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The issue is back to front even. Go read the ingredients on all of the products proudly procliaming themselves “plant based”, and you’ll find a significant number containing animal products, trying to tap into the vegan market without acatually making vegan products and using weasely terms to justify themselves because they never explicitly said it was “vegan”.
Remember, the deputy who proposed that also said that France recognizing Palestine was not the right moment and not a priority. But lobbying is.
Just create icons for foods as we’ve done for recyclables.
Milk carton? Paper icon. Detergent bottle? Plastic icon.
Veggie burger? Vegetarian icon. Vegan burger? Vegan icon.
Then you can just skip all this naming politics and call it whatever you like. Just require the appropriate icons on the front of the packaging.
Meat/poultry/fish should be their own icons as well imo.
I don’t know if there’s any good reason not to do this, but it seems like a good idea to me.
Veggie burger? Vegetarian icon. Vegan burger? Vegan icon.
This is already happening because the producers aren’t stupid. Unlike certain politicians, apparently.
You expect people that can’t understand that a thing called “veggie meat” or “plant based burger” is not animal meat to see a tiny icon?
Maybe margarine should be pink.
Like the slime they make the chicken nuggets from?
The numbers show that the problem is not with the packaging but with the supermarket shelves. The proximity of meat and plant-based alternatives leads to confusion; simply banning names would likely have little impact.
This coincides with a pet peeve of mine: strategical supermarket shelving. When in previous decades there were separate sections for different types of produce, these are now mixed in thematically somehow. So, as an example, before there was refrigerated vegan products in one section, sausage/meat products in another, now there’s a section for “things to put on bread”.
Before there was an organic section, now organic food is mixed in with “normal” food and you have to look for a label.This is no doubt to make customers buy more, but I fail to see how exactly. It just pisses me off. I might spend more time in the shop because of that but not more money.
I have practiced economical shopping, comparing prices and ingredients, for decades. I am not changing my habits.They also want me to bend down more often - but that’s OK.
Many see this as a sideshow. According to hundreds of open-text responses, many consumers view the name debate as unnecessary or just “symbolic politics.” The majority prefer to see a focus on more urgent societal issues.
A certain type of voter gets riled up very nicely when you even suggest that eating less meat is an option. Therefore it’s specifically right-wing populist Symbolpolitik.
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That is not an idea from the EU commission. The right wing parties in the EU parliament had that idea.
I only eat triangular pears and it’s time you lot get on board with this!
Hey look the right-wing anger diversion tactics worked again
How did it work?
forcing standard shapes (edit: and sizes) in vegetables and fruits
This has already been the case for many decades, and not just in the EU.
Which was, at least in the EU, an initiative coming from the industry and not from crazy bureaucrats. Makes packaging food much more efficient if a cucumber can only be curved so much.
didnt we already do that?
No. I don’t know if this is where you heard the story from specifically, but certainly here in the UK it was basically a lie spread by pro-Brexit figures. There is an EU regulation on the shape of fruits, but it’s only for classifying them; you can absolutely buy and sell funny-shaped fruit all you want. It’s just an easy way for buyers that do actually care about perfectly-shaped fruit to find that, such as wholesalers
As far as I know the classification initiative also came from the food industry. It makes packaging much more efficient.
If they’re going to do that they should also ban french tacos.
Yeah that really is an abomination.
Certainly after most French supermarkets stopped selling hard taco shells as they weren’t authentic.
