

      Or.

      We could tackle multiple problems at once. Why does it have to be a this-or-that thing?

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        I’m totally in favour of solving multiple problems at once.

        Personally, I do not view this as a problem. My issue is with the EU Parliament wasting time with this in place of anything that I perceive as an actual problem.

        If you think that calling veggie burgers “burgers” is a problem worth their time and effort, more power to you 👍

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          To me this is also a non problem. But if they can solve it just so they can move on, that’d be great

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            Voting the way an industry told them to vote is not solving anything. Shouldn’t have been considered worthy of a vote at all.

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        I’m paying 50% income taxes to pay for a bunch of cronies to chitchat about this bullcrap. Meanwhile they just scraped the money to shelter homeless people during winter

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        7 hours ago

        This is in a very literal way not a problem though. They were just bribed by the meat industry.

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        Because resources must be prioritized. There simply are more pressing matters to tend to.

        This is a non-issue and should have the lowest priority as it’s pandering to a lobby and will likely result in backfiring because more creative names will pop up, possibly leading to even more acceptance of vegan products 😁

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          Honestly, coming up with a better name would be great. It would likely help the vegan products as well

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      9 hours ago

      why are they doing this shit when there are so many problems in the world?

      because they already participated in those problems.

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        In reality, it’s because the farming lobby is the biggest lobby inside the EU. This is an easy “win” that MEPs can use to get beef farmers to vote for them again.

        Same reason CAP will never be reformed.