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If you’ve ever been tricked into eating vegan or plant based meat alternatives based on packaging alone, you might be a moron.
by tjr225 4y ago
If you’ve ever been tricked into eating vegan or plant based meat alternatives based on packaging alone, you might be a moron.
- muro 4y agoWith the much higher margins, confusing is the whole purpose.
- tjr225 4y agoEven if it was, which I sincerely doubt, I never said it wasn’t. Re read my post.
- thomasfromcdnjs 4y agoElderly.
- inawarminister 4y agoConsumers are much less able to analyse transitive goods than the ability of producers to play around with them, that's the entire rationale of consumer protection laws.
- sarsway 4y agoThe problem is not people being tricked, but vegan food simply needs proper names. "Vegan steak" is not meat, so what it? What is vegan cheese? Could be anything. It's not very descriptive. When you see seitan or tofu, you know what you're getting.
- wumpus 4y agoWhat's "head cheese"? Hint: not a new phrase.
- cuteboy19 4y ago>Despite its name the dish is not a cheese and contains no dairy products.
- ultrarunner 4y agoAre there not ingredients lists on packaging at the stores you shop at? The same could be said for many foods— there are even regulations intended to prevent companies from implying that hormone or antibiotic-free dairy is preferable to the standard bioengineered stuff. So what is vegan steak? It's a food that will be something like what someone understands steak to be, comprised of whatever is in the list of ingredients. Try it. Or don't.
- stjohnswarts 4y agois a beef steak tomato a beef+steak+tomato or just a type of tomato? this isn't hard folks...
- tjr225 4y agoApparently it is very difficult for some…
- ragazzina 4y ago>What is vegan cheese? Could be anything. It's not very descriptive. If you google "<name of most commercial chicken burger patties> ingredients", you'll see that chicken meat can be less than 60%.
- McBeige 4y agoCheese is not about dairy or fermentation, it's about that funky cheesy flavour and texture. It's about fulfilling a certain role in our culinary tradition.
- ellopoppit 4y ago>Cheese: a food made from the pressed curds of milk
- cuteboy19 4y agoIt's not about fermentation but it is about dairy
- kiawe_fire 4y agoWe have all these (justifiable) regulations to help inform people with nutrition labels and ingredient lists and allergens… And then people just ignore them, leading to (egregious) regulations to force arbitrary naming restrictions that people will STILL probably ignore because “the picture of the meat on the front looked so good” and yet “I had no idea they were tricking me into buying VEGGIE CHIX’N and it’s not real meat”.
- 6510 4y agoWe also sell food without packaging. If the menu says it are sausages you expect them. Have to stop it at some point. Imagine a cheese burger that just doesn't have meat or cheese? But sure, there is a sweet spot between morons and greed but just because you're a moron doesn't make it okay.
- dang 4y agoWould you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.