Compare: “buffalo mozzarella” and “vegan buffalo mozzarella”.
Yes, but cheese is specifically dairy. Pedantic, I know.
Still, I don’t mind what you eat, or what you call it. 
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That sort of works. Still it feels linguistically awkward to me. probably because a buffalo is literally an animal. I have the same slight annoyance with the (very good) ‘Vegan Tuna Wraps’ they sell in my hometown.
they are very nice though, so I don’t let my linguistic annoyance hinder my eating 
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Again with the etymological fallacy.
Which, in all honesty I frequently make as well. It’s a dialectical tension between history of use and current use. For example, I have recently freed myself from ‘correcting’ students’ use of ‘data’ as singular (I teach epidemiological and statistical methods courses). Historically datum singular, data plural… but the usage has changed. So I will (finally) be gracious enough to accept it. 
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Speaking as a vegan, militant vegans make me want to grab a cheeseburger… a feta lamb-burger… topped with human placenta or something and go “MmmmMMMMM!” [NOM NOM NOM]
To be clear: that’s probably a facetious “want.”
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FWIW, the term Mozzarella di Bufala has protected status in Europe, both DOC in Italy and PDO in the EU. So, I don’t really think it is an archaic enough term to fall into the etymological fallacy.
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Does he get cut any slack for wanting to kill them one by one - inefficiently and at low volume - rather than en masse with much higher death totals? No? OK. How about because he didn’t suggest cooking and serving the first-to-die to the next-to-die? Still no mercy? Oh well, OK. He is a food magazine editor after all, so he pretty much deserves whatever he gets.
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If coconut milk and peanut butter and nut meat and egg plant and onion skin don’t bother you, I don’t see what the big deal with “vegan cheese” is. I don’t get what principle this violates.
Does head cheese bug you? Toe cheese? (Yuck.)
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Googling aquafaba now…
Yep, but I did not use the phrase “mozzarella di bufala”.
That’s like telling me not to look up the Hulk Hogan sex tape. With similar results. 
In the “bad old days”, a person had to alter the way they dressed in order to avoid being gendered in a way they didn’t want. That seemed like a reasonable convention to me at the time. I no longer know what’s reasonable now.
I save my vegan hostility for vegans who are assholes about it.
Using distributive division, we can cancel out the “vegan” in both sides of the above equation to simplify it down to:
I save my hostility for assholes.
ETA: As often happens, @anon61221983 said it better.
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Missing the point, which is that the technical use of the term (whether in Italian or in English) has an unchanged current meaning consistent with its traditional meaning, so not subject to the etymological fallacy.
Of course, as an individual you can say that the term means just what you “choose it to mean — neither more nor less”.
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As someone with an egg sensitivity/allergy… You have my full attention.
Jonathan Swift, mumbling something about children from his grave…
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This is the UK we are talking about, though, there’s no ‘fire at will’ and there are clear rules about what you can and can’t be fired for. https://www.gov.uk/dismissal/reasons-you-can-be-dismissed.
In this case, howeve,r he was in a senior position of responsibility and he made his position untenable by his own actions. Resigning was arguably acting in his own interests - demonstrating that he’s capable of taking responsibility in a manner suitable for his position - thus putting himself to be re-employed elsewhere in a similar role. Not resigning would make him look like an asshole who doesn’t give a shit about his employers reputation which might be far worse for his future employment prospects, and definitely not a good look for senior management.
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And you clearly do not understand the etymological fallacy.
