Comment on No more cordon blur: France prepares to ban vegetarian products from using meaty language
Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year agoThere are products that copy burgers to meet the demand of users willing to eat less meat.
But there is also products faking meaty products that use vegetables because it’s cheaper.
Let’s take this one for example : www.auchan.fr/…/pr-C1159092
It’s not written “viande hachée [de boeuf]” (beef meat), because there is 20% of water and vegetables in it to be cheaper. However, everything is made to make you think it’s just beef. There is nothing really visible about vegetables. Just small lines.
alefhar@feddit.de 1 year ago
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this 80% meat and 20% vegetables and thus not vegetarian? If so, this isn’t the same kind of product as an actual vegetarian/vegan patty that is made from vegetable protein only.
I agree with you that the product you linked is labelled confusingly. But it won’t ever be called “vegetarian patty” but rather “meat reduced patty”
Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
The decree is about the two kind of products. Meat with plants, and 100% plant based food that try to mislead people.
As a consequence, it also concerns plant based food that are clearly branded as vegan food, but it’s not the main target.
alefhar@feddit.de 1 year ago
So there is
Personally, buying 2 or 4 I’d be surprised that these products contain plants. But I fail to see how 1 and 3 would surprise anyone anymore. “Vegan” and “vegetarian” are terms I’d expect any adult to understand as “does not contain meat/anything from an animal”. So, calling anything “vegan sausage” clearly communicates that it is “vegan food in sausage shape” or “vegan food that is intended to replace sausage”.
No one in their right mind would think of olive oil as something to lubricate some olives…