No more cordon blur: France prepares to ban vegetarian products from using meaty language

  • frog 🐸@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    It was definitely less confusing when vegetarian products always had green packaging, and meat did not. If manufacturers aren’t going to be consistent in their colour-coding, then there needs to be more clarity on the language. I’m a vegetarian, and I regularly have to double check what I’m buying because I don’t want meat, and when both are packaged in orange-and-white and both called exactly the same thing, with the plant-based one only having a smaller sub-title stating it’s plant-based, that doesn’t make my life any easier either.

    Clear packaging and labelling benefits everybody here.

    • AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      They don’t do it like that because there’s a large portion of the population that wouldn’t buy an orange if it had a sticker proclaiming it was vegan, because, “did you see the sticker? Who knows what’s in that thing”

    • Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com
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      1 year ago

      Eh I hadn’t really considered the flip side but it makes sense, it’s also a problem the other way around for vegetarian folks wanting to be able to spot vegetarian products at a first glance, yeah.