• Taalnazi@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I will call it “animal-cruelty free meat” then.

    It’s meat because it looks and tastes like meat. Simple as.

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      You need a dash to be Free-Meat.

      Don’t feed it to a GNU/Linux nerd though. They might misunderstand their own epiphany.

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      1 day ago

      It’s not meat, it’s a meat substitute.

      You can say it is a replacement for the thing, you can’t say it is the thing. Simples.

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          16 hours ago

          Yay, glad to see you understand reasoning and don’t just close off into your biased little echo chamber.

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        Facts don’t care though, because it’s what it is: it’s meat, just without animal suffering.

        sam o nella has got some research on it

        and iirc he loves meat so yeah. basically animals are put into concentration camp-like conditions, except they overfeed them, and then kill them in cruel ways and with horrifying efficiency.

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          I don’t give a fuck about the animal cruelty part… it’s different food, just call it something different. What’s so difficult to understand?

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            Aight, if animal cruelty is no problem, fair. That’s valid. We’re all humans, after all.

            So, I take it you then don’t object to being stuffed with pesticides, herded with thousands of people in a crammed space, and transported off with a truck to slaughter, where you get stunned, electrically tortured, chopped and cut into bits, with your skin being used for leather?

            Just want to let you know that the meat industry is doing exactly what people did to the Jews many years ago.

            I followed your instructions and called it something different; animal-cruelty free meat. Why do you feel attacked for something that does not affect you in the slightest?

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              2 days ago

              Again with the animal cruelty. This isn’t about animal cruelty. I welcome lab grown meat, which is actually meat. I just don’t understand why there is a need to imitate the meat industry. They can create new things, better things, and it doesn’t have to be related to the meat industry at all. Now it’s something similar tasting but not quite the same food. If it’s labeled as something completely different maybe it would get more popular.

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                Because that’s how substitute products work? I hated meat salami, I love non meat salami. Simple as

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      2 days ago

      tastes like meat

      The closest one to taste like meat that I’ve tried is beyond burger, which in all fairness tasted like a terrible beef burger, while costing like a premium one and being uber processed.

      Each one can do what they want, but I’ll take a bean burger that doesn’t pretend otherwise before any fake meat.

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        Well you’re not allowed to call it a “bean burger” anymore cause that would be coNfUSInG according to the animal mass murder lobby.

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          Well you’re not allowed to call it a “bean burger” anymore cause that would be coNfUSInG according to the animal mass murder lobby.

          Can you find a primary source for this? Because all I see is articles that may well be clickbait. I want to see what they actually voted on.

          I think certain terms are definitively meat, eg steak, but saying a burger is exclusively meat is like saying a pizza must have plain tomato sauce.

          In any case, this hasn’t been finalised yet as the European Commission - the actual competent lawyers rather than populist representatives (who might not actually represent their voters) - have yet to have their say. I’d hope that common sense would withdraw “burger” from any law that comes out of this.

          Edit: With (far too much) digging I managed to find what they voted on, and it does indeed include burger: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-10-2025-0214_EN.html Ammendment 113, if you just search the page for “burger” you’ll find the list of terms.

          These names include, for example:

            —  Steak
            —  Escalope
            —  Sausage
            —  Burger
            —  Hamburger
            —  Egg yolk
            —  Egg white.
          
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          2 days ago

          I’m not mass producing, selling or advertising them, so this ruling doesn’t apply to me.

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            I guess it’s a good thing then that no one will be allowed to buy the bean burger you just praised from anyone in Europe?

            Imagine people ordering a “lentil burger”, “soy burger”, “plant burger”, “bean burger”, or “chickpea burger”, and receiving a vegan meal. Can you imagine how shocked and deceived, perhaps even violated they may feel?

            The horror! Luckily the European Christian Democrats protected European citizens from this huge and common problem instead of, oh I dunno, helping European industry with the energy transition or end a genocide. They have their priorities straight here.

            Or maybe, just maybe, this is another attempt by the animal mass murder industry to slow down the transition to a slightly less cruel food production system and these politicians are earning some blood money?

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              2 days ago

              Ok OK you win. It’s a bean patty.

              I’ll go to eat some rare steaks now. Real beef, of course.