“Here’s to the land you’ve torn out the heart of.
Mississippi, find yourself another country to be part of.”
–P.Ochs
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“I’ll give you my Beyond Burger when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!”
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Is it Mississippi or Missouri? Or both?
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Or from Warren Burger’s cold, dead fingers.
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What do you think they irrigate the grain fields with?
“Wow, Ted, your soybeans have really thrived since they opened that feedlot upstream!”
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Alright, so not all meat-substitution products have to specify if they "contain no meat? Only something that also uses the term burger on it’s packaging?
We apparently agree that the law mentioned in this post is dumb. I don’t think any more regulation is needed (obviously selling something that doesn’t contain meat as meat is already illegal so I don’t know what else needs to be done). But you call for more regulation.
I think your suggestion for labeling anything that does not contain meat is really weird. And since a lot of things, (the majority of things in a store even) do not contain meat I would say that’s a bad idea unless you can clearly delineate between products that could conceivably be mistaken for something that could contain meat, and products that can’t. And I don’t think that is as easy to delineate as you may think.
I’m just saying, writing a bad law because you accidentally picked up something that did not contain the amount of meat you expected is maybe not the most productive way to solve this issue.
Only until they add patty to the law and outlaw that too. Would make about the same amount of sense 
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They both have similar laws, I believe.
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However, I have sad news about the elephant ears…
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I hope they’re including a clear difference between a bison and a buffalo; you can’t wash your hands in a buffalo…
…oh, thank you, is that my coat?
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Well obviously I don’t think a squash needs to have a sticker that says “contains no meat.” I just think items that try to pass themselves off as meat-substitutes by using words associated with meat, like burger, sausage, bacon, steak, chicken, etc should mark themselves as containing no meat. And they should do that in a font just as large as the one they use to reference their meat counterpart.
I’m not proposing a bad law because I picked up some vegan sausage by mistake - the mistake was mine. But what I’m suggesting is that maybe it’s not such a bad thing to regulate the way that meat substitutes are marketed so that consumers are 100% certain of what they’re buying. The idea that producers of meat-substitutes are always going to be good actors because they’re somehow more ethical is naive, and does not reflect history in the food industry.
Take a look at this label;
Let’s say you’re not a very sophistocated consumer. Let’s say your English isn’t great, or just that you’re not very educated. You’ve never heard of the Tofurky brand before. Maybe you don’t quite know what the word “vegan” means. Maybe you think it just means healthy. How would you know that this wasn’t a meat product without going and reading every ingredient on the back?
Right now, we give a lot of room for meat-substitute products to market themselves how they want because they are generally premium products marketed towards affluent, educated consumers. But that’s not always the case, and it strikes me as important to make sure that everyone knows exactly what they’re buying.
As for the law cited above about selling “adulterated” products, I don’t think it means quite what you think it means. As @nungesser pointed out, it’s perfectly legal to dilute meat products with other foods. And that’s a whole 'nother thing to be worried about, as @Avery_Thorn points out.
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I’m sure veggie brurgers will taste just as good.
Yeah and don’t forget “molecules of freedom” in reference to natural gas. LOL
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Not really because the truth is we can call them whatever the f*** we like. I swear, I’m very tempted to buy a billboard or two with giant words that read “Eat more veggie burgers and not-dogs” just to push a few buttons and see how far their stupid law gets them. Co-opting and obfuscating the English language is intolerable and it needs to stop.
PS welcome to BB.
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I love “gluten-free” labels on packs of tuna, tea, lentils, spinach, and water. SPOILER: No wheat means no gluten. Heroin is gluten-free so it’s OK, right?
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Also acceptable.
I see the problem. But I don’t think removing the word sausage is the correct way to fix it. I know what Tofurky is, so I know immediately what I’m not getting in this package. But I understand that not everybody is familiar with the brand.
Now I really want some of these.
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