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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.vg to Vegan@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 months ago

Swiss Supreme Court Bans Animal-Specific Terms on Vegan Product Labels

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.vg to Vegan@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 months ago
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Switzerland’s Federal Supreme Court has issued a final ruling that prohibits the use of animal-derived terms such as “chicken” and “pork” on the labels of
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    “Chicken” and “Pork”? Sure, understandable… I guess. If they were going after, “Milk” that would be a whole other thing.

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      They did this in Germany! Oat milk can’t legally be called “milk”, so it’s instead “oat drink”.

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        That seems ridiculous to me considering coconut milk has been called as such since the 1700s and I haven’t seen a coconuts nipples.

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          Happy now?

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            I am not!

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          It absolutely is, especially since there are products with “milk” in their name that aren’t edible (e.g. “Scheuermilch”, apparently scouring cream in English). It’s nothing but populism and lobbying.

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          And almond milk is almost 1000 years old, and Middle-English called it “almonde mylk”

          https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/almond_milk

          So yeah, Big Dairy propaganda

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