Exclusive: Manufacturers tell European Commission proposed ban would cause unnecessary confusion

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.

  • Teacrumble@feddit.orgEnglish
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    6 days ago

    For the Vish 'n Chips, I fully agree. If the names are too easily mixed up, then it should be changed, 100%.

    But just using the word burger or sausage as part of the productname shouldn’t be banned. As long as you put a clear descriptive of the kind of sausage in front of it like veggie sausage or quorn sausages. If you gave people a sausage, and when they bite into it they find out its chicken sausage or even blood sausage, would their outrage not be equally valid, since they expected a normal pork sausage?

    And why do we even have to try to recreate meat by processing vegan stuff until what it used to be is unrecognizable?

    Isn’t that basically what the traditional sausage was as well, made from blended scrap parts and organs? Minced meat on its own is processing the meat of an animal until it is unrecognizable

    • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth
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      5 days ago

      Minced meat on its own is processing the meat of an animal until it is unrecognizable

      Not quite. It’s to use the leftovers, and also to preserve them to a certain extent. The leftovers can often be tough, so it’s ground. What doesn’t change is that the flavor of the meat is still very present. It’s not trying to taste like something different, which the vegan “sausage” is.