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Swiss Supreme Court Bans Animal-Specific Terms on Vegan Product Labels (vegconomist.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (22 children)

Absolutely OK. If "something something X" is the name of your product, it needs to contain X to a certain degree. If there was no strawberry in strawberry jam, you would complain. If there was no cinnamon in a cinnamon bun, this would be wrong, too.

The term "Vegan Chicken Chips" for a product that does not contain chicken is simply like "Apple Sauce" without apples.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Rocky mountain oysters contain no oysters. Head cheese is not cheese. Hen of the woods is not a bird. Welsh rabbit includes 0% rabbit. Ants on a log, Cowboy caviar, Bear claws... refried beans are.. gasp.. only fried once.

Its all made up and the points don't matter, until you start threatening profits.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Jerusalem Artichokes are neither artichokes nor from Jerusalem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Indeed. Time to clean up some of those names, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Or just accept that that's not how language works?

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