• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    While I get that this is a legal thing…

    It also really shows how divorced from where our food comes from people are. Also, how many products that could be called “butter” that are completely artificial and have no dairy content at all.

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      2 days ago

      In the eu terms like butter and dairy can only be used for milk products.

      But our legaslative pendulum did swing a bit too far in the other direction (imo): terms like soja-butter and so on were also banned.

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        The original intent of that bill was to ban plant-based alternatives from using commonly understood terms and phrases.

        It’s not like the EU banning phrases like “soy milk” on packaging was an unintended consequence of some kind of “common sense” law being applied where it shouldn’t be.

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          2 days ago

          The commonly understood term for plant butter is margarine

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            2 days ago

            When you’re at the shop can you grab some peanut margarine and coconut white liquid?

            • HSR🏴‍☠️@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              According to EU legislature you can say “coconut milk”, I guess it’s ok since it doesn’t compete with dairy products. However soy/oat/almond m*lk is literally the antichrist and must be defeated.

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                soy/oat/almond m*lk is literally the antichrist and must be defeated.

                Sorry, I struggle to read tone from messages sometimes - do you genuinely feel that way? and if you do, why?

                • HSR🏴‍☠️@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  2 days ago

                  I meant that jokingly, as in, European Court of Justice is scared of plant-based milk. The way I see it ECJ put in a lot of effort to solve a nonexistent problem, and presented it as “protecting consumers”.

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                    2 days ago

                    I understand, and I agree with you completely! Thank you for the clarification, and have a great evening!

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            2 days ago

            Thanks for the comment, but I’m not at all interested in getting into that argument. Hope you have a great day though!