love that this guy’s pivoting to just getting anti vegan brownie points by passing laws that effectively do nothing except inconvenience soy milk companies, really hitting all the boxes on the grifter arc bingo
They’ve done this in the UK. It’s all oat drink, and soy drink, because animal product consumers are so fragile they hate the thought of people enjoying things that don’t include animal products.
They tried to ban veggie sausages from being called sausages FFS…
They tried to ban veggie sausages from being called sausages
It’s so wild that they can brand their mystery meat tubes whatever the fuck they want, like, in my country you can call a sausage a “veal liver sausage” if there is 0% actual baby cow liver inside, but the monent you call a sausage-shaped piece of soy with a common sausage spice mix that’s supposed to be prepared like a sausage anfd that tastes so similar to sausage that i don’t want to eat it a “veggie sausage”, you’ve crossed a red line and are “misleading the consumer” because they could accidentally buy murder-free treats.
It’s so fuckin’ weird, just reminds me of how cheesemakers back in the day demanded that American cheese be referred to as embalmed cheese
Processed cheese was the compromise
When margarine was first introduced, dairy farmers lobbied against allowing it to be colored yellow to look like butter so the margarine manufacturers had to include a little packet of yellow food dye and you had to mix it in yourself.
I agree with this. I understand why everything was branded as a meat replacement, but that just lead to the promise of meat taste and texture that I don’t think has ever been satisfyingly achieved. “Oat drink” tells you what you’re getting so your average meat-pilled flesh-maxxer doesn’t feel betrayed. It can be enjoyed on it’s own merits.
That was my experience when I was veggie for a few years; Meat substitutes weren’t good substitutes and I didn’t start to enjoy them until I learned to appreciate them on their own merits.
: “We are WASPs! We are the master race and genetically superior to you in every way! Sorry, but the Bell Curve sez Im a genius!”
Also : “Someone rename vegan sausages to something other than sausages! I’m too stupid to know they’re not made of meat and therefore that’s everyone’s problem!”
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/549/text?s=1&r=29
Defending Against Imitations and Replacements of Yogurt, milk, and cheese to Promote Regular Intake of Dairy Everyday
You can’t just skip entire words for the sake of an acronym! I’m irrationally angry at this!
Like it’s doubly stupid because it gives up the ghost that the only reason it’s being discussed is that the people making this bill have an axe to grind against vegan alternatives, and “promote regular intake of dairy”? For most of the world, that’s zero.
I’m tired of hearing sob stories about dairy company owners and how they need “our help” but it’s suddenly “handouts are for the weak” when I suggest that maybe we should look into making housing or education or medicine or even food NOT luxury goods.
Doing anything about abortion, trans rights or stopping a FUCKING GENOCIDE?!?
Nah, gotta rename “Oak Milk” to “Oak Milk-like product”
The bill passes, soy milk rebrands itself as doujiang - a traditional nutritious drink from China, its popularity explodes, the dairy reign of terror ends
The good ending. That also reminds me of ganmodoki (pseudo-goose). Just call vegan meat modoki and market it as a traditional Japanese health food and let the weebs do the rest. Vegan beef becomes Ushimodoki, any pork products becomes butamodoki, poultry is kakinmodoki, and finally seafood is Sakanamodoki.
Ganmodoki runs into the same problem as vegan goose. It still uses the noun goose, and carnists don’t recognize the existence of adjectives.
Yes I know they're all being dishonest, Sartre
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Although using Japanese words to refer to vegan meats would be interesting. English already uses French words to refer to meats instead of calling things animal-flesh. It wouldn’t be unprecedented.
The man-milking lobby is going to hear about this!
