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Another shitty lobby demand became regulation just like that. Besides, protecting the label „burger“? Really? You know what I‘ll just call them sandwiches from now on. Fuck that.

This stinks of (rotten) meat lobby.

I hope the meat substitute industry comes up with some kind of 'it's not meat' marketing campaign to counter this.

Congrats to the meat-farmers and -industry! It shows you are “winning” the game against vegetarians and vegans. Now you can finally stop your usual whining about subsidies and the like - everything solved eh?

EU parliamentarians are so far up their ass, they can’t even see the big ass VEGAN logo that is on every vegan meat replacement product

Haha yeah awesome real problems getting solved by serious politicians here, guys! If you can actually get your hands on any real meat without paying an arm and a leg for it what the actual fuck are we doing here lads what the fuck are these fucking politicians doing???

The world is on fire, the economy is in the shitter globally, there are multiple ongoing genocides, facism is on the rise again, and we're wiggling our dicks around talking about whether you can call veggie burgers "burgers"? Are you serious? WHO CARES???

Is this bring your kid to work day and they let the kids do a vote for a change instead as a treat? Is this a joke?? What motherfucker is getting into politics to make sure "hey those damn vegans better not call anything a burger".

These poncy little briefcase-botherers need a hobby or something because this is absolutely the biggest case of dicking around on the job I've ever heard of. Ridiculous. Stupid. A joke. Pathetic. Childish. Vapid. Can we get some adults in the EU Parliament please?

This is just stupid. Make it clear the product doesn't have meat in it. It's not that hard. Surely people can't be confused by veggie burger vs burger?

Fucking idiots. Almost nobody is able to decipher the ingredients including E numbers, but people are confused by "burger"

Finally EU is back innovating! Oh wait 🤦‍♂️

I'm sure this critical decision will help us.

Veggie burgers have been around since the 1940s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veggie_burger

It’s only a burger if it comes from the municipality of Cheeseberg.

"Our data shows that almost 70% of European consumers understand these names as long as products are clearly labelled vegan or vegetarian,"

How fucking stupid are your customers if "almost 70%" can work out that a vegan sausage doesn't contain meat?

Can we change the title to “meat industry has been nagging about this non issue for years now, so the babies are finally getting their non issue resolved?”

Ffs sell your product but don’t be a bitch about that tiny speck of competition.

Cool still not buying dead animal

I doubt it'll actually go through.

They're clearly labeled "veggie", "vegitarian" or "vegan", and consumers understand those labels to mean, at minimum, no meat.

"Sausage", I can see how you could argue it has to contain meat to be called a sausage. I don't agree, but I can understand the argument being made.

"Burger", however. Is distinctly different than "hamburger", in fact, we often substitute the prefix to fit whatever it is. (Not that hamburgers are made of ham, i know it comes from hamburg) Such as, "fish-burger" or "chicken-burger", so why would "veggie-burger" be any more confusing than "fish-burger"?

What a great Democratic organ taking care of the true problems of the days /s

I'm a meat eater and I don't even see much point in this ruling. Basically all the plant-based steak or burger alternatives I've seen have been clearly labeled as such. Stores usually separate them from meat-based products anyway, so that vegans and vegetarians could more easily find what they're looking for.

Same tact the meat lobbies used in the US.

Idiots.

I'm a french vegetarian living in France, and I couldn't care less about this decision, the people arguing for either side are really wasting their time on this, who cares how it's called honestly ? As long as the products are available in store and the labeling is different, which it always is, and very clearly: veggie based product try their best to make sure vegetarian and vegans will identify them easily and will know without a doubt that it is not meat. Who care that it is called a "burger", "steak" or something else ?

Burger? Is the bun made of meat too?

Good to see the parliament tackling the most pressing issues.

Seems a bit idiotic to me. So what's a burger with veggie substitutes supposed to be called? Vegger?

Wait till they learn how long peanut butter has existed

I’m really glad that we don’t have more serious problems to deal, than this.

Freedom, baby. Live your best life.

When will they ban the name of the Hungarian dessert "Bird Milk" for being made of cow milk, sugar, vanilla extract, and eggs, instead of milk from birds?