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The problem with being more permissive with naming is that the realistic outcome is simply gonna be that companies take the chance to deliver cheaper quality at the expense of the consumer.
Like, if the requirement that milk actually has to be cow milk is loosened, what's stopping the companies from just mixing the cow milk with water and selling that as "milk"?
Just call it Vurst and be happy.
Not the vurst idea I've heard.
or wurßt
'Schland detektiert
Alternatively: VVurst
Sure, a vegi sausage is still a sausage.
Same thing in Swiss; it's Oat Drink, can't be called Oat Milk. Guess the meat industry is strong in EU.
Sausage can be whatever as the name corresponds to beinh heavily salted.
es geht um die wurst
alles hat ein ende…
… nur die Wurst hat zwei
"Minced corpse in colon + antibiotics"
That is simply a delicious looking pork sword.
I think there's a valid concern here. When fake meat technology inevitably becomes cheaper than real meat, companies will definitely try passing off fake meat as real meat or try to thin out real meat with fake meat, and will definitely try to be deceptive about it. However, I think the solution is to allow the terms sausage and burger, but require very clear labeling like requiring the term "plant-based" or "partially plant based" to be on the packaging in the same font size as the term "sausage" or "burger" if there is more than 20% plant matter included (number based on existing EU regulations for sausages). That said, IDK if this would fully stop it. In the US it would just have as little description as possible with "[Brand Name] Links" or "[Brand Name] Patties" if they weren't allowed to say sausage or burger.
Oh no, are companies going to start using healthier, more environmentally sustainable products and not tell us about it?
I'm really not sure what the big deal is, so long as allergens get labeled properly.
I wish I could build a time machine and put it in operation as a shuttle service, so that people from the future in business attire, with suitcases full of money, could enter parliament lobbies, party centrals and regulatory agencies. We would have far less problems with necessary change.