The French government issued a decree Tuesday banning the term “steak” on the label of vegetarian products, saying it was reserved for meat alone.
The French government issued a decree Tuesday banning the term “steak” on the label of vegetarian products, saying it was reserved for meat alone.
Just a reminder that we were talking about the extremely generic dictionary noun “meat”, and not “Parmigiano Reggiano” and champagne et al which are indeed regulated terms mainly because they are based on geographic names, but also because their industry lobbyists have a lot of money.
Anyway, you clearly feel fucking strongly about this given how much you need to fucking swear so I hope you fucking feel better.
I do fucking swear a lot yes. And I do feel strongly for food labelling, probably the whole thing ended up in Vegans vs meat eaters though I couldn’t care less what food is mislabelled. And I had the same sort of arguments and downvotes a long time ago about mandatory labelling of GMO products. Fucking hell!
OK but I say you’re being obsessively pedantic about this specific word “meat”. Perhaps English is not your native language but the word “meat” is a very generic word indeed. Unlike the geographic controlled-origin terms, no group is harmed financially when the word “meat” is - in your view - abused. That argument is a non-issue. English is full of ambiguous generic terms which cause no comprehension problems because the context makes clear what they are. No carnivore is going to be tripping up on seitan burgers. They will be labelled as seitan, just as beef burgers are labelled as entrecote or rump or whatever. The word “meat” will probably not even appear on the packet. It’s a non-issue.