France bans use of meat words like "steak" and "sausage" on fake meat products

[jerwin]

@catsidhe

And if you go back far enough, Middle English mete just means “food”. Food from an animal’s body parts was flesche. It’s almost like words change meanings, and language doesn’t care what l’Académie Française says.

In this modern world, food, if unregulated, becomes what is salable to a naive public. The traditional words, shaped into new meanings by aggressive advertisers, shall be made to serve the interests of capital and industry,