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France bans 'steak' and 'escalope' labels from vegetarian products (www.france24.com)

submitted 8 months ago by CAVOK@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.de

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The French government issued a decree Tuesday banning the term "steak" on the label of vegetarian products, saying it was reserved for meat alone.

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[–] SkippingRelax@lemmy.world -5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

But that's the actual problem there. For decades you could buy a steak at a supermarket without having to worry about it being some processed shit sold as s steak.

Stop blaming it on the customer. If it's even remotely confusing, it shouldn't be allowed, and France is taking steps in the right direction.

France, Italy, Spain and other countries in that area have a strong food identity and culture, mislabelling is taken seriously. It comes from decades of scammers trying to piggyback on mozzarella, champagne, parmigiano, hamon. Someone trying to sell crap and pretend it's something else is nothing new, and it's just taken care as it should.

Your plant matter protein block is in aisle 5, just don't call it a steak as it is confusing customers that give that word a very specific meaning and have for a very long time. Fucking great opportunity to come up with a new name and make it into the dictionary next year.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

But then the problem isn't the name at all right? You just want to hate for hates sake. If the name was the problem, it would be because you read labels and get mistaken. But you don't read labels at all.

And if this law was about helping consumers, they would simply mandate a standardized vegan label on vegan products that imitate other products. This would help both vegans and sensitive little cristals like you.