Great news, but if you ever cross the border into Mississippi, be careful not to say “plant-based meat.”
(I do worry tho about Big Biz taking over meat substitute sales. Hear tell that Impossible Burgers are loaded with Roundup, but that might just be fake news from Big Meat. 
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That’s a link to mo.gov, the website of the state of Missouri, not Mississippi.
The Royale with Cheese (actually “Royal Cheese”) seems to be a France only thing. When I went to a McDonald’s in Stockholm I was disappointed to find the Quarter Pounder was called just that.
Or is that because… it’s made from hands!!!
That’s pretty much how language works.
I agree with @waetherman’s point, but prefer the example of laws around cherry pie to the regional protections, which are more protections for producers than consumers.
Hmmm, looks like it has to be “slaughtered livestock.” What do you call a beef burger if the cow died of natural causes? Does the name change if the animal dies in a accident or from suicide?
Because this is purely about market manipulation. Some company(ies) in the meat industry wanted to create an obstacl for their competition, so they lobbied (Bribed? What’s the difference?) the MS legislature to enact this law.
There are some parallels between this and the panic over artificial diamonds that engulfed De Beers a few years back.
Right - I was talking about the FDA decision that “almond milk” couldn’t be called that, to prevent “consumer confusion.” The use of the expression “almond milk” predates “beef” in the English language, and my point was that no one would even consider banning the term “beef.”
You may joke, but given that all these new rules are a result of the beef industry looking at declining sales, extrapolating into the future, freaking out and deciding to re-order the English language as a coping mechanism, it’s just a question of whether the pork industry will start feeling the pinch and begin similarly lashing out at the language.
Well, if the pork industry had the money of the beef industry…
Oh for fuck sake, has no one heard of the word “artificial?” Artificial hamburger, artificial hot dogs, there, problem solved.
Yet another day in the stupid timeline…
I recently re-watched this series. I saw it a LONG time ago as a kid and only remember a few fleeting memories of the show, like the theme and Zaphod. But I remembered THIS scene once I rewatched it. It left an impression.
I’ve been a full-on vegetarian since 1982 (yes dairy, no fish; sometimes eggs in an emergency). It is… a choice… and I am lucky that it is an available choice.
That BBC series came after my choice, but it was certainly a big ol’ whap upside my head that uh, yeah, meat-eating is a complex decision… and obviously, if one lives in the Arctic or similar, this kind of choice is not on offer, realistically.
My cousin used to quote a lot from Douglas Adams’ works, including Hitchhiker’s… but I have found it interesting that she not only eats plenty of meat, but this scene is one I have never heard her quote from. 
a hamhamburger, of course.
How about ‘nothingburger’ then?
At the risk of invoking Godwin, How long until they jail anyone who calls a US born white nationalist a Nazi?
Now, now, they’re called “Patriots”, real Nazis only come from Germany…
All of Cory’s links are about Missouri except the Vox article, which mentions both states
“This bill will protect our cattle farmers from having to compete with products not harvested from an animal,” said Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation president Mike McCormick in January when the bill passed in the Mississippi state House.
Mississippi isn’t the first state to consider this. Missouri passed the first such labeling law last year, and it was challenged in court by groups including the Good Food Institute and the American Civil Liberties Union, which argued that such a “content-based, overbroad, and vague” restriction on the language companies could use to describe their products was unconstitutional. The lawsuit is now in settlement talks.
Mississippi is forbidding grocery stores from calling veggie burgers “veggie burgers” - Vox
@doctorow you seem to be talking about multiple laws in at least two different places
