I wonder if you can call the state government a burger collectively or each member a burger individually.
They are certainly plant-based.
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…You know, I’d never really had the urge to have “Veggieburger” tattooed on my arm before o.o’.
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Hello,
According to US News & World Report, Mississippi ranks 48th overall when averaged in terms of health care, education, economy, infrastructure, opportunity, fiscal stability, crime, and the environment (only Alabama and Louisiana were ranked lower).
That the state’s government believes this is a credible threat to its citizens is sad and disappointing.
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I sense the presence of granite and cardboard, as Molly Ivins described Texas legislators.
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I was thinking more of kudzu and crackers.
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Does this label suffice? Too confusing? I think it works. Maybe if we call them brgrs, they’ll be happy. Ha (edit: the code on this forum won’t let me do it but I was trying to replace the vowels in burger with asterisks).
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To add to the confusion, the Mississippi River flows past Missouri’s eastern border. I grew up near Dubuque (Iowa), and thought it unfair that a state with only a small connection to “my” river would be named after it.
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Let’s be honest. This isn’t about protecting consumers from products with unknown fillers, or protecting consumers from accidentally buying vegetarian products. (I sincerely doubt the latter would ever be a big issue - you might buy the wrong thing once and be out 7 bucks tops- which you could probably get back if you asked the store for a refund) Both of those may be good things to do and noble ideals.
In reality, this is about the meat industry being scared of losing customers to people looking for healthy or ethical alternatives. I’m mostly vegetarian myself, so I’m crying no tears for that scenario. But even I doubt that the meat industry is going away anytime soon. if they wanna court the consumer base on the left, they’d be better off marketing ethically farmed meat than trying to kneecap the competition through dumb legislation.
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Remember, meat is dead.
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Chilly dogs aren’t cold.
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Burgermeister Meisterburger would approve.
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To be fair, so is soy, grain, and other plant-based meat substitutes.
Taxonomy is very much a human construct.
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Yeah, but pursuing actually meaningful crimes doesn’t pay the bills nearly as well as protecting corporate interests. See also: the entire US political and judicial machine. We have no time or money to process rape kits, but if it’s a question of women’s or LGBT rights, they’d put that shit on a credit card if they had to.
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Okay, I’ve not read the legislation so I dunno the details, but sure, playing games with spellings should defeat the letter of the law… unless it’s amended to something like “terms seemingly related to meat may only be applied to meat on product labels”. Yeah sure.
I long ago frequented a cheap west coast chain called Munchies featuring ten-cent burgers, mostly soy but that wasn’t listed. Munchies’ cheap customers did not really care that patties weren’t total meat. Food FTW!
Mississippi really needs some CHEAP sanitary food outlets. But Munchies would be banned now. Sad.
But someone who eats meat isn’t going to be harmed by eating something without meat in the way that many people who don’t eat meat (and therefore don’t have the enzymes to digest it) would be harmed if they accidentally ate the wrong product.
It’s meat products that need to be carefully labeled.
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They’re actually really good. I recommend sauerkraut and German mustard as condiments!
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Ah, and now we get to the heart of this; you and others in this thread think vegetarians deserve to know exactly what they’re eating, but meat eaters don’t. Because somehow they’re more harmed by deceptive labeling than a meat eater is.
I do think meat eaters deserve to know exactly what they’re eating. In fact, my exact words were:
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You’ve missed the point of this thread, then. And my arguments above.
Meat eaters don’t exclusively eat meat. Vegetarians, by definition, exclusively do not eat meat. So they need to be aware if there’s anything in the food that they cannot eat.
Although yes, meat eaters need proper labeling as well, in case there is a potential allergen in the meat products.
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