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Why shouldn’t it be called meat?
by websites222 6y ago
Why shouldn’t it be called meat?
- bearbawl 6y agoBecause that’s not meat?
- websites222 6y agoSure it is. It’s right there on the label. Things are called what they are called not because they have properties which match a platonic ideal and those properties are inextricably linked with the phonetic and orthographic representations of a language. No, things are called what they are called because lots of people make those sounds or write those symbols and associate it with that thing, which people receive as information and then use themselves. In other words, you’ve already lost this battle, and you’ve lost it in many languages and countries at once. Whatever world you wish to preserve in which, for whatever reasons of comfort you insist that plant-based meat isn’t meat, no longer exists.
- bearbawl 6y agoBy the amount of words I’m sure I’ve lost indeed. In « many many » languages and countries, everywhere around the world, and particularly in our very small new extremism world. I have one question: why do people trying to eat only vegetables (is « vegetables » still ok?) insist so much to call that « plant-based » food « meat »?
- websites222 6y ago> I have one question: why do people trying to eat only vegetables (is « vegetables » still ok?) insist so much to call that « plant-based » food « meat »? That don’t. They just read what’s on the label and call it that. It’s preservationists who see a war here: everyone else has moved on.
- bearbawl 6y agoSo you don’t even see the issue? If you’re into vegetables, as-in you’re against meat, you just eat vegetables and you don’t eat meat anymore. You don’t need that to be called « plant-based meat ». Only the people who are actually so nostalgic of the good meat they had want something called « plant-based meat ». Who are the « preservationists » there?
- hamax 6y agoDefinition of meat by merriam-webster: a: FOOD especially : solid food as distinguished from drink b: the edible part of something as distinguished from its covering (such as a husk or shell)
- alacombe 6y agoOOTH Merriam-webster is changing definitions faster than the wind change direction...
- hamax 6y agoFunny enough, this is the original definition. You are the one using the new "fancy" definitions. Wiki: The word meat comes from the Old English word mete, which referred to food in general. The term is related to mad in Danish, mat in Swedish and Norwegian, and matur in Icelandic and Faroese, which also mean 'food'. The word mete also exists in Old Frisian (and to a lesser extent, modern West Frisian) to denote important food, differentiating it from swiets (sweets) and dierfied (animal feed).
- alacombe 6y agoThis is at best dishonest, if you really referred to that definition, you would use "meat", not "imitation meat"/"fake meat"/"plant based meat". Everything in the marketing of that stuff is made to mimic meat-as-in-animal-muscle meat. If you want a burger, go eat a freaking slaughtered cow patty burger, don't be all fancy with that highly process crap.